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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 29 points 5 months ago

Commenting on developments, Stuart posted to [Twitter]: “We have to consider the possibility that president Trump is a Russian asset.

“If so, Trump’s acquisition is the crowning achievement of [Vladimir] Putin’s FSB career — and Europe is on its own.”

I can't believe I'm agreeing with a Tory, a former Tory minister at that. We really are in the worst timeline

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Sad to say that Yang still has noodle arm~~s~~ in volume 9 because RT were cowards.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

You asked for an alternative source from the pro-Israeli one, with the main thrust of the quoted parts being that he's antisemitic, if I misunderstood what was being asked for then I apologise.

If he’s only been to funeral, he’s done nothing wrong.

He was detained under anti-terror laws for attending the funeral for the leader of a proscribed terror group and making several posts on social media in support of proscribed terror groups around the same time. I don't think the decision to apply those anti-terror laws are as unreasonable as you're making them out to be, even though they are fairly draconian in scope and I'd personally like to see them repealed.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No, he just paid her £12 million to keep quiet.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't have any, and it'll be probably be hard to find any which isn't some fascist transphobe trying to use it to fuel LGBTQ hate. The main controversty was over whether having a mental illness 'counts' as having a queer identity. This Fandom page is the best I could find from a quick search.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Of all the things Lemmy could get from Tumblr, it had to be MOGAI discourse. Something, something, time is a flat circle.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 25 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I don't know about anyone else, but I am so sick of hearing about Drag.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The Pizza Express thing is a reference to when Prince Andrew tried to deny having sex with underage Virginia Roberts by claiming he was at a birthday party at a Pizza Express in Woking on the evening it is alleged to happen.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be rather boring (and unfair) to send the Northern Boys two years in a row.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, they're not working for me either.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Here's a piece from the Socialist Worker Party:

[Miller] wrote, “Jews are not discriminated against,” “They are over-represented in Europe, North America and Latin America in positions of cultural, economic and political power,” “They are therefore in a position to discriminate against actually marginalised groups,” and, “Judeophobia barely exists.”

Such allegations lump together all Jews without any recognition of class or other differences. Miller targets Jews, not the actual ruling class, and plays on the idea of Jews as ultra-rich and manipulative.

Obviously, anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism, but that doesn't mean anti-Zionists can't be antisemitic, which Miller seems to be.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

old.feddit.uk is currently back. I'll monitor it for the next few hours to see if it can stay up.

 
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This week, in yet another setback to Rishi Sunak‘s efforts to showcase how the Conservatives have created – over a decade and a half – a robust economy, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that monthly growth in April in the UK had flatlined.

The British economy was said to be struggling with a faltering retail sector, a decline in manufacturing, and a reduction in construction output, after a 0.4% rise in March. The City’s pundits appeared to blame the weather and not the cost-of-living crisis for the lack of growth. The consequences of Brexit, as it seems to be so increasingly, was absent from the finger-pointing.

But this news of the parlous state of the British economy comes amidst more of the same. The UK’s labour productivity had increased by just 0.4% annually over the 12 years following the financial crisis – half the average growth rate seen in the 25 wealthiest OECD countries – and has resulted in a cumulative loss of £10,700 in wage growth for the average worker’s annual salary.

Middle-income individuals in the UK are now 20% poorer than their counterparts in Germany and 9% worse off than those in France.

[…] [T]he UK’s parlous goods exports would be far worse if you did not include the UK’s ‘empty calorie’ trading of global gold. If you took out such high frequency precious metals trading, it would mean that the UK’s goods exports are down some £44 billion since 2018. And that the UK’s goods exports are down, the UK’s service exports are up.

[…] The one silver lining in this dire economic news is that service exports are buoying up the UK economy. Indeed, last year the UK ranked second in the world for such exports – including ICT (Information and communication technology), education, culture, and finance.

