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Everything wrong with British politics in one article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ng5q4jd62o
"Former chancellor Zahawi mulling bid for the Telegraph"
Former chancellor Nadim Zahawi mulling bid for the Telegraph
The former Conservative chancellor is thought to be seeking financial backing to fund a bid.Oliver Smith (BBC News)
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Shit.
The New York Times, Washington Post, and Democrat Party leadership have just handed the White House to Donald Trump on a silver platter. 💀💀💀
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This is the risk.
Every Bloomberg that tries to take her down will go dirty. They will be united it tearing her down in ways that don’t get us a Democratic President, but just flood the zone with shit.
Edit: the first Bloomberg, this one named Manchin, didn’t last a full work day against her.
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An elementary combinatorics exercise:
"Revelations 13:1 says 'I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name'. Assuming that the horns are indistinguishable, in how many ways could they be distributed among the seven heads? (Assume that the blasphemous names are all different.). What if each horn is different?"
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Someone has finally been done in modern times for *checks notes* "Handling a Salmon under Suspicious Circumstances"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1740yxx85o
Fisherman fined for hiding salmon up sleeve in 'suspicious circumstances'
Angler Stephen Samuel is punished for "handling salmon under suspicious circumstances"Adam Hale (BBC News)
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Yeah, I read it first as "Thames swan counters hope; numbers recover…" (which is not supported by the provided orthography but people sometimes type sloppily) and then wondered what hope numbers were, then got the right parse.
PTC collects these things, ISTR.
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Might need to stick these on vending machines, too, for less funny reasons.
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.Ars Technica
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Tories are such pricks. Desperately afraid of freedom of movement even being discussed. Why?
Freedom of movement was the best thing about being in the EU. Tories are a bunch of fucking xenophobes and we left them in charge for 14 years.
And Labour are not going to fix it because they're scared of... What, exactly? Of upsetting Reform? Upsetting Reform just shows you're doing something worthwhile
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to get freedom of movement back, that'll probably mean rejoining - and then it'll be Labour's fault when the UK only gets the same deal as everyone else in the EU, and not the preferential one they used to have.
And have to give up the all mighty £ for the dirty dirty €! The indignity!
"We want to fix the Economy"
"So you'll be joining the Single Market and Customs Union, yes? Like Business is telling you?"
"NO! Stinky forrins! bad! bad! You're a traitor for suggesting it, go away!"
Didn’t take long for the shine to wear off this government https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/112774381167533377
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Musings on fighting good fights...
The best lack all spoons, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
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● know to be useful
● believe to be beautiful
● feel unaccountable vague fondness for
● can imagine a hypothetical situation in which you'd *really* need it
● firmly intend to get round to doing something with one of these days
● can't remove because of all the other junk piled on top of it
● feel guilty about not dealing with something more important first
● fear throwing away in case you remember tomorrow why you bought it
● miscellaneous
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You needed to hear it from someone and maybe, instead of projecting your own rudeness onto others, you ought to start listening when other people reply to you.
Or you can put your ego first and get snippy and defensive like you always do. 🤷 Either way, doesn't matter to me. You're the only one who's gonna suffer thinking that way.
@pinkdrunkenelephants "like I always do"? Have we interacted before?
In fact, I intended this post as a more or less value-neutral description of how people in practice think about objects in their home that the likes of Marie Kondo or William Morris would insist they throw away. I hadn't really meant it to be pro _or_ anti; just NPOV, "these are some of the reasons people in fact keep things".
But if you say "bullshit" to me, I also think it's NPOV to say you were rude.
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I’ve been calling my home decor style “low-key hoarder” for a while now
I’m not sure when I tick over into full-scale hoarder
The signs are there though
Outside, people are out and about chilling and having fun. It's warm. I love Europe. Used to belong to me too and the idiots took it away.
Don't think I'll ever forgive that.
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clowning street: Number 10
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We should have our own East Coast Liberal Elite, you know in England.
Conceptual art critics? Walton-on-the-Naze. Experimental film making hub? Filey. World Postmodernism Conference? Cleethorpes. Secret World Government? Gibraltar Point; third bird hide on the left.
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Europe is full of centre right and centre left parties who, rather than oppose far right scapegoating of minorities, have adopted a position of, “those guys are right, don’t vote for them”.
To their incredible surprise, this isn’t working.
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@kikebenlloch No this is describing the literal situation in Greece, though they've since lost political relevance, since the state took belated, but firm, action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_(Greece)
I know very very little about French/Euro politics but when I read what it is that Le Pen has said about things like Pensions, it isn't hard to understand why the French people rejected Macron who appears to be a right wing corporate stooge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Marine_Le_Pen
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