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Loukas

@Loukas@mastodon.nu

Journalist, teacher, Londoner, Stockholmer.

Mostly thinking and writing about autism, ADHD and related disability issues.

Profile image description: me on a balcony
Background image description: dry grass reviving after winter

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ChrisMayLA6, to money
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Forced cashless society.

Our nearby small market town used to have 3 banks; they're all closed (taking their cash machines with them), and this week one of the two remaining cash machines was removed from the supermarket where it was located.

So, we're down to a single cash machine in an area with a radius (I'm guessing) of around 20 miles.

The cashless society doesn't represent consumer choice, its pace is being forced by financial institutions keen to charge fees on transactions!

Loukas,
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@ChrisMayLA6 and also the banal pursuit of cost-cutting. Making digital currency available is far cheaper than physical currency.

Loukas, to random
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The new eco-modernism. Zero-car. Zero survivors. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945445

jordinn, to random
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Starting my summer reading with Robert Bellah has so utterly broken my brain that every time I think about it I look like the conspiracy board meme but I'm just staring into space

Loukas,
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@jordinn I don't know anything about Bellah, but I'm suspicious of any arguments about souls of countries or general spirits of the population. It seems essentialist and a way of avoiding analysis rather than furthering it.

If it's 'individualism' that's changed USA then why was so much capital exerted to dismantle the New Deal, Great Society and the labour unions? The historical record just shows me there was a class war which the plutocrats won.

doktorzjivago, to random Swedish
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    Loukas,
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    @doktorzjivago ska den visas via ditt BlueSky konto? Jag följer dig där men ser inte inlägget.

    Loukas,
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    @doktorzjivago 🌀😵‍💫

    baldur, to random
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    There is an upside to how dysfunctional Google has become in it’s post-layoff all-in-on-Ai era. For every spam website that rises to the top of their badly maintained search engine a dozen pirated movies and TV series that are otherwise unavailable in Iceland get hosted on Youtube

    Loukas,
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    @baldur this new era of the party in the ruins.

    Loukas, to random
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    The Orhem independent cafe in Stockholm was hit by a fire last night, just before their season opening for the First of May. The collective running it says the fire was on the outside of the shutters, "but no one shall stop us gathering today" and they will be serving sandwiches, cakes and coffee despite now having no running water or electricity. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/brand-i-orhem-polis-dementerar-explosion

    Loukas,
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    One of the people behind the cafe is a prominent antifascist, which makes sabotage even more of a likely explanation https://www.flamman.se/brand-i-kand-antifascists-kulturkafe/

    samuel, to random Swedish
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    Mycket bra text! Vi ska inte ha lobbyister i något första majtåg!

    Flamman | Lobbysossarnas sista första maj?
    https://www.flamman.se/lobbysossarnas-sista-forsta-maj/

    Loukas,
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    @samuel ska inte ha sossor? Alls?

    Loukas,
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    @samuel 😂

    FantasticalEconomics, to random
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    Remember folks, "rubber bullet" is a misnomer.

    "Rubber bullets (also called rubber baton rounds) are a type of baton round. Despite the name, rubber bullets typically have either a metal core with a rubber coating, or are a homogeneous admixture with rubber being a minority component." - Wikipedia

    It is more accurate to say "Riot police are shooting students with rubber-coated-metal-bullets."

    I know that doesn't roll off the tounge very nicely, but that's ok 'cause it probably shouldn't.

    Loukas,
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    @markhburton @FantasticalEconomics I think that's largely because rubber bullets were associated with Northern Ireland, where their horrific effects were seen, and then the authorities promised they would never be used on the "mainland".

    ChrisMayLA6, to random
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    One(!) voluntary failed asylum seeker departed for Rwanda yesterday ... as Yvette Cooper observes

    The 'Tories are so desperate to get any flight off to Rwanda before the local elections that they have now just paid someone to go...

    British taxpayers aren’t just forking out £3,000 for a volunteer to board a plane, they are also paying Rwanda to provide him with free board & lodgings for the next five years... [and] is likely to be costing on average £2mn per person.”

    Loukas,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 bring on the experts in homeopathic medicine to explain how this works

    Julie, to random
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    Practically speaking, can they send a former president to Rikers? There isn’t is a Club Fed style equivalent for New York City, as far as I know. How could the Secret Service possibly operate there?

    Loukas,
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    @Julie New York needs a kind of Tower of London. A secure palace that can also be used as a prison. Maybe they could convert Castle Clinton?

    jackofalltrades, to climate
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    It's very clear how desperate green tech advocates are to paint the current developments as a win for the climate. But by doing so they only reinforce the status quo.

    https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/17/wind-energy-saw-record-growth-in-2023-which-countries-installed-the-most

    #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climate #renewables #wind #solar #EnergyTransition

    Loukas,
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    @jackofalltrades USA looking at a map of the world's waterfalls right now to decide where to invade.

    Loukas,
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    @jackofalltrades pipeline of water power under the ocean

    Loukas,
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    @notsoloud @jackofalltrades hope so

    Loukas, to random
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    Swedish wind power set to pass nuclear next year, based on current level of investment, says industry. State energy agency agrees this passing of nuclear will happen before 2027.

    https://klimatgranskaren.se/siffrorna-visar-gigantisk-fornybar-boom-i-sverige/

    Loukas, to random
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    Sweden's Christian Democrats (KD) will lose their seat in the EU parliament, suggests a survey by Swedish Radio News showing them polling just a quarter of their 2019 vote.

    Meanwhile the Social Democrats are up by ten points in this poll on their 2019 result.

    https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/kristdemokraterna-hamnar-under-sparren-i-europaparlamentet-i-ny-matning-infor-valet

    Loukas,
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    @samuel generellt förväntas högern inom Europaparlamentet ökar med detta val. Det blir intressant om Sverige går emot trenden. (Det skulle Storbritannien också göra om man hade inte lämnat. Deras arbetarparti har samma medvind som S just nu)

    Loukas,
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    @Paxxi jag har känslan att deras siffror brukar inte vara lika dåliga. Men det går att jämföra tidigare siffror och det är det man måste göra för att få svaret.

    meganL, to random
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    Dueling train horns right now. I think that's the first time I've heard two trains laying on the horn at the same time.

    Loukas,
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    @meganL just wait until you hear them mating.

    Loukas, to Russia
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    Crucial but depressing insight on , via @kevinrothrock The fact that the whole of has become more violent and militarised means Kadyrov dying is less of a problem for the Kremlin - because Chechnya can now be ruled using the 'new normal' levels of extreme repression. https://open.spotify.com/episode/00luGpaWljjQvDbL7OKOhL?si=7_t_XmthRwynzd5mB2MMvA

    Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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    If a person posts a response to my post that is clearly besides the point of the post, am I the asshole for saying that?

    Loukas,
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    @Adam_Cadmon1 I felt really mean at first, but eventually I got used to it.

    Loukas,
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    @Adam_Cadmon1

    A lot of the time when someone has entitlement and privilege they can do things that are really intrusive and even aggressive - because they're stepping on you - but because they think they're entitled to do it, they do so in a pleasant and friendly way.

    And so the people who set boundaries get to feel like the ones being weird and aggressive. And the original aggressors feel like victims. It's a head-fuck.

    Orewoet, to random Danish
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    Nice to see that my new bird house has been accepted.

    Loukas,
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    @Orewoet task failed successfully

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