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Thoroughingly enjoyed the article, love a well reasoned thought piece. Is there an issue with liberal vs leftist respectful discussions/arguments that nobody can agree on what capitalism is but people assume their interpretation is the correct, and the conversation has to use that framing?
We’ve got a choice between someone who’ll scam you into thinking you have a pair of big tits or a pair of big tits trying to scam you.
The Gemini is giving me strong Moore and Craig vibes though it might be because Moore has the clear blue eyes. It’s interesting how neither look like Connery.
JD Vance is starting early
What type of pop song? Are we talking something like Jason Derulo, Weeknd, ABBA?
Actually fuck off. Who is the EHRC to tell voluntary associations what to and what not to do?
Via Ronald S. on FB.
Had the best disability representation as well youtu.be/YYHxOdqepl8?...
Getting my tinfoil party hat. Trump giving Ghislaine Maxwell a cushy cell in exchange for saying he wasn’t on the list all but confirmed Trump was on the list. This reduced the leverage Putin had on Trump and Trump’s worth as an asset.
I am AMAZED there are not more people at the very least pointing out that this lightning-fast deterioration in Trump's health, happened only a few days after he had a lovely cup of Polonium tea and a slice of Novichok marble cake, with his best friend from Moscow.
As PCS is the union for the civil service, we’re solutions commissioned by PCS or were they just union members?
Following on from something you said a free days ago about Labour needing to be more aggressive in taking shots, Kemi fiddling her CV after joining in on the “Rachel from accounts” bandwagon, is a clear open goal for Starmer.
The only hinderance here is you. It’s all well and good putting “Threat to snobs” in your bio then behave like a snob. This type of nonsense may work on BlueSky but in the real world your prickish attitude is off putting and people will vote against you because you are acting the twat. Grow up.
If you think that’s condescending, I don’t think you know what that word means.
Don’t tell me the Americans converted you
I’d have to try and dig out the quote but when Rhun Ap Iowerth was asked about PR letting in Reform, his response was along the lines of “I don’t like it but that’s democracy. It’s my job to convince you not to vote Reform, not to block it.” and we have to be that honest about PR.
Currently 1/3rd of the people decide what the other 2/3rds do. PR is ensuring the majority decide.
Reform are making inroads in Wales and the St George Cross is appearing on Welsh roundabouts. The racists operating in England are the same ones operating in Wales and what’s happening to your flag will happen to ours. It’s a UK wide problem and needs a UK wide, not an English only, response.
He could also show up at the current world cup being hosted *in England* and support the England women, clear tournament favourites and the strongest women's rugby team in the world. (I know it's rugby union, not the national sport, but it's happening *now*! And he could invite the Lionesses too!)
I agree with the sentiment but he is the UK Prime Minister, not the English Prime Minister. He should also make the effort to go to the Scottish and Welsh teams who are also in the tournament, not just having a St George Cross in the cabinet office.
Starmer is the Brick of British Politics youtu.be/Ld35lMnFQ10?...
You can't just say 'the problem is using the flag divisively', you have to set out and demonstrate what using it in a non-divisive way means.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social @bestforbritain.org and @peterstefanovic.bsky.social are good starters. Accounts like @gilesyb.bsky.social and @stephenkb.bsky.social offer good counterbalance on the mechanics of politics.
Noticed my feed is far to political. Anyone got recommendations for NON-POLITICAL fun stuff like football, memes, comics, etc? And by football I mean the one where you touch the ball with your feet, not use your hands like a cheat.
So we get to claim anything prior to 2011 as a Welsh cuisine? Suck it England, Chicken Tikka Massala is a Welsh national cuisine…and suck it Americans, that also qualifies it as a British national cuisine.
Wonderful end to a first season. Alex does a wonderful job of weaving Greek mythology through classical, popculture and historical lenses to look at what it meant then and what it means now and a bit in between. Alex also has a lovely soothing voice so it’s as relaxing as it is informative.
