Michael J

the toxic Thatcherite scheme Secured by Design seems to finally be getting more attention. I've been disgusted by it for years. more details in the next post from an old thread

I was a bit busy yesterday, so today let's fully appreciate the fabulous news that brightened up a drizzly Monday! Great to see this #rewilding progress gaining momentum. Congratulations @cornwallwildlifetrust!

All the private jets leaving the super bowl. Paper straws etc

Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

Mandelson's been up to this nonce sense for at least 25 years

UK right-wingers quiet as Israel destroys graves of WW1 & WW2 soldiers Israel bulldozed allied soldiers’ graves in Gaza — and the UK-right went AWOL. No outrage? Can't say we believed your patriotism anyway

Israel bulldozed allied soldiers’ graves in Gaza — and the UK-right went AWOL. No outrage? Can't say we believed your patriotism anyway

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Same guy who also gave a speech saying that people like me (immigrants) are making the country into “an island of strangers”.

Mandelson being teed up as the sole dodgy guy from the Blair years, and not only does that make it really unlucky that Starmer and McSweeny picked him to be their political consultant for 15 years, it also doesn't really seem very believable, does it?

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

Haha, yes, this happens almost every time I go out

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world…

And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.

We see you.

Its not a masterminded conspiracy, Epstein was a guy who provided a service. Like a coke dealer you sort of pretend to be friends with, maybe who you even are willing to hang out with sometimes, everyone's "friendship" with him was the price of admission.

Yes, I've been seeing a lot of Waymo/RNIB adverts on YouTube for the last few months. We can't have bus-stop bypasses but entrusting road safety to some software - that's fine!
(I've worked as a software developer for 25+ years, having autonomous vehicles on normal roads is frightening)

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.

you can still donate to the NT so they can secure the future of one of our proudest monuments!
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

be nice if Chris Mason et al were able to pause their attempts to write soap opera storylines and paid attention to their favourite boy’s plans

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

You might think a nominally centrist govt, faced with an impending fascist capture of the machinery of state, would be doing *everything* to impede their ability to pursue fash policies in power. Instead, Lab has been est mechanisms & norms that Reform will be able to immediately exploit & build on

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My man looks like an Oompa Loompa elder at an open casket.

BBC News headline: "BP set to scale back green investments as profits drop sharply"

BBC News headline: "BP scales back climate targets as profits hit record"

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world.
Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Yes, noticed this over the past few years (i.e. before GenAI). And some quite decent tracks too. Wondering if some artists might sell their songs for this? (I.e. rather than being intentionally written as royalty free). Better to get a one off payment of something rather than royalties of nothing

truly no greater sign of how institutionally fascist the British press is than the fact Melanie Phillips still has a career fifteen years after she was quoted in a terrorists' manifesto.

He's been pro Trump since 2016 - I've stopped reading Private Eye now, but think they have called him "Trumpy Webb" for a long time

Years ago, before the blue ticks stopped communicating with the plebs on Twitter, he used to get very indignant to anyone pointing out his transphobia or other biases on the Today programme.
(I switched to Radio 3 breakfast a good while back, no Webb, Robinson etc is much better for mental health!)

(also how did they end up north of the Thames in Canary Wharf after going to Deptford? Zombie-filled London having better active travel connections than actual London 20+ years later! Can't believe they'd have gone through the Greenwich foot tunnel in the dark...)

Either product of writers not considering bikes as transport (although happy to have his crash as cause of coma), or maybe looked more apocalyptic then trudging around empty London...

Re-watched "28 Days Later" for the first time since 2002 or whenever, and one thought that came to me was why didn't they try and find some bikes to get around London quicker (and have better chance of escaping zombies)? Seemed weird that a cycle courier wouldn't suggest this either.

I know it's probably rhetorical, but for anyone reading who doesn't know - there's basically three possibilities for journalists:
1) they agree with what Trump etc are doing
2) they don't understand how serious things are
3) they don't want to look bad now after having been in position two for years