Billybobbell

@Billybobbell@twit.social

An History, Literature, IT and railway enthusiast. I am an avid reader and writer who loves walking and yoga. While listening to podcasts and music.
#fedi22
#astonvilla
#railways
#politics
#history
#zurich
tootfinder
https://bandcamp.com/billybobbell

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appassionato, to palestine
@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar

“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes.

It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away. It looks like good and decent people who do nothing, or too little, too late."
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez

https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1771238247449899285

@palestine
#Gaza
#genocide
#US

Billybobbell,

@appassionato @palestine @Properganda This is what they are doing.

SteveThompson, to Israel
@SteveThompson@mastodon.social avatar

A lot of 'ifs' there…

"Israel’s Strategic Game of Survival"

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/israels-strategic-game-of-survival/2024/03/18/

"If the government remains politically stable, if the military continues its brilliant fight in Gaza and if U.S. opinion remains supportive, Jerusalem can flip Hamas’s machinations on its head."

#Hamas #terrorists #Oct7 #Gaza #Israel #USA #Jerusalem

Billybobbell,

@SteveThompson @tuban_muzuru He is not isolating independents. This is classic gaslighting.

Billybobbell,

@SteveThompson @tuban_muzuru The "Independent voter" is a wonderful tool to ensure everyone toes the party line.

Trump doesn't seem to worry about them to much and he got elected but he is a fascist demagogue. Demagoguery doesn't need to consider the Independent Voter, they can just appeal to the baser instincts using all that sweet donor money.

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.

Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

Google Maps, showing the storefront for Golden State Lock as an empty building.

Billybobbell,

@pluralistic Google is anti-democratic. It should be a publicly accountable democratic organisation. Instead Larry and Sergey created yet another tech-monster, just with a slightly moderated profit motive because they own the controlling stake and don't care that much about profitability. Albeit enough to piss 80bn a year up the wall on buybacks.

Billybobbell, to ireland

Go @ronanmcd loving what is going on in Dublin at the moment. I am staying in today and the impact on the city is so impressive, all the doom -mongering from the is all bullshit, cities without cars are better places to live, stay and work in.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-17/dublin-takes-aim-at-traffic-congestion-with-a-car-ban-on-certain-trips

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Where do we do digital EU politics now?

Channeling Donald Tusk and Freddie Mercury, and taking into account Meta's anti-politics stance this week, a few thoughts as to where those whose everyday job it is to follow EU politics should turn now

And Mastodon doesn't do the job fully, even though I like it here (for other reasons)

https://euroblog.jonworth.eu/where-do-we-do-digital-eu-politics-now/

Billybobbell,

@jon Do we know how Blue sky is owned and controlled? This for me is the fundamental question to be considered and I cannot work it currently.

Billybobbell,

@jon thanks Jon, very helpful. I still can't work out who actually owns and controls it though!

Billybobbell,

@jon I cannot figure out who owns and controls the LLC though. Dorsey is on the Board but who actually controls the PBC entity... They are a for-profit entity so someone must control it and direct it.

Billybobbell,

@jon No all good, I am going to find out and post it on this chat! Thank you for the blogs, they are great.

ronanmcd, to random
@ronanmcd@mastodon.green avatar

The other day we found out there was "overwhelming" support for reducing the traffic on Dublin city roads. You would never know that from the hysterical media headlines

Billybobbell,

@ronanmcd It's the same everywhere, any attempt to reduce congestion is met with this same nonsense. I don't understand what drives it. Sitting in a car going nowhere is not an effective use of anyone's time. Getting out of the car for those who can is the solution!

Billybobbell,

@ronanmcd I got a bus into Dublin City from the airport last time I was there. It took about an hour to do the last km and they wouldn't let us off the bus early. This wasn't even during rush hour, was about 1230 in the afternoon on a Wednesday.

ronanmcd, to TeslaMotors
@ronanmcd@mastodon.green avatar

The rehabilitation tour continues #elon #antisemitism
This has nothing to do with Tesla stock value, of course, he just suddenly remembered he really likes Jewish people

The tweet. The one where Elon started he believes Jewish people are trying to bring about a replacement of white people

Billybobbell,

@ronanmcd He is such a worthless person, not financially of course. The combination of him and Ben Shapiro is truly a low point in human cultural history.

pallenberg, to hamburg
@pallenberg@mastodon.social avatar

Heute gibt es mein MOIN in fett und mit passender Musik.

#Hamburg setzt ein dickes Zeichen... stellvertretend fuer all die anderen Staedte und Gemeinden, die den Faschisten in unseren Parlamenten ganz klar sagt, wer wirklich das Volk ist.

Ganz viel ❤️

zehntausende Menschen auf den Strassen Hamburgs, die gegen Rechts demonstrieren. Bild von einer Drohne, die am Jungfernstieg entlangfliegt und die menschenmassen zeigt

Billybobbell,

@pallenberg Love it. Try it with this backing music:

https://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?si=MvSFrmAs_h4Qr-2j

TheConversationUS, to instagramreality
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social avatar

Social media platforms are designed to maximize engagement. As a result, the content you will most frequently encounter on social media will either mirror your own views or upset you, or both.
https://theconversation.com/war-in-gaza-an-ethicist-explains-why-you-shouldnt-turn-to-social-media-for-information-about-the-conflict-or-to-do-something-about-it-218912

Republished in Fast Company:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90999879/an-ethicist-explains-why-you-shouldnt-turn-to-social-media-for-information-on-the-israel-hamas-war
#SocialMedia #Misinformation

Billybobbell,

@kevinrns @TheConversationUS Totally agree with you Kevin, this is some useless nonsense pushed out by a forum which generally tacks to the mainstream line, which is to denigrate Palestinians.

