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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 4h

I disagree. It seems extremely unlikely that anyone sat down and decided 'Misdescribing this policy and letting Reform voters imagine that refugees will be struggling through Paradise Lost will definitely work to our advantage'. It seems massively more likely that the message just got a bit mangled.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 6h

It's confusing because its meaning isn't clear (as indeed this thread demonstrates). That doesn't mean that its not also signaling Labour's anti-migrant stance, which it very obviously is.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 9h

Amen to that. I've lived in Thailand for years, and Anglophone immigrants (I'd rather eat my own head than call them/me expats) are without doubt among the least assimilated migrant groups in the world.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 9h

A good A-level in a modern foreign language is around a B2, which is where the (very confusing) reference to A-levels came from.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 9h

Any list like this that does not include not include not having children is complete rubbish. The impacts of this dwarf those of going carless, and in a great many situations, it's an awful lot easier too, so why exclude what is by far the most significant move that anyone can make?

Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 4d

100% agree. It's definitely a difficult area and there's no denying that it's a topic that's perennially attractive to racists, but an organization can't claim to approach policy from a scientifically informed standpoint and then ignore such an important driver of the ecological crisis.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 4d

Why wait until they're done to start thinking about this? Given the massive consequences of this (especially for anyone who might be reading Bluesky), I can't see any reason why having *any* children should be exempt from a consideration of their environmental impacts.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 5d

True, pets are definitely not environmentally friendly (though the one in my picture was a stray so that's slightly different) but not having a cat/dog is probably a less significant change than the others. By contrast, rich people not having children dwarfs the impacts of these changes.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 5d

Not having (or at the very least, reducing the number of) children should be in there.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 6d

Is this really only available on Spotify?

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · 6d

Any chance of an RSS feed? Congratulations on making a podcast but Spotify can fuck right off.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

For those who are still struggling with reading comprehension, let me repeat myself: that's a different question. As I've made abundantly fucking clear, the post to which I responded made a patently false claim about elections being lost increasingly often.

Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh, that may be true, but JHC that's harsh .

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm not asking myself anything. You made a claim that was clearly and undeniably false. I've corrected that. Goodbye.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why? That's a different issue. The Conservatives were in power for 14 years and however many times they changed leaders, none lost a general election until Sunak.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

No, they're not. Government's have been more stable since 1979. Between 1945 and 1979 there were 6 governments, but between 1979 and 2024 there were only 4, despite the period being almost 50% longer.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's every freeborn Englishman's right to a bit of insurance fraud. Says that in Magna Carta, it does.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

The more these inadequate dickheads crap on about how proud they are to be British, the more shame I feel about it. There are lots of good things about Britain, but seeing these amoeba-brained shit-gibbons cosplaying at being Brownshirts is not one of them.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Sep 3

You know, there are some small, isolated pockets of the world that aren't the US. And even more amazingly, there are people living in those places who aren't American. Shocking, isn't it.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Aug 13

54% of Americans read at or below the level of a 12-year-old so these fucking imbeciles (i.e., the public) are never going to be a position to judge science on any grounds; if we are to avoid the full and final victory of the idiots, we have to ensure that the experts are indeed trusted.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Aug 13

f.) dying, the same as

If it does all go completely to shit, I suspect that knowing about these things will largely be useless. All too often, hording knowledge about how fucked everything is seems mainly to work to support all those tedious in-group/out-group biases (as a. shows) .

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Apr 25

Yes, though while it's still depressing, Trump screwing up is no great surprise. By contrast, it was reasonable to expect Labour to do slightly better than 'absolutely atrocious'.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Apr 23

The British government's response to a once-in-a-generation opportunity to benefit from the US shitshow and resulting brain-drain: Best not. Reform voters wouldn't like it.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Apr 22

The US is ranked 3rd in the world for food quality? Who's measuring this? That seems a little hard to believe.

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Daniel Rooney @danielrooney.bsky.social · Mar 22

See ya!

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