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BashStKid

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”

Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.

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fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Not even half past seven and I've had my first WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/home-office-considered-antisemitism-campaigner-for-counter-extremism-unit

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 I thought of you when I read that.

cstross, to random
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Former Post Office executive gave ‘false’ evidence at high court, inquiry hears

Angela van den Bogerd questioned over 2018 testimony about remote access to Horizon IT system

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/25/former-post-office-executive-gave-false-evidence-at-high-court-inquiry-hears

(Did she perjure herself in the High Court under oath in 2018? Because that's what this report indicates to me.)

BashStKid,
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@cstross Missing one crucial email might be incompetence. Missing three is credible perjury.

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 30: Cornell University this morning.

And on that note, I'm off to shout at the BBC.

Have a lovely evening kids!

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Holler loudly!

fkamiah17, to random
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Fifty years ago today, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal.

The event managed to overthrow the authoritarian regime, led to the restoration of democracy and built the democratic Portugal we know today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Nearly the end of fossilised fascism in Europe … then we thought it would be fun to start it up again.

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 I agree. Ironically I suspect the main educative point for most English people of a certain age was coming across the Guardia on their hols in Spain or the Algarve.

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 @Henrysbridge
And schools will never teach something like the Cotton Famine with the Manchester mill owners supporting the slavers while the mill workers supported the Northern blockade.
Or Lincoln sending food to the hungry of Lancashire.

fkamiah17, to random
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Blimey! Is there anywhere left in New York where there isn't a protest?
Yesterday, hundreds of activists with Planet Over Profit blockaded the doors to Citibank, leaving thousands of bankers stranded in the street.


BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 That’s the place to make a difference.

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Banks can be surprisingly sensitive to reputational threats once they’re convinced it’s not a flash in the pan.
Slamming their corporate balls in a drawer is also quite effective for getting their attention.

fkamiah17, to random
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OMG I have got to go to sleep. Such a long day tomorrow 😩

activates Moomin audio

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Hope it worked out.

fkamiah17, to random
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🤨 🤥

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 UT were quick enough to give Kathleen Stock a big ol’ bigots’ welcome.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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When the Reform Party lose Julia Heartless Bastard.
from Talk TV last night

JHB: "You would leave asylum seekers to drown in the channel?"

Ben Habib: "Absolutely"

JHB: "That is not a policy that a civilised country should endorse"

BH: "Why is that uncivilised?"

JHB: "Because we don't leave people to drown.. I don't want these people here, but I wouldn't leave them to drown.. I don't think anyone in the border force or Royal Navy that would do that"

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 These folks never think the leopards will be round to eat their faces next, do they?

Less eloquent than the Paul Schofield “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?” but essentially that.

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 oh well, when Ben gets dragged off to Room 101, he will be shouting ‘Do it to Julia’

fkamiah17, to random
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Fuck sake. Alastair Campbell is "going into" children's books (his words on a clip he's posted on the dark side). Do children really need a how to guide on starting illegal wars?

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 He’s been inspired by JKR …

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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Not a good look when you've got Marco bloody Rubio defending a Democrat President against charges of supporting genocide by his own citizens.
from C-SPAN:
"Marco Rubio claims to have gotten a text telling him that Jews are preparing to flee the USA because they're so endangered by the "riots" allegedly engulfing the Nation's cities. Rubio says these "mobs" want to "destroy America," and he defends Biden from chants of "Genocide Joe""

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 It’s like a parallel universe you can fly to. Choose your alternative reality.

fkamiah17, to cymru
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Let's hope no muppet tourists in trainers get trapped on Snowdownia 🙄 😡

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wales-air-ambulance-close-helicopter-29044573

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Utter stupidity. Emergency fast response services are pointless if they’re not local, can’t arrive quickly, and can’t offload to a local-ish hospital asap.

(Cousin was a paramedic on these choppers, quit some years ago when the direction of travel was clearly set to doom)

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Often, as you say, in response to cost cutting. But recently they seem to be doing own goals for no reason - 20mph backtracking being an example.

BashStKid,
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@BlippyTheWonderSlug @fkamiah17 Hi there.
The ‘no reason’ was directed at the Welsh govt undoing their own successful road safety schemes for no reason rather than budget limits or similar.
We’re used to ‘we haven’t got the money so will do a dumb thing’, now we’re getting ‘going to agree with Sauron and do a completely avoidable dumb thing’
The 20mph changes have been good for everyone, including car drivers, but that doesn’t stop rightwing ranting about Muh Freedoms.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Remember the moral panic when the ceasefire march was thought to be going near the Cenotaph last year (which it wasn't)? Seems it's ok if you've got a St George's flag and a can of Stella 🤬

#UKPolitics #Flagshaggers

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 We will remember them (hic)

BashStKid, to random
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Talking about Michael Sheen’s Port Talbot Passion

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yhf8?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

fkamiah17, to Life
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Why is it so impossible to resist bookmarks, tote bags and notebooks?

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 @Thebratdragon
If you start making your own marbled covers and endpapers for the notebooks 📓 it will slow you down a bit ?

fkamiah17, to cymru
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I'm glad this story has finally made the national papers. If they gave even a tiny shit about Wales, it would be causing serious trouble for Starmer. But they don't. 🤬 :baner:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/first-minister-welsh-plaid-cymru-conservative-vaughan-gething-b2532756.html

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Only weeks into the job and he’s become the story, not the Tories.
Now we can’t get rid of him without a bunch of collateral damage.

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 Yes, I didn’t put that very well. I was thinking more that with the fm on the back foot, Senedd will be full of Tories trying to roll back old policies and block new ones as Gething will be permanently on the defensive. Hence we’ll all suffer.

fulelo, to random
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- The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-61d57e25-d458-4785-8a37-3ef119a504c7

BashStKid,
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@fulelo Sadly this will become a lot more common, as rainfall becomes more intense and frequent, on land where the water runoff has nothing to slow it down.
And it will be right next to the towns and farms that caused the deforestation or catchment retention in the first place.

This is just as much a problem in Europe where the upland soil is washing away, it’s just less visible than a great big ravine developing.

BashStKid, to random
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@fkamiah17
Looks like this is one of the few remaining growth industries …

Unregulated ‘identity tracers’ harass people for debts they do not owe https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/22/unregulated-identity-tracers-harass-people-for-debts-they-do-not-owe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

kissane, to random
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Labor in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproduction

BashStKid,
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@kissane I think I prefer the William Morris approach of everybody needs creative work, and to be surrounded by and enjoy the creations of others.
I can’t distinguish Benjamin from isolated consumerism.

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