tenebrisnox

@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where Are the Climate Protests? Human Rights Group Warns Government Crackdown Is Silencing the Green Movement⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It is noticeable that the Green protest movement has been seriously worked on by the state. Much of this is the draconian infringements on the right to protest but it’s mixed with the mainstream media refusing to report on what climate protests occur combined with the state’s boosting of the Green Party as a vehicle for distracting protest. Those in comtrol would tolerate a handful of Green MPs and Green-led councils rather than hundreds of thousands on the streets involved in protest and direct action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll see. The smears against Arday are already coming undone and Cofnas has been suspended from his post. The actual dangerous aspect is that people like you pretend to be moderate while enabling racists to engage in witch hunts like this. Maybe you need to do some reflection - but my suspicion is that you actually agree with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? Aren’t YOU one of the bad guys in this instance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not Walter Mitty (Gosh! An autistic man doesn’t manage his fantasies in the same way as neurotypicals! What a crime!) but I can give you many, many accounts of senior UK academics involved in plagiarism, falsification of data and a survey of UK academics in which one in seven admitted to plagiarism. I can also give you names of academics who have encouraged the rape of children, sexually assaulted students, theft and other forms of real criminal behaviour… I don’t doubt you could name any of these because the mainstream media didn’t whip up such a lynch mob against them. Because they were all white I suspect. And really you can’t name these because you’re hung up on Arday being a black man as well. For you and the rest of the baying mob, that’s Arday’s true crime: he’s black, autistic and was taking the seat of a privately-educated white man.

  It’ll be interesting to see which of Arday’s colleagues actually come forward. My suspicion is that the none of the allegations of academic malpractice will be upheld and Arday’s autistic “fantasising” (for want of a better term) will certainly not recognised as criminality. What WILL be revealed is the extent of the lobbying done by the Race Science Network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you give me examples of another academic who has suffered similar levels of witch hunt by the British media? Or are there really no other academics who do stuff like this? You know as well as I do why the witch hunt was as relentless as it was.

  Even when Arday resigned his post, the witch hunt continued. I’ve heard that there journalists talked about Arday killing himself long before he did. The focus should be on the process of Arday’s appointment. It wasn’t Arday’s alleged plaigarism or alleged fantasisings that caused the media witch hunt: it was because he was lauded for being young, autistic and black. Racists can’t stand stuff like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. People who are essentially racists and hung up on their obsession with so-called DEI appointments are going to continue to focus on Arday’s shortcomings rather than this. But to go back to the original subject of this thread: it is the racist, anti-DEI mob that hounded Arday to his death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism Pushed Jason Arday to the Top of the News Agenda⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Nothing to do with being black and autistic? Or that the campaign against him was launched by Nathan Cofnas, the “race realist” who dowsn’t believe that black people are intelligent enough to hold academic positions and the promoted by right-wing lobbyists? Really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Care and thoughtfulness

  Who is it that you think is providing “justice and fairness”? Our capitalist masters or their client politicians or media? O, to live in such a world where the ruling classes care for us poor people at their mercy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Without access to the actua or estimated costs at scale of providing free water, I can’t tell you whether the distribution and processing costs cause scarcity. As I replied to someone else, there’s no issue of scarcity when it comes to buying and upgrading weapons of mass destruction which cost £billions. I’d rather taxpayers’ money spent on free water and energy rather than a bomb that sits in a silo never being used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, one of those “real world” arguments where it’s ok for example to spend crazy billions on weapons (especially those of mass destruction) that will fingers crossed never be used but in the “real world” decent water, food, energy is far too much to provide. It’s a question of priorities. Next you’ll be telling me that in the “real world” an NHS is not possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. We need to push back on the idea that everything should be commidified and sold at a profit for a tiny minority of the already-rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why “reasonable”? We live on an island surrounded by water on a planet that is two-thirds water. If you want to make water a commodity to make profit then you have to intstil the idea that there’s scarcity of water.

