Using a tool that makes you feel useless isn't much of a selling point. But whadoIknow?
"You have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land"- Warsan Shire
The UK Government could stop the small boats, the trafficking gangs, the pointless tragic deaths, TOMORROW. All it needs to do is provide big boats. A safe, legal route...
The US public will pay for every cent of this folly, if not directly then indirectly as the "backers" queue up for their handouts: government contracts and relaxing pollution and labor restrictions. It'll cost America 10x to scratch their backs. Not that Trump cares what it costs America, only him.
Trump's Iran deal isn't a deal, not yet. Well, not unless you're an Iranian oil tanker..
"Iran is confident the blockade is over, even if the US has insisted it will be in place until Friday," Michelle Wiese Bockman, senior analyst at Windward Maritime Intelligence
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These cuts are basically a downsizing - the question is when does that stop? What size BBC is the government and taxpayer happy with? Reduced BBC programs will presumably drive more people to purely streaming, resulting in reduced licence fee income, resulting in...
2027's invite anthology - "The Magnesium Singluarity" is beginning to take shape with its many moving parts. Working today on the layout to help guide our esteemed authors in roadmapping it all @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @culttvmike.bsky.social @balmroomdance.bsky.social
The UK Government: The future is AI!
Everyone: Um, no thanks.
Also the UK government: Let's force everyone to continually feed AI with everything they say and do and type, in order to "prove" they're older than 16! I'm sure the rabid US tech companies will safeguard our young!
Everyone: WTF?
The reflecting pool is doing an excellent job of mirroring the state of Trump's administration:
($14million of US tax payer money vanishes on a vanity project that makes things worse than they were before. Not exactly "draining the swamp" as putting up a sign: "under new mismanagement")
A reminder: a ban on social media for under 16s effects every single person in the country - because it requires you to prove you're over 16, if you are. Did we ask for invasive biometrics and ID checks whenever we post criticism of the government? Did we really?
Warsan Shire, a British poet born to Somali parents in Kenya, writes poems about the immigrant and refugee experience.
"You have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land" - Warsan Shire
#immigrants #refugees #poets #poetry
