tenebrisnox

@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Complete disgrace. One of the wealthiest countries in the world with many, many millionaires and billionaires - yet we have staggering numbers of children living in poverty. It’s almost like we live in an economic system that plans this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Mandelson faces fixed-penalty notice for urinating in public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully it’ll be a big fine for all the years he’s been pissing in public in politics!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s part of the John Lewis Partnership which isn’t a cooperative. It’s a company where workers are given a “partner” status and allocated a share of profits. When you look into it, it’s still a big business with employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage rises to £12.71 an hour as firms warn of impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No “suddenly” about it. Capitalism has always been bollox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage rises to £12.71 an hour as firms warn of impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bosses all across UK angry because it means they’ll have consider taking less out of the till for themselves.

  We have a massively state-subsidised workforce at the same time that bosses and shareholders are paying themselves obscene amounts in salaries and dividends. That’s the real crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warning food prices are set to spike in the UK due to Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s illegal to question normalcy. Accept. Obey. Endure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warning food prices are set to spike in the UK due to Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. The whole purpose of neoliberlism’s shock doctrine is the devalue currency and increase capital wealth. It’s aim is to make us poorer and make the rich richer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zack Polanski’s Greens block anti-Zionist motion at conference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did the Greens not reschedule their conference once they knew that the Together march was going to be huge? From what I saw it was pretty much made up of Green Party members and supporters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warning food prices are set to spike in the UK due to Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the third or fourth excuse in the last 5 or so years for the excessively rich to rinse the rest of us of more money and go off and hoard it? Isn’t it time that the excessively wealthy did their part in this forever-“cost of living”-crisis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Green conference votes AGAINST energy company nationalisation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Public Ownership” is that evasive term used to avoid nationalisation. Share-holders can be described as a form of “public ownership”. Perhaps they would have been better to say “state ownership”.

  I’m starting to get the impression that the Green Party is going to have to work hard to hold itself together over the next 3 years. The different factions are already straining and showing the divisions. I wouldn’t be surprised of a Your Party-style bust up at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Investing in those “quantum computers” that don’t exist, no doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First they sold off the nationalised public services and I did not speak out because I imagined I could be a rich shareholder one day.

  Then they sold off the council houses, school fields and parks and I did not speak out because I imagined myself a rich landowner one day.

  Then they sold our data and I did not speak out because I thought it was only data and believed them when they said it would make things better one day.

  Then they sold me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vet prescription fees to be capped at £21⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cue the claims that this will force vets out of business!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Handing over UK state information to a foreign entity that has links with countries like Russia is at best problemmatic. Hopefully Palantir will use the promised “quantum computers” that the UK govt is supposedly buying at scale - that way we can be assured that it’ll never work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water bills are rising and thousands are planning not to pay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It IS a risk not paying bills - especially if you’re already hard up and extra fines just add to your family’s debts. I wonder how a campaign of only paying small amounts and then waiting for the water companies to chase up payments would go? Agreeing to pay and then dragging our feet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spycops inquiry exposes police efforts to destroy left-wing movements⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always been like this. I doubt there are any radical orginisations in the UK that aren’t riddled with police. There used to be a story floating around in the 1980s that there was a meeting of a Trotslyist splinter group from the WRP where everyone in the meeting realised they were all police. I doubt it’s true but I wouldn’t be surprised if it had some element of truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK looks to emulate Spanish youth custody where inmates do art and play sport⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Woke prisons? Fresh meat to the Tories, Reform and neo-Rightists! “Bring back the birch and National Service!” we’ll hear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you daring to say that the poor family scraping to make ends meet with both parents working and still having to claim benefits is actually patriotic? And suggesting that the millionaire who hides his inherited wealth in an offshore taxhaven, lives in Dubai and hires accountants to avoid contributing anything to the UK doesn’t love this country? That’s not how we’re programmed to think in this country!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Salmon farms have an appalling impact on the sustainability of wild salmon, so no

  theweek.com/…/the-dark-side-of-salmon-farming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Salmon next, please. Shut down the horrendous Salmon farms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And, of course, energy prices will fall incredibly and they’ll never be the need for price caps ever again and the “clean” nuclear waste can be recycled into toys and distributed to children to play with in this New Jersusalem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Lewis pulls out of housebuilding business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless these housebuilding firms make huge sums of money, they really aren’t interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russell Brand latest: Comedian pleads not guilty to new charges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He was one of those early grifters who saw the transition to para-politics and then God as a means of making a brand (of Brand).

  That anyone ever took his spirituaity or politics or his cringe comedy or acting seriously is beyond me.

  They had PILES of his Bookie-Wookie in Waterstones once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m super-suspicious of the “massive increase in shop theft” stories. I’m sure it has happened, does happen and has increased as poverty goes up in the UK. I’m just dubious about the gangs robbing stored made-to-order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until the next “price cap” in three months… and the one after that in six months… and the one after that in nine months (that’ll raise the cap even higher). It’s a con-game and we’re the suckers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can’t imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk’s content differs so much from brand to brand and there’s no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Benzion Freshwater.

  Surely that’s a made-up name? Do you have to have a name like that to be a billionaire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why doesn’t your company provide parking? Why should other people not be able to park because people with business vehicles hog residential parking?

  I live in a road that’s nearly 150+ years old. Not sure that the planners foresaw vans and monster-cars. They were probably more concerned with horses and carts. I doubt trademen parked their carts and hitched their horses outside of other people’s houses in the street.