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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 10h

I love the bit in the article asserting that a big activist company like Ben and Jerries would have no need to concern itself about provision of toilets or some such... just above a picture of a Ben and Jerries cafe.

Someone at that publication saw through the BS, it appears.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 11h

"The two opposing strong vibes in UK politics are best represented by the racism party and the anti-racism party...

... but can Keir Starmer be inspired by a football team to work hard and plot a third way to victory?"

That's, errrr, is a VERY weird take.

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 11d

$300 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the Benefit Cost Ratio of Bike lanes supporting bikes in urban areas.

$0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
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E bikes and e scooters are drivers of climate action

Myths and realities of protected bikeways

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 12h

Every supermarket express lane I've ever seen has been clogged with those who don't follow the rules yet use it anyway for personal advantage.

I don't see why this one would be any different.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 13h

The autistic urge to experience a fair and just world where we all play by the same rules, and don’t go around just chaotically causing pain to each other to gain an unfair personal advantage.

I can see why societies that glorify rampant capitalism wouldn’t value that, or have it pointed out.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 15h

To be clear - I literally just watched Trump addressing the press on Air Force 1, stating that "It's a terrible thing" in respect of how the Epstein "situation" has affected the royal family, having been asked about Andrew having been stripped of titles.

He's never had a word to say of the victims.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder what he knows...

... or is Luxon just trying to shine the Bat Signal to Trump?

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this would be a wise and democratically fair approach to the matter.

There should at least be a response to a disallowed special vote to say as much and the reason why - after all, these votes are apparently undergoing enhanced identity and eligibility checks anyway.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 1d

Pledge here, from anywhere in the world. www.pledgeme.co.nz/proje cts/8521-support-dr-siouxsie-after-she-supported-us #nzpol

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

I understand he has a Scottish golf course where such encounters seem to be part of the ritual each time he visits;

and in the worlds of The Proclaimers, "I would walk 500 miles..."

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe that corrosion of confidence, in the democratic process is, of course, a feature rather than a bug. There seems to be a lot of it going around these days.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

With so many special votes being disallowed, how can you be confident that your eligible vote has been counted, or challenge/enquire about a decision of ineligibility?

Quite apart from the potential to disenfranchise and effect the result, it's also corrosive to confidence in the democratic process

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

... if you got a special vote due to a change of address, a voting pack just not turning up, some kind of damage to your voting papers, being out of the country at the time of election, or as mentioned, being on the unpublished roll...

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

If you vote in person, or a standard mail-in vote, it's a fairly simple process of ticking the right numbers of boxes and completing the form correctly. If you've done that, there's no reason it shouldn't be counted (unless somehow lost in transit)... but...

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

In all the reporting of large numbers of disallowed special votes (fairly minimal reporting, considering they decided some of the last election's MPs!), I find myself wondering if this point is really all that strongly considered.

Lots of reasons for specials - including the unpublished roll.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

One of the thing that bothers me about disallowed special votes, is ... with such a large number being disallowed, do the special voters concerned ever get to find out that their democratic voice counted for absolute shite, and if so, do they ever get to find out why?

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 18h

Also CBA, but not in the uninterested sense. It's genuinely my prefered order of interest lol

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 20h

I especially liked the comical bit where the Mexican federation suggested that Lawson should have turned the car more unpredictably in an effort to not hit the marshalls on the track...

... because, of course, what every such person needs is LESS understanding of where the car is going.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 2d

Also... Is the voice of Claptrap actually out there somewhere and available for hire? Wy didn't they?

I can only imagine they thought "yea, cast Jack Black as the zany, whacky character! That'll bring the ratings! ... but actually, it's enough to ruin the movie all on it's own.

StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 2d

It genuinely feels as though even though they somehow got so much of the look and feel of the environment right, somehow they still managed to miss the point entirely.

I don't know what this was, but if the game had been like this, the game would have flopped too.

Sad times! Could have been great!

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 2d

The Characters of Borderlands are all very specifically voiced and personified to specific effect, and I feel like they missed that entirely.

Tina just doesn't feel like Tina - she's not fun or insane enough. Claptrap is anoying for all the wrong reasons. Roland isw, errr, well, just Kevin Hart.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, and while the world looks and feels great, the writing just feels baaaad.

I feel like they just decided to hire a bunch of stars for all the main roles as if that would be the making of the movie's success, but that is NOT how you do Borderlands.

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 2d

Which brings me to my third observation:

The casting of all of the side characters is good-to-OK. Moxxxie isn't bad, and feel and voice of Marcus was PERFECT...

...so why are all the main characters so damned bad?

Is it the same reason the got Jack Black instead of the ACTUAL voice of Claptrap!?

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StarFiche @starfiche.bsky.social · 2d

Second observation: I LOVE the environments. The staging is ALL right The atmosphere, the skags, the rakks, the psycho masks... the vending machines basically everything except Tina's ears....

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