Grey the earthling @greytheearthling@queer.party

Skip to 50 seconds into this video: https://nitter.ca/MarinaPurkiss/status/1553323851278389248#m — Eddie Dempsey says in 12 seconds what the Labour party has failed to say in 25 years:

“This is about who owns what. Are we going to have a country that's run for corporations, with some people in it, or are we going to have a country that's run for the people in it, that's got some corporations?”

Keir Starmer is praying for a 0-0 draw on Sunday because he just can't bring himself to support the strikers.

I joined because I agree with the party's goals — I want for my home what they want for Scotland — and specifically because Patrick Harvie has shown leadership and solidarity by rejecting anti-LGBTQ+ campaigning in GPEW.

I'm a member of the Green Party of England and Wales. As of today, I'm also a member of the Scottish Greens.

A podcast mentioned Chicago in passing, and now I've spent half an hour listening to 6 different versions of Chicago by Sufjan Stevens.

Me watching the news right now…

Taiwan has Audrey Tang. Britain has Nadine Dorries.

Sometimes the Fediverse is a hive mind:

https://cybre.space/@devurandom/108468989896390328

https://botsin.space/@important_things/108468940967980398

To take a serious point from a probably-not-entirely-serious-but-you-can-never-really-tell comic — https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/almost-one — there's no point trying to be something you're not, because you're *already* a shitty version of that something-you're-not. Stop trying to be a good dog and just be a rock.

A shitpost on Mastodon is a craptoot

Elizabeth II: The Wrath of Ma'am

I don't understand why so many opposition MPs are so keen for Boris Johnson to resign as prime minister, so that he's replaced by another Conservative MP, presumably one who has until now approved of Boris Johnson's behaviour. How would some other Conservative MP be any better?

Our boiler developed a small leak yesterday, so we called British Gas, and they sent out an engineer who has fixed it and serviced it. Excellent!

But I've also received an email telling me that apparently I've opted into some “Rewards” bullshit. So I log into my account on the web and opt back out. They ask why, without a free text field. Tickboxes include “I'm not interested in the bright ideas” but not “I never opted into this bullshit”.

When you try to make an online payment from an HSBC bank account, they may ask you to type an email address. If you read the accompanying text carefully, it says they don't actually need an email address; they just want you to type something, so they can collect *biometric behavioural data* (typing cadence), which they send to a company called Callsign, based in Abu Dhabi. I'm astonished this is legal under the GDPR.

Food smells tasty: good ✔
Food tastes smelly: bad ✘