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2026-08-01 19:31:32 UTC

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I declined to mark a second option myself once, there only being three candidates and not one of them being worth the ink, and I do stand by that choice.
But in this particular race, where some genuinely nasty people are at the door, and for that matter at least from a distance (and in a New Labour context) ‘Bev’ seems a somewhat decent candidate, I really don't see what's gained (or how it helps anyone's interest) not to make that second mark?

2026-07-29 22:21:50 UTC

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oh not the '76, I'm so done with people mentioning '76.
Basically every year of my life has been a record summer yet it's always been ‘well it was worse in 76’ ‘we did okay in 76’ ‘it's barely warmer than 76’ .
Like okay we get it you had **one** hot year when you were a kid or whatever. _Its hot every year now_.
Once in a century has become an annual event how do you not see this is a problem????

2026-06-30 17:43:36 UTC

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*Czech, who largely got his money from fossil fuels including russian gas.

2026-06-06 16:53:37 UTC

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it's cruel to spread wildflower seeds?

2026-03-27 22:42:55 UTC

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did they stop being fascists yet tho?
Glad to hear it if they did, I've just not seen/heard anything to that effect.

2026-03-13 20:25:37 UTC

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I'm sure glad Mozilla is funding this work and not something silly like memory management, what a waste that would be

2025-10-25 17:48:17 UTC

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is it?
They've already nibbled the edges and endangered it repeatedly, so they don't seem to value it too highly.
To leave the ECHR mandates leaving the CoE, and in turn undoes things like the Good Friday Agreement and numerous other consequences.
If our rulers are apparently okay with blowing up our remaining ties to the European Project just to be a little more nasty to ‘migrants’, why should we presume they have any qualms about GDPR?

2025-09-25 23:18:24 UTC

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yeah Thatcher having somewhat destroyed the country, and Truss being Truss, does marginally muddy things 😅
May was loosely ‘okay’ though, beyond the Brexit mess she was thrown into. Far preferable to Boris certainly.

2025-09-21 15:05:42 UTC

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when exactly in the last decade+ was Farage no-platformed by anything meaningful?
Media has been obsessed with him the whole time.
A large part of that being spent decrying random student groups or the like for not wanting to listen to him.
Menawhile the Greens have been somewhat systematically excluded, which has meant despite having far more elected representatives than Farage ever has they are still seen as ‘unviable’ ‘fringe’ by many.
#UKPol

2025-09-02 10:29:04 UTC

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well well, that seems to have worked out

2025-09-01 22:59:21 UTC

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the announcement is due tomorrow sometime. In a sense it's less significant than in other parties I believe, since policy is set collectively rather than dictated, but yes it's come down to a duo of centrist transphobe MPs vs a lone leftist with weird baggage.
My hope is of course that GPEW members picked the latter.
If Carla Denyer was in the running they might've even got me to join, but alas not.
The deputy race maybe looks more interesting. We'll see.

2025-09-01 22:50:38 UTC

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Corbyn himself throws the occasional positive comment certainly, but the party never quite does, and the Secretary of Your Party UK Limited sure does keep tweeting…
I'm not looking for ‘purity’ or anything here, but when they've got these sentiments flying around from the start, I don't have a great amount of faith in the project as a whole.
Assuming tomorrow goes well I'm yet to see what advantage they have over GPEW.

2025-09-01 19:40:57 UTC

I do so hate to keep being right.
But oh look, the party-that-refuses-to-be-named has a transphobia problem.
Remind me again how they are going to solve all our problems?
#UKPol

2025-07-31 09:47:05 UTC

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what ID number are you proposing they use here, exactly?

2025-07-31 03:32:38 UTC

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but also we'd have far bigger problems, because if the flipper zero was even half able to live up to the hype we'd have people pulling shenanigans everywhere — it's really not that complex a device after all, it's main advantage is that it's premade in a nice case.
You wouldn't need to be too determined to make your own variant with just what you need, or even something ‘suped up’…

2025-07-24 19:56:53 UTC

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Sultana has been quite insistent the name is *not* ‘Your Party’
Earlier Corbyn had some idea about crowd-sourcing a name or something, all whilst insisting that the launch was totally coherent and not at all muddled…

2025-07-24 19:52:49 UTC

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wait they've decided to have a name after all?

2025-07-01 03:34:54 UTC

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not sure I'd go as far as ‘great idea’, it's certainly a nice idea, I get why it has appeal, but it falls apart in so many different ways once you look at it too much, even discounting its ‘Nazi bars are fun places to hang out’ maintainer.
Once you start addressing those issues — integrating with the system, updates, and so on — you find yourself needing a pre-installed daemon or two and you've basically invented flatpak.
Which isn't to say flatpak is perfect by any means.

2025-06-24 17:24:57 UTC

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not to be funny but what's the point of the RAF Regiment then?
If they aren't guarding our largest air station why does the RAF maintain its own army?

2025-06-22 12:03:14 UTC

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I'm not sure libxml2 is inherently unsuitable or should never have become so widely used, the problem is that yet again something that underpins half the universe allowing some to make billions has wound up being the responsibility of one person de facto unpaid.

2025-04-25 05:16:10 UTC

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you are ceding those seats to ‘the GOP’ either way if these are your candidates

2025-04-24 00:53:07 UTC

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you simply *cannot* call this ‘disappeared’.
Mistakes have certainly been made in this process, and improvements are clearly needed.
But, in this current moment especially so, this is not appropriate language to be using.

2025-04-09 08:14:00 UTC

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I beleive https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html is ‘the post’

2025-04-03 00:26:50 UTC

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a closed platform is a closed platform, not a monopoly.
It could become a monopoly, if that platform became dominant, but Nintendo isn't quite a third of the console market it shares with two other major players.
An open platform, like Steam, can also be a monopoly, if it controls enough of the market, like Steam.

2025-02-28 22:03:45 UTC

(Apparently) Hot Take: Ukraine was invaded, it did not invade itself

2024-08-04 22:26:05 UTC

I probably spend more time hitting the up arrow than if I just typed out
git rebase --continue