Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au), page 7

Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 06-Sep-2018 04:23:50 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Richard M. Stallman
#LOL: "Bernie Sanders has introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (STOP BEZOS) Act, which will force any corporation with more than 500 employees to reimburse the government for any workers whose wages are so low that they end up on food stamps, national school lunch/breakfast programs, Section 8 housing or Medicaid." Sounds like @rms is ghost writing #Bernie's backronyms. https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/stop-bezos.html http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/18097
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1. Bernie Sanders' new bill will force companies to reimburse governments for low-paid employees' welfare costs
  
  By Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing
  
  Bernie Sanders' new bill will force companies to reimburse governments for low-paid employees' welfare costs
2. Bernie Sanders introduces "Stop BEZOS" bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers
  
  from The Verge
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna have introduced a Senate bill called the "Stop BEZOS Act" that would tax companies like Amazon and Walmart for the cost of employees’ food stamps and other public assistance benefits.
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2018 04:59:53 EDT Matthew Davidson

#RIP Jacqueline Pearce. The universe is now considerably less scary-sexy. http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/18031
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1. Doctor Who star Jacqueline Pearce dies aged 74
  
  from The Independent
  
  'She was outrageous, honest and straightforward, and of course, a brilliant actress'
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 03-Sep-2018 03:44:10 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Ruben
@tregeagle I'm finding #Internode's soft cap infuriating. It would be one thing to be throttled down to half speed and have to forgo #YouTube for the last week of the month, but it's actually so slow that even just browsing blogs - with NoScript enabled - is a painful experience. I suppose that's precisely the intention.

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 07:53:25 EDT Matthew Davidson

Paul McCartney is the best bass player on the planet. He doesn't have to be such an arrogant c**t about it, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA #Beatles
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1. The Beatles - Rain
  
  By TheBeatlesVEVO from YouTube
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 06:21:51 EDT Matthew Davidson

I just can't be doing with a nose piercing. In fact a general rule of bodily orifices should be that they are obstruction-free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ1c9ErCn7w
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1. Frente! - Bizarre Love Triangle
  
  By fluorite06 from YouTube
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:47:10 EDT Matthew Davidson
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- Matthew Davidson
Years and years ago #RMS was interviewed on radio (remember that?) and asked to nominate a song to play. This was it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I98OWrboh-M
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1. "Weird Al" Yankovic: Even Worse - You Make Me
  
  By Casey Decker from YouTube
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 03:36:52 EDT Matthew Davidson
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- Matthew Davidson
#q "Weird Al" Yankovic: "Please, please don't pickaxe my star. I know it's all the rage these days, but that's not cool. Unless at some point in the future, I do something unfathomably monstrous and evil in which case, sure, fine, okay, go ahead." https://boingboing.net/2018/08/30/weird-als-request-please.html
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1. Weird Al's request: 'Please don't pickaxe my star...'
  
  By Rusty Blazenhoff from Boing Boing
  
  Weird Al's request: 'Please don't pickaxe my star...'
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 02:16:50 EDT Matthew Davidson

Like everybody else, I've been suffering #StarWars exhaustion. What? Matt Smith and Richard E. Grant? Sigh. Okay, and I'll have a large popcorn, thanks. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/matt-smith-cast-star-wars-episode-ix-1138018
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1. Matt Smith Joins 'Star Wars: Episode IX'
  
  from The Hollywood Reporter
  
  The 'Doctor Who' and 'The Crown' star is headed to a galaxy far, far away.
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 01:32:35 EDT Matthew Davidson

The #Internet is full of brainless arseholes: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45354311 #OpenStreetMap
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1. New York renamed 'Jewtropolis' in map hack
  
  from BBC News
  
  Snapchat's mapping software appears to have been hacked in what it calls an act of vandalism.
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2018 03:05:22 EDT Matthew Davidson

We live in a world where feeding seaweed to cows seems like a good idea. I'm reminded of #Doonesbury's Uncle Duke: "This is why I don't take drugs anymore. Who can tell the difference?" http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/17918
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1. Cows fed seaweed in bid to tackle climate change
  
  from The Independent
  
  Methane emitted by burping, passing wind and making manure reduced by 30 per cent
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2018 03:00:29 EDT Matthew Davidson

Feck me, #neoliberalism. Is there a chronic skills shortage (requiring penurious student loans), or a skills surplus (requiring underpaid migrants). Get your story straight! http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/17917
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1. Government will struggle to fill low-skilled jobs after Brexit without worker exploitation, experts warn
  
  from The Independent
  
  Two options for post-Brexit immigration both have 'significant costs', study finds
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2018 02:35:11 EDT Matthew Davidson

"Thousands of people have visited the jail since [Nelson Mandela] was released, and experienced a wide range of emotions. But [Theresa May] displayed her talent for originality, and managed an expression that may never have been given before within the cell; awkward and utterly unmoved, the face someone over 70 pulls when a teenager hands them controls of a PS4 for a game of Call of Duty." http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/17915 #q Mark Steel
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1. Theresa May is right – who cares about Europe? South Africa will want to be our best friend now she's performed her special dance
  
  from The Independent
  
  The prime minister managed an expression that may never have been given before at Robben Island: awkward and utterly unmoved, the face someone over 70 pulls when a teenager hands them controls of a PS4 for a game of 'Call of Duty'
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2018 01:24:04 EDT Matthew Davidson

The almost unbelievably fantastic life of Michael Hudson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9pzzIIEj4 http://michael-hudson.com/
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1. Michael Hudson - Life and Thought 20180507
  
  By Global University for Sustainability from YouTube
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 07:20:49 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Ruben
@tregeagle Ah. For me, as an exceptionally emotionally repressed anglo-australian, there are so many more barriers that the ethanol has to cross.

