Tim Reynolds

Just in case I can also be found (as of this pm) at: IntaComm@mastodon.world - although highly likely I won't have much to say there for a while...

@Scottish_M_N @realjahwobble @jonkleinx Very good of Jah to release it on me birthday 🎂. Cheers.

NEW ALBUM : Jah Wobble Jon Klein release their new album Automated Paradise on 27 March via Dimple Discs scottishmusicnetwork.co.uk/new-album-jah-… @realjahwobble @jonkleinx

McSweeny may be gone, but his spirit matches on.

The irony…

@omid9 No much oil there. Now the Hebrides...

Mildly surprised we haven’t woken up to find The US in control of the Isle of Wight.

I wonder what part of lower bills, tax billionaires they're panicking about most? Cry harder. Join.greenparty.org.uk

She can seat thirty, With standing for eight. She starts quite early And finishes late. She rattles through A tight city-state. That’s why the lady Is a tram.

This is not transparency. #EpsteinFiles

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

The managing director of Teesside airport, Phil Forster, is running the publicly owned business while holding a remarkable conflict of interest: he’s also on the books of an investor who recently tried to buy the airport and has snaffled up a large swathe of adjacent land. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

Something else to worry about. A new study suggests that, thanks to new satellite mega constellations, should a solar storm knock out avoidance systems we have less than 3 days to recover to avoid a catastrophic collision event (see 2013 film Gravity). In 2018 we had 121 days.

I think what is in Mr Putin's video library should be a worry for a few prominent western politicians.

Alexa – what are the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder?

@RossKneeDeep US only. Maybe.

Yes or No? I say, ain't no way.

I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but @realDonaldTrump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.

Trump is mad, bad and, we are learning in Europe very quickly, dangerous to know. Will the US wake up?

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. 💷🇬🇧☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫖

Good grief.

Americans who criticise Starmer can enter the UK. Brits who criticise Trump probably can’t enter the US. Who has the free speech problem.

@tomthegrinch True.

@IntaComm Yep. The US was isolationist, and Roosevelt almost certainly couldn't have joined the war against Germany without that declaration by Hitler. The only selfless decision the US made was the "Germany First" decision. They didn't have to do that.

I think few folk realise how close that Roosevelt response could have been. The US entered the war in Europe in 1941/42 because Hitler declared war on the US in December 1941. If he hadn't, would the US have focused only on the Pacific?

To be honest the cost of childbirth in a US hospital (average ~$20,000, no complications) should put most sensible folk off.