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Gavin Deichen

@gdeichen.bsky.social

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Climate technology fan. Overthinker. Trying to understand how everything works. If you see something you don't like, assume it's a random shower thought rather than a deeply held belief.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 18h

Sounds like somebody overdosed on capitalism.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 20h

Looks like the transphobes among your number at the Guardian succeeded, eh?

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, "race debates".

Dreadful that they're "toxic".

Still, the Guardian is relaxed about trans rights being discussed away, so maybe that applies to all rights 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 22h

There it is… the science of this stuff is pretty solid, we could save a lot of towns from being gradually drowned. But our politicians just aren't interested in real, hard problems.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 23h

Yet another infuriating example of something that we absolutely know how to deal with, at least in a lot of places, but the political resolve just isn't there to make it happen.

Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 23h

Insurance companies don’t care if you don’t believe in #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 23h

I suspect we're at the point where any protest can be shut down.

There's enough overlapping vagueries in the rules to find an excuse if the right people demand it, anyway.

Incredibly illiberal. A real threat to what little democracy we have.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

I guess we knew this was coming.

Abortion is not a right in the UK. I can see Blue Labour dragging their feet over better laws, laying the ground for Reform.

abortionrights.org.uk/abortion-law/

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Huh… I did not know they actually admitted to this.

Dr Andrew Meyerson @andrewmeyerson.uk · 1d

The Times front page from exactly 11 years ago. Those Tory reforms wasted £50B over a decade and ushered in the greatest assault on public health in NHS history. Experts warned them. They refused to listen. That’s why the Tories are done. Labour should take note.

#SOSNHS

“NHS reforms our worst mistake, Tories admit” front page of the Times from 13 Oct 2014

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

I can only assume that such a service must have been based upon estimates, so could have been misleading for some people.

A smart meter should allow near-real time pricing/balance updates. They're more of a benefit if you have an electric car, though.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

a hamster is spinning in a yellow wheel

ALT: a hamster is spinning in a yellow wheel

media.tenor.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

True to an extent, but the less well off use proportionally much less energy. Higher prices aren't much of a disincentive to wealthier people, either. The ideal is to make it less necessary to require so much energy.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

The way the media are talking up Reform all the time, you'd think they were going to win the entire planet..!

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

The short answer is wealth taxes - but yes, these are aspirations that need fleshing out into funded policies.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

On it? He's presenting it.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

My inference was that the hope would come about due to the actions… but here's to a solid wariness of nebulousness in political campaigning 🙏🏼

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

People have to heat their homes and cook their food… the Greens have long been about people and planet, not just planet.

But the best way to lower bills is to insulate homes better. Actually doing that at scale would be a really sensible policy.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Farage is losing his shine!

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Latest I saw, Reform are on target for 10,000 seats.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Yup! They've dumped any kind of values wholesale. And any interest at all in straightforward honesty. They're both just a foaming mess of willfully naïve political expediency and tedious PR bullshit.

Zack is such a breath of fresh air because he answers questions and says what he thinks!

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

We need hope. There's a little bit of hope behind every action - why try to accomplish something if you don't see some chance of success?

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

I read a bunch of stuff about "Blue Labour" yesterday, and it looks very much like Starmer and the rest of the Labour top table are following their approach… it's a very weird worldview.

If they carry on like this, they could destroy the party completely.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

"Grown up" politics is what's got us into this mess. The kind of people who are impressed by compromise first and foremost, make no solid demands. Every supposed value is on the table, there are no red lines. It's a very immature conception of adulthood.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Lol! This is about the standard I was expecting.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Onto a million 👊

(Not joking)

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just wondering what this "promised land route" is? If a party shouldn't be trying to inspire a certain amount of hope, what's the point of it?

We're at the point that even if Labour does a good thing, their cruelty makes it impossible to celebrate any achievement.