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Starmer's 'douse fires with petrol' strategy seems to be working juuust fine. https://x.com/taj_ali1/status/1715496332838748265?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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No screenshot but IIRC it was about the various councillor resignations and there are a bunch of posts on his twitter page: https://twitter.com/Taj_Ali1 So not sure why he would have deleted that particular one unless he wanted to change something.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions are making Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail (tr. into English by Elisabeth Jaquette) free to download for the entirety of the Frankfurt book festival. The book was due to receive the LiBeraturpreis at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week until the organisers cancelled the ceremony. Go download it wherever you get your downloads. You can get it from Amazon (Kindle edition) for free. Publisher's blurb: https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/minor-detail It's 8am and I haven't been to bed yet.  Bad sign for work on Monday!Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Oct 21, 2023 |
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God drat Labour is frustrating. Someone a few pages ago asked what they’d have to do for people to not vote for them, and honestly I have no idea. They’re in the position of only needing to be marginally less poo poo than the Tories to potentially win an election, and given the sizes of our two main parties compared to the rest there’s really not a viable option outside of the Big Two, at least in terms of getting a parliamentary majority. What are we gonna do, let the tories win again?
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You know what you have to do, Ralphie.
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Surprise T Rex posted:What are we gonna do, let the tories win again? I'm genuinely wondering if incompetent tories will be less damaging to this country than the authoritarian competent fascist leadership that Keith brings to the table. e: Twitter has since removed that community note from the ITV tweet fuctifino fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Oct 21, 2023 |
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Surprise T Rex posted:God drat Labour is frustrating. Most of the people I talk to are saying stuff like "this is what you need to do to get elected" or "they will be better in power". Burying their head in the sand basically.
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Surprise T Rex posted:They’re in the position of only needing to be marginally less poo poo than the Tories to potentially win an election Seems to me they don't need even that, people will just assume they are
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notaspy posted:Most of the people I talk to are saying stuff like "this is what you need to do to get elected" or "they will be better in power". Or pre-emptively justifying voting for a Red Tory. I've had colleagues tell me "they can't be any worse", which I find somehow worse since it shows how low everyone's expectations are. "They can't be any worse" than a Prime Minister who's terrified of doing anything except pandering to fascists and culture-war enthusiasts.
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People are obsessing over getting the blue team out without considering whether it's going to make anything better. Labour aren't planning to improve anything that the Tories have broken, are fully on board with their right wing rhetoric and will be a freshly renewed force who might actually be able to pull it off, or at the very least will keep the culture war fires stoked until the Tories are ready to take charge again and fully kindle them. I've said it before, but Get The Tories Out is one of the most damaging political slogans of our time. All it's given us is a bunch of myopic arseholes whose only song in their playbook is to vote once every five years and have a panic attack when anyone brings up other, dare I say more direct, actions, while any objections like "what will the long term effects of this be" or "how about we just don't vote for any of them and start talking about the ramifications of giving all the power to whoever shows up and pays the deposit" are met with "oh, so you WANT the Tories back in then!?". This isn't meant to be directed at anyone here, we're all loving sick of the Tories. But I am fully ready to spend the next quarter century saying I loving Told You So to anyone who thinks Labour is going to slow this decline, let alone reverse it in any way.
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Man I shouldn't be getting this mad on a Saturday morning. I just want to lay some laminate flooring but one of my neighbours had the installation kit delivered to them while I was out and I live in a block of loving flats and I have no idea who has it.
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Sorry, I just combined these posts in my head and got a vivid mental image of a Limmy's Show skit involving someone walking around the outside of a block of flats hollaring "which tory bastard's got me laminate flooring?" at the windows.
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I'm honestly jealous if you live somewhere where your vote has a hope in hell of mattering, even at the MP level.
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Guavanaut posted:Sorry, I just combined these posts in my head and got a vivid mental image of a Limmy's Show skit involving someone walking around the outside of a block of flats hollaring "which tory bastard's got me laminate flooring?" at the windows. They've turned the wainscoting against us!
