Can your brain stand 30 minutes of Cyriak super mega dance party?
Epic
Paid 45 quid in import taxes today. Not actually sure if it would have been any different before #brexit but I'm calling it a brexit-tax anyway.
*sigh*
Where do Labour want to base these nukes once Scotland leaves the UK?
Does the port which will get them want them?
I've heard it argued that an independent Scotland should skuttle those subs and dispose of the nukes safely rather than hand them over to a government with the kind of needless foreign-adventures record of the English government.
Not sure I disagree. If I was Scotland and found myself in possession of Iraq's nukes I definitely wouldn't hand them over. Is it really better to give them to the English?
Juice-Media's "Honest Government Ad" on the Facebook/News-Media kerfuffle.
Seems about right.
You know these "vaccine passports" that the government is still pretending they won't do, right?
A lot of people will be sad when they realize they won't get one until 12 weeks after their first jab because the government decided everyone could wait for their second dose.
Don't book that holiday too early folks!
#brexit making it impossible to ship books in from the USA? Seems like it is according to Cory Doctorow.
Not Cory's fault of course, nor the bookshop. The UK is to blame for raising sanctions against itself in a fit of pointless xenophobia.
Surprisingly, the path-out-of-lockdown plan looks about right. I suspect the schedule will need to slip for some of those later stages but for once Boris isn't obviously stupid and wrong.
Here's my tarot-reading account wondering what some random numbers think of it all:
They're saying the schools will be able to re-open because we've vaccinated all the over-50 year olds.
But under the highly experimental timings invented by non-medics in the government, almost nobody has more than half a vaccine so far.
And the average age of people at schools tends to be well under 50 as far as I can tell.
So not expecting that to go well really.
Sure am glad that Corbyn is gone so #Labour can give us "Effective Opposition" by not asking criminal ministers to resign and not talking about the biggest policy failure in a generation.
Imagine how ineffective it would be if they talked about how shit #Brexit is and asked law-breaking ministers to resign, and maybe sometimes voted against government policy!
This year, with kids less institutionalised than usual, might make an interesting natural experiment.
After I could read, I think I'd have done better at home with books than dealing with the school.
Assuming I'd had the books.
All kids should have books.
Not the same for my brother though. He needed more than books.
But then school didn't really suit him either. He often didn't go and basically flunked out.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-cult-of-smart
"School is child prison. It's forcing kids to spend their childhood - a happy time! a time of natural curiosity and exploration and wonder - sitting in un-air-conditioned blocky buildings, cramped into identical desks, listening to someone drone on about the difference between alliteration and assonance, desperate to even be able to fidget but knowing that if they do their teacher will yell at them, and maybe they'll get a detention that extends their sentence even longer without parole."
Which is more #authoritarian?
Quick Reminder: The #uk #government gave twenty billion pounds to their mates instead of running a public test and trace system.
Bookmarked: Paleopocalypse! - Narrated by Stephen Fry. - YouTube
Stephen Fry narrates a Hitchikers-guide style 90 seconds on the "Adams Event", 42,000 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs1dLe3GsQY&feature=youtu.be
I #webdev for a day-job, and am working on a #vr #scifi story doing #programming and #animation and #art
Mostly running on #debian