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Nicovel0, 7 months ago to random

I should have mentioned: they were stolen from my shed in Brent, London, U.K.

From: @Nicovel0
https://mastodon.social/@Nicovel0/111280759075735015

Nicovel0, 7 months ago to cycling

So, my bikes got stolen, and I appeal to the #BikeTooter for help. First, my new Kona Rove, green 56cm. How new? So new I don’t even have a picture, so you’ll have to imagine the black SKS aluminium mudguards and Tortec rear rack added to the pic below. It also had a saddle pouch with spare tube, Park tool levers, and Crankbrothers multi tool. They also took the Decathlon Tilt 500. It will be very obvious it was stolen because it will come without battery or charger. Boosts most welcome.

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photos_floues, 7 months ago to random

It's funny because that's exactly what France tried to do for the USA in 2003, with her experience of the Algerian War.
The USA then engaged in mass murder, torture and futile military adventurism, and got a lost war and a far-Right coup attempt for their trouble ­— who could possibly have imagined, right?

So, very much looking forward to Netanyahu and his stooges calling the Americans "hamburger-eating surrender monkeys" while they support him.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/joe-biden-warning-israel-nod-mistakes-made-in-war-on-terror

billyjoebowers, 7 months ago to random

I try to practice gratitude every day, and today I am grateful for butts. They're pretty great.

ChrisMayLA6, 7 months ago to incarcerated

Having failed to manage a boost in manufacturing #exports (not least of all by inserting friction into the relations with our major neighbouring market), the #Tories have decided one thing we might be able to export if #prisoners.

Today it looks like they will be announcing their intention to legislate for prison terms for any nationality (including UK nationals) to be served abroad.

Of course, this will depend on other countries being willing to take them, so it may be costly (and immoral)!

Garwboy, 7 months ago to Cat

Wife took this photo of Pickle, our cat, sat in the window

Ideally it would be a window in our house, but I guess you can't have everything

#Pickle #Cat #Intruder #Arsehole

yaxu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

I'm looking forward to 1993
Edit: some context:

• This wasn't a proposal for a european rail network, it's a rough transfer of the London Underground map to Europe
• It does show that the eurostar would go from a lot of UK stations, a plan that was sadly cancelled
• image borrowed from @rhodri

lauren, 7 months ago to random

As much as I despise cigarettes, the British proposal to increase the legal age for smoking year by year in an attempt to eventually ban them is inane. It will simply create a black market and cause far more damage in the end. This kind of prohibition never works and is beneath stupidity.

ianbetteridge, 7 months ago to random

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photos_floues, 7 months ago to random

Got a "the problem with masks is that they diminish immunity".
The point of the mask is not to have to rely on your immune system to fight a deadly or debilitating disease. If I wanted to watch my immune system at work I would be licking stools from Ebola patients.

breadandcircuses, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

An economist named Blair Fix (@blair_fix) has written a piece illustrating the scope of our society's vastly growing inequality. Of course, you probably already knew about that, but he shows how bad it really is — and how it continues getting worse.

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The rich get richer.

It’s a phrase that packs a lot of punch. It’s potent rhetoric, yet surprisingly accurate at describing how rising inequality plays out.

Of course, there’s nothing inevitable about the rich getting richer. We just happen to live in an age of growing corporate despotism.

The Forbes 400 got a lot richer over the last forty years. But so what? It could be that over the same period, all Americans got richer. In that case, it’s not particularly meaningful to say that the rich got richer. Everyone got richer.

Except they didn’t.

It turns out that unlike the Forbes 400, the average American saw little change in their net worth over the last four decades. Do you see what happened to the black line [below] which plots the net worth of the median American? That’s right … not much. For forty years, Americans’ median net worth hardly budged.

What’s fascinating about rich lists like the Forbes 400 is that their authors seem oblivious to what they’re measuring. While ostensibly celebrating ‘wealth’, these lists are actually a barometer for social inequality.

