Alexa Devreux-Swift

I am a trans ace woman currently living somewhere in the Alps

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2026-08-13 11:47:37 GMT

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@nprofile…hgrn
For me divination is very fluid. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and while a lot may be deterministic in the future we can influence it, much ad we can a dance.
And with time being a spiral, the gap between the now, the future and the past can be both very narrow and incomporably vast, even at the same time depending upon observation.
Divination is an art!
)O(
@nprofile…3txf

2026-05-13 07:59:43 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq
Given such a siloed upbringing and education, where the elite have barely any interaction with wider society during their formative years, it is hardly any wonder that those who lead society are fundamentally clueless about the problems we face daily, and the way that society more broadly functions.
It is a reciped for exactly the kind of socio-politocal disaster we are facing today.

2026-05-02 08:37:21 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq
The Green Party want to achieve two things:
1. Start at a 15£ NMW
2. Enact a 10:1 wage range
Further down they wish to implement UBI as well. All these things have been looked at along with a 4 day working week, some have also been experimented with and all seem to suggest increading quality of life and employee wellbeing as well is improving the productivity and profitability of companies.
This really should be a no brainer as it would be a win win for everyone. Unfortunately such paradigm shifts are always protested against, as we saw with the five day week and paid holidays in previous eras.

2026-05-02 07:25:37 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq
Given the disparity between those on lowest income and those on the highest is ever widening, I doubt it will increase unemployment or force companies to invest in upskilling emoyees.

2026-03-31 08:50:49 GMT

Today is TDoV 🏳️‍⚧️
#TDoV

2026-01-04 09:53:04 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq
I cannot see the UK rejoining any time within the next decade, the political costs are just far too high and toxic. Of course I may be wrong, but if the UK were to apply to join, those negotiations will be extremely tough, as the EU would seek to avoid a repeat of Brexit.
Also, since the UK left the EU has moved even closer to a federal union, and that is only going to increase and gather pace, and that will be intolerable to a large section of the UK electorate.
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2026-01-04 08:59:00 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq
I would say that a moving parliament, which does have precedent, would be logistically difficult, just look to the EU Parliament for an example here.
More practically we could have full devolution on the lower house, with the commons ONLY being for English MPs. The Scottish Parliament, Sennedd Cymru and NI Assembly could take the place of the Lower House in those jurisdictions with FULL competence.
For UK wide matters the reformed Upper House could perhaps perform the primary legislation, sending the legislation down to the the nations Lower Houses for debate and scrutiny as can already happen.
This would potentially overcome the West Lothian Question, and also the disparity in representation between England and Scotland.
@nprofile…zr25 @nprofile…wfqh

2026-01-04 08:49:37 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq
I would perhaps be note radical, in that I would call for Parliament to be moved out of London, possibly to Manchester or Birmingham.
@nprofile…zr25 @nprofile…wfqh

2026-01-04 08:34:40 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq
It is clear we need substantial reform. For the Commons I think we need complete electoral reform along the lines of party list proportional representation and, with the current building needing substantial refurbishment, we also have an opportunity to reform the chamber into a parliament in the round, as the ancient wytens once were. The current layout only exists as a result of a fluke of history from when the commons met in St Stephens.
As for the Lords, first we need to disestablish the Church thus enabling a full separation of church and state. Then we can look at moving to Sortition which has been spoken about now for about three decades. Terms of either two or four years with an intake every year or two years seems very sensible. We could also perform these reforms along with boundary reform which is long overdue, and perhaps a reduction of the number of constituencies overall.
Housing is a perennial issue and source of much alleged fraud, and we could alleviate that with parliamentary housing similar in principal to military Married Quarters.
We should of course retain a Bicameral Parliament for checks and balances, especially considering that this IS a parliament and as such has blended powers, with the Executive Branch sitting in both houses of the Legislative Branch of government, with the attendant risks that not having full separation of powers brings.
@nprofile…zr25 @nprofile…wfqh

2026-01-04 07:52:34 GMT

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@nprofile…npc0
I read Wikipedia an awful lot at work, and for search use either DuckDuckGo or Qwant. I listen to local radio, when I purchase digital media I will often purchase physical media as well and stream from a provider that returns the largest amount of any provider back to the artist.
There are 8 billion of us and only a few big tech companies. And the ONLY money big tech has, is the money WE decide to give them. If we don't give them any, then they will cease to be big tech. Just look back to Netscape and AOL who once dominated for examples.

2025-12-31 13:14:10 GMT

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@nprofile…tveu
Is this your phone? If so it looks like relocking the bootmoader has not been tested! To relock it you would use the command line tools onsofar as I can remember.
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/tetris
@nprofile…m3as

2025-12-30 10:46:02 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
AI is a classic case of a solution looking for a problem, while being sold hard by vendors who have invested heavily in a product which doesn't have a market.

