RT @DanNeidle
Everyone is talking about the £3.7m of tax that Nadhim Zahawi "carelessly" failed to pay. Perhaps not enough people are talking about the cover-up. https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/24/coverup/
“Most of our users are on Desktop”
I love this illustration on survivorship bias. I had this discussion more than once already about statistics and how what's not represented can talk much more that what's in there. 😊
https://andy-bell.co.uk/most-of-our-users-are-on-desktop/?utm_source=geoffreycrofte
RT @newsthump
NEWS! Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituents travel to Ukraine in the hope of meeting with their MP https://newsthump.com/2023/01/24/uxbridge-and-south-ruislip-constituents-travel-to-ukraine-in-the-hope-of-meeting-with-their-mp/
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631561/
Petition to reverse the decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
Boosts appreciated
The UK "government" helped the boss of Russia's Wagner group to mount a targeted legal attack on a British Journalist.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prigozhin-government-russia-ukraine-hack-libel-slapp/
Here in the UK we are a banana republic with no bananas.
Simone Weil Takes Ethics 101 via @existentialcoms - https://existentialcomics.com/comic/482
A reminder that the public domain contains more than just old stuff from the 1920's & earlier. Like what, you ask?
Well, did you hear that musician & satirist Tom Lehrer just put his songs into the public domain? https://openculture.com/2022/12/tom-lehrer-puts-his-songs-into-the-public-domain-makes-them-free-to-download.html
I've just discovered there's a petition on the #UK government petitions website to remove #LGBT content from the curriculum, resurrecting the horrendous Section 28 from the 1980s.
There is also a counter-petition. As of this morning, the remove petition has over 178,000 signatures, the counter-petition has just over 2,500 signatures.
Please sign the counter-petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631529
Petition is UK residents and British citizens only, but anyone can boost.
#LGBTQ #TransRights #Trans
RT @buntysharp
My heart bleeds. https://twitter.com/Normanjam671/status/1617483003395035137
@samir they went from 'do no evil' to 'do know evil' pretty quickly.
And then they owned the news with AMP.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.