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What does normalising fascism look like? Like a perpetually baseline-inebriated geriatric Tory fart at a posh British wedding, apparently.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#USA #fascism #TheGuardian #UK


#UK - The number of children in poverty in the UK has reached its highest level since comparative records began in 2002.

> In the year to April 2024, there were 4.45 million children living in a household of relative low income after housing costs are deducted - the government's own standard measure for #poverty.

> The figure, [..], is an increase of 100,000 children from the previous year - and equates to 31% of #children in the UK.
bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g03yk… #Brexit #austerity #economy


🇬🇧 🇪🇺
When will the UK start accession talks with the European Union?

What are they waiting for?

#UK #EU #EuropeanUnion

  • In 2025 (12%, 5 votes)
  • Maybe later (45%, 18 votes)
  • Probably never (42%, 17 votes)
40 voters. Poll end: 5 days ago


#EdDavey, Ldr of the #UK’s Liberal Democrats:

“#JDVance & his mates clearly aren't fit to run a group chat, let alone the world's strongest #military force. It has to make our #security services nervous about the #intelligence we're sharing with them.”

“#Trump's #WhiteHouse can't be trusted. Their reckless approach to security means it's only a matter of time before British intelligence is leaked.

“The Govt must urgently review our intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.”

#geopolitics


Another case like #MahmoudKhalil & #BadarSuri:

On March 15, #MomodouTaal, a #CornellUniversity PhD student w/ #UK & #Gambia citizenship, here on a #StudentVisa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn #Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism”.

This morning at 12:52AM, the #DOJ emailed asking him to come to #ICE to be detained & put into removal proceedings.

courtlistener.com/docket/69743…

#immigration #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly


UK schoolchildren dissuaded from climate action due to bullying and peer pressure

Research released today by education charity, Another Way, has revealed that students actively involved in climate change projects in their schools/colleges are being prevented from taking part in initiatives due to peer pressure and bullying from classmates

londondaily.news/uk-schoolchil…

#UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #MassExtinction #environment #climate


Elon Musk’s DOGE is tearing through the US government with disastrous consequences.

But beyond its borders, the extreme right is gearing up to push their own DOGE-inspired austerity campaigns in countries around the world.

disconnect.blog/p/doge-is-goin…

#tech #doge #elonmusk #politics #austerity #canada #uk #nz


Enjoying The Bezzle by @pluralistic in the reading room of Manchester Central Library today.

#CoryDoctorow #Manchester #Library #UK


Fossil hunting. Couldn't take this one home unfortunately. #fossils #dorset #photography #uk #travel #beach #geology #palaeontology #ammonites


@wuethrich @URH1 @thevril

#Simplex
(2/3)

...(Lösungs-)Auswahl nur ein Kriterium.

Bei derart "systemkritischen" Anwendungen ist das "Lieferantenrisiko" m.E. mindestens genauso wichtig. Der #Startup hat es bislang "einfach nicht im Kreuz".

Außerdem ist natürlich der bisherige "Netzwerkeffekt" negativ zu bewerten (zu wenige Installationen).

Hinzu kommt, dass ich ein großes Länderrisiko sehe: seit dem #Brexit ging es mit dem #Datenschutz im #UK...


Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼

We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-…

And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc

#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #advertising #RTB #databreach #infosec #uspol #data #selfhosting


From Mind, a major mental health charity in the UK

#UK

#uk



Well, #Canada is still part of a European, #UK-based #Commonwealth, for one thing.

Then, there is #CETA. And #NATO.

Maybe #EuropeanUnion might not be an appropriate term anymore, maybe #TransatlanticUnion would be more appropriate?

In fact, I favor #CEUM, for the time being.
An #FTA, similar, to how the #EuropeanCommunity got started, back in the day.

@Snowshadow


A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat.

Two pairs of beavers are making a new home in Studland #UK unrestricted by fences or enclosures. This reintroduction follows the government's decision to allow wild populations return to England's rivers & wetlands. #Wales needs them too.

#hedgesandedges - #trees & #nature reducing floods, restoring nature & #climate

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygxv…


Anti-monarchists protest outside Westminster Abbey before the start of the annual Commonwealth Day service, London, #UK

Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

@photography
#monarchy
#protest


"Ban any creative product (books, artwork, television, cinema, music, etcetera) from being published if it was created using generative 'AI' at any step in the creative process."
#aiart #ban #signplease #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…


…#oil spills into the #sea have the potential to have significant impacts for #MarineLife, & have been responsible for the some of the worst #environmental disasters in the #UK.

The SS Torrey Canyon ran aground in Cornwall in 1967 which led to >100k tons of crude oil being spilt into the English Channel, killing thousands of sea birds.
The size of the spill, weather & sea conditions, & the type of oil being carried play a big role in the outcomes for #wildlife.

#oil #NorthSea #Britain #climate


The #UK #Coastguard says it is assessing the "likely" counter-#pollution response required following the #NorthSea collision.