2025-12-29 18:38:30 GMT

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@nprofile…tveu
That is something I cannot answer at the moment I am afraid.
@nprofile…m3as

2025-12-29 15:25:33 GMT

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@nprofile…tveu
It can, potentially, if your phone is stolen and your data is not encrypted. That said my phone has an unlocked bootloader and I am relatively sanguine about it as I consider that risk to be lower than using Stock Android with all the Google Spyware on it!
@nprofile…m3as

2025-12-29 15:15:29 GMT

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@nprofile…tveu
You may not be able to, as to do so MAY Blick the phone, it certainly does in my Moto g42.
@nprofile…m3as

2025-12-27 10:50:58 GMT

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@nprofile…eplz
As far as I am concerned, as a Briton and German Resident, the US is no longer a functional part of NATO. We would do well to kick the US out to be completely frank, it might actually improve things if we did.

2025-12-18 14:23:11 GMT

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@nprofile…02nw
Iran - Fuck all. Green Water Navy
Russia - Strike and ballistic missile subs. Frigates and Destroyers. Sole aircraft carrier is obsolete and non functional. Limited Blue Water Navy capability.
China - Strike and ballistic missile subs. A growing fleet of Frigates, Destroyers, Fleet and Mini Carriers and also LPH Assault Ships and air wings to deploy from them. Full Blue Water Navy albeit less powerful than the USN.

2025-12-05 06:10:00 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
This is exactly what happened during and after the Black Death in the UK, and it arguably changed British society forever, and for the better.

2025-11-30 13:29:35 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
Well I am not sure what I have written is actually my point of view, so much as it reflects how I see the current constitutional settlement in law.
Personally I want full electoral reform (full PR, including Party list, and voting from 16), a constitutional convention, constitutional reform including codified Constitution and an elected head of state, reform of the Commons with a circular debating Chamber, reform and replacement of the Lords with a circular Chamber and both directly elected members and members appointed by sortition. Just as a start.
And I do specify circular Chambers and not hemicycles.

2025-11-30 12:39:32 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
It is a particularly knotty problem, for sure, and one without a definitive answer, and our discussion has shown the vast gulf that can exist between the understanding of what democracy is from a lay perspective and in a vernacular sense, what may be written in law, the actual practice of parliamentary democracy and the execution of laws.
We shall be debating this for generations to come I think.

2025-11-30 12:20:54 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
The proscription was a decision made by Ministers (Executive) and brought before Parliament (Legislative) all of whom are elected representatives. It is not anti democratic, we simply disagree with the decision which is arguably highly authoritarian. But then an AWFUL lot of us said that a Labour government would act in exactly this way, which they have, yet still people have voted them in. This indicates thst Was is required is electoral reform and strenous efforts to bring the overton window back toward the centre.
The Policing issue is a separate issue and entirely appart from what is happening with PA and again, there is absolutely nothing stopping those within PA founding a new charity to carry on the work.
As for protest, there is absolutely no legal right to protest under UK law! THAT is the truly anti democratic aspect of the uncodified British Constitution which desperately needs attention, but then strictly speaking I am a traitor because I am avowadly a republican, and saying this here, in this sentence, I am guilty of treason. By the letter of the law. So was the late Tony Benn, and yet neither he nor I have ever face arrest, because of the WAY that the laws are traditionally upheld rather than enforced. This has served the well until now, but going back to your previous statement about Parliament enacting laws that could harm democratic institutions, it is no longer. And here I think alongside voting reform the UK needs to full Constitutional Convention.
The current highly authoritarian government trampling all over the long held convention of the right to peacefully protest against the government, when we disagree with its actions, shows how desperately needed these are. After all, if we are exercising rights which we do not and never have had in Law, how can we say that a government suppressing said protests is either illegal or anti democratic? In terms of purely BRITISH democracy it isn't, even if in terms of political science more broadly we can (and should) argue that it is!

2025-11-30 11:51:15 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
I don't think your example fits as the US system is an Executive Presidential Republic whereas the UK is a Constitutional Monarchy Westminster Representative Democracy. In this Parliament is supposed to be Sovereign, with a blending of power meaning thsg the Executive is supposed to bring legislation before Parliament for vote. In terms of Rank, the US President ranks with The King, and even though King Charles has extensive Reserve Powers, if he were to try and exercise them directly and bypass Parliament it would quite likely cause a Constitutional Crisis, we can see this in action whe The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod has the door to the Commons slammed in his face.
In this specific case, we are talking about a judgement based upon assessments by state security Organisations regarding a civil society charity. Neither of these exist democraticly. And just because the incumbent charity has been declared by said security Organisations and Ministers to be a security threat and banned, this does not mean that those who worked for PA cannot create a new charity to take its place, avoiding those decisions which resulted in the prescription of PA.
Just to be clear, I do NOT like the decision that was made regarding PA, however, my analysis of this is that if I had the intelligence briefing that Ministers had (and which I think WAS brought before Parliament) the I would likely have made the same decision. Why? Because it is highly likely that PA had no option but to engage with Hamas, and Hamas is a terrorist organisation. It is an unfortunate consequence of trying to undertake charitable work in a live conflict zone.
Does this mean the Police are justified in arresting septaganarian anglican priests and grandmothers? Absolutely not and such actions do not even meet the threshold of public interest let alone justify the CPS bringing them to Court. But THIS is a separate issue and THIS is anti democratic, and nothing to do with any proscribed organisation.

