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OliverNoble

@OliverNoble@mastodon.world

Quite new to mastodon so blundering about - please be kind!!

socialist (ex labour), chilled, always curious and learning xx
GTTO is one thing but inadequate.... need to GTTO wherever they are and GetSocialistsIn

I may boost random stuff that just seems interesting , my comments may be satirical, or sarcastic

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ramin_hal9001, to fediverse
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PC world has an article here about whether you can use a VPN to circumvent the .

No. Just, no. Not , nor any other technology is a solution, because the problem is much deeper than that. The US banning TikTok is just the beginning, they will simply continue expanding of any content the government finds objectionable. We may soon find governments like the US passing legislation that running an server of any kind is illegal "terrorist activity" before long, and all NATO countries will follow suit (they must, or else risk losing NATO membership).

And of course the stated reason for the US blocking whole portions of the Internet is for "cypersecurity" reasons. Anyone with half a brain knows the real reason is to try to prevent sharing knowledge across borders, because that is the real threat to the politicians and their bosses.

It is really no different than what countries like China does with their Great Firewall, or what Iran does whitelisting only certain blocks of the Internet that exists outside of their borders, also for "cybersecurity" reasons. Of course the US government will continue to cite censorship of free speech as a reason that countries like China or Iran are inherently evil. This deranged political double-speak is the norm nowadays, as "antisemitism" is used as a justification to arrest Jewish people who protest war at their universities, but I digress.

OliverNoble,
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@ramin_hal9001 I suspect you are right re
Anything the US cant control or manipulate is a problem
With , foreign ownership provided the "justification",

With activitypub servers i expect they will find something to do with copyright or moderation of illegal content rather than just admit that if an american corp doesnt control it and manipulate it to the satisfaction of the Amerocan government, then it must be banned

Hope I'm wrong

JackTheCat, to random
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I accidentally exposed my ears to 'thrash' metal and instantly remembered how much I hate it. I also hate 'death' metal. Toot ends.

OliverNoble,
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@JackTheCat my dad always used to say that the appeal of music like that was a nostalgia for noisy industrial processes and factories since destroyed the industrial base of the UK

But he liked Motley Crue

OliverNoble,
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@JackTheCat he was a very interesting guy, very intelligent, very principled and also very unexpectedly random on some things

OliverNoble, to Israel
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Today I learned ..
The UK parliament has an "All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide (APPG-G)"

This is a cross-party group which apparently aims to ensure Britain does all it can to stop genocides and crimes against humanity.

Thats good, isnt it?
What have they said about , the , "plausible genocide, and arms sales to ?

https://mas.to/@NotImpressed/112435407401915855

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 33: This twat thought it was funny to visit Liverpool's Gaza Solidarity Encampment and blast "Rule Brittania" at them.
The students who were woken up chanted "Free Palestine" until he went away 😂
via Middle East Eye

OliverNoble,
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@fkamiah17 the is great

SteveJonesnono1, to random
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Too much?

OliverNoble,
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@SteveJonesnono1 not enough...+dangerous authoritarian

but a good start

LALegault, to random
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People who think people identifying as “undecided” don’t understand the threat Trump poses are naïve or arrogant or both.

OliverNoble,
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@LALegault any tiny concessions wrung from over , any movement from his appalling, immoral, support of murder ....
is because of the "undecided" and the "fuck Biden" crowd

Pledging support to Biden at this stage is tactically stupid and endorsing genocide

Support for the lesser of two evils when the time comes if that is the only choice (as with ) but FFS try and make them be slightly less shit in the meantime

OliverNoble,
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@LALegault
I am not , but i am sick of the US and UK "centrists" pretending their candidate is "ok actually" because the "other guy" is worse
They are not "ok" they are monsters

So choose the least vile when the time comes but stop telling me that and arent turds rolled in glitter

Lazarou, to UKpolitics
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lol, I think we all know what's going to happen now, don't we?
Lucy is holding the Rugby Ball the Yanks call a 'Football'....Charlie Brown is feeling hopeful.....

OliverNoble,
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@Lazarou It wont be "watered down"...
but it may be " revised" in order to be more "pragmatic" because "now is not the time"... etc

gtconway3dg, to random

the care and feeding of a narcissistic psychopath

OliverNoble,
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@gtconway3dg are these people stupid or just utterly shameless?
I have never used reverse image search but I at least know it exists

Oh. and the only way trump could draw a crowd like that is with his chunky crayons for his itty-bitty hands

Lazarou, to random
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"Invading Rafah is our red line" said Western leaders, full of shit

OliverNoble,
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@Lazarou Biden kept talking about Israel not "going after" "population centres" in , as distinct from any current attacks in rafah

ALL of rafah is a "population center" , what a deceitful cretin

OliverNoble, to random
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Its all a bit "day of the triffids" tonight

Damn i've been staring at the sky for an hour

catbuttes, to random
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over Colchester! (It’s a crappy pic grabbed on my phone in the middle of a street)

OliverNoble,
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@catbuttes All my pics looked ok on the phone screen but the saved images were crap - yours are waaay better than mine, congrats (sort of) and thanks for sharing them

Colchester - Essex so very southern bit of England?