As it turns out, inequality is written everywhere in the Forbes data. When the rich get richer, it’s not just the Forbes 400 who pull away from everyone else. Within the Forbes 400, the stupendously rich pull away from the ultra rich, who pull away from the mega rich, who pull away from the considerably rich, and so on. At a certain point, we run out of adjectives to describe the hand of inequality.

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/09/24/how-the-rich-get-richer/

#Capitalism #Inequality

Garwboy, 8 months ago to random

NHS: "Everything's falling apart! It's an emergency! HELP"
LEGAL SYSTEM: "Same!"
ENVIRONMENT: "Same!"
SCHOOLS: "Same!"
ECONOMY: "Same!"
HOUSING: "Same!"
LEGAL SYSTEM: "Same!"

UK GOVERNMENT: "...yeah, those big dogs are a bit much. We'll get right on that".

kentindell, 8 months ago to random

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sinabhfuil, 8 months ago to random

"I would need to live in the house for another 87 years before I could justify the initial outlay [on insulation] from a purely financial perspective (although the grant would give me back 33 years). It looks like we’ll be investing in a few Aran jumpers before we go about improving the house’s efficiency" https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/09/11/grants-and-the-cost-of-home-insulation/

Grants and the cost of home insulation Government must drastically improve the grant system Mon Sep 11 2023 - 00:05 Sir, – According to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, over one million homes in the country are poorly insulated and have inefficient heating systems. Upgrading to a more efficient system can save up to €600 per year on heating bills. I firmly support efforts to reduce our carbon impact and am keen to do my own bit. With this in mind I spoke to Electric Ireland to find out about a retrofit solution for my own inefficient house. Before any work could start, I would need to pay €2,225 (encompassing a home energy assessment, professional fees and a project management fee), of which €350 is returnable via “overall grant support”. A rough estimate for the cost of the work is €45,000 to €50,000, covering external insulation and a heat pump. A grant of €15,000 to €20,000 would be available after the works were completed. I would need to live in the house for another 87 years before I could justify the initial outlay from a purely financial perspective (although the grant would give me back 33 years). It looks like we’ll be investing in a few Aran jumpers before we go about improving the house’s efficiency.

jon, 8 months ago to random

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023 Day 02, 1 Sep, Bruxelles - Paris - Morlaix - Roscoff, onto ferry

Today I’m crossing these borders
Lille 🇫🇷 - Bruxelles 🇧🇪 HSL

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#7/49.185/-1.413

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-02/

Nicovel0, 8 months ago to random

Sourdough is even more brutal

From: @ned
https://mstdn.ca/@ned/110945615931199317

Nicovel0, 8 months ago to random

Motorists here making a strong argument in favour of permanent gps monitoring

Driver caught speeding past child cyclist at an "eye-watering" 61mph in a 30mph zone outside school https://road.cc/content/news/driver-zooms-past-child-cyclist-eye-watering-61mph-303435

jon, 9 months ago to random

A good bit of the reason railways don’t have a bigger market share on international routes:

RAILWAY COMPANIES ARE RUBBISH

All this stuff about advantages other modes have might all be correct.

But many railway companies are objectively poor.

They don’t see opportunities to increase service, esp. internationally. They don’t seek to give passengers a smooth experience buying tickets.

bohemianchic, 9 months ago to random

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PublicChaffinch, 9 months ago to random

MSc: completed

uastronomer, 9 months ago to random

Every now and then somebody posts about how they turned off their adblocker for a bit and were stunned at how crap the Internet is for the non-adblocked.

I've always nodded sagely for I remember well the discomfort of having ads all over websites.

Well no more, for I too accidentally disabled my adblocker for a bit and holy wtf. It's gotten bad out there. Really bad.

Ad brokers no longer give you a widget that you can work into your design, they just wedge their shitty ugly ads direct into a website's code, according to some bullshit algorithm that they probably call "AI" and my word it's a terrible result.

I thought I was protecting myself from the relentless assault of crass consumerism. But I was also protecting myself from the ghastly ruinous mutations of formerly good design.

It's so bad.