Pirates of the Mediterranean
I am just wondering if we should be ?thankful? that the people who boarded the peace flotilla were those pirates, and not the Trumpistani Navy?
Letter to my MP (again)
I have just sent the following email to my MP, I wonder if he will bother to reply to this one - as he hasn't for the last 4 or 5!
Pirates of the Mediterranean Sea
Dear MP
Once again the Pirates have struck at ships bearing humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, in international waters, and from what I can see the response to this act from the UK Government is "oooh look, tumbleweed"
It appears, from what your party says and does in Government, that Genocide is tolerated if the right people are not targetted!
As I have asked in previous letters
WHY ARE WE STILL ARMING ISRAEL
In Disgust!
John
Hull City Vs Preston North End
Wow that is a turn up for the books, Preston North end have scored two goals in the first 10 minutes!
I know it's early in the match but fingers crossed that we can continue in this vein!
#COYWs #PNEFC #HCFC #EFLChampionship
I know it's early in the match but fingers crossed that we can continue in this vein!
#COYWs #PNEFC #HCFC #EFLChampionship
"Yes, Galaxy Pest Control, how can I help you?"
"Hi! I wonder if you could send out some exterminators. My Planet has been infested by some kind of creature, I don't know what to do..."
"Can you describe them?"
"Well, they are burrowing into the planet, and finding all kinds of nasty toxic and poisonous stuff, and then they build little homes with those toxins, and wrap themselves in it. Plus, I think they're fouling the whole Planet now by burning off those toxins, too"
"Ohh.,... I see... Yes, yes, I think you've been infested with Humankindus Horriblus! It's a tough job... We'll send over some Flying Space Exterminator Saucers right away!"
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A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering now and we don't actually know what that's going to do to the atmosphere... ugh.
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#Randomthoughts...
Even if #tRumps peace plan for #Gaza works, #Netanyahu and his cronies must still be held accountable at the #Hague ...
#JusticeMatters...
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Farage is keeping us prisoners in his Platonic cage with the nonsense he talks, which the media lets set the political agenda. We need to break the chains and go outside to find the light. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0…
Farage, the cave, and pushing the Overton window aside
This post arose out of a conversation between Jacqueline, my wife, and me yesterday, although the idea had been bouncing around for a few days before.. The allegory of Plato’s cave probably needs little retelling.Funding the Future
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Nature abhors a vacuum. But sometimes She fills it with flowers. Honesty, I could not have done this on purpose if I tried.
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thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/09…
Jewish Voice for Labour drops 'Labour'
Jewish Voice for Labour is no more. But its many enemies should not celebrate just yet - as the organisation hasn't gone anywhereSkwawkbox (The Canary)
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Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."
But he adds:
"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."
#PublicDomain #OpenInfrastructure #Solid #Web
Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting forTim Berners-Lee (The Guardian)
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Yeah, WWW gone primarily business mode from initial military, educational, scientific info sharing . . .
This was inevitable. As long as we allow capitalism to exist in our society, it will take over everything.
Strictly Come Dancing
We are watching tonight's first live dances from Strictly Come Dancing and enjoying all the ones that I've seen.
Can anyone tell me, in ballroom dancing, why contestants have to be spray tanned?
The BBC fact-checked the key elements of Trumps speech and found them wanting.
This is what US media could — and should — have been doing all along but didn't.
Perhaps we could look forward to the BBC treating Farage in a similar manner.
#USPolitics
#Trump
#USMedia
#UKMedia
thepoke.com/2025/09/24/the-bbc…
The BBC's epic fact check of Donald Trump's UN speech just went wildly viral and all these Americans said the same thing
Donald Trump’s extraordinary speech to the United Nations was something to behold – even for Trump – although it was a measure of just how much people took notice of it that the thing everyone was talking about was that most unfortunate escalator inc…John Plunkett (The Poke)
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Stagecoach bus services across Preston and Lancashire are set for disruption as strikes loom.
The strike centres on a difference in pay rate for Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire drivers compared to rival Arriva with two week-long strikes planned.
– Blog Preston
blogpreston.co.uk/2025/09/stag…
We Don't Care if you come in peace
I don't know where such fantastical ideas come from!
#SciFi #ShortStories
365tomorrows.com/2025/09/22/we…
#SciFi #ShortStories
365tomorrows.com/2025/09/22/we…
We Don't Care If You Come in Peace - 365tomorrows
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer Someone’s coughing hard within the cloud of smoke and dust that conceals the aftermath of this epic confrontation. A hoarse voice shouts. “Hey, Storm Queen, blow this crud away. I can’t see.Julian Miles (365tomorrows)
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This has got to be one of the best. In Wales, UK, there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. So, in this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads..... "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."
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**Englisch (oben):**
„Kein Zutritt für Schwerlastfahrzeuge.
Nur Wohngebiet.“
**Walisisch (unten):**
„Ich bin im Moment nicht im Büro.
Bitte schicken Sie alle zu übersetzenden Texte.“
👉 Offensichtlich hat jemand für die walisische Version eine automatische E-Mail-Antwort des Übersetzers auf das Schild gesetzt. 😅
„Kein Zutritt für Schwerlastfahrzeuge.
Nur Wohngebiet.“
**Walisisch (unten):**
„Ich bin im Moment nicht im Büro.
Bitte schicken Sie alle zu übersetzenden Texte.“
👉 Offensichtlich hat jemand für die walisische Version eine automatische E-Mail-Antwort des Übersetzers auf das Schild gesetzt. 😅
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Zio playing the O2 you may wish to sign and share
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As still as a mill pond
The pond of a small nature reserve reflects the trees at the far edge of the pond, there is very little movement on the water, above the trees is a clear blue sky, in the foreground is green vegetation.
#LongtonBrickcroft #Reflections #Lancashire
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#mayday #NYC #Impeach
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Well done Preston, our first away win in nearly two years!
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in reply to Nae King! Nae quin! Nae Laird! • •#FFS