Notices by Marcus Jenkins (marcusjenkins@mastodon.social)

Can we pass any exceptional special case to bring Ukraine into the EU soon? Like next week?

This is some hard back-pedalling to preempt arguments for the impeachment of rapist and felon Donald #Trump that's already underway for ethnic cleansing.

We saw what we saw and we heard what we heard. He wants all Palestinians out of #Gaza and they can only come back if they can afford the no-doubt sky-high fees that #tangerinepalpatine will be charging to stay the night at his obscene 40km-long seaside golf resort.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9xgj2429o

Here's what rapist and felon Donald #Trump is going to do in #Gaza.

That and start drilling those offshore gas reserves.

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/26/trump-shares-unhinged-trump-gaza-resort-video/

Canadian man makes a very smart move (unlike his idea to buy 3 #Tesla cars in the first place).

Today is the day to sell your Tesla if you have one, because tomorrow there's a good chance it's going to be worth jack shit.

I'd be delighted to see all Teslas scrapped and use their batteries for grid battery backup - for cheap.

#boycottusa #boycotttesla #tsla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn_gq5GcRqY

I imagine Donald Trump Junior is going to be deeply disappointed by this.

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@Npars01 @selzero I wouldn't believe for a moment that a billionaire would be crafting this strategy alone, rather than he has a team of people carefully managing his output on social media.

@aral Man-in-pub and bloke-on-Facebook will be citing this for the whole of 2025. "Those electric cars, they're bloody dangerous, they just catch fire, you can't put the fire out, 'ere look at this photo of a Tesla Dumpertruck just the other day, bloody 'ell, I'd never 'ave one, oi, Jeff!, did you see that Range Rover in that car park the other month, on fire it was, can't put it out, bloody dangerous those electric cars… "

And so on. All night. #evs

I really ought to stop looking at #linkedin. I managed to quit my xitter habit (thanks to Masto!). Today at the top of my feed there's a complete stranger asshat is selling their their MBA statistics smoke and mirrors bollocks about 10x engineers at Twitter and all the people who #SpaceKaren fired were shit and just look at the numbers which speak for themselves and by the way I'm available for hire.

Failing to recognise that Twitter is now a cesspool of uncontrolled fascist shit.

@randahl Vice President #Trump is getting really pissed that everybody is referring to #SpaceKaren as President Musk.

Well, Donny, you took Elon's money and this is what you get.

I feel really bad for all the government workers who voted Democrat. REALLY bad. But all those #MAGA government workers who won't get paid until the end of January - ha fucking HA!

MAGA assholes, prepare to reap the whirlwind of your stupidity.

#shutdown

I just donated to #wikipedia, because #SpaceKaren doesn't want me to.

@Geri Side note about re-nationalisation that I only just learned about. Just after WWII a whole load of things were nationalised and it didn't cost the public a penny at the time. The shareholders were issued some very long-term bonds (government IOUs) by way of compensation and job done. So the appalling UK water companies could be re-nationalised quickly just after a thorough, realistic valuation to work out the value of bonds to issue.

@Geri The optics are not good for a "left-wing" government, although the sell-off of this particular item of the national silver has been in the pipeline for a long, long, long time. The #enshittification for profit was already underway when I was still living in UK 20 years ago.

@Geri In the case of the UK water utility companies, I expect that an accurate, honest, fair valuation for re-nationalisation would be, approximately, fuck-all. After the (mis-) management has stripped all the money out to shareholders' dividends and C-level salaries and bonuses, the actual infrastructure has negative value down to the outstanding maintenance and renewal requirements.

@Geri Whaaaat?! Link?

Although I don't know why I'm surprised. His track record is 100% bullshit for personal profit. It's just what he does. No morals, no holds barred. Just money, money, money for Nigel. A total shit.

@glynmoody The city I live in is pretty old, too. Admittedly there's a lot of, mostly ugly, new stuff. But I would be delighted if the government would limit the number of visitors!

#murcia #overtourism

Boy, the presenters on #GBNews really are the what you might scrape from the bottom of your shoe.

Here Darren #craftywank Grimes shows his support for genocide. MASSIVE Palestinian flag - about 4cm x 2cm. Well, Darren, *you* might think that 4cm is massive, others might disagree with you. 🤏

#palestine

@goatsarah @Valdis Ha! I got mine for just over €1000, delivered, in all-black. I thought it was expensive at the time.

"Poor man's Leica"

Or

"Rich TikTok-er's bling"

@goatsarah @sangster Absolutely, but looking at all the sales of X100 since the TikTok craze when it started selling for more secondhand than new, I think that's the period of the 95% auto-only.

You and I are in the 5%. My X100V (that I bought just before the craze) is always in manual exposure and sometimes on manual focus. My little Nikon point and shoot or my smartphone for auto snaps.

I'm a disappointed with the result of the big build-up to the #Pentax17. I totally get what they've made, something for the swarm of TikTok users buying the Fujifilm X100 - trendy, pricey, but full-auto like an old Olympus half-frame.

It's not for me. If they bring out a 17M fully-manual with a 35mm equivalent lens, continuous focus ring with 'proper' distance markings, perhaps f2.8 or brighter, a film box end holder, no +/- dial, an aperture ring, let me know.

#photography

I would bet that 95% of those who've bought a #Fujifilm #X100 never switch it out of full auto mode and would be better served with a smaller camera with a simple film recipe dial, shutter release and no viewfinder. And probably a zoom lens.

It's not to say that those people are making bad photographs, but I just can't help feeling that they bought the wrong tool for the job.

#photography