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Matthew Malthouse
@calmeilles@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2tl;dr — Brit. Europhile. Gay.
63, no idea how that happened. Londoner for work rather than inclination. Professionally that would be IT hardware and data centres, but currently unemployed. Will consider all reasonable offers and most unreasonable ones.
Interested in books, SF&F history, physics. Transit/transport. Architecture, especially housing. Dealing with climate change. Politically lefish and small-l liberal. Oddly traditionalist in many things.
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Joined April 26, 2022
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/117272776556408505
"I don't take sides" is fine for football matches.
When speaking of a genocide "I don't take sides" is complicity with mass murder.
#genocide #Gaza #Macklemore #EdSheeran
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I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides." And I get why people don't. Taking a side can cost you. Money, brand deals, sponsorships, festivals, private shows, relationships and access. I've lost all of those things.
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Open quoted postAlready law in France but for the UK the idea “will not be taken any further at this point“.
This is a significant failure of government.
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/as-britain-bakes-ministers-quietly-park-plans-for-solar-carports/
#power #electricity #renewables #decarbonisation #politics
Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
— The Whoop Group
#music #saxophone #Quartethttps://youtu.be/Xad_ZIAVIF8
The WHOOP Group - Libertango by Astor Piazzolla
Having been part of a project attempting to measure the carbon footprint of serving web pages I can affirm that using the internet is not a trivial cost for the planet.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
#AI #privacy #ePrivacy #Compliance #GDPR #Google #Chrome #Gemini #ESG #Environment #Sustainability #Climate #law
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You just never know who people really are. This dentist that lives down the road from me just got busted for drug dealing. I’ve been going to that fucker for 20 years. I never knew he was a dentist.
THESE ARE THE END TIMES.
The not-a-focaccia baked this morning now sliced open.
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LGB Alliance telling everyone exactly what they are.
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@adingbatponder@fosstodon.org @BrianJopek@mastodon.world
The simplest reason for refusing admittance is that Representative Pearson is a member of the General Assembly's *lower* house and that was a *Senate* committee meeting.
Mind you, the could, in simple courtesy, have allowed him in to hear them pass the resolution that would gerrymander him out of office.
Alex Murdaugh's Verdict Overturned
Not just how but also why that is important. Skip to 19:30 for that vital point being made.
Released just after my 21st birthday this was the soundtrack to my coming out.
Along with the rest of Bronski Beat's 'The Age of Consent' album it played through my leaving home, my first serious relationship, first serious breakup and so a lot of 'growing up'.
But 'Smalltown Boy' was the one that both hurt and liberated.
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Another reminder about how ephemeral the internet can be. Went looking for an environmental impact study I worked on. Not there. Not anywhere. Not even in the Wayback Machine.
The study group spun off as an arms length entity by the sponsoring universities is now a fully commercial consultancy whose About Us doesn't even mention it's origins.
Thibaut Garcia and Antoine Morinière playing J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations arranged for guitar duet.
Europe’s slow electrification is a ‘major mistake’, warns IEA chief
https://archive.ph/fl2CT
#energy #electricity #renewables #FossilFuels
This time yesterday the forecast for 2pm this afternoon was 24°C.
Right now the forecast is only 20°C.
But the tree outside my window is still in bloom.
The "We're not racists, honest guv, Party"
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-councillor-ken-tranter-6hp2m7pq6
Is a summer storm a sign that we're having a summer?
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Hacham David Yosef, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Rishon LeZion making a clear demand for Eretz Yisrael HaShlema and effectively the concomitant genocide of the Palestinian people.
This is not a fringe. This is mainstream now.
#politics #Israel #Zionism #EretzIsrael #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
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@FourT4@mastodonapp.uk @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
Curious, can you tell if that's an error in the web site or if the browser is sending misinformation?
WTAF? Jodrell Bank facing closure!
Is there nothing we can't mess up?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/27/jodrell-bank-observatory-facing-closure-uk
#Science #Astronomy #Funding #RadioTelescope
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@michal@101010.pl
« the desktop apps for Windows or macOS, or through the mobile apps for Android or iOS. »
With no Linux desktop app it remains inaccessible to me.
I'm very well away that I'm in a minority so vanishingly small it may approach 1. But still…
Kate Lamble attempts to untangle the financial engineering that underpins parts of the water industry.
Why does Thames Water have £22.8bn in debt secured against only £18bn in assets?
(16 minutes listen)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w9fx
#Water #Privatisation #AssetStripping #RevenueExtraction #Radio #Journalism
Woodland Trust Tree Equity Score
https://uk.treeequityscore.org/map
Barking and Dagenham, good in patches, plenty of room for improvement.
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The problem with closeted gay MAGA evil assholes is not that they're gay.
It's that if they weren't gay they'd still be MAGA evil assholes.
#politics #standup #comedy #TraeCrowder