Greenseer, to random
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As a Marx might have said, 'I refuse to join any club that would have as a member.'

Unlike a terrible policy held while in Opposition, which can be rationalised away with 'Well they can't change anything now and they need to get elected', or 'They'll be better than they seem once they're in power', there's something about letting such a right-wing, bigoted monster into that crystallises the fact that Labour is truly lost under Starmer

For real

She'll cost them votes

OliverNoble,
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@Greenseer It is a disgusting, unprincipled betrayal of what should be

But the electoral calculus in the head of or his advisers will be this:

"We loses leftwing votes but mainly in areas where we will still win anyway but we pick up votes from a few old racists in marginal seats"

I think its incredibly damaging to long-term and a democratic farce to have an "oppostion" so indistinguishable on policy from the

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday

#DontVoteLabour #UKPolitics #FreePalestine #ToryContinuityParty

OliverNoble,
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@gruff congratulations on the wins
Many more to come hopefully

harshad, to random
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Hydroponics is the bitcoin of agriculture.

It's a science experiment to grow plants on life support, everyone interested should try it, but it's not how we'll feed the world. The energy, maintenance and expertise costs will remain not worth it until life support is the only way left to grow plants.

We're still far from that, and, growing plants and trees in the ground will nudge the chance of worsening climate further away.

OliverNoble,
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@wormerama @harshad I saw some modern agriculture described as:

"A solar powered chemical factory"

Thats maybe generous given the quantity of fossil fuel and fossil fuel derived products used

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    OliverNoble,
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    @gruff does anyone remember the women who were arrested and charged for impersonating a police officer

    Part of a protest years ago (could be in brighton)

    I keep looking for the link but cant find it - anyway, in no wat would they ever be mistaken for cops, but CPS took the case anyway

    RichardJMurphy, to random
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    The Greens were the biggest winners in the local elections, so why aren’t they getting fair air time? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/07/the-greens-were-the-biggest-winners-in-the-local-elections-so-why-arent-they-getting-fair-air-time/
    Proportionately, the Greens won most seats at the recent local elections, but they are denied airtime, and we get Reform instead. Why?

    OliverNoble,
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    @Kellys @simon_brooke when the greens represent the same level of challenge to the status-quo as the , then then the smears, slurs and negative coverage of will step-up a gear - its already started

    OliverNoble,
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    @simon_brooke @Kellys very true, i should maybe have said they perceive the as a more immediate threat to the status-quo

    In part because, although it is hardly reported and the Scottish parliament has limited powers, Scotland has lead on no fault evictions, nationalising rail, settling NHS pay etc - nothing very radical but if the people of saw how achievable things are, they might look at the "opposition" and start demanding something better

    OliverNoble,
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    @simon_brooke @Kellys 100℅ agree,

    Given how poor and negative reporting about Scotland is, it might take a while for the English to notice but, in time, it would become incredibly obvious

    it would be inspiring to the left to see Scotland achieve its potential once free to determine its own destiny

    OliverNoble,
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    @steviesyerda @simon_brooke @Kellys
    Would the loss of Scotland from tbe union really lead to a rethink of England's place in the world? It should - but I think there will be a lot of this (below) for years and years:

    "England doesn't need a "modern sense of self", we got churchill, England won the war (and world cup), got the royal family, the mother of parliaments, beer sold in pints, the SAS and Ross Kemp, we got ev'ry fing wot is worth 'avin"

    OliverNoble,
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    @steviesyerda @simon_brooke @Kellys
    I had never thought of the union jack changing - that would be a constant, unavoidable and jarring change - especially now that the flag seems to fly continuously over all government and local government buildings

    I bet England would still use the full union flag if they could and just pretend nothing changed - its the English way

    Great idea though, if i was any good at graphics i would make a mock-up of it just for lols

    Peternimmo, to Scotland
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    John will be the next of , after activist Graeme McCormick drops out of the leadership race







    https://bylines.scot/politics/nomination-to-the-snp-leadership-graeme-mccormick/?feed_id=1138&_unique_id=6637f19c85b58

    OliverNoble,
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    @Peternimmo so definitely no ?
    That cant happen now?

    liverpoolrichard, to UKpolitics
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    Mark Pack 🔶
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    Cumulative seat change at May local elections in this Parliament:

    Lib Dem: +768
    Labour: +545
    Green: +480
    Conservative: -1,783

    OliverNoble,
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    @Jennifer @liverpoolrichard sadly no,
    These are for local government positions, region mayors and regional police commissioners ( renamed something else)

    The elections are only in some parts of England (not Scotland or Wales or northern Ireland IIRC)

    There is no impact on the UK government other than confirming their parties unpopularity

    National elections (aka general election) is happening sometime within next 7 months

    Thanks for your interest in our archaic undemocratic arrangements!

    Lazarou, to UKpolitics
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    Labour being their arrogant selves as always....

    OliverNoble,
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    @Lazarou "meet the mood for change".... with a stubborn refusal to change anything much

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