Notices by Aloniaxx (judeet99@mastodon.world)

Scottish humour. As a fellow van driver, albeit not a white Transit style van, I do love seeing stuff like this.

"The frothing gammon of the UK called for a "Mass Patriot Protest" outside HMP Woodhall to march in support of Tommy Robinson. Multiple facebook pages were set up, banners were created online to be downloaded, the prediction was 100,000 people.
Six turned up." posted by R.S.Archer

A teeny tiny bit of good news.

@Ciaraioch Great cartoon...yep...that'd be me then.

Spain has refused entry of two U.S ships carrying military equipment and explosives from America to Israel.
Spain has banned all ships carrying military supplies for Israel from docking in its ports. Hats off to them. Every little helps.

@gleick Correct, in theory. The key of course is that the opposition doesn't fracture into multiple single issue parts which is of course what they'll aim for. "Divide and conquer" isn't a saying for nothing, it's worked very well indeed for millennia.

I think that until there is proper investigation into why people voted against Harris/Walz it's a bit innocent, naive and denialist to think it was solely because she is black, and a woman, although I'm sure that will prove to be a significant factor. There were many "single issue" people out there, whether it was Gaza, the trans issue or lack of promoting the good things Biden had already done...I think it's all played a part. Oh, and the toxic media of course. As ever.

There appears to be massive protests in Tel Aviv and rumours that military people are not happy Gallant has been sacked and are out on the streets. Unable to confirm for sure at the moment mind...

"We ask US authorities to ground Trump's planes on November 6th, confiscate his passport, and do not let him out of the country until all his indictments / trials present and future have been completed." posted by Anonymous. This is a very good point...and I hope someone somewhere has addressed it.

@GottaLaff I wonder if it's the 'thing' someone on another platform was alluding to today, saying it would stop his campaign dead?

The south of France has suffered 26" of rain in just 48hrs. This has NEVER happened before in recorded history. Absolutely catastrophic. Another tipping point is passed...the Earth's water cycle is completely out of balance. It's still raining there. #ClimateChange

Too good not to share. From Private Eye, British satirical magazine (which also has some serious investigative journalism). In the shops now.

Kemi Badenoch has claimed young Conservatives are marked down at university because of their personal politics.
Speaking at the end of the annual Tory conference, the leadership candidate told party delegates that the younger generation are “afraid to share their politics” out of fear their peers will attack them or lecturers will mark them down. A serious accusation and she failed to provide any evidence whatsoever. Another attack on education by those who want the plebs to remain ignorant.

It's so annoying when climate protestors block roads isn't it? Author of photo unknown.

"The attacks on Starmer are intensifying. There is some serious money being spent mounting this coordinated attack on our democratically elected government. Those who own the largely right wing media outlets are soiling themselves with fear at what he might do." Posted by Oldish Bird. Yes indeed...Leveson 2 perhaps? Or appointing an HMRC team to pursue them for unpaid taxes.

“I know of no other example where the prime minister has overruled intelligence advice.”

@C4Dispatches
uncovers how Boris Johnson chose to ignore security advice and make the son of an ex-Russian spy with alleged links to the Kremlin a member of the House of Lords.

Hostile foreign powers are already embedded in UK law-making positions...thanks to Johnson. One has to wonder what kompromat they have on him....

@jeffowski Time to reevaluate who you vote for, surely?

@evacide Be robotic, be like a Stepford Wife, have a short-circuit, walk funny, do the whole human-less show, insist that "strawberry" only has 2 r's...

@HistoPol I took early retirement in 2019 after 10yrs working in care homes of various types. I'd saved up all my life in order to leave work early, to save my sanity and health.

During the last 10yrs I worked in the NHS as a dual qualified Nurse I chose not to take holidays in July and August because all my colleagues had children and wanted their hols in those months. At Christmas and New Year we all collaborated on which shifts we'd do. It didn't stop some saying their Christmas with children was more important than mine as I didn't have children. Yes but I had a 50 mile round trip to my parents, they didn't. I worked 4 nights a week for the last 4yrs in the NHS cont

Sept 2008 I returned from hols to find the rota had changed, they'd given me split shifts "because colleagues wanted time with family". I contacted my union rep. It was discrimination. I knew my time was coming to an end there. Only my black colleagues on nights utterly understood the discrimination I felt and I was very touched by their support. My shifts went back to normal. I handed my notice in 2mths later and felt a huge relief. And grief. And betrayal. Patients wrote me thankyou letters.