  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that we should turn taps on and let them flow but we shouldn’t be charging people for a basic element of human life. At this point in human civilisation we should be working towards ensuring everyone on the planet has a subsistence level of clean air, clean water, energy and food (and, I’d argue, a roof over their head). Not price it “reasonably” so that if by luck of birth you can afford it you can fill the three olympic-sized swimming pools in your back garden while the poor old pensioner on state benefits has to worry about having a shower once a week or not using a heater in winter to make ends meet. I don’t understand why people fret over the idea things should be universally available with no costs at point of use. Always strikes me as being entitled and selfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can see why they’re making a lot about water scarcity in the media now.

  It’s about time we should start pushing back and saying that some things are a basic human right like air, water, food and energy (certainly at a subsistence level) which should be provided without cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t try to infantilise me by giving me a link to a wikipedia. I’ll just repeat: he was a vulnerable man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is infantalising anyone? He was a vulnerable man. You don’t grow up autistic and suddenly become neurotypical - even if you’re a professor. Part of the reason that Cofnas targeted him was that Cofnas thought he was “weird”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Much more important to note that the claims of plagiarism against a black autistic man were brought by the American self-declared “race realist” Nathan Cofnas who doesn’t believe that black men and women are intelligent enough to hold academic positions and on merit would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”. Cofnas targeted Arday because he knew Arday was a vulnerable man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lynch mob. A vulnerable, autistic black man. Fingers need to be pointed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham ‘personally intervened’ over possible early prison release of grooming gang perpetrators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the feeling this is all carefully planned spin to encourage people to think Burnham is in control and doing things. Right on the heels of last weeks “Burnham told be advisors to stop being a bloke and talking about the pub and football” leaked by those same advisors. All manipulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Star Trek': Holly Hunter Teases 'Starfleet Academy' Season 2 After Cancellation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still looking forward to the Borg/My Little Pony crossover episode set in the Mirror Universe. This is what fans need!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth a Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When house prices fall all those people who think they are rich suddenly get absolutely terrified. The illusion of wealth for small people gets shattered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that bad. Remember 1976. I went out today and only my jeans caught fire - so I call that moderate weather.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like the sort of thing straight out of Colonel Gaddafi’s Green Book. No landlords. No moneylenders. Full equality for men and women. And look what happened to Libya (and him).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SafeSpace4U: the company running an illegal children’s homes empire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly off-topic but my experience lots of children’s and mental health support involves grifters who set up “charities” that have websites that look to casual readers as providing lots of support but, in reality, very little exists on the ground. Lots of services that used to be provided by the NHS have been effectivesly privatised to “charities” and “non-profits”. They seem to exist primarily to provide people running the charities with employment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s more frightening is that the report is limited to specific chemical pollutants. If its remit was wider then pretty much all water systems in the UK would fail. We have neighbours who now refuse to go in the sea and drink only bottled water. I’m beginning to think they might have the right idea and not be mad-as-a-loon preppers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just shut the pubs. And the night clubs. And the cinemas. And the theatres. It’s about time we all started wearing black and white clothing, covering our heads and restoring the Puritan way of life. Wasn’t the UK a much happier place when we had witch-hunters and ducking stools?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So we’re now identifying:

  • children as young as 5 in case the could be terrorists
  • children as young as 5 in case they will be a NEET 15 years later

  Coming soon:

  • identifying children who question whether a sky god exists
  • identifying children who might have same-sex affections
  • identifying children who don’t cheer when they see a picture of a member of the royal family
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than half of England officially in drought - Environment Agency⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wHaT aBoUt 1976?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But just think what the UK would have been like if Thatcher and those “Winston Churchill”-sprited neo liberals hadn’t privatised everything: a perpetual cost of living crisis, low wages, high mortgages and rents, housing shortages, sky-high energy costs, hosepipe bans, sewage pumped into our rivers and seas, declining welfare services, town centres boarded up… oh… maybe not then…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour overtakes Reform in voter poll for first time since March 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reform’s a one-man show. Without Farage it’ll revert to a tiny fringe party and all the Tories will creep back to their proper homes and be warmly embraced. The proper neo-nazis and fascists will slither back into their cells waiting for the next populist to align themselves with.