James Adam @james@lazyatom.social

@thomasfuchs that’s where we were. It’s an uphill struggle in post-truth politics though. I honestly don’t know how it’s going to conclude but we’ll keep resisting lazy populist rhetoric until the end…

It is a lovely day in Brexit Britain, and I am an annoying goose.

Exciting times

https://apple.news/Ac1nmrgIhSPut2PwWb19mWg

I know if they do this, that they'll only do it at the last possible moment, but I really really hope that all the opposition parties finally agree to create a government of national unity and remove Johnson before it's too late to stop his ridiculous no-deal strategy.

This is outstanding: https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives

Turned off ad-blocking for a second. Wow.

Boris’s “People’s PMQs” is pure propaganda - questions screened to allow him to promote his agenda. Shameful populism.

When a politician talks about “what the public wants”, it’s almost always actually about what they want.

“We’ve spent a long time trying to sort of fudge this thing and I think the British public really want us to get out. They don’t want more dither and delay...”

(Boris Johnson, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/06/boris-johnson-short-of-options-as-rebels-vow-to-secure-brexit-delay)

We are all sick of Brexit, yes, but that doesn’t mean we agree with your approach in the slightest!

#Brexit #brexshit

Also, this "delivering the will of the people" rhetoric -- isn't it more important to be delivering the will of the people as it is _right now_ than as it was three years ago?

Can the Brexiteers really claim to know the will of all the 15-17yr olds who were totally unrepresented in the referendum?

Watching parliament for the last few days has led me to the conclusion that we need fundamental electoral reform to avoid this kind of impasse.

The last three years have been a case study of what happens when a government refuses to compromise, yet has no clear majority.

Some form of proportional representation would make coalition governments the norm, and force fundamental compromise as the only effective means of getting anything done.

Email removed from Google: ✅

@thomasfuchs Right now I can barely remember life before Brexit.

For fuck's sake, please just revoke Article 50, negotiate a deal that you like, then put that to the people in a binding referendum.

Watched "The Great Hack" a few days ago, and it has inspired me to move as much of my stuff away from Google as possible.

I'd much rather pay a little than continue to feed the surveillance economy.

Seriously: fuck #Boris and all his cronies. There's no mandate for a no-deal #Brexit.

@infovore noticed you talking about Dokku on twitter. Where do you host your VPS?

I'm getting a lot of mileage out of Dokku but every now and again my host forces a VPS reboot and then that's _every_ site offline for a spell...

No 👏 production 👏 bugfix 👏 without 👏 writing 👏 a failing 👏 test 👏!