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mrtotes.bsky.social
Ultra runner 🏃 , CEng 🛠️ , ally 🌈 , mountain leader 🏔️ , school governor 🏫, charity trustee ⚜️
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Absolutely loving the Australian Prime Minister’s response to the baby-wombat-bothering nitwit.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Elon Musk has called for Amtrak and the Postal Service to be privatized. Be warned: this is a call to gut essential public services to pad corporate profits. Here are my 5 rules of thumb for when public services should NOT be privatized.

submitted 12 days ago • 197 comments

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

submitted 14 days ago • 264 comments

Why is my FB feed suddenly getting Russian Embassy posts? What’s changed in the last couple of weeks?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy requires governance, auditors, committees and oversight. Those could be seen as “inefficiencies” or “waste” but without them the corruption that will come will cost a lot more. In fact no public service should try to be efficient they must aim for effectiveness instead.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments