Joseph Lord

Feed is a mix of politics (left, privacy, equality, tech) and some tech (Swift and iOS mostly). Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character” - @sarahkendzior

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

I’m spending far more time on Mastodon than Twitter these days. If you are over there you can find me at https://t.co/0PNIY30YON

Will take time to get my feed as curated as it was here (I only used my timeline via Tweetbot here) but it is getting there.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Breaking: Nurses in Scotland will NOT strike.

Unions and Scottish govt have reached a deal:

- 7.5% pay rise
- 11.2% for lowest earners
- 37.5 hrs/wk to 36hrs/wk
- pay rise backdated to April 2021

Great news.

Our Health Care Assistants will get an ~inflation meeting pay rise!

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

If doctors and nurses are so heroic why won’t you support their pay claim? #NursesPayRiseNow #NHSStrike

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

Then “crypto” is already broken.*

And the sooner it all comes down the fewer people will be harmed.

* if “crypto” is depends on Binance it has failed to be effectively decentralised and there are only scams left.

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

Binance: "If you prosecute us, you'll break crypto"

https://t.co/uzE49rBlPf

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

Sorry for morbid estimate, but Class War has been deadlier than Covid. Eyeballing Case-Deaton excess mortality of working class white americans study, get ~150,000 ppl suffered deaths of despair in 2016. So...just 1 year is on par w Covid toll.
https://t.co/e39JApdhhK

[Dr. Deepti Gurdasani @dgurdasani1]

This is truly a worrying development. I'll be joining this protest. #tweetstrikeTuesday

Who's with me? Please share and participate if you can.

[Seid ስዒድسعيد🇪🇷 @erseid]

A girl aged 16 had to come out of her hiding after they arrested her mom. They took her to where they were gathering everyone, she fainted because she has a condition. The security beat her up because they thought she was faking it. She was later admitted to hospital. #Eritrea

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

Important thread here.

[Dr. Lisa Iannattone @lisa_iannattone]

Lots of people are rightly concerned about antivaxxers weaponizing the increase in premature sudden deaths to spread antivaxx disinfo. So am I. But at least antivaxxers actually *noticed* that young people keep dropping dead. Which is more than I can say for medicine/PH leaders.

[knot here @adlay_eth]

As a trader, there is barely a time that you can transparently share edge, but since FTX has gone down, it is clear that this strategy is never coming back, and I thought I would share insight on how i extracted round 5000% of value from the incompetency off SBF (1/x)

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

@RobShellfish @NEUnion Absolutely untrue. The prices for most things are set globally.

And the solution to preventing house prices being pushed up is building enough homes and having enough council houses and making buy to let an unattractive investment.

[Stop Funding Hate @StopFundingHate]

A reminder that less than 1 in 66 Brits buy the Daily Mail on any given day. The Daily Mail does not speak for, or represent, Britain...

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

Why don’t you fast track the cases from the most dangerous countries?

Get clear cut refugees settled as fast as possible. Then expand capacity so all cases can be processed quickly.

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

Under Tories, asylum decisions have collapsed, causing chaos.

Just 2% of last yrs boat cases & <1% of Albania cases have been decided

Labour’s plan wd fast-track cases from all designated safe countries. Where cases are clearly unfounded, they can be swiftly decided & return

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

Everyone else too.

Solidarity.

[Biden/Harris place’s in prison 🪂🔻🇵🇸 @Aqua13th]

Stay away from @Iberia Black people

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

While I’ve wimped out of my small real money short position in Coinbase I think this is right. Suspect the crypto “industry” might hold it together until the new year but I do think it will struggle to do so over the following couple of months (but it could take much longer).

[Protos @Protos]

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[Ian Fraser @Ian_Fraser]

Being made “royal correspondent” is a demotion, not as promotion; it’s being condemned to a mix of gossip columnist and stenographer. Look at Nicholas Witchell. He was a respected reporter/anchor before covering the monarchy hollowed him out to a laughable, obsequious shell. Ouch

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

@Joku_Kaveri @BriannaWu @donutmedia That and the much lower forces in the wet. 😂

But there is probably even greater risk from the high forces on the track than the street.

[Joseph Lord @jl_hfl]

@BriannaWu @Joku_Kaveri @donutmedia LSD also OK and maybe some power.

Actually tyres are one that probably can cause issues if you go too far due to the higher forces they will enable. Go for good normal road tyres and it should all be fine but the very track focused ones even if road legal could break things.

[Sam Bright @WritesBright]

If you’re shocked about the Michelle Mone story, wait till you find out that a firm owned by the finance manager of Michael Gove’s 2016 Tory leadership campaign won £170m in PPE deals.

After being referred to the PPE VIP lane by the office of… Michael Gove.