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2026-05-30 12:42:39 UTC

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Oh, tell me more.

2026-05-30 10:11:46 UTC

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Yes, great... talking to the same 10 greybeards still lamenting Eternal September or whatever gatekeeping crap they use to keep people out of their clubhouse. Did that change since the last time I was active on Usenet around 15 years or so ago?

2026-05-08 10:59:28 UTC

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It is a bit soon but even so it does show the English have proved themselves to be idiots bound by ignorance, hate and xenophobia once again.

2026-04-09 09:02:56 UTC

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Is it? It's only a good step if it's purely optional and opportunities are made available that actually accommodate for disabilities. Most folk don't want the insistence of work even on a voluntary basis because it's a reminder of the constant push to get them into work they've been experiencing since they were first diagnosed.

2026-04-09 07:56:09 UTC

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A "right to try"? What's that supposed to mean, is it like the "right to work" thing in the US which works more like a "right to fire at will" for the employer? I figure "right to try" is veiled "you need to do this or your benefits will be stopped".

2026-04-06 08:01:53 UTC

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Blue badges have long been a target, petty little people thinking everyone's on the blag for the sake of a parking spot closer to the entrance. Nobody ever seems to concern themselves with why there's so many people in need of a blue badge, only to limit the count available.

2026-04-05 10:14:04 UTC

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Though it's not to say there isn't a long-term sickness issue, Covid has done a lot of silent damage.

2026-04-02 08:58:55 UTC

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"Controversial" seems like a very non-committal term for a clearly evil outfit.

2026-03-26 08:25:52 UTC

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How much austerity can you lay on people who've had austerity measures in some form or another since 2009?

2026-03-25 11:41:49 UTC

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They have no reason to be concerned though, the pride of the centrist is to not ask why but only to ask if it complies with the status quo.

2026-03-25 09:33:09 UTC

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Centrism is all about maintenance, be that keeping things steady for the unconcerned middle or the power structures that enable them to remain unconcerned at the cost of others. A fantasy perception of the world in a way but generally will treat any progressivism as an existential threat to the balance but fine with the sugared words of someone with a nice suit.

2026-03-18 14:08:04 UTC

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Between GBN and the BBC, Farage has had a very loud megaphone to blast his aural low tide and directly led us to Brexit and possibly a rebranded BNP being the leading party in England. Something most certainly needs to be done but with this rabble in charge it's unlikely they'd have done differently and might even envy him.

2026-03-06 09:49:59 UTC

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Late-stage capitalism looks a lot like the industrial revolution it turns out.

2026-03-05 09:06:36 UTC

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AI-driven Mastodon instances, quickly spun up and spam everyone before vanishing. Best to block anything from hf.space

2026-03-05 07:57:23 UTC

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The thing about playing to a far-right audience means you yourself become more far-right so this is just an extension of that, provided you weren't far-right all along.

2026-03-02 21:15:55 UTC

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I think "winning votes" is no longer their concern, just being as vindictive as possible because they only have so long to do it in. These are willful choices at this point.

2026-02-20 16:38:09 UTC

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The state is doing a lot to prop things up but not for the workers, it's all subsiding low wages so corporations can make larger profits.

2026-02-20 10:41:16 UTC

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Can always judge a society by how it treats their most in need. If they can consider it as something that didn't exist until it did they'll blame "over-diagnosis" which only acts to hurt those it supposedly helps. Generally they're considered "excess spending" and can be swept away into institutions or left to struggle.

2026-02-20 09:51:26 UTC

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Having been caught in that same net it's hard to explain how you are consistently discouraged from having much if any savings. Something big comes up, you're on your own because you can't have more than the cap allows and that cap was laughably low 16 years ago and has only gotten moreso over the last six years alone.

2026-02-20 09:47:49 UTC

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So the rentier mindset applied to professional certification, does explain a few things.

2026-02-20 09:45:18 UTC

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It's the wrong striation to pay attention to, it's one they'd like you to look at though because it isn't about the same aggressively sociopathic people being picked. The problem isn't the boys club but the people in the club.

2026-02-20 09:40:19 UTC

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Seems like the same logic DWP runs on where there's constant need to confirm and qualify for things in case you're one of those blaggers. What exactly a SEN child or teen is trying to scam is unclear but the government has this pathological need to make sure the process is onerous and draining enough that people drop out from the process or don't even try. The core is just an exercise in reducing the budget because that's all it ever is, appeasing beancounters who only want to see a budget used "correctly" regardless of the human cost.

