Notices by JimmyB (he/him) (jimmyb@mas.to)

@aral

Odd isn't it? We had a health system which was the envy of the world (apparently), then you actively work to diminish it, & replace with American style which manifestly kills a lot of Americans each year through negligence and lack of access.

I think they genuinely believe the lie that 'there is a lot of waste which can be eliminated' not recognising that the process of trying to eliminate waste is insanely expensive and ineffective. Same outcome: more dead people

@emmadavidson

2/n There is no commercial value in saving the life of a 2 year old with a bad illness.

But the difference between a society which will do that, and one which says: too expensive/pay yourself, is everything between a society I want to live in and one I don't.

The boy in question is now a cheeky 23 year old who's just moved to Vancouver. No job. A bit of 'fuck it - it will probably work out'.

As we always do we sent him a cake. Inscribed: "Glad not dead. Love Family".

Think that covers it.

Up front declare: this is not a sad story. It's a very happy one. Via some tricky bits...

Today, Nov 5th is a celebration day in our family. 22 years ago, my son had a bone marrow transplant (aged 23 1/2 months) for a horrendous leukaemia.

We were lucky: we lived 30 minutes from Great Ormond St, kids hospital. His mum was the 2nd parent donor in history (she and I are matched to each other). He didn't reject. We paid £0.

That is the greatness of a health system now being destroyed. 1/n

Hey Masto Stockholmites - new vegan cafe - Klattermusens Verkstad - opened on Nytogsgatan and they’ve got a workshop with the fabulous Julia Kalthoff, carving-axe maker extraordinaire, on Nov 6th, 17:30 to 20:00. Won’t be anywhere near Stockholm that day but I’d go if I were!

@Honny hi could you get Gaza verified please?

@aral

@morph Nice. I never measure mine but... I should. But then I should water and turn it, and I don't do that very often either. Still - get good compost from it!

@morph Interesting. What period was that over?

@contrasocial

It's the mental gym you have to do to get to a point where all of the basic social norms we've lived with for 70 years (like - we all have, reluctantly maybe, to pay taxes because who pays for the pavements otherwise?) are now trash, that freaks me out.

My institute still trains members, explicitly, that tax avoidance is immoral. While just looking the other way from the fact that half the members earn their living from tax avoidance advisory practices!

@aral @wackJackle

@aral every day you think - that's got to be as sick as humans can be.

And here we are.

Imagine deliberately being more evil than UHG?

I had an American business woman recently tell me, a Chartered Accountant, that it is morally wrong for me to just pay my corporate taxes, and that I had a fiduciary duty to avoid them if I could.

This corporatist thinking is so fucked up, it's insane!

@wackJackle

@AnarchoNinaWrites hey - thanks and that’s a good clarification. I get Americans shout at me - a Brit - when I describe my views as liberal and anti-capitalist. For us liberal can mean: pro-abortion, pro-immigration, pro-human rights for all, pro-free health care, pro-green, pro-union, anti-austerity, pro-degrowth. But I know that doesn’t translate, so good to be clear what you mean by the term - thank you. And yeah - I know that Auntie

To all the “they’re not helping the cause” folks criticising environmental protestors, I’d like to just correct your offended liberal sensibilities. They are. They are raising awareness in a world where our media ignores them unless they do this stuff. & it is working.

Your criticisms of them are working for the polluters and capitalist murderers who have recruited you into their status quo army. Don’t be in that army. Stand up for the front line protestors. And donate to them if you can.

@thereaders @mutualaid @mutual_aid have you got another way to pay? PayPal is looking to take nearly 10% in FX margin - thieving bastards. And they don’t let me change the currency I send in…I could send in CAD but they don’t allow it any more it seems

@compost I post this about once a week at the moment - very relevant to the state of our politics: from the Billy Bragg version of the Internationale

“Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all”

Well said Billy…

@aral

My little lad had a bad leukaemia when he was 20 months - in 2002. He had care at Great Ormond St - I calculated at the time (I’m an accountant) at somewhere between £250k and £500k, entirely free to us. And he lived.

The US families sometimes didn’t fare so well. After they’d drained all insurance & resources their kids often died of something entirely treatable.

Folks need to think very hard before voting for either #Tories or #Labour.

@nhsactivistrn

@GottaLaff Here in #Switzerland 17% of those voting, voted for #Putin apparently.

Does make you wonder who that 17% are though? I mean - wtf?

But staff recorded the names and addresses of all the people who came to vote at the Embassy in #Bern presumably so they could send flowers and chocolates to their families back home.

@clacke

Maybe in the US where the fossil fuel lobby has so much impact, but in the 1990s in the UK I think both parties largely accepted the premise. Those who opposed it - Norman Tebbit I think? - were fringe and considered a bit loony. That changed later of course.

@MichaelEMann @petergleick

@petergleick

Delighted - and great result.

I don't believe this is true though:

"As most know today, Mann’s hockey stick graph, which he first created in 1998 with scientists Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes, challenged the conventional wisdom at the time that climate change was a natural phenomenon "

I studied Geogrpahy 1990-94 and anthropomorphic climate change was so widely accepted that lecturers complained they couldn't get funding if they didn't include it.

@MichaelEMann

@jakelazaroff
First up - I'm not Jewish so careful what I say: but I do get accused of being anti-semitic by centre left, centre and right wingers because I do not 'stand by Israel' for eg.

The problem with conflating fascists with those of us who aren't into colonialism, land theft & apartheid as 'anti-semitic' is that it doesn't really give you much language to describe folks who throw bricks through synagogue windows or want to open death camps again.

@inthehands @raf @jdp23 @mekkaokereke

@inthehands

That makes complete sense to me. I'm not saying it doesn't exist but personally I have never met overt anti-semitism on the left. ie Hard anti-Jew rhetoric or holocost denial. Plenty of anti-semitic tropes where folks should know better - but I have also seen plenty who, when told they had gone there, backed right off and apologised.

The right on the other hand...

I'm a Brit by the way - but it all applies here.

@jakelazaroff @raf @jdp23 @mekkaokereke

@slyborg
Please stop with this nonsense

@feditips