Not telling you who to vote for in the Scottish Parliament. Just saying this is why I'll be putting the SSP first on my list vote. Bluntly, I might not agree with them on everything (and god I wish they'd make their messaging less dry) but they actually feel like they give a fuck about this.

The one exception I know of is the Scottish Socialist Party is @thessp.bsky.social whose policies are:

Widely expanding eligibility.
Increasing the amount to the same 40 hours minimum wage.
A guaranteed 14 days of respite from caring every year.

It's actually less than the Scottish Carer's Supplement (supported by the SNP and the Scottish Greens) which gives us £587 more a year. Better than nothing, but not exactly proportionate to the work we actually do.

To the best of my knowledge, despite the obvious unfairness here, no major political party is willing to tackle this head on. Even the Greens (better on this than most) are only proposing a 10% monthly rise, around £433 a month. Something for @zackpolanski.bsky.social to look at maybe?

And we're in a bind here; for obvious reasons we can't strike. But if the government wasn't able to rely on our unpaid labour the system would collapse. (Pretty sure most of us would put up with minimum wage).

Even with the rise in the earnings floor, carers can still only earn an extra £2,340 a year, despite already doing at least 35 hours of unpaid labour.

So not only was the government punishing people for going a penny over the earnings floor and not telling them they'd gone over for months, it was doing so while people are saving the government £16,181.20 in unpaid labour.

So the real scandal is why the income floor is there in the first place.

Blackbeard (where he managed to keep it under control) is a beautiful experience, if not so much a game.

I genuinely love Berg as a designer but he is also the only person I have ever felt should tone the chrome down a bit rather than up.

Every so often I get an urge to get back into Palladium RPGs. Then I read a Palladium RPG and go "no, I think I won't after all".

deliver decent, truly affordable housing, but only if government withdraws and lets this market get to work. "

Maybe the US wing are different. I wouldn't know. UK YIMBYS are cunts though and we should expose what they say when they think outsiders aren't listening.

And that we should remove all subsidies for public housing because " If McDonalds or KFC can deliver delicious eating out experiences, and easyJet can deliver air travel to this income group, then a Taylor Wimpey should be able to

You'll have to excuse me if I don't consider a thinktank that puts out statements like "Left intellectual ideas about a ‘decent’ income and living conditions as a universal basic right that must be guaranteed by redistribution are going against the grain of the majority’s common sense of justice"

Please provide citations for your answer. Also "Roundheads" is not an acceptable answer as they aren't in fact a faction, merely an insult levelled at the New Model Army.

I also agree that Pitchfork probably shouldn't cover Taylor Swift or at least it's fine if they don't. For the same reason I'm not going to criticise Mixmag for not covering She Past Away. There's always been something of a lack of reciprocity when pop fans complain about lack of coverage.

But it's notable that I've never seen a single article critique the fact that Pop Bible Smash Hits didn't have a single woman editor until 2006. The anti rockist stuff was necessary as a corrective measure, but poptimist writers shared a lot of the assumptions about what you didn't talk about.