Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Rightwing politics the world over right now: bereft of ideas for how to solve the crises their myopic fetishisation of nationalistic capitalism has inflicted on us:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/21/gps-reject-treasury-plan-for-them-to-prescribe-money-off-energy-bills?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Barristers have voted in favour of indefinite, uninterrupted strike action that would start on 5 September https://nation.cymru/news/criminal-barristers-in-wales-vote-for-all-out-strike-next-month/

Google Street View accidentally captures National Eisteddfod in action https://nation.cymru/culture/google-street-view-accidentally-captures-national-eisteddfod-in-action/

#StephenLillie on the #UK’s #sewage-strewn #seaside – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

Marking as #NSFW on grounds of taste. The mayor from #Jaws would probably sue Johnson on grounds of making him look bad.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/aug/22/stephen-lillie-on-the-uks-sewage-strewn-seaside-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire #BorisJohnson #RishiSunak #LizTruss

Thanks @ashneehs for suggesting I check out Brian Lagerstrom - today's breb is a teensy bit better than yesterday! XD

It's about 3:1 plan to whole-wheat flour. Had an oopsie with the first 30 minute rise, it's cold here so I put it in the oven's warming drawer, which I've never used, and it got significantly hotter than I had anticipated with the bowl coming out too hot to touch so that probably messed it up a bit XD And definitely need to use less water, it's humid here. But yay breb!

RT @PeterStefanovi2@twitter.com

“Mr Johnson & Liz Truss believe a post Brexit deal with 11 pacific-facing countries could boost exports by £18bn”

In other news the OBR says Brexit will reduce productivity & UK gross domestic product by 4 % - a level of decline worth about £100bn a year in lost output

RT @snowleopardess@twitter.com

I get so sick of reading comments on here deriding "the British" for "voting for Brexit". MOST OF US DIDN'T. 17.4 million, out of an electorate of 46.5m (total population 65.6m) voted to Leave in an advisory referendum.
It was not a result that should EVER have been acted upon.

‘We completely reject any suggestion that GPs do this work,’ the British Medical Association said https://nation.cymru/news/doctors-dismiss-uk-government-plans-for-gps-to-prescribe-energy-discounts/

I watched this on BBC iPlayer but it must be available elsewhere if you can't get it.

This documentary about Maya Angelou, was made in 2014 a few years before she died.
It's
Very interesting, mind-opening, moving, funny, heartbreaking, thought provoking & many other things, including leaving me speechless at times

Amazing how a person's life can make you examine your own🤔

imagine..., Winter 2017: 2. Maya Angelou:
And Still I Rise:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08h542v via @bbciplayer

Can we become any more hypocritical?

You're supposed to judge her work, what Sanna Marin is doing at parties is 👏 none 👏 of 👏 your 👏 fucking 👏 business.

If you think otherwise, I'm sure you would be delighted when people publish your shit-faced party photos.

If you agree with public services for people not profit, you’re not alone - and you can help spread the word about how popular public ownership is:

https://weownit.org.uk/blog/biggest-ever-poll-shows-huge-support-nationalisation

"THANK YOU to everyone who’s signed the petition to Nationalise Bulb."

Scammers target Facebook data.

"Russia-backed spies are using malware hidden in Google Drive and Dropbox to attack NATO countries, security experts say."

A farmer in #Thetford (on the Norfolk/Suffolk border area) is giving away a large quantity of #onions because some were affected by the heatwave and they cannot be stored with the others due to risk of spreading a disease (but there are many good onions which are perfectly safe for humans to eat). You can just travel there with a bag (where I live, the distance and the cost of petrol makes this less appealing, but it might be of interest to others in the area) 🧅

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/business/norfolk-farmer-gives-away-onions-damaged-during-heatwave-9210804

@iankenway Yes, Yes, No, I have come to the same conclusion. I've put together a presentation on the topic and I'm trying to get some traction on the old internet, but it is demoralisingly difficult. I encourage you to give it a look: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lYcsqaFv4CSf2j5vB6BaiLaS0WBZ-Y5KJC0LbJZ8kT8