Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org

The #Netherlands ‘s rural #cycling network could be the eighth wonder of the world: thousands of miles of smooth, signed, scenic, separated paths connecting every remote corner of the country.

The result? A cycle #tourism industry worth €2.4 billion annually to the national economy.

I found this meme on social media ten years ago.

It is in answer to people who say that they want marriage to "go back" to being "traditional"

It lists 8 different ways that marriage was set up in the bible, including references.

I had to use some abbreviations for the alt-text to be able to fit in 1500 characters. I hope that it is readable.

#Marriage #Tradition #Religon

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

The Atlantic:

"How the UK Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world."

Quite. Twelve years of Tory incompetence have ruined Britain. Britain is following Argentina's path - without the World Cup wins.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/

#Brexit #ToryMismanagement #Austerity

I get the feeling this BBC journalist waited their whole life just for this moment.... 🤣

I like following people who oppose NHS privatisation. If that’s you, could you pls share this post and follow me, and I’ll follow you back? Trying to find ‘my people’ 🤣💙

Please boost if you want Labour, LibDems and Greens to cooperate at the next election in order to oust the Tories and introduce PR so that we never again have to endure a Tory Government with an eighty seat majority, secured with only 43% of the popular vote.

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-21/jeremy-clarkson-to-remain-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-host-for-the-moment For those that don't know this male presenter has been responsible for spewing vile hate in a national newspaper ( if you can call it that) against Meghan Market. He has history of similar. He suggested that striking teachers should be taken outside and shot in the past on national TV and also beat a production assistant when he didn't comply to his diva-demands. Time to give him the proverbial boot from public life. Vile person.

It’s workers who create wealth – not billionaires https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/its-workers-who-create-wealth-not-billionaires

#nhs #supportOurNHS #nursesstrike