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Month: March 2019
Public ownership is a better term than nationalisation.
One reason being that we should think of public ownership at the local level, as well as the national.
neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0
“She Never Cries” by Proem
Always a fan of the heavenly synths/hellish beats combo. Proem is definitely one of my fave electronic artistes.
I made a little embed handler for WordPress so you can just paste a link to videos on invidio.us and have the embed pulled in automatically to your post. You could easily just add the iframe in manually each time you post a video, too. Either way – no youtube links.
https://gist.github.com/ngm/868e7ae1617fd41a185eddc4599681f0
“When Death Come Creeping in Your Room (Run, Sinner, Run)” by Mance Lipscomb
Really nice account of someone feeling a lot better, in the face of universal credit and housing issues, after coming to a Restart Party (community repair events that we run), getting something fixed, and feeling involved in the community.
Proud to be part of Restart.
Really interesting to learn that the NHS was part inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tredegar_Medical_Aid_Society).
It was a mutual society providing health care free at the point of use in South Wales. Nye Bevan, who spearheaded the foundation of the NHS, was from Tredegar.
h/t NEF podcast on public ownership (neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0)
When I ditched the big social media networks I intended to use email as a way to keep up with friends and family. But my email right now is a dumpster fire of pointless mailshots and administrata. I can definitely tidy it up but also thinking email genuinely isn’t good for maintaining social ties? Was it ever?
David ShanskeMicropub Version 2.0.9 was released. It includes support for media endpoint queries q=last, which retrieves the last image uploaded, as well as q=source, which is not fully fleshed out as a return option.
It also adds a key to the uploaded media from the Micropub endpoint so you can query items uplo…