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
Perseus was born from “golden rain”?So he’s the progeny from Zeus’s golden shower which explains why he’s a piss poor hero.
As part of amateur dramatics we had to learn improv (not the comedic variety) and it did wonders for my self confidence. Being anxious and fearful is the reason to go.
Still don’t understand how football did it worse than rugby. In Rugby you’ve got a mic’d up ref telling the official what their decision is, why they are asking the official to check and the official must show evidence to refute the ref otherwise the ref’s decision stands. Quick and simple.
Can’t blame Arteta, I remember back in ~2010 when Ramsey, Wiltshire and Rosicky were all sidelined for months with leg injuries.
That wasn’t what I was referring to and the “whole educate yourself” is a silly thing to say when all you’ve got is a web article. All claims under article 8 have to be considered, even if they are junk claims and just because it was refused in one instance, that can’t be used to refuse other cases
My fantasy football team is 3/4’s ManCity and Nottingham Forest
And how exactly is that doing Farage’s work? Laws aren’t perfect and do need reviewing and in this case Article 8 is very broad and undefined. What is “private life” and what is its limits? Under the wording being separated from pets is a potential infringement of “private life”.
I always found it weird that a kids cartoon for girls did a better representation of my experience as an autistic male than ANY of the actual male autistics shown on screen. (Before the jokes come in, I don’t think I’m an intergalactic space princess that’s into robots) youtu.be/auu11vLeamo?...
I used this methodology when naming the kids youtu.be/RiQiTz3KWCE?...
But how much of that demand is preventable and can be mitigated? My wife’s aunt is in hospital and has been for weeks. She’s simply waiting for a sign-off and placement in a non-AE hospital but those cheaper spaces aren’t available. Improving pre and post care should be more cost-effective for OAPs
I’ve never trusted the Greens, always had an air of NIMBY Lib Dem’s. It’s more the general sense that Labour are becoming increasingly irrelevant in the political narrative (Starmer is presented as more Major and Sunak than Blair and Thatcher) that attack ads aren’t really about them, it’s Reform
@quietriotpod.bsky.social BREAD. IS. WOKE! #WokeyDokey
This is the bit where I give the Greens some grace. In my lifetime I’ve never seen a situation where one year into a new parliament the focus is on a minority party, Reform, and attack ads are aimed at that minority party’s narrative, not the newly elected government.
It’s more complex and nuanced so doesn’t sit well in a political attack ad but it would be nice if the conversation was more around how we fix things rather than who we blame.
Isn’t the whole conversation around NHS funding dishonest? The Greens and Reform (lesser extent Labour and Tories) are arguing it’s underfunded but nobody is talking about the mechanisms that are being funded. Pre-Reform, the political conversation in Wales was about primary and secondary care funds
Anybody promoting efforts to promote patriotic pride in good faith needs to be very vocal about racist abuse by vandals, thugs and criminals who believe aggressive prejudice towards minorities is the intended message
OK, hear me out...A LORD OF THE RINGS remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
This is what communities are about. It isn't knuckle dragging morons disrespecting the flag to spread hate, it is people like Crystal Clean Windows. We saw it after the riots last year. The far right are not representative of local communities. H/t to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for the original post.
That is just crying out to have the signs rainbowed.
Watching the Scotland vs Fiji in the Women’s Rugby World Cup match and it’s surprising what an impact good refereeing has on the game. Not just decision making, the ref is clear, concise and mic’d with decisions broadcast to the stadium. The game flowed well and was a joy to watch.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Whatever you think of it, 'The Book of Mormon' has been playing for years, 'Under the Banner of Heaven' was nominated for an Emmy. There are endless books and movies that question and poke fun at Christianity. You couldn't make 'Life of Brian' now because it would be a bit juvenile and passé.
