Tenebris Nox @ tenebrisnox @feddit.uk

> Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I'm delighted to say that

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Good thing too... if those rich people had to pay tax then they'd leave the country. Who would pay all that tax that they don't pay if they did leave... er... er.... it made sense when the posh man said it on the radio this morning and his poshness made me believe it with all my poverty-stricken heart.

For me it's a conspiracy theory (and most likely untrue) - but it's quite an interesting one rather than "stupid". Raises ideas about authenticity and what people are doing when they go to look at artifacts in museums. There HAVE been paintings, for instance, hung in galleries for years that have turned out to be forgeries but - for a long time people were happy staring at the "art". Also, ones that have been restored beyond a point where they are pretty much not the original piece. How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?

Isn't there a conspiracy theory that everything on show at the British Museum is a replica anyway and that the real artifacts are carefully stored elsewhere?

It's great. I've been using it for nearly a year and it just works brilliantly.

You might be in with a chance... of higher water bills. Just for your friends, of course.

I'm also not rich to start with and didn't go to public school either. I guess I just need to learn my place and celebrate the achievements of others.

Anyone able to give me career advice about how to become a Thames Water executive? Doesn't look hard to do and you keep getting bonuses!

Seems to me that's the point of it: to stop people asking questions in good faith and then persisting on challenging lies and disinformation.

Keep searching Youtube. It's been put up and taken down a couple if times already. It'll be put back up again.

From what I understand Kemkaran was parachuted into Kent from Bradford a couple of months before the election. Locals in Maidstone have been asking for proof that her residence is in Kent. She has a background in media and has an online history that is beginning to get some scrutiny.

From my perspective this is the start of a coup by some well-organised, well-financed right-wingers.

And why can’t the power companies pay for this out of their eye-watering profits? I don’t understand why you think the BBC needs to be involved any more. (People I know have only had issues with smart meter installations that have caused just unnecessary stress. I’m pretty much waiting until I hear that they actually work better than half the time and that there are mechanisms to verify readings before I sign up.)

Surely cheaper than enforcing mass installations. (Although it’s customers doubtlessly picking up this cost.)

Wouldn’t it be possible just to replace the valve transmitter with a digitised version that sent out the same signal?

I’d not heard of this before. Most appropriate.

Help me out here? Aren’t these the same groups calling for freedom of speech and against cancel culture. It’s all so confusing.

If you haven’t read it, Emily St John Mandel’s last novel, Sea of Tranquility, is excellent and tackles some of the themes if Station Eleven. It’s a time-travelling SF novel mixed with autofiction and ties in with some of her earlier writing. Super-recommended.

It’s interesting that terms like “Awful April” and “Cost of Living Crisis” are so rapidly adopted. I’m convinced they are thought up in something like a Civil Service or lobby group PR panel and then given to media. Both terms assure us that these things are short-lived and not usual when we know that “Austerity” (a less reassuring one) is now a permanent state of affairs. This is the way it’s going to be forever. Unless we go for the pitchforks and torches.

The downside is that I’ve virtually stopped writing blog posts and rely on the “microposts”. Not sure if that’s why I started a blog.

I’ve tried all sorts of things and have settled on using Wordpress with a rss widget which publishes my rss feed from Mastodon (it picks up certain hashtags to avoid publishing everything - eg. #blog). It publishes pics and everything. It also works with Pixelfed (maybe not Bsky). There’s probably more elegant ways to do this - and ones involving activitypub - but this one works without much effort setting up.

Thank you. You are absolutely right and it was right there in front of me!