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Words :vivaldi_blue: @[email protected] · 2026-03-03 · 18:39 UTC

Wonderfully colourful #sunset this evening over the South Downs. The #i360 tower is just visible on the left. On the right you can see #Brighton Race course. #photography

#sunset #i360 #brighton #photography

Spike @[email protected] · 2024-12-24 · 09:06 UTC

So the Brighton i360 has closed down...
Sad for the people who worked there obviously.
A few years back while the missus and myself were down there I thought what the hell let's do it. Wifey had done it before but I hadn't as I have a fear of heights. That day however I must have had a brain fart as I thought it can't be all that bad and it'll be fun.
Well I was wrong and I'm not afraid to admit that it absolutely terrified me.

#brighton #i360 #brightonseafront #blackandwhite #mono #monochrome

#monochrome #mono #blackandwhite #brightonseafront #i360 #brighton

Chuck Darwin @[email protected] · 2024-11-23 · 19:37 UTC

Different though they be,
the #Mercers and the #DeVoses share another common trait:
both families are part of the right-wing political donor network built by #Charles and #David #Koch,
principals in Koch Industries,
the second-largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes.

Yet each power-donor family has also built its own assemblage of political organizations and entities.
Most of these are nonprofit organizations, but a few, such as the Koch-controlled data firm #i360
—a platform for collecting and processing voter data that is poised to gain operational control over the Republican Party
—are privately held, for-profit companies.
This makes the Kochs much more than an outsize example of the destructive force of “corporate money” in the political system;
rather, their efforts exemplify the rapid cartelization of our public life under a network of private wealth.
The Koch donor network is, by and large, a confluence of capital collected by privately held companies.
In essence, the money that flows through the Koch network of interlocking political entities isn’t just “#dark #money”
—it’s money double-dipped in darkness,
🔸first through the rules governing the companies from whence it came,
🔸and again as it flows into a political system clogged with equally opaque nonprofit political operations that exist outside of the political party structure.

#Mercer money is often double-dark, as well.
It’s said that the father-and-daughter team would like to build a constellation of their own institutions
to challenge the Kochs’ sprawling collection of nonprofit think tanks, advocacy groups, and the occasional for-profit political venture.
Witness Robert Mercer’s investment in a for-profit voter data startup that the Ted Cruz campaign subcontracted to use in the 2016 election cycle.
(Both Mercers backed Cruz during the GOP primary.)

#mercers #devoses #charles #david #koch #i360