Steve Bullock

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You know, I’ve played that song live and in rehearsals hundreds of times in 3 or 4 different bands and and I’ve never known what the “Fire” refers to.

My best guess is the fire of passion, but, as I say, it’s a total guess.

Like, I don’t think I’m a particularly moral or good person, but when I’ve done someone harm I feel bad about it because of the harm I caused to them, and my dismay that it was me that caused it. Not because a higher being tells me it’s wrong.

I know it’s wrong. It’s harming someone FFS!

Yes! I think the whole absolution thing makes them feel like there’s an easy way out. Bit of repentance, all forgiven, then off to heaven. Job done.

It’s like outsourcing having a genuine conscience.

And if, even if, it were somehow true that the lives of others didn’t matter, that human life had no intrinsic value or dignity, and conscience was a con, would we not still find it better if we decided to act and think as if it did? Even if we had to pretend.

Maybe I’m wrong. I do admit the possibility.

Maybe human life is meaningless and people are merely pieces on a chessboard to be used & sacrificed on a whim.

But my life feels more valuable than that to me, and I’m pretty sure other people feel the same about theirs and their loved ones’ lives.

I find it hard to maintain any faith in humanity when I can wake up in the middle of the night feeling devastatingly guilty about a mean but ultimately harmless thing I did when I was seven, while other humans can kill a hundred children in their primary school and sleep soundly through the night.

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“I've had my fun and now it's time
to serve your conscience overseas“

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Gimme an F!

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Hahaha!

Went out with a girl from Bradford a long time ago and she was very scathing of all curries in the UK outside of Bradford.

And I’ve been to Belarus!

I genuinely wouldn’t go to either if someone gave me an all expenses trip for me and my family.

There’s just no amount of saved taxes, sun, high-spec condos or ugly shopping malls full of tasteless luxury brands that could induce me to live or holiday in a human rights-abusing religious hard-line absolute monarchy in a famously unstable region.

I suppose we all have different priorities.

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Ukrainians when the world goes crazy:

The defence would like to enter the term “cheese eating surrender monkeys” into evidence.

Lost investments for Punks ☹️

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

Has Dan ever even said thank you?

I’m wondering when Trump, who has told Zelenskyy repeatedly that Ukraine must hold elections during wartime despite it being contrary to its constitution, will say that the US cannot hold elections during wartime despite that being contrary to its constitution.

Ah yes, the great theories of international relations.

1. Realism.
2. Liberalism.
3. We have never before reached the FO state of FAFO and are thus supremely confident we can keep the FA up indefinitely with no consequences whatsoever. Plus, shit exploding is great content. Let's fucking goooooo!

Perhaps “If the elderly autocrat dies the regime will collapse” was MAGA projecting their own fears?

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2 - The B-52s - Deadbeat Club

Less ubiquitous than its shouty siblings Love Shack & Roam, it also has a lovelier melody and feel which makes it my favourite song from their blockbuster LP Cosmic Thing.

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My neighbour told me Kuwaiti air defence keeps eating his F-15s so I asked how many F-15s he had and he told me he just goes and gets another F-15 so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-15s to Kuwaiti air defence and then his daughter started crying

Well, it is politically wrong.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

War comes to the EU's doorstep – again The EU has been dragged into Trump's war with Iran. Last night Iran launched a drone attack on Cyprus as Britain, France and Germany announced they will cooperate with the US to protect themselves.

Iran War latest: Last night Iran launched a drone attack on Cyprus.

A planned summit of EU ministers scheduled there today (Cyprus holds rotating 🇪🇺presidency till July) has been cancelled.

Meanwhile 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷 are preparing to join the fray in self-defence.

🇪🇺 getting dragged in to an Iraq-like conflict.

"Shooting the archer as well as the arrows" is on one level sound tactical doctrine, but if shaped by a leadership with no qualms about civilian death or the postwar viability of societies within a battlespace it can quickly become a path to normalisation of unlimited collateral damage