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2024-07-08 14:20:16

Labour seem to be careful to avoid any suggestions that freedom of movement might return.
Why? The only people in the country that still think FoM was a bad thing are simultaneously whining about losing their Spanish residency

2024-07-05 12:54:12

I'm actually looking forward to seeing if the centrist melts were right and Starmer was just cosplaying an evil Tory scumbag in order to get into power. He cosplayed a socialist to get the leadership, after all.
I'm not holding my breath but it would be great if I've been wrong for years.
#ukpol

2024-07-05 12:32:48

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His wig may have to be forcibly removed from his seat, however.

2024-07-05 12:31:51

Happy Prime Ministerless-time
Remember it only comes for a few minutes every few years
#ukpol

2024-07-02 12:04:38

Starmer is in favour of genital inspections before being allowed to piss.
Seriously, there's no other way to read what he said.
Don't vote Labour, there are plenty of other ways to get the Tories out. If you're in a close marginal, I won't condemn you for holding your nose but seriously, if you're still an actual Labour supporter now then you're no trans ally.
#UKpol #TransRights

2024-06-28 10:46:34

Sheesh. I didn't expect Starmer to go to war with Tennant too.
Even though he's a Tory. I guess people need reminding that he's also a transphobe.

2024-06-15 12:08:34

Subtle language point: I get wary when I see someone using "his or her" and "he or she" as pronouns.
These are in widespread use so they're valid English but to me when a native speaker uses them, that's starting to indicate transphobia. The trans-friendly singular pronouns for someone of undetermined gender are they/there.
Example: They were wearing a cool hat and I liked their shoes
Not: He or she was wearing a cool hat and I liked his or her shoes

2024-06-13 09:13:35

What did Brexit voters hope to get out of it? Seriously.
We know what the rich wanted, they wanted to evade new tax evasion laws coming from the EU.
Everything else was complete rubbish and it was complete rubbish before we did it. And anybody that spent more than ten seconds looking at the facts, knew it was complete rubbish.

2024-06-12 11:22:42

Parts of the US are making laws that ban wearing masks even if you are clinically vulnerable.
Like me.
This is eugenics. It's an attempt to kill the disabled. Wonder how long it'll be before the Heritage Foundation manage to bribe British politicians into doing it here?

2024-06-07 10:47:18

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Thanks.
Did either of them propose actually doing anything significant?

2024-06-07 10:07:04

#ukpol
Have either of the Tory parties said anything about the climate emergency yet?
I understand it's not all that important that half the planet is going to be uninhabitable in a few decades/s but I thought it might be at least worth a footnote

2024-06-06 11:09:43

Interesting that Spain and South Africa, countries that have experienced full-on fascism and apartheid in living memory, are supporting the ICJ case
There can't be a connection surely
Meanwhile in the USA, sanctions for members of the court because genocide is fine when friends do it and we can't have people trying to stop it

2024-06-03 12:45:04

Random musing
Has anybody looked into gravitational potential energy storage systems for your wind and solar?
As in, using a motor to raise a large weight, then using that to drive a generator as it falls, on a still dark night.

2024-05-31 15:25:05

I don't know why people keep saying locking Trump up wouldn't help.
He's not a tough guy. He's an old bloke who's never done a day's work in his life and who ran from the draft. He's used to shitting on golden toilets and having his arse wiped for him by his servants.
He'll be eaten alive in a prison. He won't come out the same person, if he comes out at all.

2024-05-24 19:13:18

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* wipes sweat off brow *

2024-05-24 19:09:56

A fedizen I like and respect advises people to mute if someone's in the feed too much, and now I don't want to post at all. Because I'm probably that post-too-much-one.
Autistic life innit.
Amusing though that my phone corrects fedizen to geezer

2024-05-23 11:16:56

Anybody got experience of buying the sort of EVs you can pick up now in the UK for 5 or 6 grand? Old-shape Leafs etc.
Nay-sayers will have you believe they're down to 500 metres battery range and smell of poo but I'm not convinced

2024-05-20 11:24:54

You know, it could have been fun if we'd developed AI that was about accurate indexing and retrieval of the world's body of knowledge, instead of just pretending to be the pissed bloke in the corner of the pub that thinks he knows everything and has seriously racist tendencies

2024-05-12 17:53:13

Expect I'm losing Scottish followers right now because I care less about supporting a party that wants Indy but is useless for getting it, more than human rights for queer people.
Shrug. I lost a lot of friends when I transitioned. Lost a lot of friends when I left Labour after Starmer turned out to be a transphobic liar. I'll cope, somehow

2024-05-12 10:05:26

I haven't properly thought this through but modern corporations are strangely analogous to what people used to think of supernatural entities.
Some of the comparisons, particularly regarding wage slavery and binding contracts are obvious but have you ever stopped and considered that corporations have no objective reality in the physical realm? They are subjective consensual hallucinations given power through the collective mind, and if they're malevolent - which they always are to varying degrees - then they're practically the definition of a demon.

2024-04-26 16:26:37

Hoping for some free advice in English law, and I'm aware that would worth what I paid for it but still...
If I was to take on a contract as an independent consultant operating as a sole trader, and a HMRC investigation later decided that the contract was actually disguised employment, who would be liable for employers NI? This client is trying to get me to indemnify them against that.
I don't think IR35 strictly applies because there's no intermediary.
Tempted to tell them to feck off but...

2024-04-22 15:41:53

Amusing Pond differences in English:
I just heard an American lass refer to another woman as "spunky"
Excuse me, I seem to be channelling Beavis and Butthead

2024-04-21 15:00:42

Anybody know if you're allowed to use Bluetooth headphones and the like on Ryanair planes?

2024-04-16 16:25:02

If I was asked to be a Trump juror I'd jump at the chance.
Would I be objective? Hell no, send him down now, don't bother with the trial
What's that you say? Threats from the far right? Babe, I'm trans, that's old news
Seriously though, someone just observed that this is a mob trial and it's not surprising they're struggling.

2024-03-29 11:30:17

Just laughed out loud.
I actually read a post that said "I don't see any threat from threads and I'm sure if they were found to be doing anything bad the fediverse would deal with it"
The Rohingya want a word mate.

2024-03-26 11:42:24

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What's under the blanket?

2024-03-22 18:47:19

Opinion: Nobody should have a veto at the UN.