@UP8@mastodon.social2025-07-27 22:15:23
🏗️ Tear it down they said... but he kept on building
(looks like China has an answer to the Watts Towers!)
#buildings #housing #china
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-07-27 22:15:23
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-18 22:20:53
Content warning: Law / UKPol / Palestine
Useful bit of political/legal analysis from @….
Plus bonus enjoyment from this little piece of advice:
"(As a general rule, the more reliance which is placed on how “distinguished” a lawyer is making a point, the weaker the legal point being made.)"
Haha!
#law #UKPol #Palestine
@spamless@mastodon.social2025-07-08 18:26:49
@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue2025-05-30 15:49:24
@kctipton@mas.to2025-07-15 18:13:10
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court #fascism
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-06-09 07:35:49
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-08-06 10:56:24
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-23 07:15:43
Content warning: Consultation on protections against toxins, UK
"This consultation will last for 8 weeks from 23 June 2025 until 18 August 2025. Responses must be received by 23:59 on 18 August 2025."
(see previous post for context)
#ToxicChemicals #law #UKLaw #UKPol #Brexit
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-22 14:00:46
Content warning: UK protests & terrorism laws
Useful analysis from Nour Haidar on the wider implications of proscribing Palestine Action, inc blurring the difference between property-harm and people-harm.
#UK #terrorism #law #UKPol #UKlaw #PalestineAction
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-23 07:11:34
Content warning: Starmer & co keen to cut protections against toxins
"Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead"
George Monbiot explains:
"Yes, these proposals might reduce costs for business. But the inevitable result is to transfer them to society. ...
"Many have paid with their lives, health, education or livelihoods for previous “bonfires of red tape”: through the Grenfell Tower disaster, filthy rivers, collapsing classrooms, consumer rip-offs and the 2008 financial crisis. But as long as these costs can be shifted off corporate and current government balance sheets, that is deemed a win for business and win for the Treasury."
#ToxicChemicals #law #UKLaw #UKPol #KeirStarmer #RachelReeves #LabourParty
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-07 08:13:01
housing ownership law possibilities
Should we maybe have a law that says any one person or entity can only own a max of 2 houses? Or that you can only own 1 not being lived in by your immediate family?
I can see several reasonable use cases for having 1 extra house, including when an old person dies and the family takes a while to decide what's happening with their previous house. And we could debate those cases, and maybe even decide it's not worth arguing over 2 or 3 extra, because that isn't the biggest problem.
But I think we could possibly mostly agree that having one person or company own 5 or 10 or 50 or 500 houses just to extract profit from them is not good for overall wellbeing.
#housing #law #HouseOwnership #HousingMarket #renting #RentalMarket
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-17 08:51:40
Content warning: UK police suppression of support for Palestine
UK police conflating "support for Palestine" with "support for proscribed group Palestine Action".
When they passed that law, I _thought_ things might slide this way at some point!
"In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”
"He went on to say that the phrase “Free Gaza” is “supportive of Palestine Action”, adding it was an offence “to express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, namely Palestine Action is an offence under section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act”. The officer told her she had committed that offence."
Starmer & co really need to speak out if this _wasn't_ exactly what they wanted to have happen :-/
#FreedomOfSpeech #UK #law #PalestineAction #censorship #police #Palestine #Israel #UKPol