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#british

Dezene Huber 🌻
4 hours ago

My walk early yesterday morning. It’s peak #autumn around here in central #British #Columbia.

Colourful autumn pathway.
Colourful autumn pathway.
Tim Mak
1 day ago

Overnight, the U.S. #Congress passed a bill that staves off a government shutdown for 45 days.

It doesn’t include any military assistance for Ukraine.

Sentsov, the Ukrainian soldier, recalled how #America received help from #France when it fought the #British during the Revolution.

#Ukraine, he said, had run out of its own weapons.

"If America wants us to win, then it must supply weapons,” Sentsov said.

“Without weapons, we cannot win. We will not lose, but we will not win either.”

Russia-Ukraine Daily News
1 day ago

Sky News:

🇬🇧 🇺🇦 The UK's PM clarifies comments made by the defence secretary that suggested #British soldiers may enter #Ukraine for training purposes.

#britain #russiaukrainewar

Alexander Hay
1 day ago

The #British sense of #Humour is just bullying, punching down and sadism. It exists in its purest form within #English #Football fans and their sociopathic behaviour.

"Arrests made after football fans mock child who died from #Cancer...

"...Two people were pictured holding up a phone appearing to show #BradleyLowery’s face as they laughed following [#SheffieldWednesday’s] 3-0 Championship defeat to #Sunderland..."

#UK #News #Abuse

https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/01/bradley-lowery-arrests-made-after-football-fans-mock-child-19584473/

Sibrosan
1 day ago

"Former Russian president Medvedev on Sunday suggested that #British soldiers training #Ukrainian troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets for #Russian forces"

Whatever that means, since it may be assumed that he regards the brutal invasion of #Ukraine as legitimate as well.

Russia-Ukraine Daily News
1 day ago

🇷🇺 🤡 Former Russian president Medvedev on Sunday suggested that #British soldiers training #Ukrainian troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets for #Russian forces, as would #German factories producing Taurus missiles should they supply Kyiv 🇺🇦

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-says-british-training-troops-ukraine-could-be-legitimate-2023-10-01/

#britain #germany #ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar

Russia-Ukraine Daily News
2 days ago

🇬🇧 🇺🇦 #British troops will be deployed in #Ukraine for the first time under plans being discussed with military chiefs, the new Defence Secretary has disclosed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/09/30/grant-shapps-to-send-uk-troops-to-ukraine/

#britain #russiaukrainewar

Rob / OGTrekker
2 days ago

I Kissed a Boy star Dan Harry on joining “groundbreaking” HIV vaccine trial.

The #British #government has even committed to achieving zero new #HIV infections and ending #AIDS and HIV-related deaths entirely in #England by 2030, something that would have felt impossible at the epidemic’s peak in the 1990s. #Health #Vaccine

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/originals/i-kissed-a-boy-star-dan-harry-on-joining-groundbreaking-hiv-vaccine-trial/

CelebHub
2 days ago

Emma Louise Jones: The Face of Leeds United TV | https://tinyurl.com/yttb2nsy | #British #EmmaLouiseJones #Presenter

Naomi aka Tattooed_Mummy
3 days ago

#British-grown beans on toast is to become a reality after the first commercial crop of haricot beans was successfully harvested in Lincolnshire.
#news #GoodNews
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-66966056

Rodolfo
3 days ago

@RussSharek

I’ve heard #British people mention “toad in the hole”, and the way they spoke of it, I got the impression that it’s a special #UK dish where the “toad” is some sort of sausage. No idea if eggs or bread are involved.

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
3 days ago

The first #British grown #bakedbeans have been successfully grown in #Lincolnshire , following years of research by the University of #Warwick

#food #UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-66966056

CelebHub
3 days ago

Nangeli - Wikipedia

"Mulakkaram" was a term to distinguish female taxpayers from males, and "the #tax was not based on the size of the #breast or its attractiveness, as Nangeli's storytellers will claim, but was one standard rate charged from women". Covering breasts was not a fashion in #Kerala at that time. Victorian standards of morality penetrated into the society decades later via the #British colonialists, which led to subsequent class-struggles for the right of the lower caste to wear upper cloth.["
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangeli#:~:text=Mulakkaram%22%20was%20a,upper%20cloth.%5B

CelebHub
4 days ago

Rachel Riley: A Profile of the Popular TV Personality | https://tinyurl.com/275w4235 | #British #Presenter #RachelRiley

Andrew Woods
4 days ago

@flowcontrol @sebastian @michael I find this quite enjoyable each time it makes the rounds. The author should feel quite chuffed with themselves, as it’s an achievement to bring humour in to programming with class

#php #british

Jazzilla [ME] CCT, CA
4 days ago

Watching #Americans slowly realize they just live in a #British colony

A whopping 42 years ago today, this particular mouse appeared on #TV screens for the first time and ran for another eleven years!

