Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
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Joined Oct 2022
Putin's drawn out murder of opposition figure Navalny may be another step towards his end. But as Mikhail Khordokovsky wrote in November 20323, what comes next will depend greatly on how the West reacts.
Collapse of the Empire, resulting dozens of Republics modelled after Kadyrov's Chechnya, is dangerous undesireable. As is a mythical "Good Tsar", who would inevitably continue the corruption, aggression and expansionist tendencies.
https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/the-berlin-pulse/democracy-in-russia-is-possible/
@Norobiik I am still unsure as to how much this will be seen as a rallying point for opposition. Anyone who stands up seems to get unpersoned, jailed and forgotten. E.g. Helga Pirogova:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/07/26/i-can-t-make-peace-with-leaving
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Folks, as you're spinning your quips about Navalny and the Putin regime in your reactions to today's news, please remember that Alexey's family and millions more people are in mourning.
Completely surprising death of Russian opposition leader
@neil Likely a grave miscalculation by Putin, but hard to judge how much influence he had more widely. Also, whilst he was firmly anti-corruption and anti-Putin, he was still a Russian Nationalist at heart.
Putin's chat with Karlsson dissected for its historical weirdness, what his assertions mean for how we view history and how nations and peoples define themselves.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/putins-genocidal-myth
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Hmmm.... the #LabourParty has overturned sizeable majorities in tow previously 'safe' #Tory seats in this week's two by-elections (in #Kingswood & in #Wellingborough).
But, while these may be indicative of a swing to Labour, they may also indicate a swing (on the right) towards Reform, which likely compounded a voting 'strike' (staying at home) by previous Tory #voters.
For leftists, the problem will be if #KeirStarmer takes this as vindication of his tack to the right & policy weakening!
@clacke That's a very small category. For PSAs in general, my generation theres nothing like the 1973 "Lonely Water" film narrated by Donald Pleasance. Pure horror film.
https://youtu.be/xZWD2sDRESk?si=Dq3BCr5JjlFx0iuZ
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Florida authorities want to make it sound like this particular school just messed up - but they deliberately created the environment in which this is bound to happen.
This is the feature, not the bug of the reactionary assault on multiracial pluralism Florida has spearheaded. 1/
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The emphasis on “parents rights” is part of an attempt to make every reactionary white person a deputy of the reactionary state and have them help weed out and oppress dissent and deviance. It’s a fundamentally authoritarian vision of society. /end
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“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”
― George Orwell
@TimHarford I've found Philosophy students to be some of the most unscrupulous. Biased because one ran off with my girlfriend, perhaps.
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Are economists selfish? Not according to Monopoly
Against my better judgment, I was recently prevailed upon to play a game of Monopoly with the family. It soon developed in a fashion that has become familiar: everyone tried to rip everyone else’s face off, except me. I proposed a mutually beneficial deal to each player, offering extra concessions myself to make sure those deals go
https://timharford.com/2024/02/are-economists-selfish-not-according-to-monopoly/
@Illuminatus @tferrer Rusia sigue siendo un estado feudal.
@LouisIngenthron @freemo Even if Trump isn't actually his puppet, he was definitely more useful to Putin last time and would be again. But to openly say that could weaken Trump's support. So naturally he'll say the opposite.
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Wellingborough voters facing historic opportunity to reject cronyism by giving disgraced MP’s job to his girlfriend https://newsthump.com/2024/02/15/wellingborough-voters-facing-historic-opportunity-to-reject-cronyism-by-giving-disgraced-mps-job-to-his-girlfriend/
@newsthump Pack it up guys, irony is dead :(
*Le sigh*
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Vote Count Binface for Mayor of London and I will rename the Overground lines, as follows... #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount
@Norobiik This stuck out as being a really positive aspect: they paired up with a local college to train and certify engineers. That's gonna have great impact in their community.
https://youtu.be/CvdgoX-3WOM?t=2039
I'm reminded of the young folks in New Mexico who got hoodwinked by Arca Space. Quite a contrast.
@norm Used to recommend this to our staff, but also thought it was abandoned of late.
- Location
- Mostly London
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- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
