🎵 New GUNSHIP album today 🎉 https://musicthread.app/link/2W4LIuSpdcCP8lfdPRzURwkVLgE
Is mowing down wee kids at 30mph and killing them (when you could have driven at 20mph and they'd survive) a true reflection of "British values"? 🤔
If you folks have never seen the original 1970 film "The Andromeda Strain" - you should go watch it.
Because this is basically the whole setup of the film.
As you can imagine, hilarity ensues. *blood curdling screams*
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-spacecraft-returns-to-earth-with-pieces-of-an-asteroid/
UKPol, Met Police
Am I the only person who remembers all the way back to last week when the Met had so many misconduct and incompetence investigations to work through it was going to take years? And now the members of this same organisation are throwing a strop over not being allowed to murder with impunity?
Doctors can be arrogant. It’s not hard to understand why. Sometimes nuance can feel as it is backfiring. Often there simply is not enough time or resources to communicate clearly. In public health the dangers of over complicating advisories, recommendations & mandates with exceptions & conditions only multiplies.
The public simultaneously wants simple clear rules that don’t waffle or change, but the public will also punish those who make such rules for their lack of transparency and nuance. 1/
"Three Bins for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to recycle,
One for the Tory Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Britain where the Gammons lie.
One Bin to recycle it all, One Bin to place them,
One Bin to sling them all and in the darkness burn them
In the Land of Britain where the Gammons lie."
-- The Bins of Power
Watching #guitar YouTubers with shelves of amps and pedals behind them, and racks of guitars. It all looks class, but I find myself wondering about keeping all that clear of dust—they’re not all getting played every day!
ukpol, climate
Rishi Sunak’s lazy daily-mail-pleasing tactic of backing away from green energy commitments is a first-class example of how our current politicians are utterly incapable of looking after our long-term futures. It’s pathetic, lazy and incredibly shortsighted. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/20/uk-net-zero-policies-scrapped-what-do-changes-mean
I absolutely abhor that with every study that proves universal basic income works (how many studies does it take before it’s actually implemented universally?) there’s the qualifier “homeless people didn’t spend as much money on booze and drugs as we thought”. So condescending.
We don’t scrutinize rich people this way. There’s the assumption that rich people deserve that choice because the money belongs to them.
Poor people have to answer to some arbitrary social expectation of acceptable behaviour before they are “allowed” to be housed, fed, clothed, etc.
It shouldn’t matter how basic universal income is spent. The whole point is that we all get the choice and the possibility to live a comfortable life. It’s not up to any of us to decide what comfort looks like for anyone.
Some people don’t fit social expectations and it’s apparently not ok only when they are poor.
🎵 That Olivia Rodrigo album that came out last week 👍🏻
Labour will treat Channel people smugglers as terrorists, says Starmer
Fuck Starmer. The man has his finger unerringly on the pulse of English tabloid opinion, which makes him a hateful bigot and an authoritarian control freak.
Programmer. Reads books. Plays guitar. Belfast-born, living in Leeds. he/him.