Do you have a favourite cartoon from the 80s? Or even just a series from before you were born?

#animation #DangerMouse #CosgroveHall #British

A white anthropomorphic mouse with a black eyepatch over his left eye and his hands clenched into fists. He is wearing a white turtleneck sweater with large red circle and the letters 'DM' in yellow text within it. He is wearing a red belt with yellow buckle. He is standing in front of an orange backdrop and smiling.
Dave Mackey
4 days ago

The volume has several hints towards it's author:

- Likely acquaintance with Syd Barrett (for whom the poem Dying Files in a Small Room was written)
- Acquaintance with Christa Päffgen, better known as #Nico (sang on the debut album of The Velvet Underground).
- Traveled in the United States (specific reference to a Waffle House at Exit 51 in North Carolina)
- But may have been #British (some British English words such as "cataloguing" instead of "cataloging")

#poetry #poet #poem
2/2

Russia-Ukraine Daily News
4 days ago

🇬🇧 🇺🇦 #British defence minister Grant Shapps discussed how to bolster Ukraine's air defences during talks in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president's office said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/britains-shapps-meets-zelenskiy-first-visit-kyiv-defence-minister-2023-09-28/

#britain #ukraine #russiaukrainewar

Martin Broek
4 days ago

Germany’s Green party will not approve a deal for Britain to sell dozens of #Typhoon #EFA fighter jets to #Saudi's.
The jet was jointly developed by #British, #German, #Italian and #Spanish firms, and the consent of all four is needed to export the planes. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/27/german-greens-block-sales-typhoon-jets-saudi-arabia/

JillyHorrorshow
5 days ago

You're taken, and you know you shouldn't give in, but if we're working late together and I'm begging you to fuck me, can you really resist?

This full length 15 min file, plus my entire back catalogue of filth, is yours for the very reasonable price of $5 at https://www.fanvue.com/jillyhorrorshow.

#sex #voice #sexy #asmr #nsfw #erotic #begging #british #audio #audioporn

video thumbnail which reads 'audio porn: begging a cheating co-worker for his dick and he fucks me on the office floor - free preview'
CelebHub
5 days ago

Dua Lipa: The Rising Star of Pop Music | https://tinyurl.com/22f8xyhf | #Albania #British #DuaLipa #Singer

CLondoner92
5 days ago

All aboard #Railway 200 - Great #British Railways Transition Team
• A year-long programme confirmed by the rail industry to celebrate 200 years of train #travel in 2025
• A once-in-a-generation opportunity to inspire young people about #rail
https://media.gbrtt.co.uk/news/railway-200-test
#transport

The #British #government has announced that #American #Bully XL dogs will no longer be allowed in the country by the end of the year.

✍️ Sasha Webster
🔗 https://s.mur.tw/XglY

SheepOverboard
6 days ago

The most awesome thread on a British Rail unscheduled excursion you'll ever read.

"So now it is midnight, and I am in a black cab in the middle of nowhere (well, the M6) with three strangers who are all asleep. One is snoring.

"I’m tweeting mainly to both stay awake, and also because I’m worried I went insane somewhere after Stafford and this is a delusion."

#Trains #British #Transport
https://twitter.com/JamesNokise/status/1706433356186161479

SubtleBlade ⚔️
6 days ago

'The #Tories have warped an already crooked #ElectoralSystem, pushing millions of #voters off the roll

#AntiDemocratic tactics such as #gerrymandering and the imposition of #VoterID have left #British people disillusioned with #democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/tories-electoral-system-millions-of-voters
#ToryPoliciesInAction

Meanwhile, at the British libdems' party conference, the party's vice-president Amna Ahmad is speaking right now with a peacefully-sleeping baby on her chest.

#politics #politicsuk #britain #british #uk #libdems

Steve B
6 days ago

An interesting #fact that really does point to the #british being fucking mental is that the UK represents the largest European segment for all manufacturers of convertible (cabriolet) cars.

LThis is not made up. Honest.

As a #British #citizen, recent revelations about Chinese spying operations in the #UK should come as an uncomfortable revelation. Britain's cosying up to #China in recent years may have come at a cost. Now, critics are questioning whether Britain has been naive in handling China.