I lost the argument for free speech in the early 2000s thanks to internet racists and pearl clutching liberals but f me. Had to verify my age because this image is mature content. This is an He111 flown by Nazis trying to wipe out a democracy. Fucking MPs, this is how you kill memory.
And a populace that seems to generally be okay with ICE, who are better funded than most militaries, pulling people off the street as well as deployment of actual troops into opposition states.
It feels the joke could go the other way and you show a fully armoured warrior get impaled or ripped apart by a monster and have Red Sonja make a comment about it being ineffective. And also, yeah, it’s a genre about oiled up, almost naked men with a big sword, “armouring” her makes her look weak
Pithy comment but economics is hard and people, myself included, don’t understand it and there’s not a lot of unbiased content that’s engaging. Immigration on the other hand is fundamentally about people, people you are likely to encounter.
I know it’s a silly thing but the joke about the armour at the end of the trailer put me off. Apart from the joke not working because she’s not wearing armour in the movie, it’s X-Men black leather all over again, someone wanting to “fix” the IP because comics are silly and it sets a vibe.
Are we including the latest one, because he wasn’t transgender. He detransitioned as part of his radicalisation.
A child whose parents refused to “give them the autism label” is still, inexplicably, autistic as fuck, it has been rumoured.
This is where I think people get things wrong. Movements don’t spawn these types of people, these types of people spawn movements. Your Pat Condell’s were always anti-Muslim, Nü Atheism (and other movements) just gave them the platform and language to promote it. Same way sex pests become feminists
I was coming out of Christianity at the time, and you could see a pattern in Dawkins’ targets, on the Christian side he’d only go for poor whites or Africans with the energy of religion is bad because these people are dumb. It’s the same way Gervais always made Karl Pilkington the butt of his jokes.
Dawkins wasn’t a development, the signs were clear for him and a lot of the “critical-thinkers” and new-atheists right from the jump. Their works had an almost incel-like quality, they were superior people persecuted for their superiority and it was their job to wake the sheeple up.
By *British politics* are we talking about politicians, professional political commentators, amateur/social media political commentators or a mixture?
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"Violence comes from fear, and love drives out fear" should be such a simple, unassailable, straightforward thing to read, but in a world so saturated with fear and hate it's like a hammer blow.
Infuriating? This isn’t Twitter, at least not yet, though if my time came across as aggrieved I’ll take responsibility for that. I should’ve been clearer in the resignation in the statement felt weird, almost that MSM bias for Farage is an unsolvable act so MPs have to look elsewhere for coverage
This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.
People need to learn to not overreact to the overreaction to the reaction. Was this a rant? No, it was tame by politic show standards. He repeated a narrative and he said it was a narrative, he expressed it as a perception, not truth or fact. Attack the narrative, not the person.
I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...
For those in Wales unsure of how to vote next May in the Senedd elections - bear this in mind...
Assassin’s creed is what was being discussed in the podcast 😊
Not trying to conflate the two, but having dealt with MP letters, and there was the select committee with OFCOM three months ago, MPs do have tools and mechanisms that we don’t which he can use in this situation. With the example you presented him, the response felt a little too “oh well, moving on”
Do they even need a defence anymore?
The entire establishment right now is like “I’m sorry but only the bigotry we’re actively whipping up from fucking NOTHING can win elections”
Loved the episode though there was something that Andrew said which was weird and that was regarding complaining about coverage. His party is in charge of OFCOM whose remit includes overseeing political coverage AND his party amended the code to say MP’s cannot present news but can have news shows.
The black samurai is an actual historical figure called Yasuke that is very popular in Japan and appears quite often in their popculture. The bigot’s argument was that he “technically” wasn’t a samurai.
I HATE the "autism friendly" screenings at my local cinema. They leave the lights on! How is that autism friendly? YOU'VE FUCKED WITH THE ROUTINE OF FILM-GOING! I JUST WANT TO SIT IN PITCH DARKNESS AND LOSE MYSELF IN THE FILM AND I CAN'T DO THAT WITH ORANGE STRIP LIGHTS IN MY PERIPHERAL VISION!
