Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 1m

Long covid affects about a million people, is life limiting and in severe cases prevents patients from working. The govt response is sweet FA. It’s almost impossible to get regular covid vaccinations now.

The idea that this govt really cares about public health is a fantasy.

Reposted by Sean Kenny

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 14h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

27 71 310

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 7m

The guy doing 10 hour delivery shifts hasn’t the time to marinade his brain in online conspiracy nonsense.

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 9m

Someone on a forum I post to has gone down the anti vax, rw rabbit hole. Mockery and logic have both failed. Banish or ignore are the only options.

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 14h

Big thanks to everyone who has replied to this, lots of interesting reading, cheers!

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 15h

This explains why the Dead are one of those American phenomenon that haven’t crossed the Atlantic.

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 15h

Lol I have neither the time, money or inclination to travel from London to California for Burning Man!

Plus I am old enough to be familiar with the tale of Jim Jones.

1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 15h

Oh yeah we know all about this one.

1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 15h

Nice, thanks! And yes, get that it is California rather than one particular city.

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 15h

Please explain more about the history of cultism, thanks in advance, a bemused Englishman.

3 5

Reposted by Sean Kenny

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

47 1K 3.7K

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 15h

A really wonderful twenty minutes of music here.

open.spotify.com/track/21Aapi...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 20h

Oh yeah discovered this phenomenon a couple of years ago, which was an unpleasant few months. The lack of centralised knowledge on this condition really is a problem.

1 1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 1d

Taking a taxi was an unutterable horror for many people back then. Just wait an hour for the bus and save £3!

1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 1d

Such reticence is admirable.

1 1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 1d

Will you be suing the climbing wall that swapped grades for bands under civil law, or pushing the CPS for a criminal prosecution? 🤪🤪🤪

1 2

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but perhaps not when interest rates are high and the economy is still running a bit hot. Shifting activity from consumption to investment probably better rn but would be super unpopular.

1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t see out of the windows cause the condensation,
Remember the time I took
a chainsaw to the nation?

1 1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 2d

Eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro,
Tea in a thermos whilst I crash the peso

Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 2d

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

1 2 12

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 2d

And to do it when a pensioner!

1 3

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 2d

Dylan got Christianity. Cash cursed God.

1

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 2d

Two parties whose rise is partly fuelled by material concerns, neither of which has the ideology or policies available to effectively deal with those concerns... sounds brilliant, can't wait.

6

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 2d

Just think, had they raised income tax to start a long term process of rebuilding public services, that public services would still be rubbish and everyone would be poorer, they would be SO popular...

Reposted by Sean Kenny

Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 3d

‘I'm trying to take a photograph of someone that they have never seen and neither have I. You're trying to gain a secret of a life'.

Alen MacWeeney.

Evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin.

4 23

Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 3d

Look, universities still exist, a house was built on a field and a Turkish barbers opened in Peterborough. With a record like that, of course no one is representing the pensioners!

1