✍️ Sasha Webster
🔗 https://s.mur.tw/udwM

Dennis
1 week ago

#Benin: Bringing Back The #Bronzes

https://youtu.be/rei-Xe2L0Jk

"The #British may have looted the Benin Bronzes from the West African Kingdom in the 19th century, but they couldn’t remove the art form.
Artisans still use the country’s red soil to create #bronze #sculptures, just as their ancestors did decades before."

#AfricanStream #art #craft #arts #africa #nigera #colonialism

FlyVåpen_Pikk ✅️
1 week ago

@onthisday
248yrs later... Montreal is #French-speaking, #British forces remain in... Britain, and #America stretches from sea to shining sea thanks to countless treaties with numerous tribes that it's double crossed.

All the while, those aforementioned tribes are to be content on their small plots of land "gifted" to them by a people that never had any right to the tribe's original land in the first place.

#ThisIsAmerica

Russia-Ukraine Daily News
1 week ago

🇬🇧 🇺🇦 Specialist #British military bomb disposal teams are training #Ukrainian engineers to clear #Russian minefields.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66879485

#britain #ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar

Petra van Cronenburg
1 week ago

#BilboToday
Bilbo: Let's go back to bed! I don't want to walk now.
Twolegs: We have to walk. Look at this beautiful meadow,the sun!
B: All others are still in bed. Nobody walks.
T: But the fox, the heron ...
B: No dog. It's cold and wet, terribly wet.
T: As a beagle, you should be adapted to #British-like weather!
B: I'm a #French beagle. We wait in bed for the smell of fresh baguette!
T: You are just a #beagle!
B: In sit-in strike now. Take me home!
T: Okee, but the baguette is for me! #DogLife

Bilbo sleeps extremely comfortably. He has his head nestled lengthwise against my forearm, I hold his front paw with one hand and the other is leaning against my arm.
A red plate with 2 pieces of baguette with strawberry jam, a big pea-green bowl with café au lait and a French Donald Duck book.
Patrick
1 week ago

Why #Montreal my #British friends?

A cartoon about the UK's Stamer, as if he and the others were a rock band of some kind.

Their world tour only has four places on it, The Hague, Paris, Montreal an Downing Street.

Why Montreal?

Worth remembering this extraordinary documentary - 'From #Russia with Cash' - about #Londongrad, the world's heart of Russian criminal money laundering operations.

British estates agents, solicitors and QCs colluding and actively helping Russian #oligarchs and criminals purchase #London properties, driving up prices, and keeping out #British people from their British capital.

The astonishing scale of these #corruption schemes the #UK government encourages.

#law #crime

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/07/london-estate-agents-caught-on-camera-russian-buyer

Empiricism
1 week ago

#KarlMarx in the New York Tribune 1852 'Corruption at Elections' https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/08/20.htm

"If you follow up the history of British elections (written in 1852) for a century past or longer, you are tempted to ask, not why #British Parliaments were so bad, but on the contrary, how they managed to be even as good as they were and to represent as much as they did, though in a dim refraction, the actual movement of #British society"

#economics #money #capitalism #socialism #democracy at #work #CoOp

I didn't watch much of the #Tiswas #British #television Saturday morning show, back in the day, it was a chaotic mess.

However, it's still interesting to see some of the adverts from back then, apart from the pervy clown from the McDonalds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qTy9TVm_8g

OddOpinions5
1 week ago

I"m watching two #British #TV #Crime #Police shows
Luther and Life on Mars

and they are so bad
LifeOM the dialog and story is just a joke, like they didn't even hire a writer
The dialog/story on Luther is better, but it takes a right wing DeSantis view of policing: the police can abuse suspects as much as they want and it is ok, which is the dominant mode in TV cop shows (Law n Order)

also Luther is extra ordinarily violent
#BBC #Britbox #PBS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_(TV_series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series)

ZZ Bottom
1 week ago

#Motorsports #Moto2 #British pride for Jake Dixon pole.

Narrelle M. Harris
2 weeks ago

Just saw Scrapper. Gentle little film about Georgie, 12, who’s surviving on her own after her mum’s death. Her dad Jason (30ish going on 13) shows up after being absent all her life. I love how they’re both kids really, but J is trying to step up. Low key & enjoyably weird with magic realism moments (talking spiders- *shudder*) Hints at but avoids gritty realism in favour of showing two lost “kids” learning how to connect. #Scrapper #movie #film #British @timrichards

Film poster for Scrapper showing 12 year old Georgie and her estranged dad Jason interacting playfully in the park opposite the council flats where they live.
Graham Downs
2 weeks ago

Ooh!