Billybobbell,

@kevinrns @TheConversationUS I agree with you, the forum I was talking about is "The Conversation" which published the initial article in the first place. It's not a great source of unbiased news.

StillIRise1963, to random
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

The only way to get where ALL OF US want to go, is through using JOE BIDEN to get to the NEXT STEP. There is NO OTHER WAY. The only other candidate who can win, will make everything you want to see happen merely ACADEMIC. You'll NEVER be able to fight for whatever it is, EVER AGAIN. You won't be able to BE IT, DO IT, TALK ABOUT IT without serious problems. There's NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT.

Billybobbell,

@StillIRise1963

I always try and remember the inspiring words of at these times when it seems like the fascists are winning. They are bound to lose but they can fuck up a lot of lives on the way...

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/all-you-fascists/1501200965?i=1501201928&ls

https://genius.com/Woody-guthrie-all-you-fascists-lyrics

w7voa, to random
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

IDF says it delivered 300 liters of fuel for Shifa Hospital but Hamas prevented it being received. https://videoidf.azureedge.net/0f0d7252-aaeb-4127-8d86-a9d3dd8ce60f

Billybobbell,

@w7voa So they deliver 300 litres of fuel while at the same time shelling the hospital with artillery?

petergleick, to random

Here you go. How dare people, especially young people, vote, says the GOP.

“You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote...pure democracies are not the way to run a country,” Santorum said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4299354-santorum-ohio-results-pure-democracies/

Billybobbell,

@petergleick Cant believe Santorum is still kicking around, I thought that he had disappeared. Useless and poisonous.

taylorlorenz, to random
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social avatar

No matter how you feel about the war this is NARC behavior and you’re garbage if ur ratting in colleagues for porting their personal thoughts on their personal accounts. As journalists we should value FREE speech and FREE expression above all else.

We all know that bosses never care if staffers post certain political content online. We see examples of this every day.

It’s not about hiding people’s political opinions, it’s about making sure staffers only express the right political opinions.

Billybobbell,

@taylorlorenz You have to take a position on this one. Its not complex, it's clear. Watch the weird surveillance state we have created police this. Very strange.

w7voa, to random
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

A video analysis by the Wall Street Journal using security cameras and live feeds inside Israel and Gaza “shows how a failed rocket caused the deadly explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital.” https://www.wsj.com/video/video-analysis-shows-gaza-hospital-hit-by-failed-rocket-meant-for-israel/120A1C22-BA32-418E-8837-BC4141FEFB00.html

Billybobbell,

@w7voa Strange how this didn't happen when Hamas were firing 5000 rockets into Israel on the day of the initial attack but did happen when Israel were firing hundreds of rockets into Gaza. But thanks for reposting stuff from the WSJ, a Murdoch owned newspaper famous for its impartial reporting.

Billybobbell, to Hyundai

@greenpeace

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/drive-change/

Great research from about the myth of EVs and the going on at the major car companies who continue to produce thousands of gas guzzling SUVs ,

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

I’m on a ICE running 10 mins ahead of schedule 🤯

ICE 822 in München

Billybobbell,

@jon mind-blowing...🤣🤣

parismarx, to tech
@parismarx@mastodon.online avatar

In this week’s Disconnect Roundup, I gave some updates on Twitter/X’s struggling ad revenue, how it’s hard to trust Apple’s claims around carbon neutrality, and Google’s threats to pull news in Canada.

Plus, recommended reads, labor updates, and more news!

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/roundup-twitters-dismal-ad-revenue

#tech #twitter #apple #google

Billybobbell,

@parismarx Great read thanks Paris!

parismarx, to tech
@parismarx@mastodon.online avatar

After seven people died in an Airbnb fire, Montreal created a team of short-term rental inspectors — its Airbnb “police” — to track down illegal units with the ultimate goal of returning them to the long-term rental market. More cities should do the same.

https://ricochet.media/en/3993/ride-along-montreal-launches-first-airbnb-enforcement-squad-in-north-america

#tech #housing #cdnpoli #airbnb

Billybobbell,

@parismarx

"The minister in charge is a former real estate agent who has had inappropriate and undisclosed lobbying contacts with former colleagues, and has had to apologize for public comments denigrating renters."

enobacon, to random
@enobacon@urbanists.social avatar

"Reeling from the rise of remote work and the ongoing effects of the Covid pandemic, business groups are embracing policies and practices they long shunned.

In New York City — which has 76 BIDS, the most of any US city — the effort to trim traffic lanes and make Park Avenue look like a linear park has been led by the business group there... Downtown Brooklyn’s pedestrian-priority plan came from a BID. And some of the most popular Open Streets..."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-06/in-bid-for-survival-business-districts-welcome-bikes-and-pedestrians

Billybobbell,

@enobacon seems many cities are going for the latter option.

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