Stuart Bratton 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧
@stuartbratton.emergentdrift.com
Sailor, Surfer, Firefighter (Feuerwehr), Data Scientist, Contact Center AI Specialist, Utopian Anarchist, former UK Lifeboat volunteer, Former Downtown Eastside Vancouver and Electric Avenue Calgary Doorman for 20 years. (He/Him/Ally)
65:3 🐟️ How do you study #Lobbying when no one wants to talk about it? 💭 Werner Pitsch & @politicsunisaar.bsky.social use an anonymous survey method borrowed from #SportsDoping research. The result? A rare glimpse into lobby influence among German MPs. 🗳️🔍
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence - Volume 65 Issue 3
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Our prisons are overcrowded because the system is broken. The answer isn't endless emergency releases. It's investing in prevention, rehabilitation and giving people the support they need to rebuild their lives.
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
Some disks left over from school :-)
Classic. Amazing the things I have in my loft.
Zack Polanski is to deliver an urgent message to the Prime Minister. Watch on Bold Politics YouTube channel at 11am.
Since I am going through some of my old things... Let me present to you my Tandy 1800 HD 😎
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Hopefully this works. Still need to check if it is unlocked. Need a new Sim card adapter though to test. If it works, then I will have a dumb phone for work travel.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
crazy how one random internet post, found after searching countless others, can magically solve, what I thought, was an unsolvable issue. www.windowscentral.com/psa-htcs-ext...
PSA: HTC's ExtUSB Works with Regular MiniUSB
The latest News,/news,,news, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at Windows Central
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“…summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us...Robbing us all of the immeasurable joys of summer as it was is part of that theft.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
Carney knows the optics,and that this is wrong, and went ahead and did it anyway. We need to stop thinking bankers and business people are suitable candidates to hold public office. We need to stop electing them and instead choose proven community leaders who care more about people than money.
Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · yesterdayAs I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Agreed. I don't check Bsky during the day, unless I am prepared to be constantly enraged by US news. European news is for the most part, actually interesting and positive.
Gaia Vince@wanderinggaia.bsky.social · yesterdayBluesky is a very different place in my mornings (before America wakes up) v evenings, which was also the case with twitter
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Good news? It is better than not having an effective way to nuke an asteroid. Might save a city, but there are still no good options for planet killers. Something I hope we progress in our knowledge and early warning.
China Space Watch@chinaspace.bsky.social · 2d agoThe UK jails still have plenty of room for Palestine Action and other protestors though???
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2d agoBritain’s Andy Burnham has signed off on the early release of people convicted of domestic abuse and manslaughter this fall. The backlash against the ruling is already under way. London Playbook 👇
Michigan, this is OUR moment. Vote Tuesday, August 4th.
Loy was outspoken about [MGM's] casting hierarchy, especially based on race, and she was quoted in 1937 as saying: "Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?"
Bruce Fulton@dbfulton.bsky.social · 3d agoMyrna Loy, BOTD in 1905. "She was so fiercely outspoken against Adolf Hitler that her name appeared on his blacklist, resulting in her films being banned in Germany." #TCMParty #Filmsky
Apparently no one in Alberta was clever enough to think of that: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine
Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports
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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d agoGood framing.
It gets worse. Taxpayers contribute to fire departments and police departments and yet they hope they'll never need them!
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Looks like I may soon be saying goodbye 2 Bluesky. Not a huge deal. Everyone here came from some other platform, and will have no issue going to the next one. It's a cycle that will repeat until the corporations learn that catering to bots and hate has no future. People who love- talk & share more
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."