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
So it's no wonder we have people going round chopping down Ulez cameras willy nilly. It may well be that the short-term and longer term impact on society and environment is unbalanced, but that's a policy discussion. All they're achieving now is costing me as a tax-payer, and conflating several loosely related measures.
But this is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you cause damage to law and justice.
Lead here is about people disobeying the law... as if the Tories haven't spent the last few years trying to make the law and justice irrelevant. They're quite happy to invoke "The Will Of The People" when it suits their ends, or to bend the interpretation of rules, even if it damages the rule of law and other critial civic institutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/why-does-rishi-sunak-want-to-clamp-down-on-protests
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An envelope that contained a white powder was sent to Judge Arthur #Engoron who imposed a $454M judgment against #Trump, causing a brief #security scare Wed at a #NY courthouse.
…the business-sized envelope was addressed to Engoron but never reached him. The powder was quickly determined to be harmless in preliminary testing. Further testing is being done.
#law #RightWingExtremism #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #Republicans #StateSponsoredTerrorism #MobTactics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-judge-white-powder-arthur-engoron-new-york/
Pleased to see that one of my favourite #comic artists, @WinstonRowntree, is on fedi, although seems only to have dipped a toe. Beautifully crafted mini stories of angst, anomie and self-discovery.
Archive at: https://viruscomix.com/subnormality.html
Spotted an almost unrecognisable Jarvis Cocker in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City.
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So you want a quote for a thing, say a storage space, and the website is making you put in a phone number before they tell you how much the thing costs? Is the website validation preventing you from typing in a completely random number?
Worry not. Ireland has valid mobile and landline phone numbers reserved for use in TV and movies and absolutely nobody is validating for that.
Pick one from the range and be uncallable:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland#Special_numbers
Hmm, this new #BBC sci-fi drama "Ministry of Time" sounds similar to the Spanish series "Ministerio del Tempo". Must be coincidence.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ministry-of-time-bbc-commission-newsupdate/
I'm not the first to note this remarkable similarity. (Spanish article) https://www.lavanguardia.com/series/20240223/9526794/the-ministry-of-time-bbc-plagia-el-ministerio-del-tiempo.html
Blimey, we all new Liz Truss was a bit unhinged but I never expected her to go full-on right-wing nutjob.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/liz-truss-deep-state-cpac-far-right
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"Those who will mourn Navalny have fled abroad. They will sigh sadly from their permanent exile, secretly glad all the same that it was he and not them that paid the price.
Some may think about protesting or holding public vigils in major Russian cities. It is a dangerous idea, and so most mourners will dismiss it out of hand. They will go back to their families, huddle together, grateful that they can at least think freely, even if they no longer can freely say what they think. "
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"But for the vast, tired, apathetic, silent majority, Navalny’s death will barely register. ‘Who? Navalny? He knew what he was getting himself into.’ He knew."
Above quotes from Sergey Radchenko's opinion piece in the Spectator:
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'Judging by Reeves’s recent performance, they seem to care more about the fiscal hawks in their midst and in the Tory press. So much so that, to prove their mettle as bona fide austerians, they adopt the most pernicious allegory to have disgraced economic thinking.'
Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/labour-credit-card-analogy-mendacious-tory
@lowqualityfacts Before Netflix and fast broadband, the only way you could watch movies online was via Terminal. Someone has recreated that experience for posterity.
https://ascii.theater/
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> DR. FRANKENSTEIN: I'm just saying, it's a very misleading flyer
> BODY BUILDING COMPETITION JUDGE: again, we can only apologise
From @openDemocracy, a counter to Khordokovsky's vision, which is only touched on briefly in the above article:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/khodorkovsky-book-kill-dragon-putin-revolution-russia/
"There is literally nothing in the book about the work of opposition politicians with the apolitical majority of Russian citizens." Which is he key problem regardless of who the opposition figure is, or if they're martyred.
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/
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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.
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!
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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
- Location
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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 :)
*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
