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You only have to go back a few generations in my family to find Irish people forced to leave their homeland because British colonialism manufactured a famine and made it impossible to stay. It destroyed the region I descend from.

It's the literal reason I'm English.

Retro Review: Dinosaurs! (Issue 1) - Geek Ireland Dinosaurs! magazines were all the rage in the '90s, a coveted piece in any dino fan's collection. But have they stood the test of time?

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Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

The story of lazy feckless youth who don't know the value of an honest day's work has been doing the rounds since before these arseholes' grandparents were children. It is the endless, never ending complaint of employers who don't like it when their employees get to tell them to shove their job.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

If MMT is as bad as you say it is then you need to come up with your own explanation for why everything sucks and nothing works, and how it can be fixed, because abundance, vibecession and "just let us raise taxes a bit" ain't it lads.

What makes you think they'll refrain from that line of attack because of what economists say? We're talking about Britain, a country where it's been decades since the truth of an attack on a political opponent by either of the traditional ruling parties or the press mattered.

A newspaper column from West Streeting titled “I realise now my view on mental health over diagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence.”

Poverty, lack of access to healthcare (including gender affirming care), lack of access to mental healthcare, the war on drugs.

We just saved you spending time and taxpayer money on a review when you actually already have all the data you need to make an informed decision.

Get in there..

The thing to note is that all the lads were boiling with white hot fury at old Jezza, but they will all at very least sit on their hands for Farage. Because the latter might be a fascist but he’s officer class, and he’ll listen to a lot important people who matter rather than disregarding them.

It's the aesthetic of industry and a mythic version of the working class they love, not the reality, and critically those jobs are of a type they'd never want to do or have their children do.

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image - BBC News Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media

First of many such incidents, I expect. Another ‘win’ for those ‘useful’ Gen AI tools.

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This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.

A photo of workers at Individualized Shirts, a shirt factory in New Jersey. Each person has their fist in the air as a sign of solidarity. There's a sign behind them with photos and the words: "Fair Contract Now."

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Like, surely it’s obvious that the purpose of collective society is to provide welfare. That’s the whole deal. The whole reason we cooperate. Or do anything together at all. For increased security. Greater overall quality of life. Money & resources are there. There’s no excuse for our current state.

It will not alarm (or even concern) terfs that the Women's Institute and Girl Guides are now at risk of falling apart. Because they aren't feminists, they're curtain twitching reactionaries and they don't care if women's communities are torn up.

It does, and not in the way I expected. Can recommend 👍

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Parting ways with my #Naruto collection, all 72 volumes in very good to near mint condition. #manga #shonen

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These Empire Greatswords are 25(!) years old, cast as a single piece, and represent both a peak in applied design by the sculptors at GW and textbook example of how to communicate information to the viewer through the design choices made.

Empire greats word drummer miniature, cast from white metal, viewed from the front.

Empire greats word drummer miniature, cast from white metal, viewed from the side.

Empire greats word drummer miniature, cast from white metal, viewed from the rear.

There's been some discourse on the subject of GW sculpting of late, and I thought I should actually pick up some old minis in real life in case nostalgia was poisoning distorting my perspective...

No, turns out we were absolutely right.
#warhammercommunity #oldhammer

Three pencil drawings of floating bog witches with various shapes and designs, with commun motifs such as antlers, circles, stones and branches, all from a notebook my favourite mechanical pencil is keeping open for the picture

Hi!
I managed to draw a trio of bog witches a few days ago!
Still struggling a bit with things in general and drawing in particular, but I’m glad I can still do stuff sometimes!
Take care 🏳️‍⚧️

Two landscape studies of frosty winter views seen from a train. On the left, an open area with young coniferous trees growing here and there, with a few taller trees left standing in the distance. Clouds are coloured pink by the rising sun, with some narrow streaks of a pale blue sky between them. On the right, two tall trees are standing amidst lower ones against a pale blue-pink gradient sky. The treetops are coloured a peachy red by the sun barely peeking above the horizon.

Views from the train

"The chance of a home, a job that more than covers the bills, prospects for their children and so on: this is the stake in the system that creates that alignment of interests and embeds political stability. The central crisis of western politics since the financial crisis has been the erosion of this promise."

This was obvious every year since the crash and every year, the lads have chosen to continue chopping up and burning the furniture to keep the Thatcherite consensus warm and mostly happy, and the right sort of chaps’ arses in the right seats. I see no reason why that would change now.

In the last few days, Girl Guides and the Women's Institute have caved to legal pressure and banned trans women.

This is yet more proof that polite lobbying and peaceful protest will not save us.
We must make ourselves impossible to ignore.

Join us. Take action. BASH BACK.

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Johann Lamont @JohannLamont• 1d X Girlguiding decision important yet it all makes me sad. The Guides meant so much to me but the announcement is so grudging, so reluctant, so concerned about the impact on boys, I wonder if it can ever again give girls the brilliant, confidence building space in which I thrived. • 93 {7 316 O3.1K I|41K •

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Self-ID for left handed to be ended.

Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.

Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.

NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.

Move praised by charity Right Matters

Think it's worth examining who it is who says we shouldn't be angry about the media political apparatus in this country being engaged in an ongoing fraud to push increasingly worse politicians onto us and denounce everyone else as some kind of "student politics" idiot. That seems infuriating, to me.

Thinking about the #Expanse series and how I've hardly seen the dystonia of the setting being remarked on, or the baseline negative take on humanity the author employed. Not sure if I just missed it or there just wasn't much discussion on it. #SFF #booksky