💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦

Retired IT Consultant / Technical Manager (In practice, I did the Stuff needed to make IT projects work)
Can be found on Mastodon as @[email protected]

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@HedgieMarkets Meanwhile UK police have made a similar mistake (this time by AI creating fake information) - "...the inclusion of a fictitious match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham in police intelligence “arose as a result of a use of Microsoft Copilot”.
https://t.co/25D9VSyvoR

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This year the British establishment covered up this new Banksy.

Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! RT!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

GB News has been found guilty of breaking Ofcom rules for the 6th time.

It is only 2 years old, has broken the rules 6 times, doesn't pay tax, is owned by someone living in Dubai.

And is currently begging for £30m to pay its bills.

RT if it is time to revoke their license.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes. The kind of private rooms and members clubs that most people in Britain will never see. I know how the rich speak about ordinary people. They laugh. They joke about how easy it is to wind you up. They know exactly which buttons to press. They know you are angry and tired and struggling and they know you want someone to blame. That is why they point at boats while they pick your pockets.

I did not grow up rich. I did not grow up in privilege. I understand struggle and the real world. But my life changed and now I see both sides. I sit with billionaires and politicians and decision makers and I hear conversations you never will. I know the truth. They do not care about you. They do not care about your future. They care about profit and control. They see ordinary people as tools or distractions. I am telling you this because I am tired of watching good people being manipulated.

Look at your life before Brexit and look at it now. Look at your shopping bills. Look at what food costs in Europe right now. Look at how much tax you pay on imports. Look at your wages and energy prices and mortgages. Look at the 10,000 NHS staff we lost when freedom of movement ended. Look at the ambulances that do not arrive. Look at nurses and teachers using food banks. Tell me honestly. Are you better off?

Nigel helped build the crisis you are living in. Then he pointed at immigrants and told you to blame them. That is the con. He pulled the UK out of the Dublin III agreement which means we cannot return asylum seekers to Europe anymore. He created the boat chaos then told you to panic about it. Someone who worked in immigration for more than ten years told me they saw it coming. It was planned. It is a strategy. And you are falling for it.

Now he wants austerity again. He wants to cut wages for young people. He wants to rip up workers rights. He wants private health insurance and a French style NHS where the rich get treated first and the poor get nothing. He wants you fighting each other so you never see who is robbing you. If you vote for him you are voting to destroy your own life. Not mine. Yours.

None of this affects me personally. I drink champagne with the people who control the money. I will be fine no matter what. Reform will not hurt me. Reform will hurt you. It will hurt your children. Your parents. Your future. I am telling you because I care. If I did not care I would stay silent and watch you suffer.

You think I am your enemy because I make you uncomfortable. I am not. Your enemy is the one who lies to you and blames the vulnerable while he empties your pockets.

Reform will not save you. Reform will finish you.

Think. Before they take everything.

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[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@furious_cs @implausibleblog The tax advantage will be that the bonus was bigger (or didn't cost as much to give) - end result is the recipient of the bonus gains. Swift does not end up financially better off due to the tax write-off.

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@Wisdom_HQ 116 - take the horizontal bar from 4 & make 4 into 11 giving 116

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This is the power of justice, access and inclusion. We all benefit when we all support each other.

op: chronicallyjenni (via IG)

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This is Sarah Pochin - Reform UK MP for Runcorn - @SarahForRuncorn

Sarah doesn't want to see black or Asian people on her TV.

She said: “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people.”

This sort of racism is abhorrent, and she must resign.

RT if you agree.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

The real reasons Farage and Reform want to leave the #ECHR

Clue: it's nothing to do with immigration...

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@DschlopesIsBack It's just a scratch..... 😂

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@GamewithDave Older...
This old...

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@GamewithDave It's a 3d printed disk icon? Actually I'm old enough to have used 8in floppy disks as opposed to those 3inch stiffy ones. Wolf-3d.... Have you got the pack to edit the walls?

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@isenbek @RonFilipkowski Note that US defence spending also covers US in the Pacific region so the US spending in the NATO geography as a % of GDP is far less than this chart shows.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

America is under attack.

[Nicholas 🌿🐞📷 @ancistroneura]

@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Look over there folks while Trump and Musk destroy rule of law in US at behest of oligarchs.

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@easyJet I know you have to make fast turnarounds but getting passengers out on the tarmac before the plane has even landed is a bit much (U22280 Paphos-Manchester). Stood out in the freezing cold for 25mins already. #notImpressed

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

@oldishbird1 @Jim_Cornelius @WestminsterWAG @Tesco @RachelReevesMP Unless you are a disabled person employing a carer paid for by your benefits. (You don't profit from employing a carer so have no tax to deduct) You have to pay the carer's employers NI - so let's hope the direct payments (for employing a carer) go up to cover the extra NI.

[💙 Living with Covid doesn't mean ignoring it 🇺🇦 @Davrobin]

Increasing employers NI contributions will hit people with disabilities who employ a carer or PA. Somehow don't expect disability benefits to increase to offset this additional cost.

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Twitter, I’m losing followers hand over fist. Still just about hanging on in here - please help me find my old followers - if they’re still here - if you can, by RTing.