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blabberlicious

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Doing doughnuts in Life’s car park.
🇦🇷 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Worked for Games Workshop. Author of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks. Designed the Playstation website. Creative at Leo Burnett, invented Kellogg Characters & wrote TV spots. Video Projections for Theatre and Opera. Filmed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's election campaigns.

Please unfollow or block if you don’t like my crappy takes 🙏🏻

#Animation #Videography #Editing #Argentina #Ireland #UK #NoSearch #NoBot

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blabberlicious, to random
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MPs shuddering at the prospect of disrupting gravy supply.
This is a no Brainer.

As always, they mustn’t frighten the horses. (Or polo ponies)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/rachel-reeves-under-pressure-from-shadow-ministers-to-raise-capital-gains-tax-to-revive-public-services

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Trying to set up the NHS app to be able to view and manage my mum’s medical records and appointments has turned into a kafkaesque odyssey of mismanagement, endless repetition and dead ends.

I’m tech literate and determined. How the fuck are people my mum’s age supposed to navigate this crap alone?

As you walk into surgery, check in with a QR codes: Really big with the over 80s.

#caregiving
#nhs

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'Tied accommodation' - come from overseas and work for us and we'll house you until you even try to think about leaving - has been going on for YEARS. I know of two large englandshire registered companies who were doing it up in Scotland even though both had Modern Slavery philosophies in their brochures. I'm talking 15 years ago.

https://mastodon.ie/@RustyBertrand/112548281030364320

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@JackTheCat @Wen @RustyBertrand
This shit is RIFE where I live. Twenty delivery bikes permanently parked up on corner of our street. Drivers are kackered, dirty and living from delivery to delivery. Tied into bike + accommodation slavery in return for a cut of their take.

I was told by a shopkeeper that a local shitbag landlord is housing ten of them in the windowless basement of a vacant shop.

#slavery

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@Wen @JackTheCat @RustyBertrand
The final piece of the pie is the Police’s complete indifference to what’s going on. Don’t know why. Probably don’t want to wade into a quagmire of criminality and human misery. And the drivers have too much to lose to complain.

My heart goes out to them.
I’m trying to work out who to contact about the basement dwelling. My MP is pretty tenacious. I’m trying her.

blabberlicious, to random
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Listening to Trump Salad for lunch.
He really does mix it thoroughly.

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Sorry for sharing Twitter links
But absolutely fuck #Sunak, and his response to this question:

Sunak is confronted about Partygate by a worker who lost his mother during the Covid pandemic

https://x.com/PippaCrerar/status/1796198494706778266

Wen, to UKpolitics
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Six televised rounds of Starmer v Sunak? I can’t imagine anything worse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/29/politics-general-election-starmer-sunak-televised-debates

These debates are rarely useful, let alone enlightening. Let’s have a head-to-head of progressive parties instead

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@Wen
If the Election Debates used this format, I’d be in.

Shout out to @Claydisarray, who really needs to get going on this!
I can see it now.

https://youtu.be/yBjbYAQWcjE?si=p6sUODST4Qf2sc7-

blabberlicious, to random
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Tory New Policy Announcements;
Colonic irrigation gets a fancy new name. The results speak for themselves.

(Same old shit).

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Way back, I was asked to make film about Labour’s minimum wage pledge. Shot at a campaign dinner at a posh London Hotel.

2 hours into filming, we’d got to the kitchens, interviewing staff, who were not particularly keen.

Suddenly, a spad pops up, ‘Filming’s cancelled’.

No explanation. Their media officer wouldn’t tell me.

Later found out that the kitchen crew weren’t on minimum wage. 🥹

You would think they’d check, given their policy commitment?

Ass covering & Optics.
Labour ✅

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Don’t get me wrong. I love my local Labour MP. Works bloody hard for her community.

But the party HQ treated her like the enemy. Very little support, until the viral film I shot of her went huge on Twitter and was slavishly copied by Boris Johnson.

Then it was doubles all round.

2019 was such a delusional shitshow. On both sides.

Who’s still standing, in 2024?

