Mark Mason

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social I like the canal analogy. Money is the water in the canal. The government pumps it in at the top and it flows out as tax a the bottom. Controls are required to keep the canal from running dry or flooding. It becomes obvious that individuals taking water out of the canal and hoarding it is a bad thing. Giving more money to people who spend it is not.

@AlexGallagher@mastodon.scot I have to say, if someone has to pay you £5 million to campaign for something you truly believe in you probably didn’t truly believe in it at all.

@eclectech@things.uk I wrote to the OED about this when it was one of their words of the year. They didn’t respond … bastards.

@Geri @Remittancegirl @ApostateEnglishman While there is large group of out and out racists, I think #brexit said more about how uninformed our society is. The Brexiters said everything, every easy answer to every difficult question but they said it in such a way that people who didn’t look to closely could pick what they thought they wanted to vote for and ignore the rest. ‘Not what I voted for’ is a common cry amongst those who voted out and even then it only just got over 50%.

@raymierussell @mikebabcock @fuzzygroup @digitalraven how about : making huge sculptures out of car tyres becomes a fashion fad and billionaires bought up all the world’s tyre production for the next year in order to build bigger and more ridiculous giant car tyre sculptures.

@peterfisherbooks@disabled.social @GeofCox@climatejustice.social I think you could say it’s like the market for bottled water; it’s not really connected to the canal network but if it gets too popular and they start draining the aquifers …

@carnage4life@mas.to explains private health insurance too. They would rather have twice the cost and half the benefit than someone else get it too.

@Meyerweb@mastodon.social @jwz@mastodon.social She tells lies, She tells lies, She tells lies … AI

@Meyerweb@mastodon.social @jwz@mastodon.social if you wanna get down Down on the ground … AI

@Geri@mastodon.online @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world I think the other side of this is that Leave promised everything to everybody. Multiple often mutually exclusive options. Whatever anybody asked for they said #brexit would deliver. In essence they just out and out lied to everyone about everything counting on the fact that most people expect lies from politicians and aren’t really listening. It’s not a failure of recent politics but the culmination of the last 50 years of political failure.

@Remittancegirl @Geri I can remember the sense of despair I felt when people voted for Brexit and the ongoing support for Farage’s easy answer politics. Domestic and depressing.

@Remittancegirl @runoutgroover @Geri thanks for explaining your point of view rather than just rage blocking. I can see you a re saying but I think the not being possible to see a brighter future is more to do with world politics than domestic. Back then we only had nuclear Armageddon and the thee minute warning. Kids now have that AND ecological breakdown and global war. I feel for them.

@Remittancegirl @runoutgroover @Geri the Thatcher era was great apart from the poverty, unemployment, class war, riots and dissolution of any kind of business law. Oh and the turning the police into the de facto military wing of the Tory party. Apart from that and the fact that long tail of Thatcherism is behind many of the problems we face today not only in this country but all over the world, it was great.

@saramg@fosstodon.org Tech CEOs: conversations in the office lead to new techniques and innovation. Also: outsourcing to a semi-random copy/paste machine is the way forward.

@mikebabcock @raymierussell @fuzzygroup @digitalraven these giant tyre sculptures are huge, ugly and dangerous but the billionaires keep telling everyone that they’re the next big thing.

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social apparently pre orders for Trump’s Epstein Phone have been cancelled without refund. It’s everywhere.

@brianbilston@mastodon.online Carter called again today, Enquiring of his ladder But I rushed past him through the door And blamed it on my bladder

@Remittancegirl @runoutgroover @Geri No problem. block me if you wish but I felt agreeing with the term ‘liberal paradise’ was showing some kind of approval of the Thatcher years.

@dangillmor@mastodon.social big journalism isn’t following the right wing agenda it’s leading it.

@Dolphinchaz @brianbilston same-same

@abstractcode Triffid, that’s what.

@mattblaze@federate.social isn’t it like some kind of zero day exploit though. Some people may have been walking through locked doors using this method for decades or longer.

@dgar@aus.social once someone hacked my iPhone and I had to get new face.

@noodlemaz @Geri @Remittancegirl @runoutgroover from child to teenager I found him creepy as hell and wouldn’t have gone near the guy. I always wondered what ‘the establishment’ saw in him.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Previously the Tory Party machine controlled their lives. They’ve never had to think for themselves before.

@petergleick@fediscience.org The media are never going to attack #trump . Most of them are on the front line fighting for him.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social the fact is each one only care about themselves. Other wealth white male christians are tolerated as long as they do as they are told.