“First past the post” in the UK is keeping people from voting for the party most likely to help tackle climate change.
Via @RichardJMurphy
#UK #UKPol #climate #climateChange #climateCrisis #FPP #FirstPastThePost #democracy #greenParty #greens
“First past the post” in the UK is keeping people from voting for the party most likely to help tackle climate change.
Via @RichardJMurphy
#UK #UKPol #climate #climateChange #climateCrisis #FPP #FirstPastThePost #democracy #greenParty #greens
#UK #FacialRecognition #PoliceState #Facewatch #Biometrics #Privacy #Surveillance: "Senior officials at the Home Office secretly lobbied the UK’s independent privacy regulator to act “favourably” towards a private firm keen to roll out controversial facial recognition technology across the country, according to internal government emails seen by the Observer.
Correspondence reveals that the Home Office wrote to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) warning that policing minister, Chris Philp, would “write to your commissioner” if the regulator’s investigation into Facewatch – whose facial recognition cameras have provoked huge opposition after being installed in shops – was not positive towards the firm.
An official from the Home Office’s data and identity directorate warned the ICO: “If you are about to do something imminently in Facewatch’s favour then I should be able to head that off [Philp’s intervention], otherwise we will just have to let it take its course.”
The apparent threat came two days after a closed-door meeting on 8 March between Philp, senior Home Office officials and Facewatch."
It would appear that “former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.”
Oh, my… It would be a damn shame if more people knew of this so please do not boost this post.
#AntoinetteSandbach #SamuelSandbach #Sandbach #british #britain #slavery #slaveOwners #tories #tory #uk #cambridge #colonialists #colonialism
U.S. forces sent to Britain in 1943 expected to export racial segregation. When white MPs insisted that a local pub segregate, the owner replied he would. When MPs returned next day, they were met with “Blacks Only” signs & British barmaids telling white soldiers to wait their turn when they assumed they would be served before black soldiers. This set the stage for the epic Battle of Bamber Bridge.
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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #BlackHistory
#WW2 #UK
THE ANGER I FEEL....
Khrystyna and Svitlana were singing in the street in Zaporizhzhia an hour before a Russian missile strike on the city, and this video of them was filmed.
One of them died yesterday at the site of the strike. She was 19 years old. The other girl died in the ICU today. She was 21.
Deepest condolences to their families.
Russia must pay.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #AureFreePress
Apparently, the #DailyMail has just launched "Woke Watch", where red faced pillocks send in angry e-mails, complaining about transgender asylum seekers giving their house prices pronoun cancer, or something.
Anyway, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should one e-mail wokewatch@dailymail.co.uk to #Troll, #Shitpost or just plain take the piss. No, that would be WRONG. Oh, for shame!
#British #Quakers (aka Religious Society of Friends) have pledged to stand by the #UK #Trans community.
The faith unites people through a belief in each person’s ability to experience the light within or “answering that of God in everyone”.
“Belonging is being accepted as one’s true self. Who are we to resist what God has created & continues to create in all their glory?"
Article also outlines the history of Quakers supporting #LGBTQ+ in other ways. 🙏 💪
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/quakers-trans-pledge-britain/
@Gargron ,Amazing :)
An Costs For Deliveries Into: #Uk ?. !. 🤔
Do You Have Uk Selling Suppliers Yet ?. !. 🤔
The British Government intends to house some 500 #migrants in that #prison while it analyzes their asylum application and thus prevent them from touching ground in the United Kingdom ... #UK
TfL makes a colorful statement for London Pride with tube posters and wraps http://dlvr.it/SrHh9H #uk #railway #networkrail
This year's SOHOme Horror Pride 2023 runs 30th June to 2nd July 2023.
Can't wait for Bride of the Killer Pinata!
Check out the lineup here ➡️ https://www.sohohorrorfest.com/
#SohoHorrorFilmFestival #virtualfilmfestival #horror #pride #uk
Twitter is now having trouble paying some employees on time
Twitter staff in the UK received an email just before 1 pm London time on November 25 telling them their pay date would be November 28. Alongside the email, sent from the #EMEA Payroll Team, staff received their usual monthly payslips. However, staff in the #UK and #Germany appear not to have been paid on time.
#Twitter #Employment #LatePaychecks
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-missed-payroll-for-some-european-staff-this-month/
Do yourself a favour and read the whole of @VjosaMusliu’s chapter (it’s chapter 9) on “British Hospitality” in Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe.
PDF: https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0331.pdf
(And read it till the end even if it makes your blood boil because you’ve had to go through similar life-draining bullshit – I know I did before I had my EU citizenship. Because the end is just… *chef’s kiss*) 🤣
#visas #borders #hostileEnvironment #UK #EU #travel #freedomOfMovement
#FreeSpeech is not about whether you can use the n-word on Twitter: it’s about your right to criticise your rulers without retribution. The #metpolice are arresting people because they “might spoil some people’s enjoyment” if they protest later. This is #authoritarianism to protect an unelected billionaire.
Once more for emphasis: it is legal in the #UK now to arrest people if the cops think you might spoil the mood by disliking the king.
This is #fascism
“According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”
British democracy is arresting people protesting the crowning of a king.
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#coronation #uk #monarchy #democracy #policeState #notMyKing
Reminder registration is open on https://mstdn.gamercast.net/ if you do wanna help us build out a #friendly #gaming #community feel free to join!
We have 100% uptime on instances.social and score A+ Mozilla Observatory and A+ on cryptcheck.fr, plus daily backups, and we also have the amazingly friendly moderator @RoofusLukas who's been hard at work wrting his guides lately. 🙂
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“The committee received anonymous accounts from disabled people claiming they had been ‘tricked or tested’ by their assessors.
These included claimants who were made to park further away than necessary from the assessment centre to check how far they could walk, and lifts being placed out of order to force claimants to climb the stairs.”
This is evil. There’s no other word for it. I hope as an atheist that I’m wrong and that these fuckers burn in hell.
“First BBC bosses said Lineker could say what he liked; the next day they suspended him. It was clear they had been nobbled by the government. Just like Putin’s Russia. Made a change from 1930s Germany, I suppose.”
Armour (2022) [2 min] by Alex Davy | #UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5hdyHSGuw
#3D #3DAnimation #Animation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #BlueZooAnimationStudio
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