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The Brit card - another masterpiece for Labour mrketing Leaving ...

2025-09-26T08:58:14Z

The Brit card - another masterpiece for Labour mrketing

Leaving aside fundamental issues to do with their application and management, did anyone in London give even the teeniest thought to how this would go down with many in NI, Scotland or Wales?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25496309.thousands-sign-do-not-introduce-digital-id-cards-petition/

#BritCard #Starmer #Labour #Marketing

When satire really doesn’t look like satire - more a prediction ...

2025-09-22T16:55:41Z

When satire really doesn’t look like satire - more a prediction

http://archive.today/2025.09.22-122551/https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/donald-trump-and-other-people-donald-trump-considers-american-heroes-20250922260602 (archive)

#Trump #Kirk #Satire #DailyMash #USPol

Reuse, Repair, Recycle Unfortunately these don’t fit with ...

2025-09-17T09:18:30Z

Reuse, Repair, Recycle

Unfortunately these don’t fit with business practices or ethics

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/campaigners_urge_eu_to_mandate/?td=rt-3a

#Repair #Reuse #Recycle

I guess it is time for a walk. Pissing down but it’s just mind ...

2025-09-07T17:26:27Z

I guess it is time for a walk. Pissing down but it’s just mind over matter. He doesn’t mind, I don’t matter.

#BorderCollie #DogsOfMastodon

Edinburgh Palestine Action protest passes peacefully as London ...

2025-09-06T17:42:50Z

Edinburgh Palestine Action protest passes peacefully as London erupts

Hmm - two tier policing or is it a fact that in Scotland we have a force who are taking a more rational view? But maybe Edinburgh is too far away from London for the Westminster Maladministration to remember us? Either way, roll on independence.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25446597.edinburgh-palestine-action-protest-passes-peacefully-london-erupts/

#Policing #PalestinianAction #Labour #London #Maladministration #ScottishIndependence

Police state? Did anyone say Police State? Yvette Cooper has ...

2025-09-02T14:27:05Z

Police state? Did anyone say Police State? Yvette Cooper has kittens (and then eats them)

5 members of Defend Our Juries arrested in police raids'

On Tuesday, Defend Our Juries said supporters including Tim Crosland and Paddy Friend had been arrested by counter-terrorism police. Friend had reportedly hosted a Zoom call with other members to give legal advice to those planning to take part in the mass protest action.

http://archive.today/2025.09.02-135114/https://www.thenational.scot/news/25435190.5-members-defend-juries-arrested-police-raids/

#PalestineAction #PoliceState #UkPol #Cooper

Morning run A combination of wet and mucky tracks and a return ...

2025-09-01T06:11:50Z

Morning run

A combination of wet and mucky tracks and a return over the old concrete construction road (laid when the Haweswater dam was constructed). 12k and very refreshing.

My partner always considered Goretex on her shoes a waste of time, ‘it’ll just go over the top’ - and while generally I was not persuaded, it was spot on this morning.

#running #Cumbria #sledale #BorderCollie #DogsOfMastodon

Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and ...

2025-08-31T09:06:11Z

Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services

The words #Palentir and #AI are bade enough. After all what else could go wrong allowing the maniac Thiel's company unfettered access to confidential information

‘Please be assured that the council has undertaken a thorough and robust due diligence process in line with our procurement policies.’

Like buggery they have. And the deals with the (English) NHS remain comercially confiential.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/coventry-city-council-signs-ai-deal-contract-palantir-technologies

Immigration now one of Scottish voters’ top concerns A survey ...

2025-08-26T05:23:23Z

Immigration now one of Scottish voters’ top concerns

A survey of more than 2,000 people found that 21 per cent put the issue in their top three priorities

and 79% did not.

http://archive.today/2025.08.25-204728/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/immigration-scotland-top-priority-voters-wf3tn39zx

Although there is an issue (driven largely by numbers of ‘legal’ migrants), this is being whipped up by the main stream media and parties such as #Reform. I seem to remember that #Brexit came virtually nowhere until the same thing happened with the consequent disaster.

#Scotland #ScotPol

Animal consciousness - philosophy and science Why you should ...

2025-07-01T05:58:59Z

Animal consciousness - philosophy and science

Why you should assume that even the simplest animals are conscious

There is mounting evidence that even surprisingly simple animals, like invertebrates, have a level of consciousness - but not in the way you might think

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483940-why-you-should-assume-that-even-the-simplest-animals-are-conscious/ (archive)

#Science #Philosophy #Consciousness #Animals #Biology

We did work on safety critical systems, often embedded. There ...

2024-12-28T15:20:15Z

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We did work on safety critical systems, often embedded.

