You’ve heard of Britain First, haven’t you … ?
At least, you will have done: by now.
They are one of Britain’s more notorious far right group, noted for an hardline anti-Muslim stance, and very sympathetic to the likes of the Ku Klux Klan, and Germany’s AfD.
They have huge online presence: that is much larger than their (thankfully tiny) real-world one.
They’ve had a free advert.
In the form of three re-tweets from President Donald Trump.
Which has earnt him a lot of condemnation, internationally.
From several members of the Conservative government who are of an Islamic background.
So POTUS has endorsed the views of a vile, hate-filled racist organisation that hates me and people like me. He is wrong and I refuse to let it go and say nothing— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) November 29, 2017
And from the Prime Minister, Theresa May.
That condemnation by her? Is possibly the only reason I have for voting Conservative.
Trump has issued another tweet: ticking the Prime Minister off.
Frankly?
He wouldn’t have need to: had he not retweeted videos from Britain’s most notorious neo-nazis.
As far as I’m concerned? As far as I’m concerned, the man is spreading hatred and bile: and, with the words of warning to the PM, poking his nose into the UK’s affairs.
In a way that’s ill-advised, and very unwanted.
Personally?
I know that the President has had a formal invite: to make a state visit to the UK.
He’s not a man I want in the UK.
I can only hope the invite is withdrawn: or that protestors make Trump’s visit a bloody, tomato hurling misery.
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Oh, one more thing …
I mentioned, yesterday, that there’d been an issue: for Macs running High Sierra.
Basically, using the word ‘root’ as a login name, leaving the password field blank, and hitting a few times, logs you into the machine: with root access.
Thankfully?
Apple have responded quickly: and issued a patch that should be installed automatically.
According to the BBC, the patch will go on machines running High Sierra: and, interestingly, “Users running older versions of MacOS will see a notification prompting an upgrade.”
I might just have top keep an eye peeled for that.
The possibility’s been worrying me since the news broke.
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