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Vonskinnback

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Twitter refuge who has settled into his new home & I am very much enjoying the relaxing atmosphere at Mastodon, looking to connect with people who talk about music, politics & current affairs.

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pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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How to note Sunak’s election announcement here? Getting drenched in rain was symbolic & symptomatic; tragically a child died in a mudslide in Yorkshire the same day.

Will this election be decisive from a climate policy point of view? Labour will be better, but how much exactly who knows, given scrapped pledges. Of course i am hopeful for Green party gains. But actual positive excitement and energy, again rallying everyone to make this a etc? sadly, no.

Vonskinnback,
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@pvonhellermannn I honestly do not know how labor could even consider the position of turning this country around from its demonstrable position of weakness caused by the Tories and the destruction of our economy. The cost of repairing the damage is running into the trillions that is how badly the Tories have done and how unlikely labour will be able to turn this around especially while the Tories and the client media will be sniping from the sidelines from the get go...

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Lets be absolutely clear - at the centre of the infected blood scandal, as so many other 'scandals' involving institutions riding rough-shod over the interests & well-being of ordinary people (see the posted list & additions in my timeline over the weekend) is one thing:

People in power lying to those whose lives have been ruined.

LYING... not making mistakes, not misunderstanding... LYING.

This is the culture that infects our political & social 'elites'; being (very) comfortable lying to us!

Vonskinnback,
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@ChrisMayLA6 these privileged smug lying arseholes in positions of power have done so much damage that I would actually support a life sentence for anybody caught doing it, their lies over the post office, Hillsborough, Brexit, immigration, Covid, the EU & everything else that has actually led to the pain, suffering & the deaths of innocent people should be met with the harshest & most aggressive punishment available, strip them of their wealth to pay for the damage they caused with their lies.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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It's the exact same playback across the board.

We won't own ANYTHING in just a few decades if we keep going this way. That's a guarantee.

Vonskinnback,
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@log @courtcan @Adam_Cadmon1 there is already a move to make cars unaffordable so you have to lease or hire them, electric cars have remote kill switches & require a connection to the manufacturer (via app) to use/charge, we have been forced into a rent culture where you own very little or no assets, what a grim reality capitalism has created without true oversight from our elected officials, we even struggle to own our own data, that is why the rich hate the EU...

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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ha ha ha... Labour has just (re)committed to 'making Brexit work'....

I get that they need rot narrow their policy profile to give a small(er) target to the rabid right press.... but if this is what they really think they're fooling themselves, if its not what they think then their trying to fool (some of) us....

its just hopeless, this fix we've got ourselves into....

Vonskinnback,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I live in Mark Francois constituency, surrounded by bigoted, racist, vile, anti EU, anti LGBTQ, anti immigrant selfish arseholes, my vote has never made any difference whatsoever so why waste my time when I could just focus on moving literally anywhere else...

Geri, to random
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Shareholder greed is to blame for Thames Water 40% price rise request https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/thames-water-ofwat-sewage-prices-barry-gardiner-b1149406.html

Vonskinnback,
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@Geri that 40% rise will increase the shareholders payout & director pay, we would be lucky if 10% got invested into the infrastructure...

ned, to random
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And what about his suggestion to just give it to "the fastest and cheapest bidder"?! 😮 What a fucking moron.

Vonskinnback,
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@ned that estimate was based on absolutely zero knowledge or understanding, plus wasn't his own cyber truck really delayed & much more expensive than promised that forced him to keep asking people to pay more for it after they agreed the initial price only for it to be released with lots of issues anyway? Seems like he should try to do what people pay him to do properly first before he starts weighing in on other shit that he knows absolutely nothing about...

RickiTarr, to random
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Listen memory foam, I don't want you remembering my body, you pervert.

Vonskinnback,
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@RickiTarr my memory foam immediately changes the body shape the moment I get up in an attempt to body shame me, I never thought I would be in a toxic relationship with my mattress but here we are...