Well, it's not a new season of Line of Duty. But perhaps it's the next best thing. 😁

https://gadget.co.za/paybacktime/?utm_source=Mastodon

#British #Crime #TV #BritBox

"I'm that rare breed of #Canadian who was #British by the accident of birth but became Canadian by the exercise of choice"
Quote by Barry Morse

Empiricism
2 weeks ago

#RishiSunak signs more North Sea #Oil & #Gas extraction deals & then pushes back the deadline for selling new petrol & diesel cars & the phasing out of gas boilers. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/20/rishi-sunak-confirms-rollback-of-key-green-targets

The #UK prime minister obviously has a plan.

"polls have consistently shown that the majority of people back the transition to net zero in order to limit climate breakdown"

To be fair, I do speak to #British folk whose response to reducing Jet travel is "Suppose you'd ban racing cars too?"

#ClimateCrisis

ewan@Mac-Mini ~ %
2 weeks ago

#Introduction

Hey! I’m Ewan, a #British guy who codes and writes #Poetry.

I have an obsession with #Lycanthropy, you can blame Wolfblood for that. I also adore #Linguistics, and i've learnt basic conversational (European) Spanish and (European, GCSE) French.

I was born in Spain, raised in the UK. I’m English-Scottish heritage.

I play on #PlayStation mainly nowadays, but I do enjoy #Nintendo consoles.

I’ve been bouncing around the #Fediverse.

my home page is https://ewancroft.neocities.org/.

Mat DJ 🐶 🐕🐕 :donor:
2 weeks ago

It's definitely a classic* British autumn, the fingerless gloves have come out.

Been wearing them ever since I was playing church organ when I was 14.

Icy cold Christmas Eve services in the balcony of Ronkswood Church, me there with my woolly socks and fingerless gloves, hiding Sweet Child Of Mine and Suck My Kiss in the play in and play out procession music.

No-one ever noticed 😂🎹

*It's pissing it down.

#british #autumn #fall #gloves #organ #christmas #gunsnroses #redhotchilipeppers

A photo of my grey fingerless gloves
Martin Nutty
2 weeks ago

@dangillmor

Ah yes, it one final attempt to return to the glory days of #British imperialism, #RishiSunak and the #Tory party are attempting to reinstitute 19th century energy consumption practices

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CleanEnergy

Jay the Art Guy
2 weeks ago

while I was out having a beer, a couple walked in with bulldog. For whatever reason I started sketching the dog as quickly as I could. At the end if it the couple got of a drawing and I got £10.
#MastoArt #art #observational #drawing #sketch #illustration #watercolorsketch #watercolorsketches
#urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketcher #urbansketches #lifedrawing #petportait #bulldog #bulldogportrait #uk #british #petportraits

Jonathan
2 weeks ago

#Kenyan-born #British folk singer Roger Whittaker, who brought us hits like I’m Back, My Land In Kenya and Shimoni, has died aged 87.
Roger Whittaker Kenyan safari Part 1
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OUEMWbOrUqo&si=cmbmDKe1RF1bDYOn

#Labour #Starmer

🚨**Labour wants new #EU links in a reset of #British foreign policy**🚨

David Lammy, has proposed regular meetings between UK and EU ministers, as part of a major reset of British foreign policy under a Labour government.

Lammy: "It's high time the UK took its place again after #Brexit, as a lead player in world affairs. A UK that is isolated & missing is felt across the world. It's definitely the case that the international community want us back”.

https://www.msn.com/en-GB/news/uk/labour-wants-new-eu-links-in-a-reset-of-british-foreign-policy/ar-AA1gOToF?ocid=sapphireappshare

David Lammy - Sir Keir Starmer

A #British friend sent me a picture of a durian after Anwar Ibrahim was elected as PM and asked: "Can he last longer than a durian" ?

To which I replied, well, definitely longer than a head of lettuce. 😊😊😊

If you are wondering what the hell Im talking about, article 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/iceberg-lettuce-in-blonde-wig-outlasts-liz-truss

#Politics #Malaysia #TOOTSEA #UK #SouthEastAsia #Malaysian

Received a notification today advising that I will no longer be able to #vote in the #UnitedKingdom

If a #british citizen has been out of the country for 15 years they can no longer vote back home. This law was supposed to have been changed but the #conservatives have failed at that.