2025-11-30 11:20:44 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
So, as a representative democracy, unlike a few communities in Switherland, you have:
1. Voted for your representatives in Parliament
2. Those representatives have formed the Legislative and Executive
3. The executive have decided to ban a group using powers given it
How is this "undemocratic" IAW a representative democracy? It might be unwise, it might be illogical, it might be inhuman, we might vociferously disagree with it. But how exactly is it undemocratic for directly elected representatives to perform the duties to which they were elected?
Just as an aside, we do not know what intellgence was made available to ministers, and even if we did have that data, would we know how to analyse it? Not that I have much faith in Labour Ministers to be capable of doing this either, but intellgence analysis is not an easy thing, and such data must be kept classified to keep us all safe IMHO (and professional experience).

2025-11-30 10:25:19 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
Is the UK a Direct Democracy?
@nprofile…t5kd

2025-11-25 09:31:46 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
Britain already operates some of the most heavily used, densest and most efficient transport infrastructure in the world. It cannot "efficiency increase" its way out of this conundrum unfortunately, and that means building something.
I would say that a Thames Estuary Airport would be a good option, however, this would I think bring it into conflict with Schiphol Airport and for that reason alone may not be feasible.
Building a new International Hub with three runways and automatic expansion to add a fourth, well, on environmental grounds alone that will never happen. This leaves finding a way to operate Heathrow and Gatwick essentially as a single Airport, however, given that Gatwick is ALSO operating nearly at capacity, there are limits there, even after the existing Northern Runway is shifted a fee metres north to enable simultaneous operation of both runways.
No matter what decision is made (and as someone who works in Aerospace, I favour rail expansion) we are going to piss somebody off!

2025-11-25 09:04:40 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
The major issue is not so much WHERE Heathrow is located, it could be located anywhere. The issue is that it is a major international hub, AMD one of the biggest, busiest and most efficient in Europe if not the planet.
Unfortunately (in terms of the environment and Airport capacity) more passengers and Airlines want to fly point to point, rather than the more tradional hub and spoke model.
For the point to point flights WD really should be building out more high speed rail, as that is even more efficient than even a wide body airliner, is environmentally far more sustainable, each train can carry as many or more passengers than even the largest wide body amd by traveling city centre to city centre can attain faster journey times over mid range flights.
Unfortunately we only have to look at HS2 and other high speed rail schemes across Europe to see how contentious such schemes are.

2025-11-23 14:56:06 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
To be honest I think the fediverse is far less of a walled garden than big tech social media, and it requires a modicum of social skills in order to make connections within fedi as well.
I certainly find a much wider range of viewpoints here than I did there, and the vast majority of people will engage in good faith, accept challenges to their opinions in that good faith without resorting to flame wars.
There are of course outliers ...

2025-11-10 15:10:19 GMT

"We understand that there will be differences depending on the sports. But it was fully agreed that as members that, as the IOC, we should make the effort to place emphasis on protection of the female category.”
Protect the female category? From what, exactly? What will you be protecting this category from exactly? Preventing better training facilities to bring them in line with those that men have? Protect them from better winnings payments? Protect them from achieving better results due to improved training, more in line with physical build?
We all know that kilo for kilo all trans athletes are several percent weaker than their cisgender peers, so again, what exactly are you protecting the female category from, as no trans athlete would by choice opt for lower winnings, worsening performance ANF poorer facilities that this anti scientific policy suggests, and so the only protection is from the knowledge that kilo for kilo, women are quite capable of beating their mape equivalents in a variety of sports.
And that of course, just will not do. Will it?
#Trans #Transgender #TransErasure
https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/transgender-women-banned-womens-olympic-events-imane-khelif-503180/

2025-11-10 08:39:30 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj
It should be against the law to sack people for seeking union recognition and collective bargaining.

2025-10-29 15:28:06 GMT

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@nprofile…998y
Capitalists and their Wall Street lackeys won't be happy until companies can be run without any employees at all, by which time every worker will be unemployed and unable to afford what they produce.
To say this entire economic system is myopic is an understatement in extremis!

