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daveunderwood

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I blog about mortality awareness. Humanist. Anti-corruption. Anti-authoritarianism. Anti-totalitarianism. I have ME/CFS #mecfs. Boosts not necessarily endorsements. (he/him)

Interests: #DeathAnxiety #DeathAwareness #TerrorManagementTheory #MortalitySalience #FearOfDeath #MementoMori #MortalityAwareness #Death #Mortality #Existentialism #ErnestBecker #ExChristian #Exvangelical #Humanism #Agnostic #fedi22

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daveunderwood, to random
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UK General Election set for July 4th, 2024.

We must crush the bones of the Tories into dust. They must be eliminated, eviscerated, destroyed. Made a non-thing. Written out of the book of life.

daveunderwood, to uk
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Rotten stuff from a rotten party. We need to throw them out.

'Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse' https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/tory-staff-running-network-of-anti-ulez-facebook-groups-riddled-with-racism-and-abuse

daveunderwood, to uk
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This for me is the last 14 years of Tory rule in a photo.

Nasty, brutish, and ill-tempered. And soon, thank god, it will be over.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c2jmrs/brawl_at_a_fancy_british_horse_race/

daveunderwood, to movies
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I once read somewhere that all films are essentially one of two premises: a stranger comes to town, or a person goes on a journey.

Can anyone think of any obvious exceptions to this rule? I'm struggling 😊

daveunderwood, to uk
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This is a precise encapsulation from Sam Freedman about what is coming with Jeremy Hunt's statement.

I wish I could agree with Freedman that it will be "a profound insult to voters’ intelligence" but I fear many won't see it this way. They will see the Government as being "fiscally responsible" 🙄

Source: https://samf.substack.com/p/fifty-years-of-putting-off-the-inevitable [paywall, preview only]

daveunderwood, to random
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Always worth a post. The 14 "typical" features of Eternal Fascism:

Original essay by Umberto Eco: https://web.archive.org/web/20170131144504/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Abbreviated list by Kottke: https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-eternal-fascism

daveunderwood, to uk
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Pure Tory Little Britain:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-68212512

daveunderwood, to dystopia
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Under His Eye

Source: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fnokxuxw31ygc1.jpeg

daveunderwood, to environment
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How much does that flight add to your carbon footprint?

From Flight Free UK: https://flightfree.co.uk/post/what-has-aviation-got-to-do-with-climate-change/

daveunderwood, to uk
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Brexit in three videos:

  1. It’s going to be great!

Source: https://twitter.com/realpaullewis/status/1752796626442203231

Video where the BBC interviews people celebrating the UK leaving the EU four years ago

daveunderwood, to Christianity
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See, he misheard. Could happen to any of us really. Ok, probably not. It happened to this guy though.

daveunderwood, to uk
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The absolute state of this.

Tory MP is asked to name one thing that works better than it did 14 years ago. "Basically you can't answer the question".

Source: https://twitter.com/The_TUC/status/1747966497996083537

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daveunderwood, to Scotland
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Currently 1 in 24 people in England & Scotland have Covid.

Source: https://twitter.com/drmarkporter/status/1737771287114588198

daveunderwood, to random
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Having the Tories in charge is bad for the health of your country 😞

'UNICEF league table on changes in child poverty over 7+ years up to 2021: UK in the bottom spot'

Source: https://twitter.com/prospect_clark/status/1732300969390592142

Report: https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/reports/report-card-18-child-poverty-amidst-wealth#report

daveunderwood, to UKpolitics
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From Peter Geoghegan:

'The more I think about it, the more I think this is a complete scandal.

Donors can now give £11,200 to British political parties anonymously, while parties can spend more than ever.

Welcome to the dark money election - brought to you by the Tory government'

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-britains-broken-election

daveunderwood, to Quotes
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"What do we do about free speech when it is so widely abused? We should still do, with renewed vigour, what we have always needed to do: to answer bad speech with better speech, to counter false narratives with better narratives, to answer hate with love, and to believe that the truth can still succeed even in an age of lies."

— Salman Rushdie

daveunderwood, to uk
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Tories gonna Tory. Don't they ever get tired of it? You have to conclude being disingenuous & deceptive is energising for them 🤷‍♂️

daveunderwood, to climate
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Man, what an awesome graph. Go renewables go!

Source: https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/10/24/2023/semafor-flagship-a-more-constructive-approach

daveunderwood, to Futurology
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I think about this graphic at least once a week. What vehicles do to our towns & cities…

Illustration by Swedish artist Karl Jilg.

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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" [says] he will push back a ban on selling new and cars from 2030 to 2035, dramatically slow down plans to phase out , and reject calls to regulate for homeowners.

The move intensifies Sunak’s newfound and controversial electoral strategy: binning Britain’s bolder emissions-cutting policies and picking fights with activists, in a gamble that the confrontation will appeal to traditional Conservative voters."


https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/uk/uk-sunak-climate-targets-delay-gbr-intl/index.html

daveunderwood,
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@CelloMomOnCars 'in a gamble that the confrontation will appeal to traditional Conservative voters.'

It makes my blood boil that people could be so selfish & stupid to buy into such an obvious political tactic 😩

daveunderwood, to uk
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A general election cannot come soon enough.

daveunderwood, to climate
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I want to give the biggest shoutout to local climate activist group Climate Action Leicester and Leicestershire who have been involved to getting my local council to pass a motion declaring they want to end investment in fossil producing companies!

Awesome! It makes me feel proud & excited to see climate activism like this at the local level

Their website: https://www.climateactionleicesterandleicestershire.org.uk/index.php/leicsdivest/

stefan, to mastodon
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So it looks like Mastodon is experimenting with the styling of hashtags that are at the end of the post. Left is v4.2.0-beta2, right is the latest work-in-progress version running on mastodon.social.

I don't know, I kind of like them larger?

daveunderwood,
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@stefan Yes, I like them larger too. And it makes them look more like labels, which seems to the point?

daveunderwood, to uk
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The UK govt plans to create a huge ‘Federated Data Platform’ for our health data & US spy tech company Palantir is in line for the £480m contract.

Please join me in opposing this shady dated takeover by adding your name here: 👇 https://actionnetwork.org/forms/our-health-data-our-choice

daveunderwood, to climate
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An image for the ages.

"AP photographer Petros Giannakouris documented the jarring reality of beachgoers still trying to enjoy themselves, with a charred forest as their abstract backdrop, on the resort island of Rhodes in southeastern Greece on July 27."

Source: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/santamariatimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/d3/dd37b8cb-f4ed-5414-9cea-d1fe77947086/64c48f4ee8f06.image.jpg

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