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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/france-riots-nearly-500-arrested-as-protests-surge-in-marseille-and-lyon Police shooting a 17 year-old in France has led to the major French cities getting a bit riot-y at night.

The supreme court’s pretty set on rolling back the social advances of the last century, aren’t they? What’s next to go, the right to inter-racial marriage?

That’s jive. I was using my browser to occasionally look at accounts of people who I know online haven’t moved to Mastodon/don’t post on their Mastodon account since I scrapped my Twitter account last November.* Some of those people I’ve known online since the days of Usenet. I hate Space...

I’ve said this before, but the temperament of the Democrats is not so much to take a knife to a gun fight, but to take a feather duster to a nuclear war.

First the UK media has a moral panic about kids self-identifying as cats, now it’s kids self-identifying as holograms. What next, toilet-cleaning mechanoids? Vindaloo-loving Scousers?

Noticed a cafe advertising a showing of the “Jews conspired against him” pseudo-documentary about Corbyn. Think I’ll give that place a miss. (Notice the parallels to Trump supporters believing that their hero is the blameless victim of a vast conspiracy?) Edit: also notice that the title is a...

Already released without charge. That was quick… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65873423

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-quits-mp-partygate-b2354887.html Funny how extremely right-wing politicians scream “witch hunt” when it’s their turn to face justice.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/dame-priti-and-sir-party-marty-the-aides-and-allies-in-boris-johnsons-honours-list In his (belated) resignation honours list, Boris Johnson has given knighthoods, damehoods and peerages to some of the worst ghouls and monsters in Tory party. He’s...

I’m beginning to think it a positive that Mastodon isn’t going to be a mass-market, mass appeal thing, and basically won’t ever be giving the nature of how it works. Social media was a mistake.

Going slightly off topic, I find it depressing how people I followed on twitter still use the system, as in primarily in terms of their social media / micro-blogging habits. I guess as the main alternative, Mastodon will never be mainstream. It’s just too ‘computer nerd’ oriented, and engagement...

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/barclay-plans-price-caps-food-092554634.html So the government floated the idea of food price controls due to surging inflation, but quickly rowing it back to a “voluntary” arrangement. I still think it amusing that Brexit seems to be moving an increasingly...

Copy and pasted the wrong link, not the one I was intending, but doesn’t really help that we have to check passports that had free movement before. All this decaying infrastructure was never up to the task of even a mild Brexit, but politicians gonna politics.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/27/electronic-passport-gate-fault-causes-long-delays-at-major-uk-airports-epassport-egate More Brexit chaos.

I also try and avoid caffeine as much as possible. Doesn't do my blood pressure any good. And I once got a bit, well, almost addicted to it (chain-drinking coffee all day until I had a headache). I can't 100% avoid it, but 90% avoidance is good enough. (I remember trying Starbucks coffee for...

I remember when we had bomb drills back at secondary school, in case the IRA ever planted a bomb in our school (seriously), but then chances of that actually happening were remote. I despair at kids in the States having to actively practice drills in case there’s a mass shooting, given how often...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/low-birthrate-is-uk-top-priority-tory-mp-tells-rightwing-conference-miriam-cates “Stop women going to university so they can breed more native British children” – the Conservative Party in 2023.

Florida has its own Gestapo for schoolteachers now?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-retained-law-bill-b2336385.html What a hugging surprise. It’s almost if the whole think was unworkable ******* bollocks.

Most British people I suspect probably don’t know who Cromwell was, let alone that his ‘commonwealth’ was a theocratic dictatorship. It’s a long time ago anyway. It’s more to do with keeping the vestiges of the feudal class system in place (remember we still have an appointed House of Lords with...