Even though I still have assets back home I don’t feel too bad about not being able to vote.

SubtleBlade ⚔️
2 weeks ago

#British TV ‘allowed #monarchy to #censor coverage of king’s #coronation

Royal spin doctors imposed ‘extraordinary restrictions’ on covering #KingCharlesIII’s accession, says ex-head of Sky News
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/14/british-tv-allowed-monarchy-to-censor-king-charles-coronation-coverage
#TaxDodgingParasites

If the #British #Police are routinely hacked then what protection do any of us have?
Does anybody take their job seriously in this country any more or have the lies of Brexit infected public life so much we're all thinking;
"screw everyone else, I'll just lie and blag my way through the day, it's being British! Do a half assed job then blame an immigrant for the fuckup, god save the king (and his suitcase full of bribe money)"

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-09-14/police-warrant-card-details-stolen-in-hack

Simon Phipps
3 weeks ago

I am told by the #British #Standards Institute that they would welcome public feedback on the proposed ISO/IEC 23078 #Specification of #DRM technology for digital publications. If you are British go to https://identity.bsigroup.com/StdDevRegistration/Register?bpurl=https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/ to register an account and then https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/2022-01412#/section to comment on part 1 https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/2022-01413#/section part 2 and https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/2023-01494#/section part 3

Catherine Babault
3 weeks ago

Black bear (Ursus americanus vancouveri) surveying the shoreline for salmon going up the stream, #Vancouver Island #British Columbia I am going to chase bears and wolves again next week. I can't wait!!

#bears #WildlifePhotography #wildlife #nature #VancouverIslandWildlife

Silhouette of black bear in early morning light. The sky is a light greyish blue and the rocky shoreline is covered in yellow kelp.
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦
3 weeks ago

Former #British soldier fighting in Ukraine found dead with hands tied

Jordan Chadwick, who served in the Scots Guards from 2011 to 2015, travelled to #Ukraine to fight in October last year. Eight months later, on 26 June, Lancashire police told his mother, Brenda, that her son, known as Joe, had been killed

The Ukrainian international army repatriated the 31-year-old on 7 August. An inquest will be held to determine the cause of his death

RIP

Read more here 📎 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/09/former-british-army-soldier-fighting-ukraine-found-dead-jordan-chadwick

Naomi aka Tattooed_Mummy
4 weeks ago

One point for each one you've never eaten...
#food #british #game #silly #weird

Never have I ever :

British food edition.

Faggots
Bubble and squeak
Toad in the hole 
Mushy peas
Tinned spaghetti hoops 
Baked beans on toast
Dumplings
Boiled egg and soldiers Marmite 
Spotted dick
GeriatricGardener
4 weeks ago

Along with #Freedland & #Toynbee (among others), with full-throated encouragement from @guardian Editor-in-Chief Kath #Viner, Rafael #Behr essentially led the #Guardian’s five-year-long assault on #Corbyn & his leadership team - thereby legitimising the #ZionistLobby’s #ItWasAScam #FakeAntiSemitism slur and giving the #FarRight press & #BBC state media “permission” to jump on the “destroy Corbyn” bandwagon!

Whilst they won’t admit it, #Behr et al & the Guardian fundamentally betrayed what remains of #British democracy & probably destroyed any future possibility of a #DemocraticSocialist government in Britain!

Having helped return both #May’s & #Johnson’s #Tories to power in 2017 & 2019, Behr is today ⤵️ rightly savaging the #Tories & #Sunak for having “no new ideas and nothing to say about the problems facing Britain, most of which are the product of choices made by the party he leads. This is the point of no return, when Conservatives realise that renewal in office is not possible, and that they need to be in opposition almost as much as the country wants them out of government.”

Problem is: after three-years of giving @UKLabour “leader” Sir #KidStarver & his Shadow Cabinet of #Blairite nondescripts & no-hopers a “free pass”, the Guardian is also belatedly waking up to the fact that the #Mandelson-influenced ‘heart’ of #Labour thinking is suffused with such vapidity as to make it utterly clueless in the face of the crises we all now face!

The country is at an historical crossroads heading into the 2024 general election yet, all the evidence available strongly suggests that neither the party currently in government nor the opposition (& potentially the next party in government) have got the “nous” or the “balls” to do what they both know *must* be done for the sake of the country and the future of the planet!

“The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/06/tory-small-state-mission-has-failed-british-conservatives

"Tory and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse" — a Scottish MP just stated during Prime Minister's Questions session in Parliament.

