Steve Hammett @bitflips@social.cleverlibre.org

Something quite serious now.

For the past 2 years on the birdsite, I've enjoyed being part of Sarah Millican's #JoinIn - there for anyone on their own over the festive season who would like to join in a group chat to help pass the day.

We've had some great times, and I'm planning to support it here too this year.

If you're lonely, just post #JoinIn so we can spot you, or search for the #JoinIn hashtag, and just join in!

Good idea? Give it a BOOST!

Hannah Arendt mood.

I have questions.
Actually no, no I don't.

#ChristineMcVie was a rock goddess.

The opportunity to debate easily observable things with someone demonstrating a deliberate unwillingness to observe them is not as enticing a proposition as some people seem to think.

Whenever somebody dares say "maybe the people with the power to fix broken things should at least try to fix that broken thing," invariably someone demands a full detailed plan of operation—not as a way of figuring out how to make that aspiration come to reality, but as a way of quickly shutting the aspiration down; it's like they're self-appointed middle managers for useless politicians.

Today’s Leitmotif.

RHUL #UCU picket lines this morning, students and staff alike! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

The future of #biodiversity…

Am on strike today and will not be posting anything today. #ucuRISING

"Instead of listening to their people's protests the Chinese Government has chosen to crack down further," Mr Sunak helpfully explains in a lovely crisp bow tie.

In other news ...

This literature clock is the most wonderful thing I’ve seen in a long time. Checking the time becomes a moment of pure joy 😍

https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com

I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies

Please boost to reach more people!

BREAKING: The BT strikes are over after company bosses agreed to give workers a £1,500 pay rise. Isn't that amazing? It's almost like they had that money all along and withheld it from their workers until strike action forced their hand x

Nationalism: Being proud of things you haven't done & hating people you've never met.

I don't want to choose between two evils. I want to choose between good and evil.
I'd choose good. If that makes me a "crank" then I'm a crank.