"MP: 'Garrote' offenders with intestines to cut fly tipping"
I'm not convinced that Desmond Swayne has thought this one through.
Barclays online banking seems designed to add to the sum of human misery.
SNIB was supposed to be about patient investment, not giving bungs to a “leading venture capital firm, investing in innovative technology companies with high growth potential” - the very thing SNIB was supposed to be an alternative to.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/fury-over-20-million-deal-32041184
"Huge atom-smasher bid to find missing 95% of Universe"
Given the astronomical sums routinely wasted by governments on failed projects, a cynic might suggest that €20bn on a shiny new particle accelerator is worth a punt. But many disagree, physicists among them.
"Greens congress rubber stamp their manifesto"
https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/05/greens-congress-rubber-stamp-their-manifesto
Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.
Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.
Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon
https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis
⚡️Followers of a Russian Svetlana Lada-Rus sect have addressed the Russian General Prosecutor's office, Central Election Committee and Presidential Administration with inquiries to make sure that Putin's double isn't ruling the country, Putin hasn't gone mad and isn't a secret Jew.
They regard all three versions are real ones and are trying to get some answers from state bodies.
Well, the "voice of reason" did always take on strange shapes in Russia
#AureFreePress #News #Ukraine #Russia #Putin
@ScottishGreens The Labour party of this century is consistently inconsistent and utterly untrustworthy.
EP Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class formed my political thinking when I first read it in my late teens. Thompson’s marxism (small m) was rooted in the communities and landscape in which he lived and breathed.
Thanks to Kenan Malik for reminding us of this seminal work of social history.
Kemi Badenoch: Thanks so Brexit, exports of honey to Saudi have skyrocketed!
British Bee Famers Association: Eh?
Brexit is making it up as you go along.
"Inequality demands oppression. The more concentrated wealth and power become, the more those who challenge the rich and powerful must be hounded and crushed."
This is what is happening in Britain today with the jailing of nonviolent environmental protesters. We should this to continue under Labour.
#GeorgeMonbiot #EnvironmentalProtest #Conservatives #Labour #MarkusDecker #MorganTrowland #ColinShearn #PolicyExchange
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/plutocrats-powerful-laws-uk-rich-corporations
Physicist, journalist and writer Dr Francis Sedgemore.
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