Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

@KimSJ
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Born at 314ppm CO2. Escapee from Twitter, and now from home.social too. 🫤 Tofu-loving woke ex EU citizen. Retired hi-tech entrepreneur, once focused on future cities/buildings, climate & UBI, now keen on saving the planet and democracy. I dream of the day when I can return my focus to my first loves.

If you don’t like #politics, you probably shouldn’t follow me. 😁 Though I do also have a #creative side, and I'm a #maker too.

he/him Still masking

Merry Christmas to all my online friends, and best wishes for a great new year.
Firefox can’t display my mastodon feed…
This was posted in response to Mamdani’s win, but the same could be said to Labour in the UK…
“ Donor money or your voters: time for Labour to make a choice.”
It makes no sense to freeze Local Housing Allowance without also implementing a rent freeze. As usual, cruelty is the point.
H/t Private Eye
#Budget2025
What new fresh hell is this? No, YouTube, I will not turn off my VPN just so you can track me better!
If only I could teach the household to stop when the vacuum cleaner starts making strange noises… 🤬
I think it’s close to scrap now.

So WhatsApp now allows setting ‘view once’ on messages you send. This will of course never be abused by bullies, unsolicited dick-pic senders, politicians or other criminals. /s

https://faq.whatsapp.com/578442220724722

I’m currently re-reading ‘Conquests’, a collection of short science-fiction stories written by Poul Anderson in 1955, which all deal with the causes and consequences of conflict. 70 years later, it still has some passages which have stood the test of time. This one in particular struck me as relevant to social media:
Now with alt text…