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 30-Aug-2018 09:36:27 EDT Matthew Davidson

Just lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNMTAUxl-Fo #HatFitz
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1. Hat Fitz and Cara: “I’m Going Home”
  
  By Ottawa Citizen from YouTube
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 07:01:47 EDT Matthew Davidson

I think reality #TV should widen its scope, beyond competitive building and cooking, to other professions. Consider what some enthusiastic amateurs, dramatic music, and portentous voice-overs could to do for accountancy, cardiac surgery, or prostitution. "It's day three in the bawdy house, and a now inconsolable Dave has failed to impress his fifth John of the day, while for his notoriously slapdash wife Cindy the silver lining of a botched triple bypass is that her patient is now in no condition to complain about the late lodgment of his tax return."

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 05:33:21 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Ruben
@tregeagle A mild allergy to dairy is to blame for my chronic rhinitis and tendency to respiratory infections (the latest of which has been with me so long that I shall soon have to decide where to send it to school). My natural contrariness however means that whenever I vow to cut down I immediately crave cheese, yoghurt, ice cream, etc. Thinking of these delights as "mostly blood" might cure me of this. On the other hand, there's two litres of vanilla and boysenberry in the fridge… https://tregeagle.com/posts/bloods/

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 05:07:20 EDT Matthew Davidson

The Great Train Robbery is 55 years old. Happy birthday. https://drunkard.com/august-8/ "Who do you think is behind the criminals?" "We are. Considerably. Many days - indeed months and years behind." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlTT2Q_t3V8
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  August 8
  
  from Modern Drunkard Magazine
  
  August 8
2. Beyond the Fringe - Great Train Robbery
  
  By BoreMeInterviews from YouTube
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 04:54:58 EDT Matthew Davidson

Tom Watson is a [insert your most personally offensive taboo word for a body part here]. https://beastrabban.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/tom-watson-funded-by-the-israel-lobby/ #UK
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  Tom Watson, Funded by the Israel Lobby
  
  By beastrabban from Beastrabban\'s Weblog
  
  Tom Watson has been up to his old tricks, trying to undermine his leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and foist the I.H.R.A. definition of anti-Semitism in full on the Labour party. The I.H.R.A.’s definition is faulty and dangerous because it conflates hatred of Jews with criticism of Israel. The Israel lobby and the Blairites want it adopted, because they want to stifle any and all criticism of Israel. Labour has adopted part of the I.H.R.A. definition, but not all.
  
  This isn’t enough for the Israel lobby, and they’ve been screaming and hurling accusations of anti-Semitism at Corbyn ever since. And last week, Watson added to the furore by spuriously claiming that the party would be sucked into ‘a vortex of eternal shame’ if it didn’t.
  
  This didn’t impress the very many Labour party supporters, gentile and Jewish, who are critical of Israel and its brutal persecution of the Palestinians. As a result, a social media campaign has started against Watson demanding his resignation, under the hashtag, #resignwatson. He got very huffy and self-righteous about it, claiming that he never thought he’d be facing demands for his resignation for standing up for people, who suffer prejudice and hate.
  
  The trouble is, he isn’t. Ruth Jenner on Facebook commented that he wasn’t standing up for people suffering from prejudice and hate. Corbyn had done that his entire life. Instead, Watson was just doing the dirty for his donors in the Israel lobby. She then posted up the figures of the donations to Watson, which show that he’s received £65,000 from the Israel lobby. Most of these donations are from Sir Trevor Chinn, but they also include money from Sir David Gerrard and Labour Friends of Israel.
  
  Mike in his article about this also includes other comments about Watson’s shilling for the Israel lobby, defending a racist, apartheid state. And they point out the international double standards that sees Iran and North Korea attacked for possessing nuclear weapons, while completely ignoring the fact that Israel also has them, against international law.
  
  Mike is also somewhat amused, because when he tried to get onto Watson’s twitter feed to see what Watson himself had to say about all this, he found that he was blocked.
  
  Which shows that Watson is also childish, as well as troublemaker and hypocrite.
  
  https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2018/08/06/tom-watsons-list-of-donors-tells-us-all-we-need-to-know-about-his-attitude-to-prejudice-and-hate/
  
  The revelation of Watson’s funding by the Israel lobby also confirms another point Peter Oborne made years ago on his Dispatches programme about them. This was that the Israel lobby exercises its power through donations to MPs they think are sympathetic. One of the politicos Oborne interviewed described how, shortly after he met a member of the lobby, he received two sizable donations from businessmen he’d never met or had anything to do with before.
  
  And the same system operates in America. The two others of one book on the Israel lobby in America also found that in their country the lobby operated, not through Jewish politicians elected to Congress, but through donations by Zionist businessmen and organisations to the country’s politicos, so that they supported Israel regardless of the wishes of their constituents. Of the book’s two authors, one was Jewish. Nevertheless, it caused a storm of protest, with accusations of anti-Semitism.
  
  It’s the usual smears whenever the power of the Israel lobby is challenged. And it shows that there is a problem with the Israel lobby donating funds to politicians so that their country does not suffer the international condemnation that it should for the ethnic cleansing of its indigenous Arab population.
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 04:43:04 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Ruben
@mako has the @tregeagle/Daniel Craig experience: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/lookalikes-4
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  Lookalikes
  
  By Benjamin Mako Hill from copyrighteous
  
  Am I leading a double life as an actor in several critically acclaimed television series? I ask because I was recently accused of being Paul Sparks—the actor who played gangster Mickey Doyle on Boa…

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