Right, gather round everyone - I've sussed out Trump's big scam. Its simple really: he owns stock in all the big booze corps. He just puts out lunacy day after day, then as we all take up morning drinking, rakes in the profits! I mean, think about it! It's the only explanation that explains why he deals with the world the way a bored, gently psychotic 8 year old who knows where daddy keeps a can of petrol in the garage.

Will he get us all killed along the way? Who knows! It certainly keeps life interesting.

Clip is from the Grauniad.

As this isn't a wet bulb measurement, the wind chill effect isn't shown. This is my bedroom BTW, and yes, the icy draught coming up from the cellar is strong enough to make it feel colder than that.

All together now: "So much for global warming!!1!" /Jk

Dear #EE I'll pay your bill* when your site engineers put down their crackpipes and fix the single most fundamental and basic function of your website, ie., taking my money.

*for a cellphone service that STILL doesn't provide a signal where I live

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Alternatively: I bet Brian #Eno's got points.

Couple of notes, #DailyMail

1. Obviously the story's overblown scaremongering, used here purely as a stick to beat the gov with;

2. IDK the details, but it sounds very much like the standard NHS protocol for anonymised mass data, it's not "Let's look up Jonathan Harmsworth's doctors notes, so as to embarrass, understand & predict, blackmail or manipulate him". And

3. I don't recall the Mail making a fuss when Trump's buddy Peter #Thiel's spooky firm #Palantir got access to _unanonymised_ NHS records...

I love it when the world catches up with me XD (OK, in this case it's the UK rather than the world.)

Surely the way to stop kids looking at things that aren't appropriate for children on the internet isn't to take those things off the internet - pretty much a decade-long gov policy under both parties, though the new laws only just came into effect. It's to stop kids having unsupervised access to the open internet. Surely the only sane solution is clear... prosecute parents who give their kids smartphones. "Nail 'em up, I say! Nail some sense into 'em!!1!"

(From today's #Grauniad front page)
#kidsonlinesafety #smartphones #Bowdlerisation #parenting )

I was so certain a "Trump slump" would kick off early some time in 2017 or 2018, and that the phrase would be irresistible, that for a brief period I toyed with the idea of registering related domains and doing something with them. Or selling to some content megacorp for a few mil, whichever, not fussy.

And now here we are. (I haven't watched / listened to this, its just the YT algo shoving stuff at me.) Sometimes I'd prefer to be wrong rather than right, but at the wrong time.

The most interesting bit about Zelensky's "Please don't go there about approval rarings, Mr President WhoIGreatlyRespect" statement, the one that got Trump to go completely Gerritty and call him a dictator, seems to me to be the bit just before the clip that's on the news. The bit where he's alluding to Trump blatantly spouting Russian #disinformation .

#Trump #zelensky #ukraine #PutinsWar

Excellent words, and clearly a lot of planning and diplomacy went into making sure this was ready to go as soon as the Trump regime started signalling an imminent betrayal of Ukraine. Now let's see what they - we - can back the words in with. Pedal to the metal for the DIB, at least.

#Ukraine #Trump #betrayal #PutinsWar #Europe #weimarPlus