"The incident remains ongoing & an assessment of the likely counter pollution response required is being enacted," a UK Coastguard spokesperson says, as the incident off the east coast of #England continues.

#oil #NorthSea #Britain #climate


The U.K.'s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has backed a total ban on smacking children. Currently, it is totally illegal in Scotland and Wales, but unlawful in England and Northern Ireland except in cases where it amounts to a "reasonable punishment" — a distinction the RCPCH says shouldn't exist. Prof Andrew Rowland, RCPCH officer for child protection, told @BBCNews: "Now is the time for this Victorian-era punishment to go."

flip.it/8eaJEn

#UK #UKLaw #Children #Parenting #CorporalPunishment


#GeoPol #UKpol

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... certain, the #UK surely does not want to be left out alone in the cold when the remaining 27 #EU members (26?--#HUN) all regroup under #France's #NuclearUmbrella to
finally form a #EuropeanDefenseForce.

That must be equipped and financed. A "#DefenseUnion' is indispensable now.

Also, in economic terms, as I don't disagree with your current #UKpol assessment, and as I do believe that 👉ALL European countries...


@Lassielmr

#GeoPol #UKpol

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I don't disagree with your assessment of the current situation.

However, in a world where the German chancellor elect says rearmament will be done "whatever it takes," where the #CAN #PM all but calls the #POTUS dumb on prime time TV, and the President of #Uraine gets thrown out of the #WhiteHouse, I forecast enough fluidity also in the #UK for things to change in many respects until years end.

One thing is...

@EUCommission @EUCouncil


#CEUM
#CETA #Turkey
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(7/n)

...precursors to the #EuropeanUnion, like the #EC, as well as (finally!) a #DefenseUnion, should be on the table. Non-EU neighbors, such as the #UK and #Turkey should be considered as further partners. Too many different treaties are red tape slowing down decision-making processes and thus resilience in a chaotic environment.

Concurrently, the project of a #EuropeanArmy...


#CEUM
#TrumpTradeWars
#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(4/n)

... more than make up for the #Transatlantic trade with the #US.

#CETA, the #FreeTradeAgreament, a project started in 2014, should now be rapidly brought to completion:

"As of 2023, only 17 of 27 EU countries have ratified (as did the #UnitedKingdom before leaving the #EU), and #Cyprus has voted against ratification." 1)

Also, the #UK. Must...


Make no mistake, Trump not only wants no alliance with Ukraine but is now actively working to undermine its government and therefore its war effort.

He is in league with Vladimir Putin in every way that matters.

He's the definition of a traitor.

"They clearly have a plan to get him out and a pro-Russian politician in to claim ‘democracy won it’. Russia is losing the war and using Trump and a dodgy election is the only way they can win. I have also yet to hear Trump censure Putin for any of his actions." USA as a Russian asset.

#Ukraine #eu #europe #UK #nato #usa


Shipwrecks reconstructed

A Lego model of the ship Batavia, wrecked on its maiden voyage in 1629, at the exhibition Brickwrecks: Sunken Ships in Lego Bricks at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent. It took 1,336.5 hours and 170,463 bricks to create eight ships dating from the oldest known shipwreck in about 1300 BC, Chatham, #UK

Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

@photography
#Lego
#ships
#shipwrecks


Damn those anti-semitic Holocaust survivors, amirite, zionists?

#Israel #apartheid #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #UK #USA #Europe #complicity syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11410896…


This fucking country 🤬

Byline Times: "Holocaust Survivor Summoned For Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity March"

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/04/hol…

Here's an interview with Stephen on Double Down News.

#UKPolitics #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #PoliceState



#WFH with #privacy? 85% of Brit #bosses snoop on staff
#Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of #surveillance on staff
More than 3/4 of #UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their #remoteworkers.
Most popular form of surveillance was monitoring active work hours, with 54% saying this was going on, and employees' emails and chat logs were also examined, while 15% said they went as far as tracking keystrokes.
theregister.com/2025/01/30/for…


"Seeking to divert attention from Vance and Trump's foreign policy disaster in the #WhiteHouse that ended (for now) #potus' role as leader of the free world, the attention now moves on to creating the great Ponzi for his TechBro and Russian mob masters."

#Ukraine #eu #europe #UK #usa #nato


I've lived in #Britain for 25 years. Sometimes I wonder about my adopted homeland, and if I belong here. And then something like this comes along, and everything is right with the world. 🇬🇧

A pyramid entitle British hierarchy of needs. From top to bottom it has: cup ot tea ; cup of tea and a biscuit ; cup of tea, a biscuit and a nice sit down ; cup of tea, a biscuit, a book and a nice sit down.

#tea #biscuit #needs #British #UK


Scotland First Minister: No talk of state visit until US gives ‘full scale’ Ukraine support


youtube.com/watch?v=JCLeyBMt7j…

#Politcs #Scotland #UK #Ukraine #USA


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@brightbox

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