Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org

Growth in the economy creates wealth that never trickles down, but is what Labour says it wants. What is it going to do for the 12 million people in absolute poverty in that case? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/03/22/growth-in-the-economy-creates-wealth-that-never-trickles-down-but-is-what-labour-says-it-wants-what-is-it-going-to-do-for-the-12-million-people-in-absolute-poverty-in-that-case/. Meeting everyone's needs within sustainable limits should be our priority now. Unless that change happens, 12 million people will continue to live in absolute poverty in the UK.

Is that what Labour wants?

If the US government really wants to shut down TikTok they should let Elon buy it.

“UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off.” Well we certainly can’t have doctors of all people caring about our long term health and wellbeing. #climatecrisis

Neologism alert:

Just spotted this in the FT...

Fauxcession = a recession reported (or seen in financial market pricing) but not appearing in the 'real economy'.

Perhaps it might be used for over-zealous short sellers' activities?

anyhow, I'd never seen the word before...

WOW. tomorrow is 21 years since Israel assassinated Rachel Corrie.
#SayHerName

You think the perfect job doesn't exist.

But Samuel L. Jackson has made over $300,000,000 from his 150+ movies.

He says around 2000 words per movie, that comes to about $1000 per word.

"Motherfucker" was 1116 of those words.

Therefore Samuel L. Jackson has made over 1 million dollars for saying "Motherfucker".

That's the kind of job we would all aspire to.

If you want to see racism in action in politics then you need look no further than Speaker Lindsay Hoyle failing to ‘notice’ Diane Abbott and call her to speak in a debate where people were discussing whether her experience of racism was racism.

How much do you need to donate to the Conservative Party to get away with being racist to Rishi Sunak? I ask as a tariff structure seems to have emerged.

Two horses die on the first day of #CheltenhamFestival

Highland Hunter, 11, died after being injured in the final stages of Tuesday's third race. Ose Partir, four, was injured in a fall three races later and so, because of insurance purposes, was destroyed.

How much longer are we going to tolerate this?

https://www.horsedeathwatch.com/

@PhilipCJames The way things appear to be going down the toilet in England and I mean England, not Britain, I can see English people looking at Rwanda as an attractive alternative.

You need not remember
where you were
four years ago today
when you first heard
that the WHO
had officially characterized
COVID as a pandemic
at home or work
at school or online
the specifics are unimportant
what matters
is that you remember
you are still in that pandemic.

When privileged folks tell me at my talks “I don’t care about my privacy / I have nothing to hide / Give me one example of the ramifications of surveillance capitalism / etc.”, I tell them “you will care when your health insurance premiums go up because your Smart Fridge tells the insurance companies what you’re eating/drinkjng.” This is basically the same thing. Sad that it takes things hitting their own wallets for privileged folks to pay attention.

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sending consensual and platonic forehead kisses to antifascists everywhere. We need each other more than ever