2025-10-23 11:17:34 GMT

When a staggering 91% of any single demographic do not trust you as a party and government to protect the rights and privileges of said demographic, you no longer have any legitimate mandate to govern.
And to add insult to injury, Jo Maugham has described Labour, Reform and Tories as engaging in a cruelty olympics which is further damning of an alleged progressive party that promised to protect trans peoples dignity, and make our lives easier.
It has in fact, done the polar opposite.
#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK
https://goodlawproject.org/survey-shows-91-of-trans-people-distrust-labour/

2025-08-08 16:55:24 GMT

With all the current hoohaa about trans women participating in sports, and also trans women in single sex spaces, it is very interesting to revisit the 90s and watch Starship Troopers where:
In high school football 🏈 is played by mixed sex teams
During basic recruit training into the Mobile Infantry, all facilities including showers are mixed sex and communal
Back when this movie came out and while I was in the RAF, I barely gave this any thought, yet now this is plastered all across our press and news media like a rash.

2025-07-25 12:08:30 GMT

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@nprofile…zqfp this will very likely discriminate against trans, intersex and other gender diverse and gender non conforming people.

2025-07-19 08:52:39 GMT

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@nprofile…ywqr masking is both mentally exhausting and also neurologically damaging. Wouldn't it be grand to be able to live in a world where we didn't have to mask at all, and be our own, unique, authentic expressions?

2025-07-13 07:57:59 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz And this very British disease no doubt explains the industrial and economic malaise that the country is in.

2025-07-13 07:43:25 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz any good, company will know that its prime resource is its workforce. A well treated and remunerated workforce will be far more productive than a mistreated one, surely?

2025-07-07 12:55:39 GMT

Things might be a bit grim, but these pictures from Pride In London are fabulous and sparkly! And we can see something very VERY important:
Naomi Campbell strutted her catwalk stuff flying the Trans Pride Flag 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
#CSD2025 #Pride2025 #PrideInLondon
https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/pride-in-london-2025-in-photos-487129/

2025-07-06 15:48:43 GMT

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@nprofile…naem @nprofile…a6x4 @nprofile…6x3n epic features. For me it is age, weight, tattoo and being exactly the kind of 'gender confused' that they hate 😈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
It is definitely good to have exactly these features installed!

2025-07-06 09:04:55 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz a bit rich from the Observer, which is against my liberties, isn't it?

2025-07-01 16:54:33 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz one way to bring certain cross benchers in would be via the Guilds. However, to accomplish something like that while bringing in, shall we call them MHPs for "Members of the House of Peers", via a form of jury service from all across the UK might require more than 600 peers, and I would also abolish the Lord's Spiritual as well as hereditary and life peers from sitting.
I would say service for four years for those from the guilds, staggered every two years, and those not from the guilds but from a jury intake for two years as you suggest.
Accommodation could be in an accommodation block, built especially for the purpose, perhaps in an existing military barracks.

2025-06-29 10:38:21 GMT

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@nprofile…9q3l they should only be used on bike lanes, not in the roads themselves or on pavements.
They should also be required to have insurance and display requisite insurance plates, the latter of which unfortunately the UK does not have.
The scooters are not menaces in themselves, I saw a lot of them in Munich, the menaces are users, and that will be compounded in cities with deplorable cycling infrastructure.

2025-06-29 08:23:02 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz a windfall wealth tax on the ultra wealthy (100% on any income over, say, 100 million) would resolve this issue, without having to force the poorest people to endure punitive taxes.
And since this would be on income not assets, the ultra wealthy would still be ultra wealthy afterwards as their assets would remain intact.

2025-06-28 16:51:17 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz it is concerning, as the UK has for a very long time been a major centre for R&D in high end and very high end automotive engineering.
Insofar as I am aware F1 and Formula E are however still very much centred in the UK, but with Lotus ditching UK production, that should worry everyone.

2025-06-21 08:24:35 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz the only people who can take a hit in increased taxes are the very and super wealthy. Indeed you could hit billionaires severely in terms of a percentage of income and they would still remain billionaires.
Why governments seem incapable of understanding this is lost on me, especially considering that I am not a mathematician.

2025-06-21 07:44:54 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I am not putting my feet into anyone’s bowels, even cold bowels.
I might try a bowl of cold water however 😝

2025-06-10 08:42:48 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz it is why I hope we do develop first generation fusion soon, without it we could be stymied in the very near future. The trouble is, as we all know, fusion is forever 25 years away!
I fear we also went down the wrong path with fission, and should instead have developed breeder reactors and done more research into Thorium cycle reactors.
Unfortunately I am not a nuclear physicist so my knowledge here is minimal, but revisiting this technology could be a very important way of not just bridging the energy gap which we seem to be rapidly approaching (not to mention keeping remaining sources of carbon and hydrocarbon fuels in the ground) but also reducing our stockpiles of both spent nuclear fuels and highly irradiated materials. The latter comes from a nuclear physicist in the UK who hypothesised that using neutron bombardment could be a way to make highly irradiated and dangerously radioactive materials completely safe. To perform that we would of course need neutron sources, and that means fission reactors, and probably bigger than the ones we use for things like Nuclear Medicine or making certain materials for mobile devices (insofar as I am aware, albeit not necessarily a mobile phone).

