I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
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I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
And we thought Braverman was the enemy of civil liberties….
Real mask off moment as one-by-one every single GC figure approvingly shares the Linehan tweet where he says you should assault trans women if they dare to use women's bathrooms.
Why is it Labour that repeatedly ends up advocating for the most authoritarian infringements of civil liberties, despite their alleged commitments to human rights. We see it with the ECHR. Now we're seeing it with digital ID cards. We need to debate the surveillance state. www.ft.com/content/8fb8...
You'd think a motherfucker who used to be a prosecutor would know better than to interfere with an active investigation, but he's not named Sir Queer Harmer for nothing.
Well, there we have it. Keir Starmer comes to the aid of a man who was arrested for inciting violence against trans women.
The Economist's UK newsletter, Blighty, this week
Your Party looking deader and more toxic by the hour.
Reanimation sequence malfunction
Oh, I just remembered this meme that I made ages ago. I think the half-dozen question marks are a bit much but, well, it's still gonna be evergreen for the forseeable.
Nazi Punks Fuck Off.
The markets are pricing in an expected tax rise and/or difficult autumn budget, as well as poor manufacturing data and better than expected eurozone inflation numbers. So it's not just one thing, but several smaller things all in the same direction.
Another punchy and well-written post from @mattcarr.substack.com. Well worth your time.
I would be too embarrased to admit this is how I felt
Transphobes would have a lot less reach on here if everyone stopped arguing with them and quoting their posts to dunk on them, they don't give a rat's ass about your arguments and enjoy wasting your time.
I'll say this for Reform: they give you plenty to blog about.
With the statements coming from Keir Starmer's government, it's a massive reach to include Labour in any definition of the progressive left.
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I would love one.
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
Providing safe & legal routes for refugees is a significant way we can reduce the number of small boat crossings and tragic deaths in the Channel. So why has the Government just restricted family reunion - one of the few safe routes that currently exists? This is cruel madness.
"The St George's cross is irrevocably tainted with anti-migrant and anti-muslim politics, we should fly Richard the Lionheart's standard instead" is, if nothing else, a very funny thing to say
Ahhhh
Oh I see
"On trans issues." He was telling people to physically assault us.
Speaking as a relatively inside view person in the LibDems; I very much doubt that many of the YP people would be acceptable to the LibDems.
That is why understanding the first principles of your political beliefs is so important. You have to know and be able to reason to yourself why you are taking a position before you can convince anyone else.
This orphaned reply to a long-lost post deserves to be read and remembered.
Nothing says "English Patriots" like desecrating a war memorial Gullis' "Desecration of War Memorials Bill" became law in 2022 - with up to 10 years in prison I'm sure Gullis will be on it any minute now...
Yeah, I'm a rugby fan and have been avidly watching the WRWC, but there's no way in the current climate I would fly an English flag. The biggest reason people don't fly the English flag is that it has become tainted by association with the far-right.
Yeah, I'm a rugby fan and have been avidly watching the WRWC, but there's no way in the current climate I would fly an English flag. The biggest reason people don't fly the English flag is that it has become tainted by association with the far-right.
Green Party of England and Wales, leadership election result: Zack Polanski: 20,411 (85%) Adrian Ramsay & Ellie Chowns: 3,705 (15%)
Quite right. Need to save the ammo for the next election, after all!
When Nigel Farage said he'd feel uncomfortable living next door to Romanian migrants, his comments were widely condemned, with then Labour leader Ed Miliband calling them a "racial slur". Now 11 years later, such sentiments are not just condoned, but actively encouraged by our Labour Prime Minister
This is England.
Yeah. Flying the English flag outside of Saint George's day, national team sporting events and ~maybe~ remembrance sunday/armistice day is a bit sus.
It's the Banner of Arms of England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of...
Excellent work by whoever chose this photo
I don't think we can reclaim the flag. I think it's too tarnished a brand and a symbol. I do however think that there's a lot to celebrate about England and English people.. myself include it... are often too nervous to do that because the ground is occupied by numbskull nationalists.
Yes, I suppose we shouldn't criticise the Labour party for not completely packing up and ceasing to exist when they are splitting the left vote, tempting as it may be.
"It can be irritating to feel like your national identity is one of the few it’s unacceptable to take pride in: it’s not as though France and Spain and a dozen other countries don’t have their own imperial-atrocity strewn history to contend with." With a heavy heart, I have written about flags.
"We must continue to deliver on credible policy commitments for everyone except trans people, immigrants, and the disabled. Obviously. I mean they don't count as people." There you go, fixed it for you.
I tremble in fear at the approach of poppy season this year
Tighter refugee family reunion rules 'counter-productive', with more relatives trying small boats, #LibDems claim www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
I'm not remotely surprised racists feel enabled with the wins they've had this year. It's no different to the two different groups that yelled transphobic abuse at me in the supermarket the day after the Supreme Court ruling in April. Stop giving wins to bigots, or you'll see more of this.
