@aral Totally inane!
Liz Truss: “Growth! Growth! Growth!”
Cancer: “Growth! Growth! Growth!”
#growth #tories #conservatives #infiniteGrowthWithFiniteResources #euphemismForExtinction
"Black History Wales engages, educates and empowers individuals, community groups and Wales-wide communities in acknowledging and recognising the contribution that the African Diaspora has made in the history of Wales’ economic and cultural development."
https://blackhistorywales.org.uk/
#BlackHistoryMonth UK 2022
🧵These ‘innovations’ are driven by companies, profiting from governments’ race towards total surveillance.
In August, the Guardian reported the @ukhomeoffice awarded the same company @wearebuddi a £6m contract to produce facial rec watches, tracking migrants' GPS location 24/7. https://nitter.net/NicolaKelly/status/1577594860038651907
We reviewed a Home Office data protection impact assessment on the technology. The scheme will involve “daily monitoring of individuals subject to immigration control”, with the requirement to wear an ankle tag or a smartwatch with up to 5 face scans a day
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/facial-recognition-smartwatches-to-be-used-to-monitor-foreign-offenders-in-uk
*attempts, for the umpteenth time, to update address with my bank*
“Sorry, the service is still temporarily unable to service your request, just like it was temporarily unable weeks ago, you clown.”
*attempts to contact customer support using the secure message system*
“Sorry, the secure message system is temporarily unavailable, you fool, you absolute dipshit.”
Anyway, they only made 3.something billion dollars last quarter, I’m sure they’re having trouble paying staff to fix this shit.
More money is being made available to help farmers meet the new water quality regulations and a further consultation will be held on increasing nitrogen limits https://nation.cymru/news/more-support-pledged-to-help-famers-implement-controversial-water-quality-regulations/
@losttourist This is what we like!
The Welsh Government’s offer of a 3% pay increase to nurses was rejected by 94% of RCN members https://nation.cymru/news/royal-college-of-nursing-calls-for-decent-wage-as-it-ballots-on-strike-action/
Homes could face three-hour #PowerCuts this winter, warns #NationalGrid | #Energy industry | The Guardian
RT @Andrew_Adonis@twitter.com
2 huge stories tonight
- Kwarteng went for victory drinks with hedge fund managers after his budget, promising to “double down”
- Truss has banned Charles from speaking on climate change, & he’s briefing against her. Relations between them have broken down after just 2 weeks
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1576307031979409408
RT @Gabriel_Pogrund@twitter.com
EXCL: Two more of Liz Truss's most senior advisers entered No10 on loan from chief of staff's lobbying company in "unprecedented" deal
Last week Downing St failed to say Fullbrook Strategies — lobbyist for rogue Libyan PM, PPE firm — had others inside https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/two-senior-truss-aides-are-paid-through-mark-fullbrook-s-lobbying-firm-whrw2pgd6
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1576258757708828672
RT @peterjukes@twitter.com
Wow and double wow.
This is a monster scandal, worse than PPE https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1576261348295589889
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1576301171328790530
It really really isn’t worth ‘taking the risk’ of getting infected with #SARSCoV2🦠 — even if it doesn’t kill you, it can fuck you up badly:
UK govt makes humiliating tax cut U-turn
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2405956/uk-govt-makes-humiliating-tax-cut-u-turn
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