2025-06-10 07:28:53 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz well, pumped storage is only suitable in limited locales, and come with its own envirnomental problems.
Battery technology while improving has very substantial issues with significant environmental damage in mining the raw materials, and also in the form of engaging with extremely problematic regimes. The same is true with solar PV.
Also, in terms of thermodynamics, the figures may not add up.
There are no easy answers here. In fact, we may not be able to get out of this energy crisis at all.

2025-06-10 06:50:19 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz never forget our history:
In the last days of the Weimar Republic there was agitation on the street across Germany between Fascists and Communists, agitation that led to violent confrontation between rioters and the police and army.
Of course the protesters in LA are not rioters, however that is exactly how the Trump Regime and its mouthpieces are framing this, as what they are trying to manipulate into being is what came, The Enabling Act.
The United States is right now in a perillous position. Democracy is functionally dead in the country and if the current regime manipulate the next step into becoming a reality, it will be buried.
What we can be certain of is this, the future country will most certainly not be the one we grew up knowing, just as the Germany of today is not the same Country as the one that went by that name in the early twentieth century.

2025-06-10 06:23:19 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz from a purely Energy perspective, renewables are superb but have one small flaw, baseload. They cannot yet provide stable baseload to keep the grid energised and this is where nuclear comes into play. And for the future where, hopefully, Fusion gets deployed, we will need Fision.
We are in a double bind here.
Insofar as the billions being put into new nuclear power plants, we are talking about plant which will likely be operational for 30 or 40 years, and when you account for fractional reserve banking this means that Government can borrow an awful lot more against their Investments, and so this makes an absurd kind of sense. The same is true for HS2 or Hospitals.

2025-06-07 08:35:23 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz I for one would welcome seeing it reforested, along with restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest. As a vegetarian I would also welcome a substantial reduction of livestock farming, and allowing domesticated farm animals to return to their natural wild state as well.
The latter of course is a welfare issue and will have to be undertaken in a humane way, with a plethora of moral issues to overcome.
The former has enormous potential to pull carbon and other pollutants from the atmosphere as well as substantially reducing flood risks, which are of course urgent needs.
I suspect that neither can be done with the UNESCO designation.

2025-06-07 08:18:52 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz this is no doubt a very complex issue, as hill farming of sheep has without doubt created the landscape we see today, which is best described as barren. Vast swathes of native forest were cleared to enable livestock farming, forest which those engaged in rewilding would like to restore, and this includes the ancient rainforest that used to exist until it was clearcut.
The question that follows on from this would be, how can we square the needs of hill farmers with the need to undo the environmental damage done by human habitation and industry, some of which goes back millennia? I doubt that there is an easy answer, however, reversing environmental degradation is urgent, and reforestation can enable a switch in hill farming from sheep and cattle to boar, pigs and poultry, which would be necessary to maintain healthy woodlands.
Insofar as over tourism this is a growing issue, with parts of Northern Italy such as Sud Tirol and Venice experiencing similar issues, and now taking steps to control numbers of visitors.

2025-06-02 10:24:36 GMT

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@nprofile…2wkl trans women please 🥺

2025-05-30 20:22:18 GMT

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@nprofile…gtf6 @nprofile…kvnh your uncle obviously has never heard about trans men 🤦🏼‍♀️

2025-05-30 14:10:16 GMT

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@nprofile…kvnh what, and as a trans woman I can not stress this ENOUGH, the actual FUCK!?
Is there a new subspecies of human male out there who absolutely MUST make everything about them? Next they will say "oh your periods are as NOTHING compared to my, err, periodlike thing..."

2025-05-29 17:55:41 GMT

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@nprofile…au8t if you purchase any Galbraithian bullshit products you are a vicious TERF hellbent on eradicating trans people.
End of discussion.
Pass it on...

2025-05-28 11:51:31 GMT

I think North Harrow girl and all round badass ally Kate Nash has just come up with a new word for TERF, GERM or Girl Exclusionary Reactionary Misogynist 😈
#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/kate-nash-trans-gender-critical-feminists-germ-lyrics/

2025-05-14 09:37:05 GMT

A customer of NatWest decided to complain to the Financial Ombudsman that his rights under the EA 2010 were breached due to the bank displaying Pride Paraphernalia. The bank itself told Mr J to 'bank online' which is British politeness for "fuck off you miserable wanker".
The Financial Ombudsman basically said the very same thing!
“NatWest is a bank that has chosen to display Pride materials along with other paraphernalia at certain times of the year,” Ombudsman Danielle Padden wrote.
“As a service, we wouldn’t be able to tell them not to do that, as they are entitled to celebrate and raise awareness of the communities they serve.”
“I’m not able to decide that NatWest have acted unfairly here,” Padden went on. “They have provided alternative methods of banking and are entitled to decide what materials they display in their branches at certain times of the year.”
#Pride
https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/uk/natwest-pride-flags-483684/

