GrumpyOldFart

GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social

<p>I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others & (occasionally) vent my frustrations & concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking & being the best granddad I can be.</p>

Posts

Post #4504679
“[UK Prime Minister Andy] Burnham’s AI head secretly briefed tech giants at No 10 adviser’s investment firm” by Ethan Stone in OpenDemocracy.net @uk_politics @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @medialens@bird.makeup “The chair of Andy Burnham’s new AI Taskforce gave a secret private briefing to the Big Tech clients of an advisory firm linked to No 10’s top business adviser [..]. Ollie Ilott was the speaker at a breakfast roundtable hosted by Hakluyt & Company in April last year, when he was hea...
Post #4503961
“The ADL wants to cancel susan abulhawa” by Asa Winstanley in Palestine Is Still The Issue on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “As genocide continues in Gaza, the pro-Israel lobby in the US is stepping up its campaign against Palestinian cultural expression in the West. Now, the Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] one of the world’s most influential anti-Palestinian hate groups, is demanding...
Post #4495624
“Island where it constantly rains is experiencing another drought” by Laura and Normal Island News on Substack @uk_politics “When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success. It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements wer...
Post #4493943
“Today’s Headlines: Israel Blows Up West Bank Home | More Killed in Gaza | ‘You’re Going to Die’” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-israel-blows-up-west-bank-home-more-killed-in-gaza-youre-going-to-die/ #Press #SocialMedia #J...
Post #4493885
All the trustworthy news & analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza & the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury & Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...
Post #4480405
All the trustworthy news & analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza & the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury & Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...
Post #4480389
“The Genocide Continues but the Good Times are Over for Israel” by Jeremy Salt in The Palestine Chronicle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Resistance remains strong across West Asia, and Israel is loathed around the world, not because it is Jewish (in its own eyes) but because of the loathsome crimes it never stops committing” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-genocide-continues-but-the-g...
Post #4479863
“Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’: The International Law Case Against Zionist State Legitimacy” by Branko Marcetic in Savage Minds on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Ask yourself if you have ever heard a similar refrain asserting Italy’s right to exist, or Canada’s—or Germany’s, for that matter? And yet the claim is constantly made that the Israeli regime (and only the Israeli regime) someho...
Post #4442437
Today’s edition of Lebanon-based Cradle’s news & comment! Well worth a read! https://thecradle.co/ #Press #SocialMedia #Cradle #Lebanon #Israel #Gaza #Iran #Genocide #PalestinianGenocide
Post #4439604
“Today’s Headlines: 300 Children Killed since Ceasefire | ‘Displacement or Death’ | Israel Withdraws from Qalandiya” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-300-children-killed-since-ceasefire-displacement-or-death-israel-withdraws-...
Post #4439479
All the trustworthy news & analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza & the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury & Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...
Post #4427246
“Today’s Headlines: Netanyahu: ‘I Am Determined’ | Iran Confirms Agreement with Oman | Why Tell Matters” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-netanyahu-i-am-determined-iran-confirms-agreement-with-oman-why-tell-matters/ #Press #...
Post #4426857
🇮🇷🇴🇲 Iran and Oman set Hormuz rules with Trump’s reopening hopes in vain via Geopolitics Prime on Telegram @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Iran and Oman are working on the last details of the Strait of Hormuz agreement, while the United States appears to be left out of the process. What's known so far? 🌏 Under a proposed Iran-Oman framework, for a specified period ships will enter the Strait of Hormuz through th...
Post #4426733
“Israeli occupation troops clear 10 million tons of rubble in Gaza to 'erase evidence' of genocide” by The Cradle News Desk @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “The Israeli government is making it impossible for Palestinians to locate the remains of thousands of their missing loved ones still buried under the rubble of destroyed homes” https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-occupation-troop...
Post #4426625
“Lawyers’ statement on Miller’s anti-Zionism win shows Bristol appeal smashed” by Skwawkbox with The Canary @uk_politics @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “The case has implications for every employer dealing with religion and belief issues at work. The judgment reinforces the principle that equality laws exist to protect unpopular beliefs just as much as po...
Post #4426039