#britain #british #news #pmq

Russia-Ukraine Daily News
1 month ago

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Russia warned Tuesday it will treat any US move to station #nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years as an “escalation” after media reports indicated plans to deploy the bombs on #British soil.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-05/russia-warns-of-escalation-if-us-stations-nuclear-bombs-in-uk#xj4y7vzkg

#usa #britain #nato #belarus

"Imperial Federation - Map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Statistical information furnished by Captain J.C.R. Colomb, M.P. formerly R.M.A. Mclure & Co. Queen Victoria Street, London. British territories coloured in red. (Published as) Supplement to ''The Graphic'', July 24th, 1886. (Inset) Map of the world showing the extent of British territories in 1786." https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/bz3c3b #Map #Maps #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #British #Britain #Empire @histodon @histodons

Carlo Zottmann
1 month ago

This whole essay is basically entirely quotable:

> "Why do some #British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, [a] writer from England wrote the following response:
>
> #Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace […]

https://londondaily.com/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-i-ve-read

Aral Balkan
1 month ago

It would appear that “former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/ex-tory-mp-threatens-sue-cambridge-university-slavery-research-antoinette-sandbach

Oh, my… It would be a damn shame if more people knew of this so please do not boost this post.

#AntoinetteSandbach #SamuelSandbach #Sandbach #british #slavery #britain #slaveOwners #tories #tory #conservatives #uk #cambridge #colonialists #colonialism

ricardo :mastodon:
1 month ago

#Apple security updates could be banned by #British government ⚠️ 🤦‍♂️

https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/24/apple-security-updates-ban/

Fedi.Garden 🌱
1 month ago

CupOfTea.social is a general UK server for casual chit-chat and good wholesome content:

:Fediverse: https://cupoftea.social

For more info see their About page at https://cupoftea.social/about or contact their admin @Whiskeyomega

CupOfTea.social runs on Glitch Mastodon, a special version of Mastodon with extra features.

#FeaturedServer #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #British #GB #GreatBritain #England #NorthernIreland #Scotland #Wales #Glitch #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse

That reputation the #British have.
Reaction to Air Traffic Control going down today on the Times Of India website

3 hours ago 
 India reaches moon and theae colonialists can't 
 even manage domestic flights themselves... the 
 dumb looters

What could be more #British than thieving, racism, incompetence and a bull-headed refusal to admit wrong?
#BritishMuseum

Thefts expose British Museum's 
 'ridiculous' stance on return of artefacts, 
 says MP 
 Chair of parliamentary reparations group hits out at law 
 preventing return of Parthenon marbles and Benin bronzes
Archit
1 month ago

What’s your choice of fish for a fish and chips? 🐟 🍟

#Food #Fish #British

GeriatricGardener
1 month ago
Peter Nimmo
1 month ago

#Niche for #British people of a certain age

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
1 month ago

This was in the charts the week I was born - the lyrics are very relatable today (and its early #synthpop, produced by a #German producer (originally "Nachts scheint die Sonne" but reworked and sung by #British singers), and a 16mm promotional film made by a TV station in the #Netherlands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWI2L1g76Jg

Moof
2 months ago

#British #Programmers of Mastodon: When documenting your APIs, code, etc. do you use British or American spellings for concepts such as Authorisation/Authorization, Colour/Color, Dialogue/Dialog, etc.

JP
2 months ago

“Pretty”, as an adjective in British meaning “kind of”, is utterly mad.

Eg. The walk is pretty long.

So far as I can tell (as a native speaker thinking about this carefully for the first time) it means “the *bad* end of the range covered by the next word.”

1/2 #british #language #wtf

To get an idea of how evil the #British Government is, they're sending a Iranian human rights lawyers to a #ConcentrationCamp today.

Remember this when our politicians are spouting off about "freedom and Democracy"

Empiricism
2 months ago

Sunak’s family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with #BP before PM opened new #NorthSea licenses https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/

The PM #RishiSunak is scientifically, technically, economically, & morally, WRONG!

Rishi Sunak is evidently trying to #gaslight the #British public by lying that burning more oil & gas is, to quote, "the right thing to do". https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66354478

More fossil fuel contracts will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions

Wrong #ClimateAction

This chart shows the change in global greenhouse gas emissions over time. Greenhouse gases are measured in ‘carbon dioxide-equivalents’ (CO2e).

Today, we collectively emit around 50 billion tonnes of CO2e each year. This is more than 40% higher than emissions in 1990, which were around 35 billion tonnes. 

Data source https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions