So over half of Reform’s members are racist and want to deport non white UK *citizens* born overseas, and nearly a quarter (22%) are really really racist as they want to deport second generation non white UK *citizens*.
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www.armizare.uk. I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www.armizarepress.com #HEMA #paragliding
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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RE: @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
And this is what we (the UK) need to reduce our use of fossil gas as soon as possible. We import the bulk of it and the price is horrendously volatile. Electrifying everything and building more wind, solar and storage will reduce our need to burn expensive foreign gas whose price is dictated by things completely outside of our control.
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social There is also the problem of retaining people. @davidallengreen@mastodon.green, a UK lawyer with solid takes on pretty much everything, just went on an extended fedi break because the purity police didn’t like him using substack and he got bored of the hassling. Lovely own goal reply guys, the only behaviour you changed was his posting on the fedi. This is a people issue not a tech issue, which I’m not quite sure how to get around. He’s not the only one either.
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@StrangeNoises@mastodon.social @abstractcode@eigenmagic.net Incel Bride Hunt: two groups (incels and brides) are marooned on a tropical jungle island. The incels think they're there to claim their bri
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop @StrangeNoises@mastodon.social @abstractcode@eigenmagic.net Dagon’s Den, where constants compete to be the first to summon and Old One.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Yep. Their paying customer is Google, not the people using Firefox.
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run My first encounter with the idea was reading Chomsky in the 1980s, in relation to media. The idea is likely way older.
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Yep. Their paying customer is Google, not the people using Firefox.
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@FediThing@social.chinwag.org @Illuminatus@mstdn.social Starting an illegal war and invasion just to steal someone else's fossil fuel reserves, just as fossil fuels are entering their final decline as
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop @FediThing@social.chinwag.org @Illuminatus@mstdn.social Yep. Extra oil supplies from Venezuela entering the market once sanctions are dropped will only bring down oil prices, so not even good for US oil companies this is supposed to benefit. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump Oil becomes a thing and gets the rights to Venezuelan reserves.
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop @newsguyusa@flipboard.social The UK is in an invidious position when its prime ally and provider of key technologies goes evil. They have us by the short and curlies and any push back could be made very painful very quickly (eg: MS365 being turned off by presidential dictat). Yes this is a profoundly crap response and something better should be done. I’m not sure what the exact shape of that is though. Steps to reduce out dependency would be a good start.
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@rgammans@dice.camp @bjn@mstdn.social @AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @tek@freeradical.zone Also, why are we not comparing Bovril in this league table?
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop @rgammans@dice.camp @AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @tek@freeradical.zone You put Bovril on toast???????
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop @timnitGebru@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social @alex@dair-community.social Also out to bamboozle the political class who seem only too happy to change laws and throw money at them.
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RESEARCH QUESTION (for work): I know what an instar is
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop I need an option for “I did once by my ageing brian has forgotten”.
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@bjn@mstdn.social I think you overestimate the importance of the USA for the global economy. It's about 12-14% now (compared to 2-3% for the UK), but heavily focussed on tech (hitting the end of the l
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@cstross@wandering.shop It’s more the centrality of the US to the world’s financial system that I’m worried about. The dollar is the reserve currency and it tanking, along with US bonds going south, w
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@bjn@mstdn.social Yes but there are other reseve currencies. I expect the USA will eventually inflate its way out of T-bills having to pay higher rates, and devalue the dollar: meanwhile the rest of t
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop A likely result and a better spot to be in eventually, but the process will be painful, way worse than 2008, as it will be a US sovereign debt crisis as opposed to banking crisis. But I’m only an amateur economist, so I’m very likely wrong.
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The key take-away is that uncertainty kills businesses ability to make plans for the future. Brexit did this for the UK, and Trump's tariff nonsense is doing *exactly* the same to the USA, only faster
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@cstross@wandering.shop A major difference to BREXIT is that while the UK’s exit from the EU saw most of the damage concentrated in the UK, the USA experiencing the Great Depression v2.0 will bring do
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop It’s more the centrality of the US to the world’s financial system that I’m worried about. The dollar is the reserve currency and it tanking, along with US bonds going south, would be painful globally. Japan alone holds something like $1 trillion in treasuries.
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The key take-away is that uncertainty kills businesses ability to make plans for the future. Brexit did this for the UK, and Trump's tariff nonsense is doing *exactly* the same to the USA, only faster
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www. armizare.uk . I paraglide when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www. armizarepress.com # HEMA # paragliding Avatar : me flying a paraglider
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@cstross@wandering.shop A major difference to BREXIT is that while the UK’s exit from the EU saw most of the damage concentrated in the UK, the USA experiencing the Great Depression v2.0 will bring down a whole bunch of other economies as well. It’s going to suck everywhere.
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