@rabster
Programmer, SF, neijia. Leaning left but show me the numbers. Retired software engineer/sysprog IBM, HSBC, Learning Health. From Rothesay via Glasgow Uni. Sheffield based since 1999. Unless you know me it’s probably not worth following me.
"We believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place."
Britain continues its rapid descent towards fascism.
Well the policies are more in line with current Tory ideas than traditional Labour so why not.
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
2h ago 12.32 GMT UK government charter flight will take off from Oman 'in the coming days', says home secretary A government charter flight will take off from Muscat, Oman, “in the coming days”, foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has told the Commons. Cooper said that Britain was working with airlines on increasing capacity out of Muscat, Oman to prioritise the evacuation of vulnerable British nationals. Cooper said she was in close contact with her counterparts in the Gulf countries, where 130,000 British citizens have now registered their presence in the region. “We are also working with airlines on increasing capacity out of Muscat for British nationals, with priority for vulnerable nationals,” Cooper said. “A government charter fight will fly from Muscat in the coming days, prioritising vulnerable nationals, but British nationals in Oman must wait to be contacted by the Foreign Office regarding these options.“
Will Yvette Cooper confirm that wealthy Brits who decamped to Middle East tax havens to dodge their patriotic obligation to pay their taxes won't get free flights?
"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying." ― Iain M. Banks
Grifters have worked out that "I'm just a fearless truth-teller willing to propose the necessary but politically incorrect solution," is a magic formula whereby if you're offensive enough the conversation focuses on whether you should have said it, and misses how your ideas are dumb as hell.
My understanding (may be wrong) is that the rise of the motor car led to a surplus of horses, thus surplus of horse meat, hence the rise of canned dog food. Not sure that's a happy analogy.
How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him
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Baby's Breath cover
Fallen Feathers cover
After The Child cover
The entire ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Erin Callahan series is now available to read for FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
You can also buy them as ebook £3.99, and paperback (sorry, After The Child paperback is going to be another 24 hours - delays at Amazon).
And paperback through other channels later this week, I hope!
Is he boasting he didn't get custody?
Just a reminder that this stuff doesn’t stop until men acknowledge the problem and start calling each other out on it.
I'd have said The House of Flying Shitposts but X/Twitter has trademarked it.
At 67 I've voted labour at every turn as they were always the better option. A couple of months back I cancelled my Labour membership and joined the Green party. Many reasons, ripping up environmental policies, protest laws, immigration etc.
Penguins are now labelled "chocolate flavour" instead of chocolate as they have too little actual chocolate. Lidl Arctic bars (Penguin clones) are still legally chocolate and much cheaper.
Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.
"He wasn't actually arrested for--" WE KNOW. THEY ARE NEVER ARRESTED FOR SEX CRIMES. Society dngaf about protecting women, and women know that. We're just happy he was arrested at all
Bravo. I can't recall the last time I read a comparison so appalling without profanity.
Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
I regret the need to use such strong language but every individual who goes to that 'swish party' will know exactly what Palantir does. And they should not be accepting its hospitality - not without being called out.
“There is a reason why Mandelson kept returning to government, despite sackings for his over-enthusiastic relationships with plutocrats. He was brought in to do the dirty work. The governments in which he served could loudly claim to be doing something, while subtly and simultaneously undoing it.”
Alastair has officially run out of patience with Labour...
Do you know what I’m sick of? All these men thinking they’re the fucking victims for facing basic accountability or backlash for THEIR decisions.
Starmer isn’t the victim, that shithouse Mandelson certainly isn’t, the trafficked raped and murdered kids on that island are.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
I show up in the "Intellectuals, Artists & Science Communicators" nebula rather than the "Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors" nebula, but my closest neighbor on the map is Weird Al, so, you know, I'll take it
Harrods is our own Epstein scandal.
This govt has blocked justice.
And the survivors are furious with Keir Starmer 👇👇
The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.
I occasionally wonder if the right wing press is so keen to vilify kids in order to remove their future from our decisions? Brexit will damage kids' future? Don't care, I'm annoyed at kids and foreigners. Fossil fuels, private water etc will destroy our planet? Don't care, angry at kids and greens
Likewise the NHS contract with Palantir. I've never seen an explanation of why it was chosen over the NHS Discovery project which has been combining NHS data for several years. wiki.discoverydataservice.org/index.php?ti...
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
Absolutely begging WashPo peeps to explore this route. Either with Nerve or their own.
World of open source devs out there too who’d help. And a world of readers who don’t want to be bullshitted by oligarch owned press.