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Gort posted:I'm honestly jealous if you live somewhere where your vote has a hope in hell of mattering, even at the MP level. The turnip headed gammons of Mid Beds, a place I know well like another poster here - the land of buried Masquerade treasure, london commuters, and quaint pubs full of racists - just went red, so I’d say votes matter in a lot of places next time.
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smellmycheese posted:The turnip headed gammons of Mid Beds, a place I know well like another poster here - the land of buried Masquerade treasure, london commuters, and quaint pubs full of racists - just went red, so I’d say votes matter in a lot of places next time. As has been pointed out by myself and better people: Mid Beds went red solely because the gammon racists stayed in the pub. Turnout was just under 25,000 lower than in 2019, and the Tory vote diminished by the same amount. Labour actually lost votes in the course of achieving their "historic victory". And I'm sure that come a General Election when the turnout rises again, the Tories will rise as well.
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Gort posted:I'm honestly jealous if you live somewhere where your vote has a hope in hell of mattering, even at the MP level. You too huh? The Tories could field a donkey with a blue rosette here and the pickled gammon cunts would still vote it in I just did a poll https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1715684835690172461
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Don't know why everyone's so mad about the new houses, ever since Bloor's and Jelson's and Craig David Homes have concreted over half the village a bunch of houses have swimming pools now!
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Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over.
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Videogames in your pants you say? Great way to spend a Saturday morning.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Remember that feeling well. I was never really nervous, just wanted to get the thing done. People aren't lying when they say it'll go by in a flash though. Hope you have a lovely day!
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. I shall also require the ceremonial and magically rooted services of a respected community leader today if it doesn't stop raining. 
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Make reasonably concealable sandwiches for you and the bride that you can have on your person. There can be a looong period between wedding and eats sometimes. Also, enjoy the day.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Gratz! I'll just assume our invites got lost in the post.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Go to a good barber and get a hot towel shave and a trim
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. My wife's male friends took me to the coffee shop before our (morning) wedding and put like three coffees in me. She meanwhile was getting sloshed on champagne with her bridesmaids for Dutch courage, so I'm there at 10am sober af while she's coming in halfway lit. I feel there is an injustice here. You will be fine. It'll be better once you get to the reception. Also congrats 
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fuctifino posted:You too huh? The Tories could field a donkey with a blue rosette here and the pickled gammon cunts would still vote it in So vote for the fascists who will waste money. Or vote for the fascists who will waste less money.
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Monica Bellucci posted:Make reasonably concealable sandwiches for you and the bride that you can have on your person. There can be a looong period between wedding and eats sometimes. this just seems like a good general lifestyle. from now on i will never leave the house without at least three concealed carry sandwiches hidden on my person. much more likely than guns to be helpful in an emergency, at least
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I see the discourse has moved on to “Octopii are Antisemitic”
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It's still a very sad story (and by Guardian Australia so not strictly relevant), but given that we've been discussing the inescapable cesspit of misery and despair here in the UK a lot recently, this article gave me an unexpected resurgence of hope and belief in human communities and the importance of caring for one another this morning so I thought it might be worth a share. As a warning, it's a story about Atilla, a Turkish immigrant who died alone in a Sydney block of flats during lockdown. The official inquest, with no family members attending and very little information to hand, imagines Atilla as a divorced, friendless ex-military loner who'd struggled with mental health difficulties and assimilating into Australian life, and initially the journalist understands the man in the same way. Then he discovers that Atilla had in fact been working seven days a week at a queer sex shop, alongside a wide community of friends and colleagues who he loved to cook for and take care of, and who still honour his memory to this day and remember him fondly as a joker and a party animal.
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feedmegin posted:My wife's male friends took me to the coffee shop before our (morning) wedding and put like three coffees in me. She meanwhile was getting sloshed on champagne with her bridesmaids for Dutch courage, so I'm there at 10am sober af while she's coming in halfway lit. I feel there is an injustice here. Thank you all! My partner told me the registrars won't marry us if we're visibly inebriated; perhaps this was just her knowing me too well and wanting to head me off from getting hammered pre-wedding.
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