The leading nation the UK exports such services to is the United States, where the $129.7 billion of services provided equates to over a quarter of the UK’s entire service export economy (27.6%).
[…]
The Lawyer has noted a 41% year on year increase in revenue by the top 50 US law firms in Britain since 2018: a jump from $5.7bn to $8.1bn. Even factoring in inflation, the rise is 13%. According to The Lawyer in 2021, the top American law firm in the UK was Kirkland & Ellis, and whilst their UK company house listings might not capture all of their UK earnings, it shows a 70% declared rise in profits last year.
[…]
Last month, it was reported that another American law firm, Quinn Emanuel, was offering its newly qualified lawyers in London an eye-watering £180,000 a year, an 18% hike from the year before. Those five years out of qualification will see salaries of £290,000. […] To put this all into context, the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, earns £160,976. And the London Living Wage is currently set at £13.15 or, roughly, £27,352 a year.
[…]
The income per person in the UK’s richest local authority – Kensington and Chelsea (£52,500) – now stands at 4.5 times that of the poorest – Nottingham (£11,700).
[…]
Last year, hundreds of homeless families were permanently displaced from London by local councils, with little notice, or choice. The escalating rents in the capital, which have surpassed the local housing allowance (LHA) – the amount private tenants on housing benefits are entitled to for rent, varying by local authority – have driven these forced relocations.

The campaign group Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) reported in 2023 that 319 households accepted private tenancies outside London. These families were frequently given 24-hour ultimatums by council officials to accept homes outside the capital or risk being classified as “intentionally homeless” for refusing the offer.

 
 

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A Labour manifesto that brings the railways into public ownership, strengthens workers’ rights and removes tax exemptions for private schools (all policies from 2017 and 2019 manifestos) should be universally welcomed.

But what lies beneath is far more sinister. The 2024 Labour manifesto bakes in austerity for our public services. By ruling out redistributive taxation, it de facto accepts existing spending plans that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says mean cuts to unprotected departments of between 1.9 per cent and 3.5 per cent per year. Austerity baked in.
[…]
The IFS has said there is a “conspiracy of silence” between the two major parties about the scale of cuts that is baked into the current economic plans. The Resolution Foundation estimates that implies upwards of £19bn of cuts in non-protected departments.

Nothing in Labour’s manifesto changes that analysis. The tax changes Labour has announced (mostly reforming non-dom status and removing tax breaks for private schools) amount to around £7bn in extra revenue – and that has already been earmarked […]

Across the public sector, from nursing to care workers, from teachers to junior doctors, there is a recruitment and retention crisis. Unless you restore public sector pay, you will not solve those staffing shortages, or tackle the NHS backlogs. It’s also not clear from the manifesto where any additional funding would come from to fund the private sector operations that shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has promised, leaving the worrying conclusion that they may come out of existing NHS budgets.

[…] Both councils and universities need an injection of cash, or we will all lose out. The courts have massive backlogs and child poverty has risen to 4.3 million due to decades of benefit cuts – none of which are being reversed by Labour’s new manifesto.
[…]
But as Labour has become ever more reliant on wealthy and corporate donors, so it seems their tax policy has been diluted. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

If you want a snappy summary of Keir Starmer’s “changed Labour Party”, it was pithily provided by Kay Burley earlier this year: “Labour’s happy to cap child benefit, but not bankers’ bonuses”.

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Edit: Finally completed! Sorry it took so long, there was a memory leak I was confusing for the upgrade.

As mentioned here, we need to upgrade Pict-rs to 0.5 for Lemmy 0.19.4 (well we don't strictly need to for 0.19.4, but this is something we have to do eventually). I don't have a reference for how long this will take, but it'll probably be a few hours.

Some downtime on Lemmy will happen as there's some changes to our deployment I want to make, but I'm going to try to keep the instance up while Pict-rs is doing its thing. If it eats too much RAM/CPU though, I may take Lemmy down. Join the Matrix room to stay updated.

 
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Today marks the one year anniversary of our humble little instance. It's been an eventful year but, despite fate's best efforts, we're still here. So go us! (or boo us if you think we suck)

 
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