Chris

YouTube video by Bee Here Now This River is About to Get a New Island!

i live for this shit. how the mersey changed its course over the years.

youtu.be/0yl59pATYik

well, a question i wish tactical voting advocates would ask themselves more often is "if everybody votes tactically, how do we know who we should vote tactically for?". coming to a conclusion like this tells me stop reform are at least considering this.

“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

it's not a one for one comparison, but, y'know there was a time when preventing the spread of HIV meant criminalising homosexuality.

i dunno if it's a helpful comparison either. but there's something i can't articulate about the knee jerk reaction to liberal ideas about drug misuse.

imagine seeing results like that for any other medical problem. take HIV as an example, also sexually transmitted. lots of people have varying strategies for dealing with that, but for the most part, we went with the one that worked - enable safe sex, better sex education, stigma free treatment.

Then & Now Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Key developments since Portugal decriminalized drugs in 2001 Overdose deaths 1999 369 2016|30 New HIV diagnoses due to injecting 2000 907 2017 18 Number of people incarcerated for drug offences 1999 2017 3,863 1,140 Sources: TheLancet, drugpolicy.org, EMCDDA, VHPA

Labour has been pushing lies about the Greens’ policy on reducing drug misuse. This is a policy that has already been very successful in Portugal. It has reduced harmful drug taking by ending the so-called “war on drugs”.

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Alistair Campbell - podcaster, whose handwringing isn’t enough to erase his role in the WMD narrative.
Nick Clegg - enabled the morally repugnant ‘austerity’ initiatives of the Cameron coalition, then covered for the anti-democratic ethical sinkhole Meta, as head of PR, …8/

The inevitable endgame of fucked up Authentocrat politics has led to some very strange places.

Plumbing? Woke and doesn't count if it's heat pumps. Living in a Victorian house? Middle class. How dare you have a corner sofa. You think you're special because you own shoes? Etc.

now i just need something like zathura, but for reading markdown. for a long time i used retext but the code blocks are a bit weird. i know i can convert md to pdf but that's a bit of faff. i want to be opening the same file i edit.

i gave emacs a good go. almost got to something i was happy with too. but i dunno i get to a point where it starts maxing out half the threads on my CPU. i could probably take more time to configure it and properly sort it out, but neovim is right there.

the replies here are so confusing. all I've learned is "class" in the UK is neither the liberal understanding (income), nor the Marxist understanding (relationship to the means of production), nor the American political journalist understanding (lack of a college degree), but a secret fourth thing

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GMP made this possible

According to Starmer:

Terrorists = pensioners holding signs

Not Terrorists = violent fascists on the streets of Manchester.

In addition to being a very uncomfortable dog whistle, this framing is completely the wrong lesson to take from the Epstein news. It’s about how widespread and pervasive misogyny and sexual abuse really are. This framing lets most of society off the hook too easily.

it's annoying me how much attention rupert lowe's party is getting, given their one mp, 2(?) councillors, and marginal national polling. are reform publicly beefing because their ego is too precious, or because they would happily see restore do the dirtier work of dragging the UK towards fascism?

labour: we have terrible comms. that's our problem.

labour: we should smear, famously teetotal, zack polanski as a junkie.

This story is going to keep running and running until Starmer’s minister Josh Simons - and Labour Together - start giving straight answers

One thing for sure - An ‘informal iniquity’ run by Simons’ isn’t going to cut it

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

YouTube video by Scott Abraham Alfie Make no bones

what is a song you love where nobody else even remembers the band who made it and look at you like you're some sort of weirdo if you mention it, and actually start becoming hostile to you, like, what are you trying to prove chris, why are you making up bands again?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhX...

i don't want to eat my friends i just want them to be excited and impressed about my fancy shell prompt. i made it look like my neovim statusline fgs! 😭

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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This is all because bigoted dickhead judges have decided to warp the Equality Act over the years, not only to protect homophobia and transphobia but also racism and Islamophobia as just a couple of other examples.

Nope. You can't discriminate against someone because of their beliefs.

You can fire them because of their behaviour, though, if that's bigoted. But you'll probably still find yourself at a tribunal. Or in court, fighting Rowling's wallet.

Nice one, Labour think they're entitled to votes. They're not. Vote Green.
#voteGreen

it's really weird that hair does this

either hair at the back of your ears grows twice as fast as the rest of your scalp or i'm really shit at shaving my head and should start paying somebody else to do it.

Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.

Is this even satire?

i now have home row mods. i can get used to this!

problem now is the number keys are still a million miles away from my tiny hands. and i've got return bound to caps+space already, but when i had to press + just then my pinky needed to get on two trains to hit it.