There will have been some ‘scares’, but we identified multiple problems, many of them serious.

I agree. Language change, culture change, but Malik does a poor ...

2024-12-01T10:40:46Z

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I agree. Language change, culture change, but Malik does a poor job or articulating that. Selctive reading of hisorical 'textas', Buble and Koran amonst them make for horrific reading.

I take your point, but then God has changed his/her views - after ...

2024-12-01T10:30:02Z

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I take your point, but then God has changed his/her views - after all he/she is a construction. That belief in some absolute that has no evidence is sniffy to say the very least.

Who should have the last word on assisted dying in a secular ...

2024-12-01T10:06:41Z

Who should have the last word on assisted dying in a secular Britain?

People Malik, people. Not bigots - servular or otherwise, just theose who are involved. This shite about 'people of fair and no fairth' makes me cringe. Yes, we should tolerate people who believe in fairies - it is their right, but they must have no control over others lives. And Malik those 'faiths' wish to impose it on everyone. Grow up.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/01/who-should-have-the-last-word-on-assisted-dying-in-a-secular-britain

#UkPolitics #Shite #Malik #AssistedDying #DeadHand #Relifion

Broken Britain ‘We live on Pot Noodles’: rickets hits ...

2024-12-01T09:03:58Z

Broken Britain

‘We live on Pot Noodles’: rickets hits homeless families with no kitchen

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/01/rickets-homeless-families-no-kitchen

A throwaway comment about 'funding' demonstrates the utter hoplessness of any strategy that has no coherence or principles.

#Homlessness #Malnutrition #UkPolitics

I think that is a reasonable point to make though. Forgetting ...

2024-11-30T19:08:45Z

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I think that is a reasonable point to make though. Forgetting Wallace, what is rotten is the need for a very large group of complaints to be mustered for attention to be paid.

Note comments on the vulnerability of freelancers in our brave ...

2024-11-30T18:51:52Z

Note comments on the vulnerability of freelancers in our brave new world.

However, the allegations (and they are only that at this moment) the history of the BBC and other broadcasters sweeping allegations of abuse under the carpet is something we all need to be worried about. Next Parliament….

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/30/gregg-wallace-behaviour-letter-bbc-2022-masterchef-presenter

#abuse #coverUp #blindness #BBC #UkPolitics

I takew it you saw this video of 'cutters tiny helper'? ...

2024-11-30T16:37:31Z

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I takew it you saw this video of 'cutters tiny helper'? The dug gets put back into the house if we are doing anything like this.

Last night at the Royal Scottish Academy art exhibition As well ...

2024-11-30T09:56:32Z

Last night at the Royal Scottish Academy art exhibition

As well as the regular Christmas show, there was a retrospective on ‘1st generation’ Scots artists. I love this terracotta piece sprayed with iron, which is of a ship yard worker, by Benno Schotz

https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/viewing-room/51-benno-schotz-and-a-scots-miscellany/

#Art #Handmade #Schotz #Bronze #RSA #ShipyardWorker

I am looking forward to Scotland not being part of the UK, even ...

2024-11-28T17:09:26Z

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I am looking forward to Scotland not being part of the UK, even if we will ramin part of Northern Britain.

That time of day was known as ‘lickers’ with keen competition ...

2024-11-27T20:05:04Z

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That time of day was known as ‘lickers’ with keen competition between the wains.

Half - that’s optimistic.

2024-11-25T10:22:40Z

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Half - that’s optimistic.

I think the point is that for many visually able people, their ...

2024-11-24T08:32:36Z

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I think the point is that for many visually able people, their attention is diverted, momentarily by the marks highlighting normal things and miss the feet for a while

Morning walk. And we are only 20k south of Edinburgh! The dug ...

2024-11-23T11:11:36Z

Morning walk. And we are only 20k south of Edinburgh! The dug loves it, my partner is still in bed with a fresh hot chocolate.

Meanwhile we are back in to internet c/o my mobile.

#waterproofs #EastLothian #snow

MOMA2 in Edinburgh One of my favourite (permanent) exhibits, the ...

2024-11-23T08:26:42Z

MOMA2 in Edinburgh

One of my favourite (permanent) exhibits, the Paolozzi Studio explanatory text in alt text and of course the caff.

#Moma #Edinburgh

Didn’t Someone come in and have the original as a snack? That ...

2024-11-22T12:02:45Z

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Didn’t Someone come in and have the original as a snack? That is Real performance art :-)

Personal interest. I know the person resuscitated while working ...

2024-11-19T08:03:48Z

Personal interest. I know the person resuscitated while working on an AV project at Holyrood. The commendable (and of course lucky) intervention of the MSP/GP is very welcome, but the BBC are obsessed with attaching an ‘interest.

