Consultant, former UK Civil Servant, Europhile and xenophile Londoner (& transplanted Northerner). Dad, grandad. Aspirant woke. Partial to a bit of #ProgressiveRock Reform #UkHonours now!
After Boris' total piss take of the Honours system, it is even more urgent to replace the HoLs with an elected 2nd chamber so it never happens again. Please sign the petition for reform.
#petition #abolishthelords #ukpolitics
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3342/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=vy6ee335
Apparently @NationCymru doesn't understand what an #ebike is. I suspect the MPs calling for regulation don't either.
Bikes not regulated to maximum 25 kmh/15.6 mph and 250 watts power output already require exactly what this article is claiming they want - including a licence, insurance and numberplates.; just like a moped.
All three cases in the Nation.Cymru article refer to bikes being ridden illegally, which should have had numberplates and insurance.
https://nation.cymru/news/e-bikes-need-number-plates-and-insurance-say-mps-and-industry/
Perhaps we should look to the values of our grandparents; respect, duty, responsibility.
They fought tyrants, and they knew how important our values are.
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Instead a society is being created, by some, that is based on anger and hate. This must be resisted.
Every time we see someone using one of these slurs we must challenge them. Hold up a mirror. Show them that their playground behaviour won’t win.
We are a compassionate and tolerant people. I don’t believe those who oppose these values will win. But we need to be vigilant - societies can and do go backwards.
So we must avoid the selfish behaviour that has been on the ascendant since the ‘80s.
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I read John Cleese defined ‘snowflake’ as a word used by sociopaths to attack people with empathy (I paraphrase).
I like that.
I guess ‘woke’ is a slur created by selfish people to denigrate those who think of others (ref. original definition of ‘woke’).
‘Virtue signalling’ is an attack on people who say positive things by those who are incapable of doing that.
So we live in a world where playground insults have been created to negate all the important qualities that we should embrace.
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It seems that we are in need of an #Introduction. I’m Liz. I work in #science communication & sensemaking. I love research & theory, beautiful design & brilliant dataviz.
I’ve been a nonprofit exec director, founded my own firm in 2020, & just helped launch SolvingFor.org.
I spent a lot of years on Twitter and helped hundreds of scientists join & see the value of a social network. I loved those early days - they changed my life. Starting over again is sad but energizing. Onward.
👆 F. E. Smith (Lord Birkenhead), as a barrister, makes a long opening speech.
Judge: "After all of that I am none the wiser".
Smith: "No, m'lud, but much better informed".
Why aren't people staying here?
#ElonMusk drove more than a million people to #Mastodon, but many aren’t sticking around
The number of active users on the Mastodon social network has dropped more than 30% since the peak and is continuing a slow decline, according to the latest data posted on its website. There are around 1.8 million active users in the first week of January, down from over 2.5 million in early December.
I'm T2 diabetic (on insulin) and need regular medication. Can't afford private health care. If you have a med condition you will be #uninsurable if #NHSPrivatisation continues. I fear for my life. WE NEED TO BE ON THE STREETS! Pls sign/share my petition. https://chng.it/zBBfzShwXk
@jsrowley Might I suggest "Talk Tull to Me", a podcast with a different Jethro Tull song under discussion every week.
I do not understand the Mastadoon yet, but I'm here, and it seems like folks are doing #introductions? I'm a #historian of modern #southasia working at the intersections of #labourhistory #historyofscience and #islamicstudies .
My book project is study of Muslim artisan communities in late nineteenth and early twentieth century north #India, focused on #artisan assertions of religious traditions for their trades and technologies in the context of colonial capitalism.
I hold a #PhD in history from #IndianaUniversity, am currently a #postdoc at #Princeton Society of Fellows, and from Jan. 2023 will be a Lecturer in South Asian History at #Brunel University in #London.
Please tell me if I'm doing this wrong 🤔
Mondrian Crescent
I love it when train doors align at the end of a tunnel. The red tiles at Green Park station make this the ideal location to capture this moment.
It wasn't luck though, instead I froze the moving train with a fast shutter. It took ages to get it centred.
This final image resembles an abstract art painting by Piet Mondrian.
#art #mastoart #abstract #architecture #photography #potd #symmetry #london #underground #londonunderground #railway #mondrian #tiles #photo
Day 2 - once upon a time I just thought of bees as honey and bumbles. Then I became a bit more educated and learned about the importance of the solitary bee. This patchwork leaf cutter bee seems quite happy with that fact. The first year I watched the females filling up the ‘hotel rooms’ I thought it couldn’t get any more amazing. The next year watching the new bees emerge proved me so wrong! #NatureAdventCalendar #AdventCalendar #Nature #photography #bees #SolitaryBee #SaveOurBees #Pollinators
I promise I will post half sensible, half intelligent things, eventually.
But my present concern, today, is the current lack of quolls on this platform (well… this seems on par with their virtual extinction on the Australian mainland.)
An under-appreciated and critically threatened animal.
#quolls #marsupialpost #endangered #spottedquoll #Dasyurus #easternquoll #tigerquoll
I'm number 7,354. Will you sign it too?
Let's try get it to 10K by the end of the evening
RT @campbellclaret@twitter.com
Petition: We call upon the Government to hold a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628226
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1594390686056464385
Good evening, Mastodon. Twitter's Chief Information Security Officer fled and I'll be deleting my account there pretty soon.
Heartbroken over the loss of such an unique place, but ready to start over in a new one. Looking for writers, artists, NatSec, InfoSec, LawTwitter, MedTwitter, LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, brown, & other marginalized voices. 🖖🏽
Winter is coming.. One of my early digital images, Lochan na h-Achlaise at the west end of Rannoch Moor, January 2005.
#Winter #Scotland #GlenCoe #ice #Snow #RannochMoor
Choosing #7Albums is so much harder than choosing 7 books! There are many albums I wanted on this list, but here are the 7 I’ve chosen… I might regret leaving a few out, but it is just a silly list... right? 🤷🏼♀️
1. The Sky is Crying - Stevie Ray Vaughan
2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
3. Diva - Annie Lennox
4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
5. Crowded House - Crowded House
6. Ten - Pearl Jam
7. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
