Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

#NicolaJennings: #LimitedUtilities – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/sep/26/nicola-jennings-limited-utilities-boris-johnson-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire #BorisJohnson

#Cop26 climate talks will not fulfil aims of #ParisAgreement, key players warn

The #UN, the #UK hosts and other major figures involved in the talks have privately admitted that the original aim of the Cop26 summit will be missed, as the pledges on #GreenhouseGas #emissions cuts from major economies will fall short of the halving of global emissions this decade needed to limit global #heating to 1.5C.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/27/cop26-climate-talks-will-not-fulfil-aims-of-paris-agreement-key-players-warn

#ClimateCrisis

Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/27/race-to-the-bottom-the-disastrous-blindfolded-rush-to-mine-the-deep-sea ruining the dry land is not enough: we have to destroy the seabed now through corporate greed

just a reminder stop using brave and use firefox or literally any other open source browser.

https://news.itsfoss.com/brave-talk/

#BenJennings on the #UK’s #SupplyChainCrisis – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/sep/28/ben-jennings-on-the-uks-supply-chain-crisis-cartoon

#Politics #Satire #Brexit #BorisJohnson

"Although Zhang deleted from his phone all copies of the forged document ... a copy of the photo of the doctor’s memo was recovered from his iCloud storage account" 🙄

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/man-forged-covid-19-vaccination-certificate-dine-restaurant-jailed-2209721

Record $5bn donation to protect nature could herald new green era of giving - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/29/record-5bn-donation-to-protect-nature-could-herald-new-green-era-of-giving-aoe if the world's richest people give enough, we have a glimmer of hope...

Welcome to #WalledCulture - https://walledculture.org/welcome-to-walled-culture/ "it lives..." my first post - of many, I hope - about the dysfunctional system we call #copyright, what's wrong, and how to fix it...

More.

https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/16/security-law-hong-kong-police-order-tiananmen-massacre-vigil-group-to-delete-online-content/

I doubt a single one of the COVID conspiracy theory nutters out there could even answer this quiz, and this is just the basic level.

'Preserving quirks of medieval English aristocracy' more important to Westminster than Welsh rights says MP. https://nation.cymru/news/preserving-quirks-of-medieval-english-aristocracy-more-important-to-westminster-than-welsh-rights-says-mp/

Ummm.. thats not how that works, thats not how any of this works!

This #spider has made its #web on the #vine and is here seen in the process wrapping up its prey. Note the shadow it is casting on the #leaf adjacent to it. Although not very big, I’m pretty sure it would make a good meal for a bird itself. I really like the patterns it has on its torso and legs.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Nature #Garden #Horticulture #Wildlife #Arachnids

Cymru 😥

The county with the highest infection rate in Wales is still Merthyr Tydfil with 817.2 cases per 100,000 population over seven days, followed by Carmarthenshire with 749.6 and Swansea with 745.4.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/coronavirus-figures-wales-phw-september-21544761?utm_source=wales_online_newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter2&utm_medium=email

Last month the Netherlands passed #RouterFreedom into law: all ISPs must let customers choose their own Internet hardware and still provide tech support at no extra cost. That little box is your home-internet gatekeeper, and now in NL it can work for you https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210805-01.en.html

Fully #vaccinated people account for 1.2% of #England’s #Covid-19 #deaths | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/13/fully-vaccinated-people-account-for-12-of-englands-covid-19-deaths

#Health #Medicine #Vaccination #Immunization #Pandemic #UK