wood5y

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk

Semi-retired linguist and self-taught geek. Pro-EU, pro-open source. Undocumented naturalised Bristolian. Unapologetic left-winger and republican.

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wood5y, to random

"This is not Blairism. This is something far, far worse."

#RedTories
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/labour-has-given-up-on-the-climate-crisis

wood5y, to random

“Thales, and the UK defence and security industry, works within robust ethical standards that are among the highest found anywhere in the world, and treats its responsibilities under the law with the utmost seriousness.”

Since when has making weapons been ethical?

https://theferret.scot/arms-firms-israel-bombs-invited-to-holyrood/

wood5y, to random

First the Nazis burned books.

Then they burned people.

You have been warned by history, America.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/missouri-republican-candidate-torches-lgbtq-inclusive-books-viral-vide-rcna137715

wood5y, to random

"The puzzling aspect to #Labour’s abandonment of everything that tastes of Labour, is that nobody seems to be demanding these reversals."

https://nation.cymru/opinion/labours-love-lost/

wood5y, to random

Another brave Tory to run away from public scrutiny of his term of office.

#CONservatives

wood5y, to politics

"Answering the question “who would be the least suitable candidate for a by-election in Rochdale for any party” in one, back from the political dead zone has come Simon Danczuk, who has lurched sufficiently to the right since Labour decided they could get along fine without him to support the Tories’ policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda", writes Zelo Street. #Rochdale #politics
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2024/02/spanker-danczuk-is-back.html

wood5y, to random

Carol Cadwalladr writes: "I don’t generally approve of blood sports but I’m happy to make an exception for the hunting and baiting of Silicon Valley executives in a congressional committee room. But then I like expensive, pointless spectacles. And waterboarding tech CEOs in Congress is right up there with firework displays." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/04/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-us-congress-deep-fakes-disinformation-technology

wood5y, to random

"Young Hen Harriers don't remain in one place, of course. Tracking shows them spreading out and searching for optimum habitat, inevitably finding themselves back in the uplands - where many of the tags abruptly stop working. The natural failure rate of modern satellite tags is almost zero."

https://protectthewild.substack.com/p/122-hen-harriers-confirmed-missing

pedestrians1st, to random
@pedestrians1st@mastodon.online avatar

“Labour vows to cut financial ‘red tape’ and ‘unashamedly champion’ UK sector”. As the party clearly no longer supports ordinary working class people should it change its name? Perhaps ‘Banker’ or ‘The City Financier Party’ might be more appropriate.

wood5y,

@pedestrians1st Class Traitors' Party anyone?

wood5y,

@pedestrians1st The current Labour Party - just as in the days of Blair - is in the hands of people who never learnt to distinguish left from right.

wood5y, to privacy

"Welsh Tories launch website asking for feedback on 20mph default speed limit" reads the headline.

Take the survey on the website and it's a massive data slurping exercise.

#CONservatives #privacy

https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-tories-launch-website-asking-for-feedback-on-20mph-default-speed-limit/

wood5y, to random

George Monbiot writes: "Trump exemplifies extrinsic values. From the tower bearing his name in gold letters to his gross overstatements of his wealth; from his endless ranting about “winners” and “losers” to his reported habit of cheating at golf; from his extreme objectification of women, including his own daughter, to his obsession with the size of his hands".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/29/donald-trump-americans-us-culture-republican

Delphi, to mentalhealth
@Delphi@mastodon.scot avatar

Nothing is sacred & everything has to generate #profit nowadays. I'm so tired of it. #Allotments become increasingly vital, not just for #mentalhealth & #exercise but also to enable people to #grow #food as #prices keep rising & the #costofliving is in #crisis. #Monetising mania has become a #21stcentury #religion
#growyourown #vegetables #gardening #healthyeating #5aday #Meninsheds #communitygrowing #plants #greenfingers #greenaccess #greenspace #nature
https://novaramedia.com/2024/01/24/capitalists-have-found-a-lucrative-fix-to-englands-allotment-shortage/

wood5y,

@BroadforkForVictory @Delphi In now. The council's allotment tenants are incensed by council's plans.

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/allotmenteers-to-protest-over-draconian-new-rules/

wood5y, to random

Note to the Independent: Trump isn't worth the paper he's written on.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-net-worth-b2485912.html

wood5y, to random

"If conscription does indeed make a come back in Britain, we can expect the news to be swiftly followed by the revelation that a hastily formed company which Michelle Mone strongly denies any connection with has been awarded a contract for £200 million worth of body armour sourced from a sweat shop in China."

https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/national-service-which-nation-serving-whom/

wood5y, to random

"The war foretold in the Book of Shapps involves the UK – a country that has recently given up on its dream of building a railway line – taking on Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea at the same time."

https://nation.cymru/opinion/a-poundland-sun-tzu/

wood5y, to cymru

"The company's attitude is absurd. We have been informed by several translation companies that the cost of translating the original charge into Welsh would be roughly between £60 and £70. However, instead of doing this and respecting Mr Schiavone's right, One Parking Solution has insisted on going to court for the third time and paying all the costly legal fees entailed in doing so." #Cymraeg https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/another-court-case-welsh-language-28502073

wood5y, to random

"In the latest register of MPs’ interests, Pritchard described the firm as an “industrial manufacturing and technology business”. But the firm’s website reveals it is a weapons maker, producing ballistics, ammunition and plant equipment for the production of ammunition."

#ToryCorruption https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mark-pritchard-mp-north-macedonia-ats-group-arms-weapons-serbia-bribery-arrest-shefshet-demirovski/

Binder, to random
@Binder@petrous.vislae.town avatar

Going to take a chance on a writer that I’ve only read in collaboration w/ other writers. Hope it’s a good read.

wood5y,

@danlyke @Binder The Watch books are great. I also have a soft spot for the Lancre witches.

wood5y, to random

"The Crown Estate in Wales owns about 65% of the Welsh foreshore and riverbed, and more than 50,000 acres of land. In 2020-21, the value of the estate went from £96.8m to £603m, reflecting the value of the land for renewable development and other projects.

The estimated annual revenue in 2020-2021 was £8.7m. As revealed by Cymru Republic, the value in 2023 is £853m."

https://nation.cymru/news/campaign-to-devolve-the-crown-estate-to-wales-launched/

wood5y, to random

Vintage Rolls Royce?

Clapped-out carthorse more like, along with the whole corrupt, puerile institution of monarchy.

wood5y, to random

Racist Home Office still racist.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/18/home-office-resumes-asylum-hotel-evictions-despite-freezing-weather

wood5y,

@pedestrians1st Indeed.

And if the likes of the UK and USA were not so keen of encouraging division and violence around the world, there would be fewer victims of war and persecution seeking shelter here.

wood5y, to bristol

Good morning.

'Tis a cold, bright and sunny day in .

wood5y, to cymru

Plaid MP set to close account following axing of telephone service in .
https://nation.cymru/news/mp-set-to-close-hsbc-account-following-axing-of-welsh-language-service/

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