The Singing Engineer

@treborfirst.bsky.social

Choral Singer. TaiChi. PPIE: Critical Care Rsrch (Oxford), ICNARC. Alumnus: Birkbeck (London Uni), OU, Leicester Poly. Erstwhile sw Eng Mgr CEng MIET Philosophy, film noir, JP Melville, RadioLaBaroque, Bach, audiophile. Brex💩& MAGA stink. No to Amazon.

Often companies will do the deed, knowing that they'll just have to pay money and they'll get what they want. One time in Britain, some asshats did this with a historic pub ...and were required to restore it to the very brick. I hope Finland makes them restore every fucking tree.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest… After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud”

Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper tells the BBC re-joining EU free movement along with free movement of “capital and trade” would boost the economy. Meanwhile, Reform’s Robert Jenrick says “It’s completely mad” and would lead to wages being “undercut”. Only one of these people is right.

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder

Reform’s leader told US far right influencer Benny Johnson that NGOs who work with asylum seekers have ‘aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way’

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This is just dreadful stuff from Kuenssberg: "What has the government done to cut the national debt?" ONS: "Public sector net debt was provisionally estimated at 94.0% of GDP, 0.7 percentage points lower than a year earlier"

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This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

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It is disgraceful that Andy Burnham took an hour out to appear on Gogglebox just to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer. If he's going to do a TV show he should do what I did and pocket £1.5million for eating some kangaroo bollocks.

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“There is no office that is worth stooping that low” — Obama portrays Vivek Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad as an affront to basic decency

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam opened up a Cheesecake Factory" Obama just spoke to an ELECTRIC audience in Ohio, skewering Trump & Hegseth and making the case that while we may be stuck with the same POTUS until 2029, we are not stuck with a spineless do-nothing Congress Highlights: