Lockdown Update Day 106

[elisi]

Aaand more petitions. These from 38 degrees:

Don't bring back benefit sanctions!

Save the UK’s Arts and Cultural Industries.

Open Letter: We want a Healthy, Greener, Fairer Tomorrow.
(Tie-in article: World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert)

I am reminded of this paragraph from one of my favourite books of all time - The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald (the plague being TB, but illness is funnily not enough the point of this):

'... a tuberculosis sanatorium is a paradox. It should be a place where the patients are striving to get well, aided by the doctors and nurses, but is actually a place where the patients are trying to kill themselves but are prevented, in many cases, by the doctors and nurses.'

I feel that our government fits this quite well? The government should be an authority that strives to improve the lives of its citizens, but instead it seems to do its best to at every point to disadvantage and penalise their citizens and is prevented, in many cases, by said citizens trying their best to intervene and hold the government to account.


Sara Alfageeh on Twitter (x)

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Today's art is 'Summer garden' by Pamela Grace, a contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Scotland:


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Comments

[trepkos]

Signed.

[elisi]

<3

It's just never ending...

[beer_good_foamy]

Did you see this thread? Depressing and hilarious at the same time.

Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation.

[elisi]

Oh god.

Good thing I've not got covid, laughing that much might have finished me off...

Saw the original tweet, but hadn't read all the updates. Can't believe there are people querying the veracity, it's textbook idiocy.

[sea_thoughts]

So tired.

[elisi]

Put your feet up, have a glass of something nice, breathe.

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Definitely very tired!

Stacey

[elisi]

We are allowed breaks. Look after yourself. <3

[desdemonaspace]

I just read the title "World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert" and I can't click it. Don't want to read it. Believe it. Saddened by it.

I'm with Giles: "The Earth is doomed."

That's a gorgeous painting.

[elisi]

I just read the title "World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert" and I can't click it. Don't want to read it. Believe it. Saddened by it.
Yeah I just... skimmed bits, but I can't. I'm the choir, it's the politicians they need to sing to.

I'm with Giles: "The Earth is doomed."
Well, currently lots of people are banding together, so let's hope it's like the S3 finale!

That's a gorgeous painting.
Isn't it just? It really caught my eye.