Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

@carolebristol.bsky.social

I like cooking, photography, reading, music and wine. I have two Westies who I love dearly and I am in a civil partnership. History is a passion of mine, also Wargaming. My blog is https://hippolytastinyfootsteps.blogspot.com/ TERFs and GCs get blocked

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈
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Once again, the BBC fails to point out that the Israeli presence in the West Bank is illegal under international law. I'd suggest that the Palestinians are justified in resisting an illegal occupation by an expansionist aggressor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukIsraeli forces begin demolishing Palestinian buildings in Hebron after two Israeli soldiers shot deadThe soldiers were killed in an attack by two Palestinian gunmen at a checkpoint outside the West Bank city on Friday morning.
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The world does not need these AI data centres at all. Google and the rest of the tech giants needs to be legally stopped from building them. They serve absolutely no useful purpose. They aren't necessary for running the internet or any of the online services almost everybody uses. lnk.ink/McInR

lnk.ink‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push
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The Johnson government's handling of Covid looks even worse now. It seems that many old people in care homes died because the government did nothing to protect them and lied about it; www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

bbc.co.ukCovid inquiry rejects ministers' claims of 'protective ring' around care homes at start of pandemic - follow liveBereaved families call the report a "devastating account" of Covid failings and say the government's promise to protect care homes was a "cruel lie".
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Remember when Militant was labelled "a party within the party"? Well, Labour Friends of Israel has been the same thing for even longer and, unlike Militant is far more powerful. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comLabour councils told to end agreements with Greens who do not condemn ‘Zionism is racism’ policyParty chair calls on Labour groups to end local deals if Green councillors do not reject motion attacked as ‘antisemitic’
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This is disgraceful. Ordinary people are being hounded, oppressed and demonised for no good reason apart to satisfy the intolerance and bigotry of a politically-motivated pressure group. What makes it even worse is that the government is happy to see it happen. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.comTrans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidanceRules mean single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will now be used by people based on their biological sex
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There is a simple explanation for this; too many pointless internationals and too little time for players to recover between club games. Clubs need bigger squads and more reserves on the bench for all games. #football www.theguardian.com/football/202...

theguardian.comHavertz, Isak, Dorgu … spate of injuries with national teams leaves sour taste for top clubsPremier League clubs, and their European rivals, have been left with a long list of absentees after a gruelling international break
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Less than 1 in 20 estates end up liable to inheritance tax at the moment, so who is going to benefit from Bad Enoch's inheritance tax proposals? Rich people basically, because most people haven't got enough of an inheritance to leave when they die to be affected at all.

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Building and operating datacentres that use dirty fuel sources are imcompatible with the struggle to slow down climate change, so why are people considering doing this? #climatechange #carbon #datacentres www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comDrax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flightsExclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈
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I have now done a clean install of Kubuntu 26.04.1 on a new laptop and two upgrades on existing systems. Both upgrades have had issues but the desktop one gave me things to fix. Chromium wouldn't load meaning that I had to switch to Firefox. Facebook only works on this if I use a private window 1/2

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈
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2/2 the laptop upgrade was OK, but I've had to faff around tidying up login and splash screens and a few other weird things will no doubt pop up, but at least Chromium still works on the laptop. It's been an interesting exercise. The upgrade process works but outcomes are unpredictable.

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Reports are appearing on lots of news outlets that Man City have been found guilty of 114 of the 115 financial misconduct charges against them in the Premier League investigations. Apparently, the cheating bastards are going to challenge these findings. #ManCity #Football #PremierLeague