dave

@dave@pleroma.manicphase.me

a bit #anarchist
very #socialist
#python dev
#decentralisation nerd
formerly manicphase@mastodon.social

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dave, to random

If you were to show the trolley problem to anyone on the Labour front bench, they would just see a bunch of meaningless squiggles.

They would then look nervously to their donors who would mouth the words "don't do anything"

dave, to random

Notice how politicians seem to have stopped comparing the national economy to a household budget? I'm presuming somebody pointed out why a mortgage is a better deal than rent and it made sense to focus groups.

dave, to random

It's funny watching 🌹twitter calling Jamie Driscoll a shill when they're doing it on behalf of a party so committed to having no ideas they keep getting outflanked on the left by Rishi fucking Sunak.

dave,

Lol.

Lmao, even.

dave, to UKpolitics

Jamie Driscoll has a fundraiser.

https://gofund.me/5c01d126

dave,

£25000 in two hours! That's like £12500 an hour. I don't think you could even get that for selling public services off.

@LauraKT @RDHale @CEMedia can you RT the link in the preceding post plz?

dave, to random

I don't understand content creators that announce they're "leaving the left".

How the fuck does that even work? Someone disagreed with you over the minutiae, so now you don't understand wealth consolidation leads to societal dysfunction?

dave, to random

They seem to have unbroken the L86 in and now I feel a bit guilty cause I can finish a round with a positive k:d

ChrisMayLA6, to random
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

After Nigel Farage's spurious claims to have been victimised by Coutts (no, he just dropped below the income/wealth threshold for holding an account with them), I see the ever opportunistic has decided to force a formal review (and potential relaxation) of the Politically Exposed Persons' regime that underpins aspects of vetting for accounts...

Now, why would a member of a corrupt political party frequently in receipt of oligarch's cash want to do that I wonder?

dave,

@ChrisMayLA6 I knew this shit was coming!

The thing that stops you getting an account is the inability to explain where your money comes from, not your personal or political opinions.

There's about 20000 councillors, 650 MPs, 777 lord's and god knows how many other people that have to go through these checks.

If the system was didn't work properly and blocked innocent people, we'd know by now. This is just a scheme to hide corruption.

dave,

@ChrisMayLA6 https://pleroma.manicphase.me/notice/AXMdZ9G1Rte560MECG

dave, to random

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/jeremy-corbyn-bradford-literature-festival-enthusiastic-reception-labour-party/

dave, to random

The have set up an farm in the garden

molly0xfff, to random
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

twitter and reddit beginning down the paths of self-destruction in the name of preventing scraping and AI abuse demonstrates that the solution to that problem is not going to be a primarily technological one

dave,

@molly0xfff I might sound mad here but I've got a feeling that scraping and AI is just an excuse because the landlord mentality shareholders are more influential now the superhero mentality shareholders have wrecked themselves.

dansup, to random
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

Trying to capture non-webfinger accounts/mentions or post urls (ex: hxxps://mastodon.social/@dansup) in captions on the app while handling non-fedi links and opening the browser is pretty challenging, if not impossible (unless you nodeinfo/webfinger every link before opening the browser)

Probably not even worth it, but I'd like to keep fedi links in-app

dave,

@dansup could you keep a local sqlite db that stores webfinger data and just probe and store new domains as you come across them?

dave, to reddit

Just tried to open a thread in rif and realised really went through with their dumb shit. 🙄

Where's the best forum for support now?

I can't be fucked even attempting to navigate a Reddit interface that hides the thread I'm trying to read to show me shit I wasn't looking for.

dave,

@arek thanks. I've forgotten what I was wanting to know now though 🤔

dave, to random

Conspiracy theory that nobody will believe until it's too late:
Everyone in the press knows farage is lying but repealing the rules around PEPs is a step towards hiding paper trails for the entire media-political class.

dave, to random

Lmao this shit is getting funnier.

Coutts: We're sorry Mr Farage. You're not bringing in enough money to afford for us to provide you with our professional tracks covering team. We can downgrade you to a normal plebs NatWest account though.

Farage: OK

Coutts: we'll pass you through now to complete the process

Farage: thank you

NatWest: hello Mr Farage. We notice that you're a politically exposed person, so in order to finalise setting up your account we need proof of where your money comes from.

Farage: shit!

https://twitter.com/BBCSimonJack/status/1676161715526836225

dave,

Btw, everyone in the press is lying about the PEP thing.

I've been through it. It's a faff but you're not actually blocked from having an account.

It just takes longer because you have to provide a paper trail to explain any significant sum of money (above £1000 I think it is) you've received.

Any politician that tells you they couldn't get an account is just telling on themselves.

Banks aren't closing accounts because they said something mean on the internet, they're blocking new ones because the people opening them are refusing to explain why someone sent them £20000 recently.

dave, to random

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/01/tories-mass-exodus-parliament-mps-quit-commons

"It actually is harder for former colleagues to transition into the world of work, because the world of work has persuaded itself that MPs have some sort of separate and unique skill set that can’t be applied easily elsewhere,” said one. “There is a career penalty for entering parliament for many people."

It's not a penalty. MPs are promoted because they're unscrupulous impressionable idiots that can be easily blackmailed or paid off by powerful interests. They were already unqualified for anything beyond shamelessly parroting PR.

dave, to random

No love for Prigozhin and all mercenaries deserve to burn in hell, but this a pretty succinct description of what our guy did to Russia.

Will the libs watching on stop and think it might not be such a good idea to carry on doing this to ourselves?

QasimRashid, (edited ) to random
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing opulence.

Smh. We don’t have to live like this.

dave,

@QasimRashid maybe she could beat the case if she says one of those refugees had $400million.

dave, to random

I don't think we can do anything about climate change by convincing the rich it will harm them too.

The guy had a scientist that explained what was wrong with his submersible, so he fired him and got students to make it, then accidentally killed himself in the worst way imaginable.

These people are never going to do anything good because they literally think they're invincible.

dave, to random

Very on-brand for centrist dads to patiently explain their discovery to us five years after the rest of us explained it to them and they refused to listen.

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2023/06/rise-waterstones-dad-library-history-bookshops

Link to article in post

dave, to random

I'm not really the sort to ask for RTs but I really want to see if anyone else has any feedback or if it's a one off or unreported trend, so if anyone would be so kind as to boost this I'd be grateful...

All my life I've been a fussy eater and not even particularly enthusiastic about the food I do like. At times when skint, I've even let calorific content dictate my diet because I've been that unbothered about enjoying what I eat.

For the last year or two I've been getting progressively more ill due to inflammatory bowel disease, which culminated in me getting an (majority of my large intestine removed) last week.

Since then, everything I've eaten has tasted amazing. I feel like I've gone from considering eating a chore to being a full on foody. There's foods that I've always considered disgusting that I now find really appealing (and annoyingly, but maybe tellingly, they tend to be ones I'm now not allowed to eat).

So my questions are, is this a common thing? and has anybody ever studied whether being a fussy eater might be a very early warning sign for ?

dave,

@lifesapolyp my theory was that I had a low level allergy or something and stopped having a bad reaction once my colon was out.

My mate reckons that it's that I'm not getting nutrients that are in the those foods anymore.

It guess either of these things could be responsible for the changes in both our appetites. If your bile is imbalanced now (idk how it works, I just read the Wikipedia page for gallbladder) maybe your body doesn't want to ingest stuff that it would find it difficult to process now or something. 🤷

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