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autistic, liberal, democrat, and Liberal Democrat Crawley Town season ticket holder

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · Mar 1

Heaven, heaven is a place
A place where nothing, nothing ever happens

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1h

TF2 is 18 years old today

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 3h

It’ll be a shame to lose one of Scottish politics’ great entertainers

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 4h

Who knew that rather than British politics becoming similar to Japanese politics the reverse would be true

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 7h

Get ready for the multipolar era of Japanese politics...lots of parties, none with much of an identifiable advantage over the other, few critical constituencies to leverage, little public sympathy for anyone

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 5h

Exeter has been Labour for a long time, or was until this May where they got wiped out on the county council there

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 6h

Don't always agree with them but they're often good reads

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 14h

Don't describe myself as either of those things but Biden set "red lines" month after month which Bibi ignored and in response he did... nothing. Easier for Trump to pressure Netanyahu because he leads the cult of the American right-wing but even so it was a little pathetic

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 14h

sometimes feel on the verge of falling apart

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 16h

And, on the other end, Biden wasn't prepared to put any serious pressure on Netanyahu either

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 17h

Might be an unpopular opinion here but I do believe in parliamentary democracy, and you shouldn't functionally ensure state bodies have no accountability to it

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 23h

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19h

The problem, in Argentina, was utterly predictable. Milei repeated the exact same mistake of the 1990s, stabilizing the peso by tying it to the dollar, without having the political capacity to reign in spending (driven by state governments) enough to make that sustainable.

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 18h

Tuchel's right about atmosphere but it really doesn't help it when you charge £200 a ticket

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 18h

Oh Greece…

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 18h

Montenegro wanna talk about it

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 20h

I really think this England side has enough in it to do something memorable

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry Wales. Been a long time since we've played this well.

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 23h

None of my votes in my lifetime have mattered to the overall outcome of my seat, and that is true of millions of people in the country

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

It saved them in Cambs & loads of PCCs though!

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Less Reform, more of the other four main UK parties, I think the nationalists probably end up even

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

I don't take drugs because I am too risk-averse

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 1d

we do at least have this tweet out of it

Twitter post. Image is Lee Kuan Yew.
“We did it. We resurrected LKY. Father, tell us: what should we do to fix America?”
“Ten billion H1B Indians.”
“What? B–but—“
“Forced race mixing of neighborhoods.”
“Father, no—“
“Arrest anyone who disagrees.”

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

"Austerity via slashing investment" is not really ideological it's just stupidity

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

I still do this but it’s really just That Easy to believe people should be able to party anyway

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

OP opposing the policy because of “the vibes” is this to a T. She’s not even really making an argument it’ll reduce harm

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly: the vibes of moderation and harm reduction are bad.

The government is entirely right to be trying to shift young people's vibes to hedonism and communal fun.

Better vibes for a less boring nation

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 1d

Why are the vibes so off with this government. The whole culture at the moment is about moderation and harm reduction, especially among the young and middle aged voters that Labour needs to cling on to if it's going to retain a coalition of support.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

remaining centre-left liberals is like part of the liberal democrats and you can argue the toss about progressive slovakia (also the governing party of slovenia)