"and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid"
Audre Lorde
Gareth Kitchen
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Chongqing , a multilayer city.
https://m.primal.net/QWNS.mp4
So, yet again my small high street cookshop in a rural English town has paid more tax than Starbucks entire UK operation.
Cynically, Starbucks is more than profitable enough to pay £40m of royalties to its US parent company, thereby incuring a loss of £35m.
Global revenue for 2024 was $36billion.


'Good chance' of US-UK trade deal, says JD Vance
What chance does the UK have of ensuring that the US meets its obligations when neither Mexico or Canada could?
#uspol
Metadata; Infomation used by law enforcement to surveil Facebook/WhatsApp/Insta users.
#BadDadJoke
When they come for the Quakers you know your country is really in trouble. How can the Quakers be a threat to this or any other democratic government?
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house
The fixes come after Amnesty alerted Google, following the analysis of a Serbian student protester's phone. Ekk!
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/researchers-uncover-unknown-android-flaws-used-to-hack-into-a-students-phone/
If you take 'Don't look up', add a dose of sci-fi, then put it on steroids, you'll end up with 2073. tbh, it's dystopian and disturbing. British made 2024.
https://2073.film/
Not sure about giving UK Police the power to search homes without a search warrant.
Which focus group dreamt that one up?
#ukpol