2026-02-19 10:31:57 UTC

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Just images or does this expand out to hate speech and/or intentionally misleading speech as well?

2026-02-19 10:29:25 UTC

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Billionaires are such because they compromised a lot in pursuit of that money, they worked harder in that they sold more of their soul in terms of ethics, morality and stepping on people in order to attain wealth. Every billionaire bar none are responsible for the death of at least one person, that sort of money doesn't come without a body count.
The only true con in this I'd imagine is that they'd ever be caught.

2026-02-19 09:13:59 UTC

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This is the extreme end of "running a system hot", the components don't so much fail as explode.

2026-02-18 11:52:02 UTC

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They'll always, *always* hurt themselves if it'll hurt someone else more.

2026-02-18 08:46:42 UTC

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This fucking world makes no sense...

2026-02-17 09:13:16 UTC

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What's Elaine got to do with the economy?

2026-02-11 18:31:06 UTC

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I wouldn't even watch it, it's all very corrupt and doesn't deserve your attention much less your money.

2026-02-07 14:16:54 UTC

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An ever-optimistic honeysuckle who wanted to be the change they saw in the world.

2026-02-05 10:50:53 UTC

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While I'm not that big a fan of aggressive populism, Polanski's approach works for the Greens given they're typically seen as passive and soft and this gives them some much needed backbone to fight.

2026-02-04 10:38:05 UTC

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It's irrational to believe a ban will do anything, all it does is shift the problem onto the end users (i.e. everyone) when they should be doing something about the social media or banning it. Sounds censorious, right? It is but so is the other thing they're proposing, that they want to censor the u16s (and curtail the freedoms of over 16s) first before even trying to wrangle the giants of social media shows where the power really lies.

2026-02-01 08:38:40 UTC

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Sounds bad, especially given they have to name the concept of doing things without AI and it's the dumbest name possible. These people just keep trying to reinvent what exists and acting like it's a breakthrough, this is just that again and it will keep happening for as long as they continue to delegate thinking to their digital gods. Disregard it all.

2026-01-30 10:47:53 UTC

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They have done some good things but it's so few that far bigger negative things they've done outweigh it.

2026-01-28 08:39:29 UTC

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Would Canada be a decent ally for NATO to have?

2026-01-27 12:44:22 UTC

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And the culture war, even if it's just the rightwing participating in it against everyone else, is a front for a class war much in the same way Trump's gaggle of numpties and unemployables are. It's all just part of the same network of authoritarian fascists the world over.

2026-01-26 09:17:21 UTC

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There's no guts to try and change the status quo and make a better world, too beholden to the old ways of oligarchy though it does nothing for us and only leads to the problems we see today. We tried it, it failed everyone but the rich by turning them into the ultrarich and the world cannot sustain so many resources tied up in the hands of so few and especially not the hands of the most selfish and cruel of our species.
We need to destroy the old ways or we lose everything.

2026-01-25 09:04:26 UTC

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No, never have been for as long as students were extended a lot of things on credit. These are naive young people tasting the first hints of adulthood and the first thing they get to learn is how the weight of debt will crush them.

2026-01-20 17:16:38 UTC

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The loudness of silence is how I tend to think of it. As the world breathes out and becomes silent during that moment the quiet is all there is and *the quiet is all there is*.
The fear isn't from the silence itself but the lack of noise and how chilling hearing nothing can be, disaster may have happened.

2026-01-20 09:29:56 UTC

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It's the US working as they usually do, it's about who is loyal and who is disloyal but with a mercurial tyrant that status can flip in an instant.

2026-01-18 11:43:41 UTC

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Depending where you're located, yes. There's a reason that ICE rolled into places that don't have a high gun ownership level, they are not going where there's a high chance they will be fired at.

2026-01-18 10:11:00 UTC

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If it does then initially it won't be a civil war, war does require both sides to be active combatants. This'll be more like a massacre.

2026-01-18 10:10:01 UTC

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The potential of a civil war has been one of the key aspects to the architects of Project 2025, think of it as the fully metastasised form of the "culture war" ongoing in the US. The core purpose is to purge what they see as liberal bastions of the country corrupting their pure ways, to make the white homogenous Christian patriarchal society they want a reality. There's also ego, bloodthirst and revenge involved but generally the idea is to punish and kill those who oppose them.

2026-01-18 09:09:23 UTC

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Why would they give the US another try once he's out? He's not the problem, he's the symptom of a horrible system and any other country would be foolish to trust them ever again without a total regime change.

