Dave KP
@dave-kp.bsky.social
Mostly lurk. Interested in politics, art, science and tech.
There are many rage inducing moments of the excelent documentary www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... on the water indusatry but Michael Howards continued defence of privatisation is almost to much to stomach.
Understand - Rinsed - 1. The Bridge - BBC Sounds
After watching their local river grow murky and lifeless, two neighbours fight back.
bbc.co.uk
I have today learned that the foremost medieval history of Scotland is called the Scotichronicon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotich...
Scotichronicon - Wikipedia
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Experts are saying it: SUVs damage our roads more than ordinary passenger cars. I’ve asked TfL to look into the effect of supersized SUVs in London as more of these vehicles take up space on London’s roads.
SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists
Engineers link reduced lifespan of roads to shift to heavier cars, some bought to navigate damaged surfaces
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The Lords debated the safety of cyclists this afternoon, and it was – with a few exceptions – as crap as you'd expect. Mix of victim blaming, poor understanding & assumption that zone 1 London is a valid national example. DfT minister Peter Hendy was disappointingly bad as well.
Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site 👇
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
Not taking into account London housing costs is mad.
Dave Hill@davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 11mo agoSaying so does not make you popular with some, but Britain cannot prosper if poverty deepens in its capital city, where so much of its prosperity begins. The government must rethink its local gov funding formula: www.onlondon.co.uk/how-is-the-l... #london #truelondon @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
RESISTANCE comes in many forms. We resist the rise of fascism in everything we do. We are on the streets. We are gathering and resourcing each other We are gathering to grieve and making inequality visible
There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Something weird about this story: he was pinned to the machine for an hour. Emergency quenching shouldn't take longer than a minute, but it would cost $ in downtime and helium. USA healthcare cost before people or lack of people with emergency shutdown knowledge? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Man dies after weight-training chain around neck pulls him into MRI machine
Keith McAllister had approached machine after wife called for help, and was sucked in by device’s magnetic force
theguardian.com
Cant help but think this current labour government would have sided with the police if this happened today. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike
Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant
theguardian.com
Have to say my procrastination is top level today. Two letters written to parliament when I should be working on my project.
This is an appalling article by the guardian. I talkst about the number of accidents involving cyclists? How many of those involved motarised vehicles? It mentions the danger of cyclists but not cars. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Chaos in Clapham: a visit to the most dangerous cycle spot in Great Britain
Commuters share their views at the junction with the highest number of cycling accidents
theguardian.com
The prusa mk4s was a pleasure to build. Fairly complicated, took a couple of days. Fantastic instructions. Flawless prints to start with. Products was severely let down by the supplied faulty usb stick. Took hours to trouble shoot as I was not expecting this was the problem. @josefprusa.bsky.social
Thames Water Prospective Private Equity Owner KKR Donated $1m to Trump Inauguration. Business model: profiteering, price hikes, low investment, high leverage, asset-stripping, excessive returns. In US KKR group sanctioned 217 times, fined $678m for anti-social practices. Can't address water woes.
Thames Water’s Prospective New Owner Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration
The U.S. private equity firm KKR, which has been selected as the ‘preferred bidder’ for the takeover of Thames Water, gave a seven-figure sum to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, DeSmog can repor...
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Day 1 of vintage amp restoration. Rogers cadet III. God help me.
At this rate we will need to start talking about who is appeasing Trump. Europe should put on a united front. Any pretence Trumps America is an ally of Europe is completely gone.
I have to keep checking these are not from the Onion.
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last yr.Oh brother
Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19? | Anne Marie McConway @northwestbylines.co.uk
‘Airborne’ seems to be the hardest word
Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19?
northwestbylines.co.uk
You might know us from our videos of Alan Sugar and various awful politicians. But the thing we're most proud of is our album Carry On Breathing. Next time you're going to listen to a podcast, why not stick this on instead? cassetteboy.bandcamp.com/album/carry-...
Carry On Breathing (2020), by Cassetteboy
81 track album
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"just cash extraction each and every year for 34 years". We need to let the businesses fail and be taken into public hands. @emmahardymp.bsky.social
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2y ago"Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out." 💩
![Per Congress dot gov:
H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1] (Introduced 02/10/2025)
Committees: House - Foreign Affairs; Natural Resources
Latest Action: House - 02/10/2025 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5wgp627dhdxxx7zvmtpoz6yc/bafkreihbrtma6jjrfsfc7iycfl6vk5p3t4lptczjafpfhxkndpivgdg2uq)