@4eb6eb14 Much safer. Safer cars, safer roads, safer food, fewer guns, slightly saner politicians. 

 @4eb6eb14 Enjoy it, it's a very, very strange place. Also very large, of course, but all the bits of it I have visited have been very, very strange. 

 @4ea1bdab Do you mean 1.7 hectares? 

 @b870d4c8 indeed. But then the only countries in Europe to use FPTP voting are Belarus and the UK.

Curious, that. 

 @b870d4c8 The normalisation of the extreme-right by the centre-right in the UK went like this.

* We will never work with them;
* But we will adopt all their policies in order to stop bleeding vote-share to them;
* Whoops! We seem to have become them, and trashed the whole country in the process;
* Never mind, the previously soft-left opposition have moved in to fill the centre right space we vacated, so now the voters have no one to vote for* except right wing parties.

* England only 

 @ec165dd5 

4. your children's education won't be disrupted by other children acting up because they are hungry.

5. you are a decent human being. 

 @5c4b686f USB based KVMs are simple and cheap (and work). 

 @35910b88 You can't really blame the Tor folk. They do something genuinely useful, and they're short of financial support. 

 @74d39ae2 Please can I ask people who are concerned by this to sign the petition to devolve powers to admit refugees to Scotland, Wales, and Nothern Ireland, and to boost this message?

#RefugeesAreWelcomeHere 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638626

https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/110/886/281/575/176/747/original/588c737f1b7811a1.png 

 @f884fa2b one thing the world cannot afford is irresponsible for-profit media.