2025-05-14 09:20:49 GMT

This is an important message!
"Trans people are not being stopped from using the public toilets at a bus station in the UK, a pride organisation has reassured locals.
Unfounded rumours that West Yorkshire Police officials had begun forcing trans people out of public restrooms at the Leeds City bus and railway station in York Street reportedly began circulating across social media, according to local Pride organisations TransLeeds and TransPrideLeeds."
I know that some of us in the Fediverse have been worried about this, but at least where Leeds is concerned, we know that these rumours are unfounded.
#Trans #Transgender #TransgenderUK
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/13/police-toilets-leeds-debunking/

2025-05-06 12:40:08 GMT

There is an historically incorrect and revisionist meme doing the rounds at the moment which we need to push back against.
It shows a picture of two concentration camps, one labelled as the first in Germany with "Poland" written on it, the other the same but for the USA and saying "El Salvador". It contains a block of text reading "There is a reason they don't do it in their own country".
This is completely false. The first concentration camp in Germany was in my own local town of Dachau, the first in the USA was an "Internment" camp for US citizens of Japanese descent, and George Takei has spoken extremely frequently about his experiences as a detainee.
We really need to push extremely hard against such falsehoods as memes like these as racist bigots absolutely do shit on their own doorsteps and are usually extremely proud of the fact and broadcast it loudly!

2025-04-28 16:39:13 GMT

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@nprofile…7tfn yes Dachau was, and one of the reasons I know this to be true is I go grocery shopping in Dachau every week, and make time not infrequently to visit the camp and pay my respects.
Also as a very much alive American can and has very frequently attested, namely @georgetakei , there were concentration camps for US citizens on American shores during WW2.
@nprofile…2wkl please take this dissembling and patently untrue 'meme' down, before anyone has to report this post to our mods. Please do the right thing

2025-04-27 08:45:00 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz sounds like a hard lurch to the right to me, and the antithesis of everything the paper once stood for.

2025-04-20 06:56:19 GMT

Early estimates show in excess of 20.000 people showed up at London's Protest, which is an extraordinary number considering the short notice.
I will however have to disagree with "JK Rowling, please step on a LEGO", Galbraith really needs to step on a BS1363 plug 🔌 😈
https://www.attitude.co.uk/life/thousands-flood-london-streets-in-protest-march-against-supreme-court-gender-ruling-482764/

2025-04-15 13:12:01 GMT

As more stars sign up to star in the much derided HBO series of that set of books by Enoch Blyton aka Robert Galbraith, the only thing we can do is boycott the series, boycott HBO, boycott Galbraith and boycott these actors.
#Trans #Galbraith #Rowling
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/15/nick-frost-disables-comments-harry-potter-post-jk-rowling/

2025-04-14 09:59:14 GMT

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@nprofile…g4hh is the oyster blue? 😁

2025-04-14 09:33:55 GMT

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@nprofile…g4hh can we grok GrokAI into being a Leather Butch who may also be trans, just for the shits n giggles? Because we KNOW that would piss Elon off big time 😝

2025-04-14 08:46:54 GMT

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@nprofile…g4hh I had no idea you were a dude, let alone an old white dude 😎😳

2025-04-10 08:47:36 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz they seem incredibly amoral and incapable of recognising the impact of their decisions. If they carry in like this then the economy will irretrievably collapse taking our entire civilisation with it.
Thus their moral bankruptcy will be complemented with everyone's financial bankruptcy. Indeed my pitiful studies in his area suggest that the Western Roman Empire went through a similar situation in its latter days, with similar attempts to resolve the economic problems, and that did not end well.

2025-04-10 08:32:03 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz those with the broadest shoulders to share the greatest burden.
Why this is such a hard concept to understand is beyond me, which is why I am not an economist but a Systems Administrator.
But it seems quite reasonable to me to tax mega corporations that make an absolute fortune in multiple countries a fair share of tax for the privilege, yes PRIVILEGE, of operating in those markets. And the same goes for those millionaires and billionaires who have become obscenely rich off the efforts and labours of the working classes.

2025-04-09 06:24:59 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz people like Andrew Tate are definitely not helping here. I would also posit that parties such as Reform PLC are having a negative impact upon this behaviour.

2025-03-26 17:06:51 GMT

For those who are interested in an alternative to big tech email, Tuta have an offer on at the moment for their top tier paid for plan at 3€ per month or 36€ per year. It comes with 500G storage as well as multiple hostnames and aliases.
#Tuta @nprofile…q4ju

2025-03-26 08:40:58 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz we need as voters to stop thinking of the Labour Party as a left wing and socialist part, they aren't. They are another Tory Party, just in red.
At the next general election people need to shift their votes from Lab/Tory/Reform to Green/LibDem because his will be the ONLY way to secure the sociopolitical change that most of us crave.
If the electorate doesn't do this, then they have nobody but themselves to blame for the continuing shit state that the world is today.

