Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

“What makes the Brexit taboo all the more extraordinary is that this was supposed to be the great project of national liberation; the unleashing of a new age of freedom and prosperity. Yet now – to reprise another phrase redolent of Victorian prudishness – it has become the love that dare not speak its name. At most, there are vague references to ‘Brexit opportunities’, the precise nature of which are only coyly hinted at.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/15/lady-chatterleys-brexit/

@ParkinJim When clicking on that mention link, turns out that person's moved to another instance. Maybe follow them to the new place instead?

Twitter employees: This is a place we love and the new regime has destroyed livelihoods and caused massive and lasting damage to it in record time, from a combination of arrogance, incompetence, and unmanageable financial entanglements with sinister foreign states and private backers.

The British public: Sigh.

An interdisciplinary team discovered a previously unknown Etruscan temple (45 meters by 35 meters) in the ancient city of Vulci, which lies in the Italian region of Latium. It is dated towards the end of the 6th or beginning of the 5th century BC. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-previously-unknown-monumental-temple-tempio.html

In the last few moments, #NASA began broadcasting the first images of Earth from a human-rated spacecraft since #Apollo17 in 1972. Link below if you want to watch the world, literally, go by....
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive #artemis

Eilean nam Ban, known locally as Seagull Island, is a mile or so out of Kinlochleven on the north side of Loch Leven. Historically, it was used as a meeting point for clan chieftains to settle their differences and more recently as a location for a slightly more adventurous wedding.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #ScotlandPhotography #Island

@Dunningkruger @catvaxlax @Madmixchaves @kamado @jneill @ParkinJim

😡😡😡😡While you are watching Bully Boy @DominicRaab@twitter.com strutting his stuff at #pmqs, I am listening to desperate mums unable to afford to feed their families. Cutting back on food, only buying basics. After Raab has finished sneering, this is what HE will have for lunch #toryscum

Former Cabinet Minister George Eustice tells the Commons the Australia trade deal "is not actually a very good deal for the UK" blaming Liz Truss for "an arbitrary target to conclude Heads of Terms" by the G7 summit and "from that moment the UK was on the back foot"

"Indeed perhaps Brexit itself will be permanently in the political doldrums, a constant drag on the British economy and on British international standing, yet scarcely discussed as if it were the habitual drunken lechery of an elderly uncle at family parties: unpleasant to contemplate and considered in bad taste to mention, until he finally dies at which point everyone says how much they loathed him."

In a slow Brexit week @ChrisGrey finds his fangs.

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2022/11/in-doldrums.html

@EnPrimeurLefty
this is not a site for campaigning or battle, it's a civilised place of discussion and information sharing.
And most of us can pretty much assume "Brexit is Shit" so there's no need for debate on that.
We can share the evidence of how it's ruining our lives though, and there's plenty of that!

Early morning. View from top of Devil's Dyke, Sussex UK.

I always follow back, and really appreciate and follow boosters

#Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #MastodonPic #Photo #Nature #PicOfTheDay #Photographer #Follow #Beautiful #Art #Sussex #Travel #Photoshoot #Boost #Landscape #View #LandscapePhotography #Style #Happy #Brighton #PhotosOfBritain #PhotosOfEngland #BeautifulEngland #BeautifulSussex #Shadows

Today's gospel reading (16.11.22): Luke 19.11-28

This is a story that encourages us to make use of the gifts we have been given, and not to hide them away. What special talents and abilities do you have, and are you making best use of them? Could others benefit from them?

Y’all, if you’re getting frustrated you’re not seeing the content you want to like news or intel you need on Mastodon, you really need to shift your thinking from algorithmic social media. Follower counts don’t matter much here. Likes do not matter to post reach. Without your interaction, you will just see a live FIFO firehose. Some quick fixes:

Hashtag your posts liberally and consistently, and follow key hashtags of interest to you. Hashtags matter a ton here to being seen.

Follow and also alert on accounts you always want to see content from.

Consider using the built in RSS feature for your feeds and for specific hashtags.

Consider switching to the more advanced UI in your preferences, so you can watch multiple filtered and unfiltered feeds. Or a different mobile app.

Use Fedifinder to follow all the accounts you followed on Twitter, and sync up your follow and block lists.

Avail yourself of the multiple public lists of hundreds of journalist accounts on Mastodon.

#mastodontips

Asked this morning whether Brexit has in any way contributed to the UK's economic downturn, Rishi Sunak blames "global factors" such as "the legacy of Covid" and "what Putin is doing."

In reality, while all G7 countries have been hit by these, only the UK economy remains smaller than before the pandemic.

Love this pic of my mum and dad on their honeymoon in New Brighton.
My dad was an undiagnosed autistic person. No-one could understand him especially my mum.
She went on to leave him and us (the children) twice.
If ever clocks could be turned back then this one of the times.
#autism
#autistic
#undiagnosedautism
#newbrighton