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   Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 18:58:24 JST Simon Brooke

   • Richard Murphy
   • goatsarah
   • Ghost of Hope
   • John Dal

   @goatsarah @RichardJMurphy @JohnDal @grayface_ghost

   One cannot hope to bribe or twist
   (Thank God!) the British journalist;
   But seeing what the oaf will do
   Unbribed, there's no occasion to.

   (edited to add: poem by Humbert Wolfe. I remembered the poem (roughly) but not the author).
   https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/british-journalist

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     Ambrose (ambrosen@hulvr.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 20:21:22 JST Ambrose

     • Richard Murphy
     • goatsarah
     • Ghost of Hope
     • John Dal

     @goatsarah @RichardJMurphy @JohnDal @grayface_ghost In further evidence of how necessary it is: Germany, has by far the smallest amount of new lines for its high speed rail and also has the most delays and most overcrowded trains of those 4 countries by some distance.

     Modern railway passenger numbers need new lines.

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     Tom Pearce (tompearce49@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 01:32:22 JST Tom Pearce

     • Cory Doctorow
     • Richard Murphy
     • goatsarah
     • Ghost of Hope
     • John Dal

     @goatsarah @RichardJMurphy @JohnDal @grayface_ghost

     "The United Kingdom is not a serious country." True. When @pluralistic speaks of the enshittification of internet commerce, I think that the term applies to pretty much the whole of the UK. And it isn't going to change (in a positive direction) any time soon.