2025-03-24 18:49:37 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz perhaps we should do exactly what classical civilisations used to do:
Wipe out all debts and reset the economy back essentially to zero.

2025-03-23 17:22:04 GMT

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@nprofile…s85r ... boosting

2025-03-18 17:02:54 GMT

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@nprofile…vdm6 yup. My moods are better, my health is better and continues to improve and I am over much more relaxed and stable.
But of course gender criticals ignore this sort of thing even though study after study shows that this branch of healthcare has the highest levels of satisfaction of all healthcare.
It almost seems as though facts don't matter.

2025-03-14 17:11:22 GMT

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@nprofile…p703 I connect with more people of more diverse backgrounds, and more outside of my peer groups, here in the Fediverse than I ever did on mainstream social media platforms.
I would say that if this is the Fediverse being unsuccessful then I will stay here on a failing platform any time.

2025-03-11 09:16:09 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz yes, the vessel is contracted to Military Sealift Command however the fuel was en route to USAFE in the UK. The USN doesn't routinely operate within Europe unless one of their vessels (Carriers, LPDs or Destroyers) are in the region and carrying aircraft.
They would typically get their fuels though from an Oiler.

2025-03-11 08:49:57 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz the fuel was Jet A for the USAF insofar as I am aware.

2025-03-09 12:17:54 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…9q3l I am not entirely sure, but first principles should I think go to Marx, "To each according to their needs, and from each according their abilities".
I would have thought that with the kind of IT infrastructure we now have we can find a way to ensure equitable distribution for equitable contribution to society.
This doesn't mean that money as such has to come to a complete end, just that not everything will necessarily have to be exchanged for money.
Interestingly this has been postulated as how the fictional Federation in Star Trek operates.

2025-03-09 10:57:50 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz @nprofile…9q3l nothing should be beyond the wit of humankind! And reform is desperately needed as things like shelter should never be a privilege only afforded to those who can afford it, it should be a universal human right, along with food and water.
To be honest, we shouldn't even need to exchange anything akin to "money" for such basic needs.

2025-03-09 10:25:07 GMT

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@nprofile…9q3l @nprofile…60lz
All land within communities should be held in common, and communities should have the power to construct, via their local council, new public housing with rents strictly capped.
If anyone wishes to own their own home this of course will be possible, but only the physical building will be privately owned, the land upon which it stands will be property held in common by the entire community.
This shouldn't even be a hard concept to grasp, especially considering the centuries long tradition of "the commons" within the UK.

2025-03-08 15:22:25 GMT

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@nprofile…tzh3 a Happy International Women's Day to ALL women ✊🏼🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

2025-03-08 13:30:01 GMT

Happy International Women's Day to ALL women out there! And do not listen to ANYONE who say that trans women are not women because we are, and Emmy Meli herself includes us all in her song about women's empowerment,✊🏼🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
#IWD2025
Emmy Meli - I AM WOMAN (Official Performance Video)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uaGM5SRStQo&si=BtROzopmsmi17Bkm

2025-02-21 10:50:36 GMT

I see that the issue of Slavery Reparations is in the news again, so time to put some perspective on this, and just how vicious slavery was
1. An estimated 12,5 million people were abducted into slavery.
2. This occurred over four centuries.
3. Exact figures are not known.
4. Those abducted, an act which would now be considered a criminal offence, became property to be used at the will of the slave owner, and received no compensation.
5. If we take a high bar for median wage in today's Euro, this amounts to a loss of gross income of some 500 trillion Euro.
Whatever Caricom are asking for reparations for this gross act of racist and inhuman treatment, it is a peppercorn payment by comparison to the misery and impoverishment caused, something which is still impacting the descendants to this very day.
Reparations are long overdue.

2025-02-21 10:19:49 GMT

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@nprofile…tzh3 friends may but family won't. I had to disown my family due to wide ranging bigotry.

2025-02-15 10:44:48 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz the parlous state of the UK armed forces and the utter gutting of the RAF to mere command strength, also needs to be reversed. Should the UK be called upon to provide troops in a major conflict I truly doubt that sufficient personnel could be found.

2025-02-14 17:16:36 GMT

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@nprofile…ywqr good start! The Tossla Cyberwank is already banned in the EU 😈

2024-12-11 09:52:59 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz either build new New Towns, or rebuild existing New Towns to take advantage of the latest in eco build standards, incorporate high quality non polluting public transport, and also have safe and usable walking and cycling infrastructure.
This is possible, as I lived in Basingstoke and had a shopping centre with everything I needed within walking distance yet this by today's standards would be considered a New Town built around the car, which is not entirely an incorrect assessment.

