Alan Braggins

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Also @armb originally for work related stuff, not yet sure if that's useful or not but leaning towards making this account dormant and using that for everything.
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Alan BragginsDec 30
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 30
That’s a serious escalation, and we've heard nothing about it from our own government.
Alan BragginsDec 30
@[email protected] @ElenLeFoll I'm hoping by the time it's relevant the US regime isn't under Russian control, but they will still want to maintain influence.
Alan BragginsDec 30
@[email protected] @ElenLeFoll we do get new designs from time to time while keeping the same monarch.
Alan BragginsDec 30
@[email protected] @ElenLeFoll sadly it's going to take years to undo Brexit, first to admit we should, then to persuade the rest of Europe we'll be better members this time, and I doubt we'll join the Euro then. One day....
Alan BragginsDec 30
@[email protected] @ElenLeFoll true, but it's not as if the Royal Mint instantly starting printing a previously secret design the day he took over, there was some notice before new notes were in use.
Alan BragginsDec 30
@[email protected] @ElenLeFoll but there have been two different series of Euro notes, and a third will be selected next year, so machines will still need to be reprogrammed to accept the new designs.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250131~611055a567.en.html
ECB selects motifs for future euro banknotes

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.

European Central Bank
Alan BragginsDec 29
Turkey sandwich for lunch. Turkey curry yesterday supper. Turkey soup day before. The end is in sight.
Show threadAlan BragginsDec 28
@teotwaki @jdking92 @anon_opin in a manual, they start in the time you put the clutch down and put it in gear, which you were going to do anyway.
Do they stop on automatics if you don't put it in neutral or park?
Alan BragginsDec 28
Open Rights GroupDec 28

ORG called for unjust 'crime-predicting' tech to be banned from UK policing 🚨

Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing. Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/resist-pre-crime/

#ORG2025 #digitalrights #PreCrime #BanCrimePredictingTech #policing #police #ukpolitics #ukpol

Alan BragginsDec 27
Peter BrownDec 27

Sadly I think this could be a large part of the problem. US politicians put party first and country a very poor second. So they are quite prepared to stand by and watch the moral economic and social destruction of their country simply in the hope they will win the next election.

The USA is the manifestation of all that is wrong with first past the post politics. It produces acute polarisation and binary choices which do not reflect public opinion.

It produces no more than vacuous confrontation