My MP.

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“So we’re moving into an age in our inner cities and towns, I’m afraid, I’m worried to say, of sectarian politics with women completely excluded.”

  • Farage, Party Bunker

“Women see you coming and hide. I’m sure my Muslim female MP would agree. You loathsome cockwomble.”
-Steve, Tooting Bec, London

StillIRise1963, to random
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Who’s going to tell the Pope that apologizing for the “vulgar term” means little now that we know how he really feels about gay people.

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963 You can’t put the smoke back in the chimney. The message is out.

Wen, to UKpolitics
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Lucy Allan MP suspended by Tories after backing Reform UK candidate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkzv12wndo

The rats are really fleeing the sinking barge..

#ToryCorruption #UkPolitics #GE2024

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@Lazarou @Geri @Wen
The rumour is that Sunak’s next policy bombshell will be:
Making Crime Illegal.

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Is there a special place on the internet devoted to AI enthusiasts blowing smoke up each others arses?

Because it’s sure as hell isn’t here.

StillIRise1963, to random
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“ 'I’m the king of a lost world! I’m the king and I will destroy you!' Javier Milei bellowed into the microphone on Wednesday night as Argentina’s showman president took to the stage for his first stadium gig since his election last year.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/javier-milei-buenos-aires-argentina

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@StillIRise1963
My daughter follows some of my Argentinian cousins instagram feeds. He’s very popular with the ‘haves’, young and old. Seen as some sort of Economic Idiot Savant, who will protect those struggling to maintain ‘what’s theirs’ while demonising the concept of ‘society’.

They dug up Margaret Thatcher and made a smash burger with Trump. Nazi buns, with plenty of relish.

StillIRise1963, to random
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OPEN your mind to possibilities you may be unaware of.

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963 I have some smoked haddock fish cakes need eating. 🙏🏻

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963 also: life can be beautiful

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Avatar really did rip off Dune, and don't get me started on Star Wars.

blabberlicious,
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@RickiTarr
Akira Kurosawa wants his films back.

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If the gods exist, it's mighty presumptuous to think they have our best interests at heart, or even think about us at all.

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@RickiTarr
They gave up their subscription to Earth, after realising it was just endless repeats of the same 3 shows.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Mike Pence is a fly attracting eunuch.

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@StillIRise1963
Not female fies.
They are uncomfortable being alone with him. Understandably.
🪰

clive, (edited ) to random
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People of Mastodon!

I'm researching the growth of ebikes ...

... in cities around the US

I've talked to many people who love them!

But also want to include the perspective of folks who have concerns ...

... i.e. about the speed and weight of ebikes in accidents with pedestrians or other cyclists, and the like

If anyone has thoughts they wanna share, ping me! I'm all ears: clive@clivethompson.net

Pass this along if you know anyone else with perspective they want to share

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@clive @dougiec3
A very common one for me in town is waiting at a red light to turn left at a junction, only to have an e-bike doing 30 undertake and bomb round the corner.

Multiple times if I’d simply twisted my wheel to shift my standing weight, I’d have been smashed into bits.

Always always delivery drivers, occasionally souped up scooters.

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@clive @dougiec3
Also: the large Junction ‘X’ crossings. Bikes will occasionally amble across the red light to cross over with pedestrians (while still giving them right of way).

But e-scooters and delivery bikes just see it as a green light and bomb straight across at full speed.

I have seen many heart-stopping near misses.

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@clive @dougiec3
and lastly e-bike bombing in and out of cycle lanes. Overtaking cyclists in the blue lane. Relative speeds are so out of whack. Dangerous.

blabberlicious, to ai
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“(Sam A) felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives... He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people”

  • Johansson

Translation:
Trojan Hoarse Voice, hired for main assault, flees the stable.

#aibullshit
#ai
#enshittification
#OpenAI
#FixedItForYou

Still from film her. Actor in red shirt looking confused.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think Charles has the best portrait of any “royal” in history. Bloody red captures his family’s reign.

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@StillIRise1963
Fading into obscurity, is how I read it.

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