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    Vonskinnback,
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    @DrALJONES it was just another weapon used by Israel to hurt Gaza without looking like they're trying to instigate genocide, they are using lies & starvation to kill as many as possible because they believe it will allow them to continue this shit show for longer as this kind of shit is difficult to prove, plus once the lie has been told & the damage is done, they never have to answer for it & if they do they just plead ignorance or poor intelligence from a chaotic situation...

    Vonskinnback,
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    @DrALJONES I honestly can't believe the international community acted without evidence in the way they did but then again I also remember that Tony Blair and George w Bush murdered 350,000 Iraqis based on absolute lies & bullshit, so this definitely isn't the first or last time we will see innocent people killed by bad faith actors. At this point in history I would happily criminalise lying in public office with a minimum sentence of 100 years if proven guilty, I am tired of lies hurting us...

    Vonskinnback,
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    @LiefhebberV @DrALJONES indeed, but those numbers aren't verified, I do like to air on the side of caution, I try to only deal in provable facts and reality, it keeps me honest, or at least as best as I can be...

    MissingThePt, to random
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    I love to hear stories from back in the olden days. Tell me what it was like in the 1990s.

    Vonskinnback,
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    @mkandle @NormanDunbar @MissingThePt the 90's was a treasure trove of music & mad times, it felt like a really positive & upbeat era (at least for me) it's was the GenXers dirty little secret & if you ever catch a GenXer with a cheeky smile on their face you can be sure we are remembering something from the 90's...

    Vonskinnback,
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    @NormanDunbar @MissingThePt Electronic dance music. You always had Jamiroquai, he was excellent for a bit of funk fusion, daft punk were also a 90's group...

    Vonskinnback,
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    @NormanDunbar @MissingThePt fair enough, it was a cracking time for electronic music, hip-hop, rap, bands like pearl jam, soundgarden & rage against the machine, trip-hop became a thing with wonderful results like portishead & massive attack, bands like counting crows & Weezer, Radiohead & the verve, even Pink Floyd popped out the division bell mid 90's. But I guess that was just me, I would have named some EDM groups but I get the feeling that's not your bag...

    Vonskinnback,
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    @NormanDunbar @MissingThePt the 90's was jam packed with incredible music, but I suppose you had to be there to really enjoy it...

    Vonskinnback,
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    @NormanDunbar @mkandle @MissingThePt unfortunately there is already a generation alpha, so we are starting again...🤣

    Vonskinnback,
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    @prema @mkandle @NormanDunbar @MissingThePt it definitely feels like the 90's revival has begun, there is a lot more dance music hitting the mainstream again, accidentally turned on Radio 1 the other night & before I knew it I had been listening to it for about an hour, so it has gotten my 90's spidey senses tingling, not to mention the fashion, I bought my nice some cracking purple distressed Doc martins, lots of baggy jeans, flairs & black band tops everywhere...

    chargrille, to random
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    Over the last 3+ decades, I've watched the Republican party bring fascism to the brink of victory again, a mere 60 years after its defeat in WWII.

    Aided, hand-in-hand, by the post-communist, mafia-state apparatuses of Russia & China - countries the GOP spent the last 100 years using as bogeymen against US voters who wanted better services from their own national government - & by the multi-national corporations that funded the GOP & were rewarded with dismantling of anti-monopoly & FCC laws.

    Vonskinnback,
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    @chargrille Rupert Murdoch is responsible for creating a world where being an intolerant Nazi & Racist is socially acceptable, but unfortunately they were already there. Brexit revealed to me how many of my friends were harbouring abhorrent views. I lost so many friends and family between 2015 & 2024, it has even forced me into moving away from England altogether, because I just refuse to be any part of it, this vile septic isle...

    RejoinEU, to BBC
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    Sunday raspberry to for putting a MAGA interim nomination success at the top of the 8am BBC news bulletin on a Sunday morning. Instant off-button. For 4 yrs the British State Broadcaster inexplicably put the sayings & doings of the Orange Fascist top of the bulletin during his presidency. Enough already. You might claim it is "news", but when you bill it at the top of the bulletin, you transform it into acclaim. And you know it.