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
Furry Happy Monsters - I saw this on late night TV while drifting in and out of pain-coloured sleep and thought I'd hallucinated it for a decade until YouTube was invented. youtu.be/J9G1FhQUnSo?...
I think the thing that gets me is that I did have ethics classes in university. It’s just that the classes always turned into the women, nonbinary, and other marginalized people giving a shit and the cis dude bros not understanding why it was that important.
I mean, he could try not just implementing Farage’s policies to the point where it’s unclear what the point in voting for him is: either you like Farage’s policies, in which case you vote Reform, or you don’t, in which case why vote for a tribute act?
That'll be this one: www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...
Nightswimming
Trans people chalk on a statue? • Home Secretary statement of outrage. Anti genocide in Gaza campaigners political action with red paint? • “Terrorism”. This? • This is a national embarrassment and the Labour government is shoving it so far up it’s sticking out:
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
Controversial opinion: there is no such thing as fat free vinaigrette. If it has no fat, it can't be vinaigrette. Or, in fact, salad dressing of any kind. It's just sad water.
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
How did we miss this? They like roundabouts because to use them you have to give way to the right 🤦🏾
"artist"
Ok we schedule our content weeks in advance I swear this timing is a coincidence
Find out more about the action the Liberal Democrats are taking to end the suffering in Gaza and the West Bank, and secure the release of hostages. www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...
According to a Washington Post investigation, sites that complied with the new law now see their traffic switch to non-compliant websites. Slow hand clap.
Great explainer: The ECHR is protecting everyone in the UK 🚨 "Reform has touted its plan as a 'legal reset'. But it is better understood as a total rejection of the UK’s postwar international commitments to protect the human rights of everyone within its jurisdiction." https://bit.ly/3JYzaI8
Anyway I'd like to thank the British media, Jaren Karen Wizardbigot, and a bunch of American evangelicals and their lobbying money for making that happen. Arseholes.
Just been informed by a gentleman, while walking the dog "we don't accept you". When I asked him to clarify he said "lesbos and trannies". No idea who he meant by "we" given he was on his own. L'espirit d'escalier wishes I'd replied "you clearly don't accept soap either" given his personal hygiene.
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
You can’t out-fash the fash. Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE NOT ILLEGAL FUCKING IMMIGRANTS
Proof that Labour has been captured by the transphobes.
Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel
What, exactly, is the fucking point of the Labour Party?
This breaks both laws and conventions, but mostly is deeply immoral
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Starmer encouraging the racists. Sex Matters TERF appointed at number 10. Yvette Cooper turning the thumbscrews on immigration. I knew they'd be horrific. I knew. But I didn't know they'd be this relentlessly horrific every fucking day.
Sex Matters has deleted his page from its website - but the internet never forgets. web.archive.org/web/20241107...
Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
This is a tactical, as well as moral, error. Musk is spectacularly unpopular in the UK. There's a chance to take the patriotic high-ground, calling out foreign billionaires stoking up violence in Britain, without being seen to dismiss "ordinary people". And you can challenge Reform to back you.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
It depends on the charger; with an ultra-rapid 350kW charging station you can be at 80% within 15 minutes, and that's from near-empty (80% charge when fast charging is usually the aim point, for battery longevity reasons). But those chargers need substantial industrial power supply.
The short answer is that a Solar + Battery solution struggles to deliver enough power to fast-charge economically, especially at scale. To do that you need to have something akin to industrial supply, which remote fuel stations won't have.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
I saw a comment on .. somewhere where a person referred to people who love AI as “botlickers” and I haven’t stopped laughing about it
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Who is Tony Yates and why am I suddenly being bombarded by hot takes about something he's done or said? And should I care?
As the old saying goes: the difference between Europeans and Americans is that Europeans think 200km is a long distance, and Americans think 200 years is a long time.
You do occasionally see USians wanting to visit Europe and wanting to hire a car for their stay, because your society doesn't have the concept of a public transport network any more. This is often a thing on Reddit tourism threads.
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
I went to see a Brexit live debate thing in 2016 where Douglas Carswell was speaking. Someone in the audience suggested putting guns at the border to deter immigrants, Carswell was horrified, immediately said that's not what Leave was all about. Would he say that now? Doubt it.
This term doesn’t get used much in UK politics, but this is a pretty clear case of consent manufacturing, right?
India's alignment does not come as a surprise (at least to me); Indian agriculture is dependent on fertilizer imports - mostly from Russia.
Yvette Cooper assuming that she has the right to unilaterally rewrite an international agreement is pure post-Brexit British delusion.
So the next big press push in the uk is leaving the ECHR. And they’re using us to do it. We fucking warned you a LOT of yeas ago, and REPEATEDLY since.
A lot of the comments here seem not to realise that Labour is now far more racist than Tories like Ted Heath. He sent Enoch Powell packing. Starmer and his fellow travellers would have said he had "legitimate concerns".
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