Liz Silversmith

Mm it's hard to find evidence for it but was tipped off by a fellow Green... it's Anne Baker, who was / is Treasurer for the 'Gender Gritical Greens', gcgreens.uk/2024/02/, but I really don't know. It's a big issue for me, human rights an' all, but I want a good Green cohort regardless.

actually just considering voting green anyway and writing regular sternly worded emails to her if elected saying ‘now don’t you ruin this, the second you belittle trans people on then record I’ll be holding a protest outside your office’

It’s the first election I really have no idea how I’m going to vote. I love my plaid candidate but aren’t keen on their overall enviro policies (as you know). The Labour candidate is…. Meh. WHAT TO DO

Yes we won’t actually have any FPTP this time, which was the point Eben was originally making, so it’s designed for a more proportional Senedd. Every party needs to try harder for seats in a way, esp the previously dominant ones. And majority governments are not actually common in Wales already.

Asking for a friend (i.e. me) - what do you do if you want tovote Green but have been reliably informed that the top candidate for your area (expected to get her seat with current polls) is a closet TERF, who has managed to stay in the party by getting quieter on it lately..?

Just want you to know I read your tweet in Homer's voice

lol. latest polling* says Reform will get 23 ish seats and for a majority you need 49. Plus they're not known for making friends so v much doubt anyone will work with them in a coalition. Even if Conservatives do, the maths does not work.

*Labour - 10, Plaid - 44, Cons - 7, Reform - 23, Greens - 11

And it would’ve been such a simple fix - “is Sam coming back?” “No he’s decided to take a break from politics and go back into law” - COOL. I like his return in the last couple of episodes though

The Year 2030: ‘Guy Fawkes II’ What happened to the UK after Brexit? A short piece of fiction predicting an alternative future, where UKIP get into power in 2030…

It’s the happiest time of the year for fans of Guy Fawkes! And the only day I don’t feel shameless for plugging my brexity short story, speculating on what might happen by 2030 if someone got the idea to do an encore…

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It’s part of the ritual!

You can really tell when gender-equal shortlisting efforts have gone out the window for a by-election... mm FRESH

Also you can watch the hustings here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I don't know if I'll make it all the way through.

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They taunt us with this promise

That to go to the Bay from Central, you have to go via Queen Street and take two different trains (which takes about the same amount of time to walk it) is one of my biggest bugbears. Is it structurally impossible to have trains go from Central to the Bay?!

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More ‘partly inspired by’ than a Frankenstein movie, but big love for both Poor Things and The Substance

First of all, 5mm isn't microscopic and you CAN see them.

Second of all, the fact that our Chancellor thinks she can't see these seems to mean she thinks they're not worthy of our consideration.

A hallmark of this government's terminal lack of imagination.

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Extemely true! Us owls are maligned by society as lazy when it's just our biological chronotype

Sometimes I would trade being a night owl for a lark. But then I remember all the sunset and moonscapes I enjoy and feel better about grumpy mornings

Spoiler - they did not do better

Love Father Ted and find Black Books also stands up to time as just brilliant in my eyes, but I think much because of the cast too.

Too may writers make brilliant stuff but aren’t quite sound of mind and character in reality or as they age. I feel similarly about Joss Whedon and Morrissey.

"I asked Chat GPT"

Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.

Country diary: Searching for sanctuary, we find something else entirely | Eben Muse Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire: The scourge of rural litter is enough to bring anyone together, even a farmer and us, trying to camp for the night in his field

Only now able to post about today's Country Diary I wrote, because I've been stomping around a bog in the Cambrian Mountains all day 😁

If we can overcome the barriers we're told to have in place, we have so much more in common.

Please read and share!

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Wales deserves wealth fund from wind - Mark Drakeford The former first minister has called for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund out of profits from the Crown Estate.

The rare art of compromise… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hold my calls kitty!

Reform UK Nottinghamshire council leader bans local newspaper's reporters The Nottingham Post describes the ban as

Reform UK: “Free speech! You can’t say anything these days!”

Also Reform UK: “You’re banned from reporting on our council because we don’t like what you said.”

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And creators, @11bitstudios.bsky.social, are here too! So a direct ‘thank you for restoring my faith in gaming’ to you guys, I’ve enjoyed it so much.

Also try This War of Mine, another I can’t get enough of! More resource, less zapping floaty spheres (spoiler for alters) but again, story is king.

Just a PSA for gamers, The Alters is one of the best I’ve played in a long time and I recommend it to everyone who likes story in their gaming.

But especially for people who like resource management, replay-ability with different methods, and sci fi lovers who hear ‘clones’ and go “oooooooh”

Yeah, I thought this was a bit of an odd one to write up… as though it was taking a long + slightly contrived way round to just criticise the reforms. Surely anyone sensible, even not knowing much about the bill, would assume there was a commencement clause at a reasonably close date 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wrote a thing!

On a serious note, there are sometimes flaws in siting (sometimes proposed on a high value nature site, that is in terms of actual biodiversity, not a nice looking landscape) and there can be improvements. But most objecting to their existence on principle?! Bizarre. They are lovely.

I think people against wind turbines should just be disconnected from the grid - surely that’s what they want? They are anti electricity? No probs, no more electricity for you!