Dave Wadsworth
@davewadders.bsky.social
Hairy autistic middle aged fella. Green.
Happy 60th Birthday Revolver, and in a months time Star Trek the original series
wild way to frame one of the most aggressively anti-trans bathroom bans in the developed world
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
monbiot.com
For the good of the nation I really think the BBC should follow 7 or so councillors around with cameras for a weekly fly-on-the-wall documentary as I don't think 99% of the nation, including potential Prime Ministers, know what councillors do.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 10h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Great company, great lads, love them having their grubby hands in everything and giving nothing back to society via tax, let’s give them more contracts!
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
theguardian.com
We don’t have to put up with this. You can vote for parties that won’t put up with this.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayRevealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
*walks into room, writes "Jaws" on the whiteboard* *looks at execs* *adds "es" onto the end of Jaws so it says "Jawses"* *execs are cautiously interested* *draws a line through the last S so it reads "Jawse$"* *execs lose their minds*
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
Who am I to believe, you or my brain??
Leen McBeans@leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 3d agoJust checked with everyone you know and no one is mad at you
Bear Grylls really fucked up that genre of masculinity while Ray Mears is there doing the thing and doing it better
Decent column, but this is not what happened. What happened is that the same petrostate bad actor (Russia) has successfully deployed the tactics it used to hijack U.S. politics against the U.K. GOP=UKIP=Putin. Goal is defeating renewables & doubling down on fossil fuel dependence.
The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 3d agoAs wildfires rage, the right’s denial of the climate crisis has gone up in smoke The effects of extreme weather, be it fires or drought, are all too real. The need for an environmental consensus is one that transcends politics, writes Will Hutton https://bit.ly/4brP2xU
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
"The public conversation needs to catch up with the science. If we are serious about limiting future warming, we must rapidly reduce fossil fuel emissions while making our homes, infrastructure and communities more resilient to the climate change that is already here."
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
theconversation.com
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d ago“The question is not whether #ClimateChange caused the heatwave, but how much hotter and more dangerous heatwaves have become because of GHGs, primarily from burning fossil fuels.” “The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions.”
I wouldn't disagree with any of this, from Sarah Wilson www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it
Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for
theguardian.com
(with barely contained rage) I'm going to have a nice weekend
Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
That montage bit in 'Scarface' but it's just these two dickheads