2024-12-09 12:29:29 GMT

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@nprofile…gcx5 boosting for you ...

2024-12-09 08:46:38 GMT

FA sued over Rainbow Laces campaign
"In a letter of action to the FA seen by The Telegraph, Smith’s lawyers wrote: “The Football Association has acted unlawfully by encouraging, authorising, or directing players in the Premier League to wear equipment including boot laces and armbands in rainbow colours during the ‘Rainbow Laces’ campaign.”
“Such equipment is prohibited under the [FA] rules as constituting or conveying a political message, statement or image, including because it demonstrates support for a contested political viewpoint, namely that gender ideology should be accepted and influence policy or law-making.”
Except of course such a thing as 'gender ideology' does not exist, and the wearing of rainbow laces and armbands is entirely voluntary, and the campaign only exists to give visibility to a small section of society which is still highly discriminated against. It is not as Smith seeks to portray to force any kind of ideology onto anyone, aside from to encourage all treat everybody in a dignified way irrespective of gender or sexuality.
To equate this with the incident surrounding the Religious message written on an armband is false equivalence too, as Christianity is by definition a proselytising religion, and therefore that message can be seen as explicitly giving a religious message. The rainbow laces do not seek to give any such messages or "convert" anyone to anything.
#RainbowLaces
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/article?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepinknews.com%2F2024%2F12%2F08%2Ffa-sued-over-rainbow-laces-campaign%2F

2024-11-17 12:09:35 GMT

For those who have not checked:
The infowars website is back in the hands of Jones et al.
A stop was put on the purchase of the site by a court. I highly recommend staying away from it for the time being, as you can imagine just what is being posted there at the moment.
#infowars

2024-11-10 18:26:52 GMT

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@npub1zlf…jxfl I live in Germany, 20Km from Dachau. I am also LGBTQ. Have people forgotten so quickly where this kind of divisive politics can all too quickly lead, even while we are remembering Kristallnachricht?

2024-11-08 10:37:35 GMT

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@npub1fjd…5dwq @npub18kv…6pnx I was once an evangelical, quite biblical literalist, born again Christian. Ignorant does not come close to describing them, as many in my circle back then absolutely denied that the calendar they used, for one, was almost entirely named after Pagan/Norse/ Greco-Roman gods!
The cognitive dissonance surrounding their lack of knowledge of the history of their own religion is astonishing. That they are equally as ignorant of the history and practices of others is entirely by design.

2024-10-13 09:52:35 GMT

And so we see the end result of this escalating anti trans rhetoric from Government, and led by First Lord of the Treasury and government ministers no less, down.
In this case ALL those in the ladies toilets had zero issues with trans people being present, yet the security personnel violently removed them from the space, with apparent goading of others present to inflict further violence.
There are two things to note here:
1. If true, then this would be criminal behaviour
2. All security personnel are members, by law, of SIA.
I will be interested to see what the Police and SIA have to say about this behaviour.
"Speaking to PinkNews, a Bang Face spokesperson said the team behind the music event were “greatly saddened to hear of the incident after what was an “overwhelmingly positive weekend”.
They went on to say: “We have been working with those involved, friends in the trans community and Butlin’s to assist with positive change. Bang Face has always been a safe space for ravers and a place to express individuality and creativity.
“We hope [that] one day the rest of the world will catch up with the inclusion that has always been part of the rave scene.”
#trans
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/11/bang-face-butlins-skegness-trans-security/

2024-08-19 12:36:28 GMT

Pink News is abandoning the trans community, and has already removed the Trans category from it's website 👇🏼
#Trans #Transgender
https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/breaking-pinknews-refuses-to-cover

2024-07-02 09:56:50 GMT

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@npub1aum…5jx0 😝😝😝

2024-07-01 18:37:53 GMT

"Speaking this morning one of the activists (age 17) said: “Decisions are being taken that affect our lives without any trans people in the room, let alone trans young people. Too often trans kids are portrayed as a monolith of confused, depressed teenagers. We are denied choice and robbed of our autonomy. But we should be trusted to make the same decisions about our healthcare that all people are."
Let us be under no doubt, this policy IS costing lives.
https://diva-magazine.com/2024/06/30/trans-kids-deserve-better/

2024-06-18 10:24:40 GMT

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 3 million people in the 6th richest country on earth receiving aid from foodbanks? This is not something to be proud of

2024-05-18 08:00:57 GMT

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 so, it would quite literally be cheaper to send those children in care to Eaton than continue with the present system?
I can't help thinking that we have the whole system upside down here.

2024-04-27 14:18:51 GMT

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@npub1d4h…2ta7 I am much more of a Solitary, but have been involved in ceremonies and rituals, typically in Avalon.
In fact it was visiting Avalon that enabled me to come out, you might say it unlocked my power 😁

2024-04-27 12:18:03 GMT

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@npub1d4h…2ta7 indeed it is !