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Tories were too right-wing for him Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.
bbc.co.uk
Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?
In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a cargo bike and that’s basically the same thing. 🤩 Happy 6th birthday to my Urban Arrow! Hit this milestone last night.
“The Nerd Reich” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 straight on my reading list “Curtis Yarvin has mused about a ‘humane alternative to genocide’ to deal with unproductive citizens.” Yarvin is a dangerous pos www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
oil companies knew about that the use of their products would cause this catastrophic change to the climate in the 1980s and didn’t change course surely there is a criminal case that could be brought, is crimes against humanity appropriate?
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 12h agoAlmost £70 billion in profit in just 3 months is obscene when the climate is in crisis. The fossil fuel industry should be forced to pay for transforming to renewable energies. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
cars ruin everything™️ “According to a survey from the campaign group Play Their Way, external, out on Wednesday, nearly half of parents (46%) say their child doesn't have a safe place to play outdoors.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play
In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.
bbc.co.uk
Football is a potentially good game, ruined by the people who play it and the people who watch it
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · yesterdayThe campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The MSM is obsessing about early release. This is like obsessing about the quantity of mop buckets as the bathroom floods. Why does no one ask, where is the tap? Most crime originates in areas with most inequality. But of course, that would focus on inequality - the curse that cannot be discussed.
yep, he was loathsome
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 2d agoRod Liddle wrote (amongst other disgusting stuff) in a national newspaper that he wanted to put up piano wire across roads at neck height to target people cycling. That probably added and encouraged others. That was enough to make me despise him. road.cc/content/news...
Dasia Taylor,now 22, developed a surgical suture that changes color in response to pH changes associated with wound infections. #Invention #Innovation #MedicalBreakthroughs
"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lincolnshire driver with 59 points on his licence avoids jail
Iain Ashmore, of Witham St Hughs, was caught driving on three occasions despite being disqualified.
bbc.co.uk
wonder what the equivalent list would look like in the UK 🤔
Sundance@sundance.bikesky.social · 2d agoTrolled by a friend this weekend. His old Prius C died and he’s getting a new car. Told me on the phone his partner wanted a bigger vehicle for safety and for when they have family visit. Went on to tell me he got an EV9 (it’s big). Of course I got all worked up. Damn that guy knows me too well.
Spewing hate makes money. It doesn't make you loved or respected, and nor does it add to the sum of human happiness. But it can make you hard cash and you can pop the kids through private school and drive an expensive car and live in a nice house. And frankly fuck anyone who is so shallow.
Evolved Chimp You can carry it onto a commercial flight as luggage. You set it down in moving water. And immediately, it generates enough electricity to power a dozen homes for five years. Germany just solved off-grid power without pouring a single ounce of concrete.
Oops. I just confirmed that I discussed returning to politics before I received the £5m from my crypto chum, putting a hole in my argument that I didn't need to declare it because I had no involvement in politics at that time.
Warning: the President of the United States is kidnapping American citizens off the streets of blue states. Some of them return —most do not. Some are murdered in concentration camps owned by the President’s cronies. All of it is one big fat crime. None of our electeds will stop him. Will you?
