Dave Lee

Thanks, cos I had no idea that book had been filmed! First read it when I was about 14, blew my mind!

I sometimes do a little meditative technique where I imagine that I've died and that, before I go on to whatever comes next, I get to go back and re-live a random moment of my life. Not to change anything, but just to see what it was like.

And it's this moment.

🙏 🙂

What. The. Fuck.

Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey Despite more than 70 years of full legal protection, raptor persecution remains a serious and persistent wildlife crime. The Yorkshire Dales is one of the UK’s worst-affected areas, with 152 confirmed...

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Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Do not allow the USA to use British military bases for strikes on Iran, and give MPs a vote in Parliament. I just signed the campaign calling to tell Prime Minister Keir Starmer: do not allow the USA to use British military bases for strikes on Iran

If you don’t want Britain dragged into another war, sign and share:
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So keeping the NHS in public hands, to take one example, is far left? Check out the Overton Window - what you call far left was called moderate left before Thatcher forced everything a few goose steps to the right.

In fact there's a name for those 'same people' - the Left.

Your position sounds like the same counsel of despair that Bliar and Starmer insist is the only way. Can't challenge the Parasite Class. The Green voters you despise refuse that lie.

Absolutely

Farage promises new restrictions on voting after by-election loss Reform UK leader claims the party won the election ‘among British-born voters’

Simple, if they vote against you, stop em voting. People better wise up to these authoritarian scum quick

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Just finished this yesterday and madly in love with it (especially Jacket, who is a very good boy). Popped a glowing review up on Amazon, and not just because I know the author. This really is one of the best modern urban sci-fi fantasy books I've read in a while. Definitely worth your time.

I agree about Brexit. The antisemitism thing was a fake news-assisted demolition by the UK media though, who hammered away at the lie that anti-Zionism = antisemitism. One of the most rotten bits of propaganda I've ever seen.

For clarity, how would you say Corbyn fucked up?

Ok, thanks. So who is your hope for the Left?

Wow, interesting. I see ZP as a leader the Left has been waiting for since the 80s, principled but charismatic enough to stand up to the far right bias of UK media. What puts you off him?

'Reform Lite', thanks for that!

Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC:

with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting.

with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions.

Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

Apparently even adult dogs can happily do 17 hours a day. I sometimes say to our doggo, 'working on your 17, eh?'

Well, that was 50 years ago... :-~

Best pub in Pompey!

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

If you are interested in humanity’s relationship with AI, this is a must read.

Just like Bliar saying he'd prefer the Tories to Corbyn. New Labour has always been Fake Labour.

Harken to what Gavin says!

Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cockney Gothic Few who drift along the ever changing streets of the East End guess just how high the graves are piled beneath their feet. London is a city built upon the remains of those who trod those well worn …

OK, so seeing as there is no official #FolkloreThursday this week I'm going to share an example of how personal mythology and spirit of place can impact someone as they grow instead, especially in a storied city such as London. This one saw print in an Anathema Publishing hardcover back in 2021.

So Reform plan to deport up to 288,000 people a year if they are elected.

Conveniently, that’s almost exactly the number of registered Reform members.

Let’s deport them instead.

They are mostly couch potato OAPs and they really wouldn’t be missed.

Job done — peace restored.

Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

The findings that come from an DNA studies fascinate me. The fact that DNA can even be extracted from ancient bones (and sometimes teeth) is amazing.

Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected share.google/WJYszOE4b4PE...

Just sometimes I think I'm doing Hookland right.