Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

@Daojoan

The golden age was only golden for a select few, iirc.

A land that's fit for bankers

https://www.greenplenty.info/a-land-thats-fit-for-bankers/

Well TIL that South Road can sometimes have black ice. I moved off the pavement to let another dog owner get past and went flying. Flying Fish in Birkenhead!

I'm fine, barked my knuckles a tiny bit and slight bruise on my elbow. People were so nice and helpful.

@zimpenfish this means there must be part of the country where the Apple app is more accurate than the Met Office.

@zimpenfish this means there must be part of the country where the Apple app is more accurate than the Met Office.

I’ve just noticed something really odd.

The Apple weather app on my phone reports temperatures that are about 2°C lower than the Met Office app. The Met seems to be the most accurate. The Apple app is really good at predicting when it’s gonna rain in the next hour or so.

Why there is temperature difference is a bit of a weird one, and I can’t find an explanation for it.

@markfoden I worked in pre-sales many many years ago. We used to say the clients never bought the product, but instead the PowerPoint presentation. Starmer appears to have bought the PowerPoint presentation and done absolutely no diligence on what nonsense it is.

This is on a par with the previous government making everything digital first. Which in the end made services considerably harder to use and is still causing all sorts of problems.

They claim to be evidence based.

Finally got around to resurrecting my Mastodon instance. Discovered I could pay exactly the same and have 30GB more disk, given how disk hungry it is is a good thing.

The next thing I need to do is find the energy to update, or move it to something that's less resource hungry.

@br00t4c denying healthcare is violence. Funny how she just can’t see that.

@DrALJONES in the current climate? Have you seen or heard anything that makes those things more likely? Apathy serves managed democracy well.

@ChrisMayLA6 Starmer said there were “justifiable concerns“. He didn’t combat, he pandered. When they say the quiet part out loud, telling us who and what they are, we should believe them.

@DrALJONES to be fair, the only choice allowed us is different wings of the neoliberal establishment. Debate is also on this left/right divide where choices about people’s actual needs don’t figure and apathy wins.