I often wonder, people who are still masking diligently in 2024 to avoid a neurodegenerative virus, what they were like as toddlers.. because the amount of fortitude necessary in a world that has decided to move on… there surely must be interesting backstories
If people dare say to me “still masking huh” my saccharine sweet yet simultaneously deadpan response is, I’ve read too much
Patience of an actual saint; all of us🖤
No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
Residents of the European Economic Area (EEA), which includes the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, will soon experience less intrusive Microsoft services on their Windows 11 systems. This is in response to the European Commission's Digital Markets Act.
I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...
World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds.
Coal must be phased out seven times faster and deforestation reduced four times faster to avoid worst impacts of climate breakdown, says report.
As expected, the #longtermsick will be targeted by #Tories & 'incentivised' by a withdrawal of #benefits to 'get back to work'... this is the policy reflection of a common right-wing view that #workers are shirkers who use health as a mask for laziness.
That the sorts of rubbish jobs they'll be pushed into are a problem for health in the first place is immaterial to Tory ideologues!.
When such prejudice drives policy, its clear the Tories are conducting a #classwar.
308 years ago today. History can be made in lonely places. The Battle of Sheriffmuir was fought on 13 November 1715. The battle was inconclusive, but it effectively marked the start of the end of the 1715 Jacobite rising. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunblane/sheriffmuir/index.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #BattleOfSheriffmuir #Jacobites #UndiscoveredScotland
ICYMI:
It now seems that #MicelleMone & family are prepared to admit that they did have something to do with the PPE Medpro after having denied (pretty forcefully) any involvement with the firm... however, it would seem legal disclosures made that position untenable & they've now advised their spokespeople to confirm what the Guardian has been reporting for a couple of years!
Not that anyone is going to be surprised by #Tory lies....
Speak for yourself, BBC. I knew crypto was a load of old tulips from the start. Ergo, I knew SBF was just a dodgy salesman.
Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble
We're joining a protest at the Home Office this Saturday 4th November, following Suella Braverman's inflammatory speech at the Conservative Party Conference where she suggested that the UK was facing a 'hurricane' of migration and that the government's policy on immigration had been hampered by being 'far too squeamish about being smeared as racist'. What are the links between refugees and climate change? An obvious connection is that people are forced to leave their home by climate breakdown. Most starkly, the very existence of Pacific island states is at risk from rising sea levels.
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