tomnicholls.bsky.social
Research Software Engineer, occasional photographer, amateur parent, taxi driver to developing humans. Opinions self-inflicted. Trip-stitch circuit breaker in the psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator. Londoner cast adrift in the north west.
Lancaster, UK
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I don't care what their politics are. This is objectively horrendous.
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These are fabulous! 🙂
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"The Home Office has been approached for comment" okay but any comment other than "OBVIOUSLY we aren't gonna deport kids without their parents, that'd be insane, jesus someone here really fucked up" would make you a sociopath
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Because it's not the only country in the world but maybe you wouldn't understand that silly😂
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Uruguay
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Oh, it's Jools Hdunoliday already 😬
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Not to scale? 🙂
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That is a very good way of thinking about it. Hmmm...
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Personally, I don't care too much about their wealth, but more the power that it brings them. It would be ideal to be more equitable, but I find it difficult to envisage a route to getting there. Strengthening democracies and the power the rest of us to change things seems more critical.
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Ah, brilliant (thanks!), it's Jen Williams too who seems to be one of the few journalists of national prominence writing about this stuff (and sorry for the flippancy).
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But in all seriousness, this is an important read (your blog - can no longer see the ft link)...
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And here's All Items if you've not read it yet
open.substack.com/pub/mariegar...
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Hmmm... this must be the door to the internet...
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Oh cool, now I want to go there for this!
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Why would you even want them in the first place? It doesn't make sense!
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It's the Murderbot example of the robot that wants to download and watch crap streaming TV series while you do the donkey work.
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I'm in two minds
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(it's a beautifully composed photograph, Jabi 🙂)
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I miss that place. I wish that I had been into photography when I worked there in the 90s.
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... but then that feels pretty bleak too
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It is really hard not to just switch off from everything, and at least concentrate only on domestic things
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I have a mental image of most of the contents of your kitchen disappearing down the sink.
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You mean you aren't getting the fluffy ones?