2026-01-10 20:58:29 UTC

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You can say "shitshow".

2026-01-05 08:32:22 UTC

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Sounds like bad news for small businesses just about keeping their heads above water and of course further consolidation of the things these "zombie" firms do into fewer hands, most likely the ones we already know which is bad.

2026-01-04 09:16:39 UTC

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No love like Christian love.

2025-12-30 18:52:46 UTC

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Don't give non-thinking code and datasets the rights of any sentient living creature, seems obvious. As for these models being able to work around safeguards, that's just sloppy coding that has little to do with self-preservation and is more just not bothering with safety.

2025-12-28 08:48:42 UTC

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A "help us to help you" situation for the EU, one that the UK (or mostly English) ruling classes refuses to acknowledge because they think it's the opposing "help us to help you" situation.

2025-12-27 09:59:12 UTC

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The AI industry will be considered "too big to fail" because it got its various vines wrapped around core infrastructures in big business and government which will result in bailout. Those responsible will walk away with a fraction of their paper wealth (yet still incredibly wealthy) and look for the next grift to attach themselves to.

2025-12-26 09:48:56 UTC

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We know why, none of those positive things will ever happen and might generate all new negatives while making "bullshit jobs" more prevalent ("prompt engineer"). Nothing regarding the people pushing it, the ethics of the systems, the outputs, any of it has me convinced it'll be anything other than a total black hole of intelligence forcing us back into the Dark Ages ruled over by neo-feuadlist kings and their digital gods.

2025-12-23 14:38:54 UTC

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Russian money pays Farage well, it also pays certain sections of the media well enough to bolster Farage's message which is Russia's message. They got a success with the rise of UKIP from minority isolationist party to thought leaders, didn't even need to win because their ideas became reality and showed how misinformation can be power.
Now there's far-right reactionary parties making huge gains in several democratic countries or indeed winning to the degree that it feels silly to not see the correlation in the rise of fascism being an engineered one.

2025-12-21 08:45:36 UTC

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I don't know if you can regulate capitalism, at least not without changing it into something unlike capitalism.

2025-12-20 19:37:55 UTC

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Having to deal with the DWP in the last few weeks makes me think they really do not want us at the bottom having too much money even if that "too much" is anything above a mere £16k. They could just not pay out to these corporations for one hour and make that back but you know how it is, the poor cannot handle money so must be scrutinised down to the penny in case their pittance pay isn't being spent in the places it should be.

2025-12-18 08:59:08 UTC

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I feel like there's a lot of variables including increased awareness of mental health issues that go into it, principal among much of it is capitalism's overwhelming need to define one's worth by their work to the point their lives are constantly about how much they made, usually for someone else. Lack of third places (or second places if you're WFH full-time) are also a problem but I'm not sure it's something you can legislate into getting fixed, it's cultural as well.

2025-12-17 10:54:26 UTC

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Cryptocurrency as a concept is a horribly wasteful process anyway and mostly exists seemingly as a means to move money around illicitly and/or have it stolen from investors, a system for criminality.

2025-12-15 09:53:27 UTC

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Can't run a system that requires slack to run like a tight logistics system, you will break it and in doing so you will break people through burnout and not having the resources to do the job. Just the MBA set wrecking their way through social goods for profit.

2025-12-15 08:51:23 UTC

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At least in the US there is the option of travelling to Mexico for vastly cheaper treatment, similar to how folk go to Turkey for treatment due to NHS capacity being at zero.

2025-12-15 08:46:57 UTC

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Wonder if this'll be attributed to "quiet quitting" which is literally just doing exactly what the job demands in the time allocated to it, no overtime and no extra work. They're trying to make employment numbers go up but they think removing the social safety nets are the way to do it and automating various entry level jobs won't lead to higher unemployment forcing them into the precarious gig economy which is barely making a living for those engaged with it besides the wealthy elites running the gigs.

2025-12-14 10:58:35 UTC

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We don't have enough data already from the Online Safety Act?

2025-12-14 09:29:23 UTC

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Do they really think they're protecting children in this? No, kids are getting around it easily, it's not doing a thing to them while for adults it's operating more as a PII dragnet with the various companies gathering this info acting as honeypots for hackers to exfiltrate. None of this is protecting anyone and endangers far more than if these bans weren't in effect.

2025-12-10 10:19:48 UTC

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We can rejoin but we just need to play by the EU's rules, no special conditions, no dictating terms. If they tell us what we need to do then we do it, if we don't then we remain outside the EU, it's no more complex than that.

