Mike Smart

More to the point, I guess: if you’re a mutual and you’re on Mastodon and want to let me know your handle*, then I’ll make some notes to find or follow when I eventually get there. *handle, username, Xominative, Tootername, whatever it’s called these days

Perhaps Colin from Portsmouth knows why (so far) I’ve not received any recommendations for Masturdon or whatever Colin said. Any other suggestions? (SamBaps, your opinion is welcome too.) x.com/Exploding_Head…

I’m years late about leaving Xitter, but I’m going. Probably somewhere in the elephant-shaped fediverse. I’ve barely touched this hell-site for ages now; haven’t missed it. Any fedi-recommendations? From those inexplicably still here? (I’ll check back on this in a few weeks…)

An Attorney General who is a genuine heavyweight silk with decades of experience in domestic and international public law? Somebody chosen on the basis of legal acumen and merit rather than their willingness to tell the Prime Minister whatever he wants to hear? Well I never.

Great news: We're offering all Conservative cabinet members who lose their seats a free ticket to the Colin From Portsmouth tour as a consolation. Benefits start here! We'll be in touch tomorrow🩷

BREAKING New PPE Scandal from @RussellScott1 Owen Paterson repeatedly lobbied ministers on behalf of Randox. Firm awarded contracts worth up to £777m for Covid testing services Randox made huge profits of £275m in 2021 + £190m in 2022 Paterson gets “civil penalty” Story ⏬️

Covid Corruption Commissioner to be appointed by Labour I’ve been speaking to @RachelReevesMP for about 18 months about VIP PPE Lane, corruption & YOUR comments and views. She listened Here she is ⏬️ VOTE TACTICALLY to stop the Tories

C4 did its job. But our media has failed for so long to hold power to account. “Farage is not ‘good copy’. For minorities like me, hearing his ‘ordinary folk’ call our PM a ‘f**cking P*ki’ is terrifying”. My reluctantly written @BylineTimes editorial 👇 bylinetimes.com/2024/06/28/the…

@RishiSunak says he is hurt & angry at @reformparty_uk activist using racist language. How did he think I felt when his top donor Frank Hester said I “made him want to hate all Black women' and I should be shot?

I understand the novelty of Channel 4 hiring Nadine Dorries but we need to stop MPs being rewarded for inadequacy. You were a failure, Nadine Dorries. You're deserving of no one's attention. You were a shitshow without an interval. You’re an irrelevance. Go away. Thank you.

Eight years ago today, on 16 June 2016, Jo Cox was tragically murdered while on her way to a constituency surgery in Batley and Spen. In the days that followed, the global wave of grief and solidarity demonstrated that her values were widely shared. (1/7)

Today on Father’s Day, a Dad in Coventry is mourning the loss of his 12-year old son, Keaton Slater, killed by a hit and run driver. But road violence is something society doesn’t seem to want to tackle, despite road crashes taking more lives than murder and terrorism combined. I’ve seen two Plan For Drivers published so far ahead of the election, but no plans to stop 30,000 people being killed or seriously injured each year in road crashes in the UK. Why not?

I've seen lots of ppl commenting on Lynn Conway's impact on the field of computers. but as Morgan points out in this thread, if you were a trans person circa 2000, when the internet was still pretty new, she had one of the first comprehensive resource websites for trans people...