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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 11h

Think it works brillantly as a coaster 😉.

A lot of immigrants are very nervous at the moment, and see British Citizenship as an additional safety layer, as the EU WA is easily amendable by politicans.

Also, it gives us the right to vote, and keep the facists out.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 14h

Questions answered correctly first time: 7/8.

Can I have a blue passport now?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

So you've got a Canadian "journalist" covering the trial of an Irish citizen, who lives in Spain and whose costs are being covered by a South African born migrant living in the United States.

Break out the flags lads....

a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it

ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it

media.tenor.com

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 14h

The police can (and most likely will) stop any fancy car with a black driver, nothing unlawful about that appearantly. So why would it be with a racist driver?

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 14h

Most Brits will also fail the "Life in the UK test".

youtu.be/4krmfIeUcUE?...

'What Does It Mean to be British?' with Olga Koch and Nish Kumar | Late Night Mash | Dave

YouTube video by U&Laughs

youtu.be

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 1d

Which brings me to the elephant in the room: the majority of all that new and green electricity generated is not used by traditional users, it is burned by the MWh by crap like AI. So in a way those pythons are needed for the Googles, Microsofts and OpenAI's of this world. Not by you and me.

WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 1d

It would be better if datacentres are built near the place of production of electricity. There are zero reasons for building all those datacentres in and around London. And it is a lot cheaper to create fibre-optic connections to coastal locations than electricity to London. Which are underground.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the question should be asked why pylon designs from the 60's are still being used, while lots of other countries have moved on to less intrusive designs?

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 1d

WTF is wrong with people?

I get it that some will be racists, bigots, or simply stupid. But 65% of them? Is stupidity that wide spread? Are the privatised water companies puting something in the water?

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 3d

The MSM doesn't care. It would have been much different if they had caused the death of some rich people...

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 3d

In the Netherlands, that is in the law. Owners and/or management of limited companies are liable for deliberate mis-management or worse, and can be procecuted.

WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

And that from a government that calls itself "Labour".

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

The UK has managed to limp by the last decades on and because of its low wage economy. And that is currently collapsing.

I see the same in my sector, hourly wages in the UK for the skills I hire are a third of the wages for the same job in the Netherlands. And I pay above average.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

Take the entire discussion about GP's.

There are more than enough unemployed GP's, but you can't get an appointment because profit demands limit the amount of money that is spent on them, so vacancies aren't filled (if they exist) because of the very low wages. This is by design.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

The same applies for other places too. It is all part of a race to the bottom due to attempts to increase profits by reducing (labour) costs.

Ever since Thatcher there's the neoliberal idea that the entire country can run on financial services and a handful of rich people alone.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

Robots and AI are not and never will do the work nurses currently do. At least not for a very, very long time.

Given the number of vacancies in the NHS, I'd say there's plenty of capacity. And if not, the issue is funding, as the work, the sick, and the backlog all haven't disappeared.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

Cutting care causes more people to be out of work. Cutting youth services increases criminal and anti-social behaviour. Cutting benefits causes an increase in homelessness, which causes an increase in shoplifting and drug abuse. All of it increases the costs of health care. I could go on for hours.

WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

As someone recently mentioned: "there is always money for things that are considered important".

They are dumb enough not to understand that cutting expenditure increases costs elsewhere. Like in the NHS, police force, judiciary system, etc.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 4d

She's not allowed to say anything that isn't approved by Morgan McSweeney and Blue Labour.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 5d

It is more of a forced marriage with a very dominant and abusive partner who is watching your every move and has made very sure you can't leave.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 6d

The alternative is "kill" al the artists. I know which side I'm on.

WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 6d

They would love to return to Victorian times, when the rich were truely rich, had all the power, and the rest would have to work for them to increase that wealth, for a pittance, until they died.

Not too different from present day though, much of the UK (and the US) still operates that way...

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 6d

Ah... But was she also a wizard? 🤣

p.s. it should be written as WAN, as it is the abbriviation of Wide Area Network. A name given to me by my peers at the time international data connections where x.25 based and the main protocol used was IPX.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 6d

I've witnessed a bubble like that about 25 years ago...