    Vonskinnback,
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    @RejoinEU dumped the BBC years ago, not fit for purpose, they gave us Brexit & refused to report the ill effects of it afterwards & always tickled the tummy of every single far right Tory MP that showed up, no matter what lies & misinformation they spouted out of their facial shit holes.

    fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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    "The Speaker, however, did not explain exactly who it was that threatened the safety of Labour MPs - but nobody at Westminster was in any doubt who he was referring to: Muslims.
    ...
    No evidence has been provided. No evidence from the Speaker, who set the media storm in motion. Nothing from Starmer, who briefed him"

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-claim-muslims-threatening-democracy-dangerous-evidence-where

    Vonskinnback,
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    @fkamiah17 when it comes to Islamic terrorist threats they're willing to do anything to protect MPs, when it comes to far right extremist terrorists they'll do anything to risk the safety of MPs to push their agenda, that is a fact, the media, Johnson, UKIP, EDL, Tommy two names, the Tory party, the Brexit party, Britain first all threatened to hurt, intimidate & kill anybody who got in their way & even Johnson told MPs to get in line if they are afraid, it's what the dead MP would have wanted.

    Vonskinnback,
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    @fkamiah17 yep, an extremist who was radicalised by the Tory party UKIP, the EDL and brexit to the point where he was so enraged by their rhetoric and the media's rhetoric he decided to gun down an MP in cold blood because she was against Brexit, something that turned out to be built on nothing by lies & propaganda by serving MP's who are still holding the highest office in the land.

    Wen, to USpolitics
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    The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/23/republicans-american-theocracy

    Reich article from across the pond.Having despised other theocracies - Iran as one example, Afghanistan as another and both arguably created/enabled by the US, the GOP are determined to copy them. At what point will the civilised world find that we have to accept refugees from the US?

    Vonskinnback,
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    @Wen https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/hundreds-citizens-apply-asylum-uk-32114177

    Indyposterboy, to random
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    You’d have thought a state founded by people whose family and ancestors had been victims of continued persecution through the ages would have an extra-developed resistance to persecuting others. Apparently not.

    Vonskinnback,
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    @Indyposterboy everyone is capable atrocities even the Jewish people, such is the nature of humanity...

    Vonskinnback,
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    @Indyposterboy unfortunately I think history has always framed Jewish people as better than the rest because of their awful history of death and hate perpetrated against them, but it seems that they are just as human as all of us & able to be corrupted by far-right fascist ideologies that drive them to commit atrocities, it's just a sad thing to witness & I am sure some of them will be feeling that sadness today and for the rest of their days, joining the ranks of guilt like the rest of us.

    ajsadauskas, to TeslaMotors
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    Elon's "extremely hardcore" toxic work culture means people are forced to take Adderall without a prescription to meet their workload. Just ask SpaceX employees.

    "Some SpaceX workers resorted to taking Adderall to keep up with the pace of work at the company's launch facility, and others found themselves falling asleep in the bathroom during long workweeks, a recent Reuters investigation found.

    "Travis Carson, a former SpaceX worker at the company's facility in Brownsville, Texas, told Reuters some workers took Adderall — a stimulant designed to help people with ADHD improve their focus and concentration levels — without a prescription to keep up with the pace of work."

    Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-workers-took-adderall-slept-bathroom-iv-treatments-deadlines-report-2023-11

    What a nightmare!

    #X @technology

    Vonskinnback,
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    @ajsadauskas @technology this kind of shit is all the fault of the pyramids, megalomaniacs like musk know no if they throw enough pain agony and bodies at his projects that history would eventually forget the damage and pain he caused and only remembering for the good or alleged good he has done, it's about an everlasting legacy with these lunatics.

    Vonskinnback, to random
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    It's quite a look when you are at a rally to protect children from the perceived imaginary threat of drag acts reading to children whilst simultaneously dressed in a paedophile costume...😂

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