Losing the war on woke

one thing that REALLY annoys me about the altright getting everything they want is they have not paused to be happy about for a second. Instead they literally just started making up stuff to get mad at the left about

if we got everything progressives wanted, I would be euphoric for at least a year

The No. 1 rule of the right since Trumpism is the "official narrative" of anything cannot possibly be true. Nothing can ever be enough. When they cuffed Epstein, for example, which proved a global cabal of elite pedophiles, they were upset because they weren't eating babies.

... Tories claim this is one of the big problems blocking elderly folk from downsizing, ignoring fact they can and do pay the stamp duty out of the sale proceeds before they buy next place etc.
- Tory claimed trickle down works (ahem).
- will be interesting to see them evolve the regressive bits

Coverage of the Tory stamp duty thing on Sky shows its only just getting going:
- its a huge tax subsidy towards more wealthy people and especially those in London and SE for their main home.
- in large parts of country, 1st time buyers and house price rules mean its not a huge tax take.
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So 9 hour long episodes of Celeb Traitors begins at 9pm tonight. Seems that we’ll get to see Tom Daley (amongst others) blindfolded at the table …

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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Yet legitimate stands by US governors like this seem likely to be part of the rational Trump moves to use the Insurrection Act, people refusing to comply even tho he has no legal way to ask them let alone make them. bsky.app/profile/govp...

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

... jump themselves to protect their family, or die anyway, and their family suffers). So some such deaths may be 'encouraged' as the lesser of two evils. Part of the horror of the Soviet-Russian way of things was to ensure victims knew there was no way out, just a question of how gruesome it was

One of these days one of the 'falls' from a window in Russia for one of Putin's latest victims will be caught on CCTV, either inside the room it happened or outside from a camera his security forces didnt first disable.

(Remember tho that reports are that victims are sometimes given a choice: ...

And we are reminded once again that Reform seem to hate everything about Britain.

They want us to be somewhere else, anywhere else but never the country they puport to love.

They are like creepy errant partners, forever eyeing up other potential mates.

This is the part that kills me. Rs literally did this *mere weeks ago* and it was barely a one-day story, already forgotten to the mists of time

Tories are saying that their policies from Manchester were carefully thought out, they took their time, did the detail on them. Wtf? They sound like back of fag packet, and what detail exactly? Sheesh.

Especially ! I might be a tad addicted to the stuff 😏

Also, people claiming the right to lecture on ‘culture’ and ‘integration’ when they represent a dying political party and desperately oppose broad societal trends clearly lack any sense of self awareness.

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

When it comes to herbs, always the biggest obv 😏

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

and its written as 3'8" sometimes or 3.8 - not to be confused with 3ft 8inches. And thats one of the easier faffs.

An amusing (heated) look at how mad all the units systems are in the oil industry, where - even in the North Sea - some things are measured in American imperial.
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Who knew that the US has a measure of length thats decimal feet. So rather than divide a foot into 12, it's 10.

The press should be doorstepping the people who funded these repeated complaints and lawsuits. Make them explain themselves

Lots of drone coverage from Ukraine covers the extensive use of fibre optics by Russians, strung out for maybe 20km or more by the drone. Two issues: snagging the cable, so they need clearer routes. And scissors.

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