Old Welshman without a country.
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Last Notes npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Tax breaks for US billionaires & benefit cuts for UK disabled is profoundly immoral. Undermining UK's creative industries to benefit parasitic US AI industry is a self-destructive betrayal. Grovelling to Trump for shitty US trade deal that will undermine UK producers, while cold-shouldering EU, is utterly shameful. Starmer is profoundly disappointing as a prime minister who refuses to lead and stands for nothing in the face of billionaires and oligarchs. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Yet the majority of white women voted for Trump. God knows what they were thinking. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Aha, just saw this post, where people have added their criticism of the survey.😬 npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad I'm a "data engineer" with very little web frontend experience (from over a decade ago). What are the things in this survey that you feel are so grim? npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad This is the album that opened my ears to jazz. Really a before/after moment. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad On that "significant swathe": scientist Karen Stenner has done lots of research on authoritarianism. She finds that around a third of people (on left and right) are naturally predisposed to support this kind of thing. "Populist" right seem to be good at securing this electoral base. I guess the goal has to be to peel off the less committed authoritarians. Maybe Harris and Walz deploying humour, mockery and above all hope is the way to achieve this. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad OTOH my sister-in-law had headaches and other symptoms. Called 111 and was told to rest and take paracetamol. She died of a brain haemorrhage a few days later. Nobody in our family is ever going to trust 111. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad My 80+ aunt & uncle in Wales effectively have no NHS GP now because it's impossible to get face to face appointments & practice often offers only online appts. They are excluded from the services they need because they cannot master the technology their GP is hiding behind. So now they have to pay for a private GP where at least they can see a doctor. Technology is not the answer: proper funding, pay & recruitment of skilled staff is the only solution. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad "sleep and easy access to food are his main priorities these days" npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Natalie Haynes already wrote an excellent novel re-telling Medusa's story from her perspective, and laying bare the casual cruelty and petty spite of the Greek gods in the story. Highly recommended. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad If you as UK taxpayers are paying Farage £91,000 a year, while GBeebies is paying him £100,000 a *month*, then you can be sure of one thing: he's not working for you. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Many of us in tech suspect that AI hype is driven partly by the need for chip manufacturers to generate new markets for powerful processors, now everybody already has all the computing power they need in their phone, and the crypto bubble burst before the bitcoin miners could buy up all those chips. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Is that partly because he's based in Germany, which has been very pro-Israel ( for obvious historic reasons), so maybe that's the water he swims in? npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Good for Baroness Warsi. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Maybe they should have got advice from South Cambridgeshire council on how to do jt properly? npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad I fear an obituary - however eloquent and accurate - may be premature. It feels more like the end of a movie in a long-running horror franchise. Is the monster really dead? npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad We have to hope that a large proportion of the current support for Reform is a protest vote rather than a sign of genuine far right convictions. Labour has to find a way to pull those people back from the brink of fascism, without following the Tories down the road of endless appeasement. Otherwise the next UK election could look like the current French elections. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad They'd need to be completing 822 houses a day, 7 days a week, every day throughout a full 5 year term. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad 3. Nothing will affect them anyway: their lives and livelihoods are secure, whatever the likes of Trump get up to. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Starmer & Reeves have repeatedly & explicitly ruled out rejoining the EU, the single market or the European customs union: these are the key features of Tory Hard Brexit. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad An excellent & under-recognised point, of course. But I think it would also help if people understood we don't have to "reverse" Brexit & rejoin EU to improve things. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad Honestly, the whole "graduate career" escalator had already broken down for many of us when I graduated in the late 80s. npub15u83psel8znxqfv3zqu26elm2sa2h92rr929n56gs7xfgw85el9sng3336 Hen Gymro Heb Wlad No great fan of Streeting, but I can't see that quote anywhere in the FT article you linked to.
