Susan Calvin

@Susan_calvin
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agitated londoner. Used to be the same account on Twitter. I will probably repost things you post that are political.
i read a lot of sf/f and may recommend that unless stopped. Probably by force.

https://bandcamp.com/Number10Ox

Bramblebee Pricklethorn in another world.
they/them/beamo over here.

This six part series (link goes to the first part), written by a former core Azure engineer, is mind-boggling. Microsoft sounds like a dysfunctional company whose software is dangerously unreliable

(I mean, more so than it has been historically)

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

Axel’s Substack
Who else reads the Aeslin Mice and tries to Pronounce The Capitals?

Last RT - I think it's really important to understand why France got a tanker through the Straight today. It's because Macron has repudiated the US and Israel's illegal war and affirmed its recognition of Iranian sovereignty. And that's the angle you just aren't gonna get in the US media because we are DEAD FUCKING SET on pretending Iran just isn't wholly in the right this time, for geopolitical power reasons and nothing more.

Macron said Iran will/should survive this. So they let him through.

RE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116178591588359360

you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production

The ICC prosecutor has faced more punishment for holding war criminals accountable than Netanyahu has for committing genocide.

Imagine explaining this to future generations.

Hannah Spencer:
"The Green party is clear: ordinary people should not pay for this crisis (US/Israel war on Iran). The government should guarantee right now that it will not allow energy bills to rise beyond the April-June price cap, and every single pound of reckless profiteering by energy companies must be repurposed to this end."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/03/weeks-green-mp-politicians-clue-cost-living-labour

#Iran #WarWithIran #UKPol #GreenParty #Labour #CostOfLiving

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there

With this escalating cost of living crisis, so many are really suffering – yet Labour lacks the imagination, boldness and will to do anything about it, says Green party MP Hannah Spencer

The Guardian
Given Pink News are replacing their journalists with AI and platforming UK transphobic cabinet minister Wes Streeting, it is probably time to block their accounts and stop boosting or sharing their articles / links - in case you (still) hadn't got the message yet?

extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.

reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.

@mcnado my parents didn't used to understand or support trans folks, but when the politicians started targeting them more, they educated themselves and became allies because "I may not understand trans people, but I know a political scapegoat when I see one."
DWP go to new depths of depravity by adding to the already anxiety rudden environment.
Hopefully they have similar units at HMRC to combat the real criminals, tax avoiders and tax evaders, but I won't hold my breath