Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

I just read about the process to vote in Georgia. First ID check, then fill out a form after an ID check, you then get a ticket that you plug into a computer to verify it’s you a few times before actually voting, and then after you vote you get a form to plug into another machine, and half those machines may or may not be working. In between that, all the waiting in between steps. Partly why the lines are so long at polling places.
They are trying to make #voting hard on purpose #uspolitics

BREAKING: First UK coal mine in decades approved.

Minister states he is "satisfied that there is currently a UK and European market for the coal".

However, as #IEEFA's steel analyst Simon Nicholas notes, the #steel technology transition away from coal has accelerated in #Europe in 2022.

Poor decision.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63892381

#finance #energy #transition #cokingCoal #coal #greensteel #investors #investment #climate #climatechange #UK #news #media #emissions #sustainability

Mastodon wasn't designed to keep people from building audiences, it just doesn't have an algorithm that gives some people a weird and unpredictable advantage at doing so.

The Tories’ bungled Brexit has cost us billions. It’s time to make that clear

Letters: Neil Kinnock says pointing out the harm done by Brexit is public service information, not ‘remoaning’. Plus letters from John Bailey, Pauline Caldwell and Nicolas Baby

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/05/the-tories-bungled-brexit-has-cost-us-billions-its-time-to-make-that-clear

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #UK #Tories #Brexit

big: #Meta's business model declared illegal in the EU according to WSJ. #Facebook, #Instagram and #WhatsApp can no longer run personalized ads without user consent - https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-declared-illegal micro-targeted ads out, no more RTB. Meta will appeal of course, so only provisional... #privacy

well twitter hasn't burned down as fast as I thought it might, infrastructure-wise. I'll give them credit for that

but... there's also not much interesting happening over there. everything interesting seems to be happening over here.

I'm not the only one saying this. heard this from several friends this week. woot, success. the centralized engagement machine has no hold over me anymore.

#TrumpOrganization #guilty of #TaxFraud, #NewYork jury finds | #DonaldTrump | The Guardian

Popcorn time.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud

#US #Politics #Law

Hi everyone. I'm in the process of setting up this account because I hate what Musk is doing to Twitter. If we already know each other from Twitter, feel free to follow me here and I'll endeavour to do the same in return as things go forward.
All the best 👍

Good. But that is less than half a job done. Get rid of #FPTP, like nearly all the rest of his party #UKLabour want to do, and I might start taking his musings on democracy seriously.

https://nation.cymru/news/keir-starmer-aims-to-abolish-house-of-lords-in-labours-first-term/

Yep. Toxic tory brexit. Skinting us all so Mogg can continue to dodge his taxes.

Finally, my book arrived after years of searching for it. I paid £8:99.

I found this book in an Online Oxfam shop, after years of searching. I could not afford to buy before.

(Used Amazon £72:97
Used AbeBooks £46:03)

This is why I wanted to read it and why I want to stop privatising the world. We only have to look at our world to see the damage it's done to ordinary people.
👇
https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/privatisation-uk-companies-1970s/

Hope I have done this right @jas@twt.cymru

Many people are turning to charity shops to buy or donate.

A couple of my favourite Charities

"Donate items to Oxfam FREE"
How to donate
It’s easy
onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/donate-clothes

WATER AID
I believe clean water should be a human right

WALES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Tŷ Hafan is a leading and much-loved charity that provides life-changing care and support to children with life-shortening conditions and their families who live in Wales

https://www.tyhafan.org/support-us/shop/find-your-nearest-shop

https://www.walesairambulance.com/donate-money-goods-or-services

#Charity
#Cymru

Hard-right neoliberalism gave us:

300,000 austerity deaths since 2010

Brexit

Covid being allowed to rip through the UK unchecked until it was too late

Hypothermia

Malnutrition

GB News

The murder of the NHS

This sinister ideology needs to die before it kills many more people and destroys all we hold dear

https://willblack-53220.medium.com/the-druggy-hard-right-horror-show-behind-liz-truss-flaky-leadership-b72d15770178

I wonder what Aneurin Bevan made of #christmas. Especially in regards to inclusive #wellbeing. It’s a time that throws so much up for people, poverty, missing home - family or isolation.
Christmas for me is not about wanting presents, though when someone gets a gift intuitively right that’s lovely & I do really enjoy thinking about what others may like. 
Most, I like tradition of family, friends, engaging with the natural magic of winter, though those things seem hard to get, right.
#photography

❄️ The whole of the UK can expect temperatures to plummet in the coming days with the arrival of a dramatically named wintry storm called the 'Troll of Trondheim'
https://nation.cymru/news/troll-of-trondheim-storm-could-hit-wales/

Bessie Stringfield
'In 1930, at age of 19, Bessie Stringfield flipped a penny onto a map of the US then ventured out on her bike alone. She became the first Black woman to ride a motorcycle in every one of the connected 48 states — a solo cross-country ride she undertook eight times during her lifetime'

https://medium.com/femalepioneers/femalepioneers-4-bessie-stringfield-52160dd789a0

A primary school pupil has died after contracting invasive strep A, Public Health Wales said.

https://nation.cymru/news/penarth-primary-school-pupil-dies-from-bacterial-infection/