2025-12-07 21:00:20 UTC

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Sounds like the only people winning are the corporations gaining cheap labour while the government subsidises the worker's low wages to get them to "just about livable". Careers as we knew them are dead, now it's just a precarious situation where a job can vanish in an instant and the desperation that'll drive.

2025-12-07 15:29:43 UTC

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The problem is usually the patriarchy at the core, it's very enabling for the rich men who as you may have noticed are mostly men. You don't even need to be rich as there's outreach for the less fortunate like the manosphere, male loneliness, hate for immigrants, all products of the patriarchy because the patriarchy helps nobody and damages everyone and everything.

2025-12-07 09:42:25 UTC

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Patriarchy instills both racism and sexism as core tenets of society, until you topple that it'll be a constant struggle with or without the obscenely rich.

2025-11-28 16:42:22 UTC

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Fascists are known for their bravado and rice paper thin skin, always getting their hired hands to exact the revenge they personally can't. Think it makes them big men with power but it makes them look like pissant cowards hiding behind goons.

2025-11-16 12:57:31 UTC

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I love beavers for their ecologically important place, they're not a keystone species for nothing.

2025-11-07 12:26:17 UTC

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Always trying something those Brits, can't ever join something without special allowances for themselves.

2025-11-07 10:12:23 UTC

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Well yeah, the UK gov thinks it's trying to reset to a pre-Brexit position while the EU's considering them no differently than any other country looking to enter the union.

2025-11-07 09:49:27 UTC

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Nostalgia for... 2020? I mean, I do feel some nostalgia but context is important for what exactly is being missed. People will always look back on the past as some preferable place to be, it's what makes humans immensely sentimental to a fault.
Point is though that 2020 was a hugely different year than many before it, one that threatened to change a lot about how we lived (maybe for the better) until the push to "normal" started because profit wasn't high enough for the corporatocracy. As such things went to shit in that race back to "normal" and now we're here in 2025 wishing for the quiet panic of 2020.

2025-11-03 10:03:57 UTC

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I feel like if you're going to use patriotism you need to define patriotism as a distinct thing from waving a flag around and jingoistically bragging how exceptional a country is, we're not the US and have to distance ourselves both from their inferiority complex and our own shameful past.

2025-11-03 08:44:34 UTC

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Patriotism and "big tent" politics are rarely going to work for a left-leaning party as those two things will include some conservative voters who'll want their position seen and as such they'll bring them into a more centrist position. Nice if you want to win but you won't be able to effect the sort of change you want. Not looking for a "purity test", just be more aware of your intended voter base rather than aiming blindly at whoever will listen.

2025-11-01 09:01:15 UTC

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Think we know who was the engine behind the UK's productivity and given how effective chasing away immigrants has been of course it's declining. You're chasing away your hardest workers, your smartest workers so eventually you'll return to the mean which is slightly above inept but overall mediocre.

2025-10-28 09:34:37 UTC

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That's not enshittification, it's literally a study on the potential uses of LLMs in newsgathering and reporting and the results are don't use it if you want anything close to accuracy or reality.

2025-10-25 10:45:55 UTC

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People are feeling the strain on their bank accounts, eating out is rarer because it's too expensive to do it.

2025-10-16 08:39:43 UTC

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Of course by the time the crash happens they'll have offshored their personal wealth elsewhere sheltered away from the disaster, they'll use the "too big to fail" excuse to get the government to prop them up and as such the government will introduce new austerity measures to the common folk to pay for the massive losses.

2025-10-14 08:21:31 UTC

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Worse can only be defined by those on the receiving end and how their behaviour changes. If existing racists are emboldened to be more publically racist then yes, it's worse.

2025-10-13 07:29:11 UTC

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It's a perfect time to strike for Polanski, he's leader of the sole leftist party available which means a lot of people without a voice and they may have one with the Greens. Both of the establishment parties have either imploded or betrayed their core voter, some upstart populist has an outsized reach due to a pliant media seeding support for the spite vote they represent and the Lib Dems are someplace, possibly in a well, who knows. This is his time so if he's coming at Farage he best not miss.

2025-10-12 09:26:54 UTC

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Yeah, the Fediverse's strongest attribute is containment and you can go for a while never knowing about "the other side". As for the categories of people I'm thinking of, it can be deeply unsafe for Black and other marginalised people.

2025-10-12 08:14:20 UTC

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Wouldn't say that, the Fediverse is unsafe for several categories of people, just not striated by age and there's a whole other Fediverse that is more Truth Social in nature.