One trans woman dies a mass shooting - OMG, transitioning turns you into a mass murderer! White Male #238 does a mass shooting - Just another lone wolf, nothing to connect them to the other 237 white male lone wolves.
I’m unscientifically going to label Ricky Gervais as the root of all of the UK’s problems. Why? He popularised being a cunt as a virtue. Since the Office his whole schtick has been his aggressive prickish behaviour made him superior. Now media, politics and life is full of RG inspired twats.
Mr.Beast melting down over not being as highly ranked an influencer on Rolling Stone's list is really funny because he doesn't realize he's not influential. He's a brand. It's like if a think tank representing Chipotle got upset that TIME magazine didn't consider their burrito as a thought leader
Loved this episode, reminded me of my church childhood and how, much like the Tortoise and the Hare, everybody gets the Good Samaritan parable wrong and misses the actual point.
Once all the players and the keepers have taken penalties the order should be: - Managers - Mascots - Random fans
He’s practicing tantric death, so he’s holding onto that sweet release to increase his own pleasure.
You can already guarantee that if Labour gets shellacked in Welsh elections the UK's main media outlets and Labour's campaign strategists will spend far more time agonising over why right-wing voters defected to Reform rather than why Labour's actual core support defected to Plaid Cymru
This is my opinion, and I’m not especially interested in a debate about it, but if you’re still supporting Labour, I think it’s important that you examine why, and whether your own principles can accommodate who they are telling you, daily, that they are.
Labour’s plan to remove inactive peers is welcome, but the second chamber will still be undemocratic. I’ve long called for scrapping the unelected House of Lords and replacing it with an elected second chamber that truly represents the people.
You do realise a referendum is just a poll and doesn’t matter? Farage has made it a policy position so every by-election and the next GE is effectively a referendum but with actual consequences.
As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.
So he’s defending the ECHR the same way Cameron defended the EU? We are so screwed.
The overplatforming of Reform and lack of coverage of bigger parties is the huge elephant in the room in most newsrooms atm. Broadcast journalists (not paper hacks) taught to be fair & balanced seeing saturation coverage.Sign the petition let’s create a debate. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
"Bluntly, if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself."- on.ft.com/3HKB1zO via @stephenkb.bsky.social
Whatever one's view on the specifics of Farage's plans, it's so remarkable how people can't see what a slippery slope it is to allow the government to exclude certain named groups from the legal protections afforded to everyone else. How are we so blind to the dangers of this?
When I was a team leader I had to train my staff to do that as part of their day job. Even outside of labour disputes, companies try to instil that collectivism/above and beyond mentality. Literally told them they needed to just do their job so I could argue for more staff to reduce their pressure.
Whoever needs reminding: the Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation, following one of its greatest tragedies. For us to leave it would not only undermine all our own rights and freedoms, it would be a completely immoral abdication of responsibility.
@the1janitor.bsky.social just caught your new video and hands down it’s the best one you’ve done. Glad you did t wear the purple shirt, that would’ve been an awful version. Scrubs was my favourite version. The details change but the outcome remains the same which is a rare take for that trope.
They rely on Christianity as well, it’s just the American variety.
A Westminster government allowing devolved leaders actual control? *Laughs in Welsh*
Isn’t this framing an issue? We know of Israel’s actions against Palestinians prior to October 7th. So if Israel was within its rights to respond to the October 7th attacks, by that reasoning Hamas (technically Palestine’s government) had the right to respond to Israel’s continued attacks prior.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
@pimlicat.bsky.social - CEO of Best for Britain: ⚠️“Stoking fears over immigration as a way to remove our basic rights is right out of the authoritarian playbook We cannot allow the same to happen here. Rights are not something we can trust Farage to rewrite." www.bestforbritain.org/farage_can_t...