Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

Down the drain: how billions of pounds are sucked out of #England’s #water system | Water | The Guardian

An object lesson in why public utilities like water and electricity generation shown not me in private hands as they are a necessity.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/dec/01/down-the-drain-how-billions-of-pounds-are-sucked-out-of-englands-water-system

#UK #Politics #Privatization

Some people in the UK now reduced to eating pet food and trying to heat food up on a radiator. This is where we are in 2022 and the most sickening thing about this is that it's all completely unnecessary. What have we become?

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/people-eating-pet-food-says-community-worker/ar-AA14L1yN

#Poverty #PovertyAwareness #UKPolitics #EnoughIsEnough

I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.

"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant

But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"

'The UK has gone backwards on its #Covid vaccine capability and preparedness for a fresh pandemic, experts have warned.'

'Dame Kate Bingham, the former head of the UK vaccines taskforce, said the country had lost its leadership, developed in the early months of the pandemic, by weakening its ability to access vaccinations that could tackle new Covid #variants. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-playing-with-fire-after-covid-jabs-u-turn-warn-scientists-2003300?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly_01.12.22&tpcc=Weekly_01.12.22

Hi everyone, this is my first toot. I have no idea how this works... but I guess you learn by doing so let's go! Hope I'll be in touch here with all of you I exchanged with and learnt from on now... dying twitter. We organize here! Let's go!

A #terrestrial demonstration of why it’s just about impossible to see the #Moon's surface and #stars simultaneously. Tonight the Moon and #Jupiter (a wandering star or #planet) are in #conjunction – well just about. There follow two #images taken with two different #exposure time.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Autumn #BackyardAstronomy

Just now, the #Fediverse (#ActivityPub) has surpassed 8 million users! It just took 13 days from 7 to 8m users!

All ActivityPub-connected #SocialMedia are at 8,012,580 users (5.2m active six months, 3.4m monthly active). Thanks to #Mastodon 7.0m users, #PeerTube 388k, #Pixelfed 130k , #Pleroma 127k, #WriteFreely 65k #Lemmy 40k, #Wordpress 35k, #Plume 28k, #Friendica 20k, #Mobilizon 14k, #bookwyrm 14k and many more.

https://the-federation.info/

#Fedigrowth #Misskey #Funkwhale #Hubzilla #hometown

I wanted an instance
- in #english
- with reasonable and #openMinded rule set
- #LGBTQ+ friendly (even if I am not, but most of my #friends are)
- that did not block other #instances, at most muted but open
- with open minded #admins
- with extended functionalities
- #STEM oriented

I ended up with #qoto, pretty happy about it!

Have also considered:
- #Japan, #Linux, #art, #3D, #vfx, #FOSS, #FLOSS, #blender oriented ones.

At #today, would also consider their aderation at the #UnitedFederationOfInstances ( #UFI )

I know for a fact that @freemo might want to participate in the #conversation @thibaultamartin @matrix

Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/30/more-than-70-per-cent-english-water-industry-foreign-ownership you'd think those braying, jingoistic #brexiters would be doing something about this, but no, they encourage it...

England’s privatised #water system is owned by funds, banks and billionaires across the world - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/nov/30/englands-water-the-worlds-piggy-bank madness: water supply is a natural #monopoly. these people are squeezing out as much money, with no thought for the environmental considerations

Palm oil is not vegan. Palm oil is the destroyer of the rainforest. It kills the animals that call it home. It takes away the lands of indigenous people. Palm oil is ecocide. If we continue to use this wretched oil, we are complicit in the destruction. Please, #BoycottPalmOil

6. Imagine coming home & telling your partner that you felt like a demonised, worthless, and like a 2nd class citizen.

Imagine being treated like that, lied to by the centre and by default, the Home Office.

Imagine worrying about whether you've passed or not.

1. The Life in the UK test would be failed by many British people, myself included. The questions are abso-fcking-lutely ridiculous and have zero bearing on the ability to live in the UK.
I mean, 'when was Henry VIII born?'

WHO EVEN CARES? HE'S DEAD!

Which bit of this doesn't #Starmer get? #Brexit
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-rules-out-a-return-to-freedom-of-movement-in-eu-9v5zdf09w

#England and #Wales now minority Christian countries, census reveals | #Census | The Guardian

The trend towards ditching ridiculous beliefs as a basis for morality continues.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/leicester-and-birmingham-are-uk-first-minority-majority-cities-census-reveals

#UK #Demographics