All the trustworthy news & analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza & the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury & Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...
Post #4410609
“Project Panama: Scanning and Book Destruction at Anthropic” by Binoy Kampmark in Savage Minds on Substack @brejoc@fosstodon.org @ai@newsmast.community “Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of supposedly more useful digital formats. And now, Anthropic’s hungering for books, not as sources of enlightened knowledge so much as blue raw d...
Post #4408828
“Academic David Miller Secures Rare Victory For Free Speech In The UK” by Justin K. P. In The Dissident on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “After a years-long legal battle, the UK-based anti-Zionist academic David Miller has secured a major free speech victory against the Israel lobby currently occupying Britain and using endless lawfare to silence critics of Israel. One of the many t...
Post #4408403
“Why I Walked Away from the BBC - Karishma Patel: What I Saw Inside The BBC Shocked Me” in Palestine Deep Dive on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @BBC5Live@social.bbc @BBCRadio4@social.bbc @BBCNews@flipboard.com “In the first episode of a brand-new Palestine Deep Dive series, ‘The Walkout’, Karishma Patel sits down with Ahmed Alnaouq to discuss why she left the BBC after five years as...
Post #4408202
“Why Ceuta Was Not Actually the 'Migrant Invasion' Widely Reported” by Adrian Goldberg in The Byline Times Podcast on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @spain @morocco-marymimouna “It was immediately branded as a ‘migrant invasion’ and roused the far-right on both sides of the Atlantic – but as the dust settled on the curious influx of more than 50,000 people to the border of S...
Post #4408033
All the trustworthy news & analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza & the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury & Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...
Post #4391013
“Lawyers’ statement on Miller’s anti-Zionism win shows Bristol appeal smashed” by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @uk_politics @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “The EAT [Employment Appeals Tribunal] held that his [Miller’s] anti-Zionist beliefs constitute a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA); he was dismissed because he manifested those beliefs an...
Post #4390860
“UK CHARITIES FACE INQUIRY OVER ISRAELI SETTLEMENT FUNDING” by Martin Williams in Declassified UK @uk_politics @Declassified_UK@mastodonapp.uk @DeclassifiedUK@independent-media.co.uk @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “A major inquiry has been launched into British charities months after Declassified revealed donations may have been sent to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In an un...
Post #4390775
All the trustworthy news & analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza & the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury & Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...
Post #4369852
“The BBC has a well-documented history of extensive pro-Israel bias, with its own reporters complaining that they’ve been performing PR for the Israeli government and its own editor losing a libel lawsuit against a journalist who exposed his pro-Israel slant. They spent years running cover for an active genocide with ‘Hamas-run health ministry says’ headlines and passive-language verbal gymnastics to protect Israeli information interests, so you know that when Lucy Williamson objects ‘That sound...
Post #4369666
All the trustworthy news & analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza & the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury & Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...
Post #4359026
“BBC CENSORED FILM ON BRITISH ARMY KILLING CHILD” by Anne Cadwalladr in Declassified UK @uk_politics @Declassified_UK@mastodonapp.uk @DeclassifiedUK@independent-media.co.uk @BBC5Live@social.bbc @BBCRadio4@social.bbc @BBCNews@flipboard.com “The very highest levels of the British government secretly exerted pressure on the BBC to censor a film about the army killing an unarmed child in 1972. Official documents, recently discovered by the Pat Finucane Centre, also show the British Army was a...
Post #4354156
“[UK Prime Minister Andy] Burnham’s actions since becoming PM scream ‘business as usual’” by Rachael Swindon in The Canary @uk_politics @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Right then. Let’s not mess about. Andy Burnham has been Prime Minister for two weeks and already the man who promised real change and a break with the past, has fi...
Post #4347662
“Spanish government minister blames Israel for Ceuta ‘surge’” by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @spain @morocco-marymimouna @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “The Moroccan government is widely considered a US client state and is heavily dependent on Israeli weapons supply. Israel and the US have been accused of coordinating the Ceuta crisis, in which thousands o...
Post #4347429
“German Court Rules Comparing Israel to Nazi Regime is Protected Speech” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Key Developments: - A German appeals court acquitted a woman convicted over pro-Palestine Instagram posts comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. - The court ruled the posts constituted protected political expression rather than unlawful use of Nazi symbols. - Judges...