Tim

Welsh state-affiliated media
Deaf 🤟
LLB (Hons.)

[PenScribbler @ScribblerPen]

🧵If you keep raising the pension age, forcing older, more ill people to struggle with work, stealing the time they'd have to look after grandchildren, and force people in their 20s-30s move away to seek work, you cause that social breakdown you fear, that loss of pride in place.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

I said in December 2023 that cancer water, sewage outflows, collapsing councils, and Brexit deregulation were all by design to install private governance. The EU cleaned our beaches and rivers over fifty years. Brexit undid the enforcement in four. Now PFAS from data centres is entering groundwater in areas with no regulatory framework to stop it, in zones explicitly designed for "regulatory experimentation," while the UK government refuses to sign international safety agreements. Know your enemy. The design is visible at the molecular level.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

"My personal pride and joy." That's how Peter Mandelson described the Palantir deal he brokered.

The whole thing stinks. Kick Palantir out of our NHS, now.

[Malcolm Reavell @malcolm_reavell]

@dontdelay A private pension should not form the basis of retirement, it should be an optional add-on. The aim should be to provide a state pension that people can live on. 25% pensioners rely solely on the state pension, of whom half are in poverty. Let's fix that first.

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

Tonight's meeting in Auchtertool about the 600MW AI data centre.
Fifers are furious. Looks like Fife Council fast-tracking data centre despite it:
- Consuming half of Scottish household electricity
- No Environmental Impact Assessment EIA
- Looking like it has landed from space

[Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 @BlokeOnWheels]

https://t.co/J0oPO8LkRx

And now they are targeting assistive tech used by students studying at university. Let me tell you something, the built-in speech to text on your phone/computer is completely inferior to be professional grade kit. That's why I forked out for the latter a few years ago. It's just ridiculously superior and, for current students who need to use such technology, it's essential when writing academically to have the most accurate voice recognition available. It's not just text to speech that they are going after it's everything apart from screen reader. They seem to think that all specialist software can be adequately replaced with cheaper consumer grade alternatives. If that were really the case, there would be no market at all for the more specialist equipment. It really does feel like we are in a truly dark age in terms of opportunities for disabled people. Right on that note, I'm off to sleep.

[Rabble @BTudbubble]

Children must learn ecology starting in preschool, even as they learn language itself. The understanding of nature must be built into human development from early childhood. Kids recognize soft drink and fast food logos now at an early age; they should know trees and rivers.

[Larry Sanders @Sanders4Health]

Raising pension age causes pain to millions of people deprived of their earned benefit. It also stops tens of billions of pounds from being spent. This means the people who would have earned that money don't and they don't spend for others. It increases poverty and unemployment.

[PenScribbler @ScribblerPen]

If you keep pushing up state pension age as healthy life declines you have:
1. More over-60s too ill to work needing welfare
2. More jobs for young people blocked
3. Lower productivity
4. Fewer grandparents able to provide family childcare = more parents priced out of work
Logic?

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

The way Labour are hammering out the lies and misinformation about benefits, especially PIP, means they have already planned something even more cruel & devastating than the Tories wanted.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Employers should be legally required to post salaries in every job listing. No exceptions. It’s ridiculous that people still go through weeks of interviews only to finally find out what they might be paid at the end. Transparency should be the bare minimum.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Farage asked people to respond with “pure cold rage” today.

The Hologic Global Women’s Health Index just found a 47% rise in women reporting rage in the past week.

There will be many reasons for this, but a huge one is the political climate of antagonism and splitting.

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

In the last 5 years...

- Energy bills have shot up by 54%
- Food prices are up by 39%

But wages? Just 36%.
And Universal Credit has risen by only 31%.

Costs are rising so much faster than incomes. THIS is why people are struggling to survive right now. 💔

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The UK now hosts more than 500 active data centres (the third largest in the world). They have been rammed through despite huge local community concerns about the impact on their local landscapes and energy and water consumption.

These enormous data centres are giant industrial facilities consuming vast quantities of electricity, water and land while placing increasing pressure on the UK’s energy infrastructure.

▪️Water consumption by data centres is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 399 million tons.

▪️Annual power consumption from data centres is projected to double to 945 TWh by 2030, around ‌the ⁠same as the whole of Japan’s energy consumption, with AI accounting for 40% of the total.

▪️The rise of AI is accelerating this trend. The UK Government's Compute Roadmap notes that AI data centres can devote up to 40% of their energy consumption to cooling systems.

▪️It is estimated that data-centre power and water consumption could double by 2030 due to AI growth.

▪️Emerging research suggests large AI facilities can create localised warming effects around their sites, sometimes described as a “data heat island” effect.

Numerous campaigns against these data centres are being organised by local communities. No one voted for this. If you are involved in any of these local campaigns, please DM me and I’ll try and help you amplify your campaigns.

[Tim @TimRegency]

@JamesMelville He never had any intention of doing any of it.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Compare and contrast:

2022:
Keir Starmer:
“Labour has a fully costed plan to freeze energy bills.”

2026: “Huh?”

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

Hunger in the UK isn’t a food problem. It’s an income problem.

Pass it on.

[Neil Clark @NeilClark66]

I have signed this petition, please consider doing likewise and please share:
Tell your MP to help stop the assisted dying Bill from returning: https://t.co/RkvLqTgShk

For disabled people, the return on this Bill is an existential threat. Assist us to live, not to die.

[Lisa Give Peace a Chance Tucker-Clemens @TuckerClemens]

They say "Waiting lists are down." Don't believe it, it's a con! 😤😡🤬