2025-10-07 17:28:54 UTC

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These MBA holders are vampires, they just don't know they're poisoning the well of the village they need to survive.

2025-10-06 14:38:03 UTC

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Totally is, just getting that message out there but if it's said enough and can't be avoided then there might be a chance to reverse this death spiral.

2025-10-06 09:32:33 UTC

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We can turn the tide, it'll take a lot of effort but great tasks have to start someplace. Only trouble I'm seeing is building that opposition into something those who may vote Reform or not at all could vote for and countering the outsized news presence he has. Farage is not an inevitability even if he's coasting on a "what have you got to lose" rhetoric.

2025-10-04 07:54:48 UTC

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One may ask if those with opposing viewpoints don't consider us to have a humanity equal to theirs why that should be tolerated. Did they earn compassion where we didn't? It's more complex and runs directly into the tolerance of intolerance issue. I do understand though, an escalating polarisation can only result in absolutes with no degrees of grey between but it's very very hard to see the humanity in those behaving in inhumane ways.

2025-10-04 07:44:11 UTC

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I feel worse than that, I knew he already sold the next election to Reform once he abandoned everything his party stood for to try and appease a voting bloc he'd never get so... what, two months in?

2025-10-02 07:31:59 UTC

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I grow weary of living in a world led by little fascist men looking to carve up a country of brown people for themselves, the old imperialist ways born anew. All of this, these rich isolated monsters destroying everything while we are asked to follow them or die.

2025-09-28 15:22:40 UTC

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Brownfield redevelopment is good, just I feel like "new housing" isn't the solution because you can't build new houses forever. Where's the social housing, is that being built alongside these private houses? Who can live in these new towns? Are most of the properties going to follow the same path as other developments and sit empty as they're seen as investments and not places to live? We probably shouldn't be considering the idea of the 4-room detached property and should instead be thinking of something else, something more sustainable overall.

2025-09-28 09:29:35 UTC

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Solve the problems of having unoccupied spaces and using what buildings exist first before going off to build new housing. Provide the need before building new estates on greenbelt.
Like "I remember when this was all fields", all this should remain fields is what I mean.

2025-09-24 17:52:04 UTC

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Would Scotland respect us more or just see us as southern interlopers?

2025-09-23 11:11:02 UTC

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They're conformists first and foremost, all about the "right" way of things and rigid hierarchies. ND fall outside the conformity because they don't understand it and anything they can't understand is against the structure of conformity they have. All is zero sum, either you're with them or against them even if you have no interest in their thing and would prefer they stuck to their thing over there away from you thanks.

2025-09-22 08:12:59 UTC

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The north of England would do well to cut themselves off from the south.

2025-09-21 09:57:53 UTC

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Would be interesting to see how they can recognise Palestine's statehood yet still proscribe a group against eliminating that state and also keep selling arms and making deals with the very state trying to eliminate Palestine.

2025-09-21 09:36:15 UTC

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If the Union can hold that is.

2025-09-21 09:11:22 UTC

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Going to be a hard battle, that flag (as with the St. George's flag) is inextricably linked to a message, a threat that I'm the target of. Maybe it'll become something better but not in this climate.

2025-09-21 08:53:43 UTC

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It's concerning when a politician feels the need to wrap themselves in a flag, they have nothing else but identity politics to bolster their appeal. The second any of the Greens decide to go flagshagging it's over.

2025-09-20 08:07:38 UTC

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Funny thing is that both women and children are more in danger from the right than anyone else, of course it's all a bid towards controlling them through coercion and violent retribution so their natural sorting order is enshrined.

2025-09-18 09:07:12 UTC

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It's going to be a self-pereptuating system where only those with the connections will succeed and they will select those they're familiar with and push out anyone who they're not familiar with which'd exclude those lowly non-rich types who found their way into the elite enclave somehow.

2025-09-18 08:42:40 UTC

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"Free speech" that operates more as "me speech", it's about their right to free speech without retaliation or consequence and of course removing the rights of free speech to dissenters.

2025-09-14 10:22:23 UTC

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Probably relates back to the issue of putting all your eggs in the STEM basket without noticing you need humanities with STEM if you want ethical and well-rounded people working on tech. They'll typically be working for a greater good without a profit motive and have the ability to be creative and create the sort of breakthroughs that are desired. Removing the profit motive is a good start, protect these startups from vulture capitalism.

2025-09-07 10:41:49 UTC

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Nah, if Emma's insistent on being on Substack of all places then I'm much more insistent about not putting money nor attention there.