Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ

The state of UK Labour

Weird lack of 'n's, I miss mechanical keyboards

The Council posted on their website that they've "requested" the owners of 62-64 N. Main St carry out work to stabilise the buildings as they're at risk of collapsing i to the street. They're not the only buildi gs in this condition in the city centre, they're not even the only ones on that street.

Rowling: Boycott M&S over trans bra 'horror' Daily Telegraph 6 August 2025, #TransAgendaClips

trans bra HORROR [Telegraph]

Anti-trans stuff in the UK has gone so far that Anne fucking Widdecombe is defending trans women.

...in her own, special way, obviously.

That's very frustrating

“The refusal to accept Electoral ID... forces applicants into the absurd position of applying for a British passport or a driver’s licence solely to meet ID requirements."

www.derryjournal.com/news/politic...

“A key concern is the difficulty facing single mothers where absent fathers cannot be contacted. ...this vulnerable cohort is required to complete an affidavit when applying for a passport on behalf of their child, despite this condition not being applied to citizens in the South.”
#Ireland

Italy greenlights a $15.5 billion project to build bridge linking Sicily to the mainland The project to build a long-delayed and debated bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily has cleared a major hurdle.

apnews.com/article/ital...

Service announcement from the Mastodon instance LGBTQIA dot Space. @mcp@lgbtqia.space Hello, users in the UK. We have geoblocked media in the UK on our CDN because the “Online Safety Act” creates unacceptable levels of risk and requires us to violate our users’ privacy and safety. We recommend that you, like our users in China or Russia, use a VPN.

I've seen a few service announcements like this, but this is the first I've seen from such a large community instance.

#OSA

MP Mark Sewards launches AI version of himself - West Leeds Dispatch Mark Sewards has become the first British MP to launch AI version of himself. The MP for Leeds South West and Morley has worked with a local constituent’s AI start-up […]

*starts the clock on the ‘MP apologises for Nazi AI statement from his avatar’*

westleedsdispatch.com/mp-mark-sewa...

At this point 50% of my FB feed is comprised of entirely made up shit like this. I'm a historian who studies politics and media, so it's easy for me to be a critical consumer of this schlock. But for the average consumer, this sort of social media is like putting a stick blender in one's brain.

From an inspector of boarded out (foster) children in 1932. Saying the quiet part loud

A more diverse group

You would, but the practice of letting historic buildings rot so there's an excuse to demolish and redevelop is ingrained and private property rights trump the public good.

There's plenty of money, the government simply refuse to upset land hoarders by forcing them to act.

Ha, this is very good, and spot on too.

Dereliction tax a 2.5x the business rate amount plus the certainty of compulsory purchase at half the site value after 18 months would concentrate minds. Other countries don't tolerate this.

This isn't near the city centre in Cork, it is the city centre. When will the government act to stop deliberate dereliction?

Coriander and hummus products recalled over listeria The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has issued a recall alert for a number of potted coriander products along with a single hummus product due to the possible presence of listeria monocytogenes.

Listeria again

www.rte.ie/news/2025/08...

It's mind warping

Investor may have some trouble with basic maths. Metro North can carry about 20,000 people per hour in both directions. The roads can carry about 500 cars per hour maybe more if there was perfect automation.... but unless he's planning 20X the road space physics say nope

It’s shouldn’t be possible to both sides this, but I have every faith the New York Times will descend to meet the challenge.

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

“This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work.”

#OSA #Wikipedia

www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d...

What if a broke-ass little country imposed a broke-ass little law & everyone else had to suffer for it

By "inclusive" he means inclusive of the sweaty bigots who support his party that believe that they get to dictate to the rest of the population and tell other peopke how to rear their children. Chaining up playgrounds is back in another form.

Gordon Lyons is Northern Ireland's communities minister and a member of the DUP. His former boss Jeffrey Donaldson is currently charged with historical child sexual violence.

Maybe you could spare us the pearl clutching about protecting children from drag performers Gordo...

Wikipedia being classed 'Category 1' requires it to reveal the identities of its volunteer moderators and contrubutors. Non-verified users could no longer edit posts. The only way to avoid this is to restrict access to UK users to ensure no more than 7 million have access in any calendar month.

I'll just note the list itself is a joke. There's a building unoccupied 15 years on our road, the roof has collapsed, and it's not on the register.

Dispiriting depressing #DerelictIreland