BTW - defibs actually talk you through the process - I have used one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5mr7292plo.amp

When someone pointed it out to him suggested that he should compete for ‘Strictly Come Dying’. Maintains a sense of humour anyway.

#BBC #DesperateHeadlines #Scotland

If only the ultra rich were able to manipulate business and ...

2024-11-19T07:28:53Z

If only the ultra rich were able to manipulate business and society this would’t happen… Hold on?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/18/more-than-one-in-three-uk-children-poverty-deprivation-record-high

#UkPolitics #Inequality #Poverty

Privatised Utilities Overseas investors bought into the principle ...

2024-11-18T07:14:47Z

Privatised Utilities

Overseas investors bought into the principle of tied profits, little risk, massive dividends (either directly or by siphoning off money through loans from overseas vultures, whoops investors) and no down side.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/17/thames-water-supply-knife-edge-23bn-repairs-needed

Thatcher must be proud. Now the great extrication.

#UkPolitics #Water #Privatisation #Utilities #Theft #Greed #Corruption

The Ministry of Defence has blocked the Scottish Government’s ...

2024-10-22T06:33:18Z

The Ministry of Defence has blocked the Scottish Government’s environmental watchdog from releasing information about radioactive pollution from the Clyde nuclear bomb bases for the last nine years.

Don’t trust Westminster.

https://theferret.scot/radioactive-pollution-clyde-nuclear-bases/

#scotland #ScottishPolitics #UkPolitics #pollution #NuclearWaste #Environment #ScottishIndependence

Can anyone remind me who the comedian who uses to hold his hand ...

2024-09-13T13:42:42Z

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Can anyone remind me who the comedian who uses to hold his hand out in that way and had a catch phrase ‘just like that’ was?

I genuinely think, based on conversations I had, that people ...

2024-09-12T12:56:57Z

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I genuinely think, based on conversations I had, that people bought the lie ‘vote Labour to get rid of the Tories’ - one that was repeated by the BBC and Gruaniad to name two prominent culprits.

What remains to be seen is whether the SNP can campaign properly on what they have achieved and contrast that with the lies that people voted for in the Westminster elections.

I’m not holding my breath

#ScottishIndependence

I am sure one can be prepared that he will be happy with. Whether ...

2024-09-12T10:40:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…wh3f
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I am sure one can be prepared that he will be happy with. Whether the evidence will be convincing is another matter. I am sure he will not lie, but evidence can be selective

Consumer nuttiness ...

2024-09-12T07:47:50Z

Consumer nuttiness

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/06/oura-gen-3-review-can-smart-ring-worn-by-celebs-and-athletes-work-for-you

The Oura is quite unlike most other fitness trackers. There’s no screen, it doesn’t make a noise, vibrate or do anything visible beyond the occasional red or green glow of the sensors. You can’t pay for anything with it or get notifications. Any interactions are made through the app on your phone. You just pay through the nose to use it. And it gets thrown away when the battery dies.

#running #tracker

Keir Starmer urged to publish winter fuel payments impact ...

2024-09-12T07:31:50Z

Keir Starmer urged to publish winter fuel payments impact assessment

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/11/keir-starmer-urged-to-publish-winter-fuel-payments-impact-assessment

Of course he won’t - another Tory government perpetuating Tory ways, disinformation or no information.

It is either incompetence (they did not carry out a study) or cowardice. But I fear that the ‘Great British pubic [no sp]’ will come to regret allowing both wings of the corporate blob to stay in control.

#FuelPayments #UkPolitics #

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – ...

2024-09-11T14:35:13Z

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/10/great_pacific_garbage_patch/

After six years of sea trials, environmental group The Ocean Cleanup claims it has proved that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a floating mass of plastic waste twice the size of Texas – could be cleaned up in ten years using current technology, at a cost of a mere $7.5 billion

Half of Musk’s bonus, a month of Apple profits etc etc…

#Consercation #Environment #Plastic #Pacific

A better of having your jam baby and eating it!

2024-09-10T12:37:06Z

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A better of having your jam baby and eating it!

Tory Covid contracts worth £15bn had corruption ‘red flags’ ...

2024-09-09T07:28:11Z

Tory Covid contracts worth £15bn had corruption ‘red flags’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/09/tory-covid-contracts-worth-15bn-had-corruption-red-flags-study-finds

The review of more than 5,000 contracts across 400 public bodies identifies 135 high-risk contracts with a value of £15.3bn where investigation is merited due to the identification of corruption red flags, which include a lack of competition, delays or failure to release information on procurement, and conflicts of interest in the award of contracts.

Business as usual then.

#UkPolitics #ToryCorruption