Curious Robinface

Curious Robinface

@curiousrobin.bsky.social

Pluralist. No borders. Be reasonable.

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Disney, QR code to sign in on a telly is smart Having it open the browser which then opens within the camera app (which nobody ever signed into Disney+ within) is obviously the work of your worst programmer ...then not allowing anyone to type the details in with the remote!!?

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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced military planes and helicopters will be equipped to fight UK wildfires for the first time from next year "We cannot put people through another summer like this one"

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Bill Clinton: “I’m tired of the way we treat our allies like dirt. And just last week, President Trump finally did what he threatened to do when he first ran, which is to abandon Ukraine and embrace Vladimir Putin all over again.” I hope the American people are also tired of it

...or delivering parcels in a second hand transit van so you can afford an electric one... Oh, actually that does make sense

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

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Sigh. Last line of this story "As a proportion of the economy, debt was ​lower than a year earlier, the ONS said."

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Blimey, he's not thought this through! Suddenly his allies don't need to remain loyal to get paid

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump announces "fraud whistleblower incentive program" -- "Americans will now be able to go to fraud dot gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities ... if you turn somebody in and you find $1 billion, we're giving a commission of 1%. That's a lot of money"

Believing that all Reform should be fed live to not particularly hungry pigs is a "legitimate opinion" www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... Not all opinions are equally well informed. The death penalty is demonstrably wrong. There's no room in politics for people who can't understand why.

standard.co.ukLondon Reform councillor stands by grooming gang death penalty remarksA Hounslow councillor says he stands by recorded comments saying he supported ‘executions’ taking place in the Downing Street garden

I've divested myself of all Adobe products Open source projects are now at parity or better. There was a massive PhotoCraft update this weekend that pushed them over the threshold I needed from it. Feels good to to rid myself of a SaaS seat. Microsoft, you're next!

The city of Leeds has enough money (and autonomy) to do quite a lot of this now, without sign-off from the treasury - small projects that can't be blocked by London

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social

We locked rail supremo @garethdennis.uk in a room and refused to let him out until he'd designed us a new metro network. Readers, he did not disappoint. theexchange.news/leeds-should...

With a little more control of their own budgets, the metro mayors of the North could put high speed lines connecting their major cities without the treasury being able to block it or the lower house making it needlessly expensive MPs aren't transport engineers

Boris: Burnham is a liar, he doesn't know because I explicitly didn't care to look

Fabian55@fabian55.bsky.social

We do not know the full extent of Russian interference in the 2016 #Brexit Referendum because the UK Government did not want to look. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j...

Nothing like slowing down the economy to increase employment! (Or vilifying people whose votes you'll never get)

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Tories call for 5-year freeze on minimum wage to tackle youth unemployment. So, how will workers in retail, hospitality pay rent, energy, water, food bills? Impact on mental health, NHS, public services? Silence on corporate welfare, soaring exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

"it's not fair to judge people on a single conversation" says man who set up single conversation to judge someone

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

A Reform UK official tells ITV News undercover report how to beat vetting, "What Farage has learnt over 30 years in politics, you've got to play the game"

It's much harder to get away with a lie, so the far right are given more air time! 🤓

fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU@fife4europe.bsky.social

Byline Times reporting former BBC producer Patrick Howse warning that treating truth and lies as equal perspectives directly empowers bad-faith actors exposes serious journalistic decay. Equating misinformation with facts erodes public trust. Why permit false balance? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE

Well this is awkward... I caught the earlier train and it seemed to have loads of cheap seats left! Almost as if they charge you more for the next train if you're near the station GBR need to end this

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The Royal Family don't do real work like a Teacher or a Nurse says Lord Foulkes and they should have their pay streamlined like the European Royal families instead of getting £137.9m for ribbon cutting. Absolutely the Danish King and Queen get only £0.5m a year.

ITV and Channel 4 doing work the BBC isn't

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social

Wonder what "personal reasons" Councillor Alan Feeney had for resigning from Reform UK in both Birmingham and Solihull on Monday? Perhaps ITV News will inform us this evening...

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So Trump not only disarmed Ukraine by removing the Starlink/Starshield capability with defensive drones (the system only operates in Ukraine), he blinded it too with withholding advanced warnings of Russian missile attacks. How evil, cowardly and craven. Is Kash Patel still in Moscow

Can we all agree that websites asking to store your credit card details is rude to the point of being hugely inappropriate‽ There's no way you would put up with that in real life "Hey buddy, you want me to copy your card details while you're here to make it easier for me to take money again?"

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Reform's policy of blaming illegal migration for everything, and claiming that dealing with it will fix everything is ripped apart beautifully, in just 1 minute. It's the same scam Hitler and Mussolini were selling 100 years ago.

Zionosm isn't racism. The very notion of considering it racist is meaningless. It would be like blaming roads for mob violence because they turned up by car But that doesn't mean no Zionists are racist, or that there aren't racist Zionists in prominent positions within the Jewish community

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social

Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Would a male reporter have gotten the same response?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.