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I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
No gas line and can't afford induction?
(but yes, they do seem pointless in any mid-to-high range situations)
(but yes, they do seem pointless in any mid-to-high range situations)
December 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No gas line and can't afford induction?
(but yes, they do seem pointless in any mid-to-high range situations)
(but yes, they do seem pointless in any mid-to-high range situations)
Do you have a link to this data?
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Do you have a link to this data?
3) Women obviously don't appreciate RW men trying to boss them around (or Elon offering to "impregnate" them)
But there are many couples who would like to have children but can't afford them in this climate
Positive policies that support families in the choices they make would be welcomed by all
But there are many couples who would like to have children but can't afford them in this climate
Positive policies that support families in the choices they make would be welcomed by all
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
3) Women obviously don't appreciate RW men trying to boss them around (or Elon offering to "impregnate" them)
But there are many couples who would like to have children but can't afford them in this climate
Positive policies that support families in the choices they make would be welcomed by all
But there are many couples who would like to have children but can't afford them in this climate
Positive policies that support families in the choices they make would be welcomed by all
2b) can we guarantee that 20 years from now immigrants will still want to come here?
Falling birth rates is a global problem, not just in the West but throughout Asia too. More countries will have need of young people, fewer will have ones to spare.
Times are changing
Falling birth rates is a global problem, not just in the West but throughout Asia too. More countries will have need of young people, fewer will have ones to spare.
Times are changing
December 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
2b) can we guarantee that 20 years from now immigrants will still want to come here?
Falling birth rates is a global problem, not just in the West but throughout Asia too. More countries will have need of young people, fewer will have ones to spare.
Times are changing
Falling birth rates is a global problem, not just in the West but throughout Asia too. More countries will have need of young people, fewer will have ones to spare.
Times are changing
1) What we have now is nowhere near as bad as it gets
2a) Immigration can help in the short term, but in the longer term?
Wouldn't that be effectively outsourcing reproduction to women from poorer countries?
Is that really what we want to be doing?
2a) Immigration can help in the short term, but in the longer term?
Wouldn't that be effectively outsourcing reproduction to women from poorer countries?
Is that really what we want to be doing?
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
1) What we have now is nowhere near as bad as it gets
2a) Immigration can help in the short term, but in the longer term?
Wouldn't that be effectively outsourcing reproduction to women from poorer countries?
Is that really what we want to be doing?
2a) Immigration can help in the short term, but in the longer term?
Wouldn't that be effectively outsourcing reproduction to women from poorer countries?
Is that really what we want to be doing?
Finally, the Right has always liked to talk about "family", but it's always been the Left that offer the interventionist policies that actually allow families to thrive.
It would be a mistake to allow the electorate to think that the Right are better for supporting families.
It would be a mistake to allow the electorate to think that the Right are better for supporting families.
December 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Finally, the Right has always liked to talk about "family", but it's always been the Left that offer the interventionist policies that actually allow families to thrive.
It would be a mistake to allow the electorate to think that the Right are better for supporting families.
It would be a mistake to allow the electorate to think that the Right are better for supporting families.
Austerity has been caused by an ageing population. The problems we face right now will be a picnic compared to if we actually start to depopulate.
The current birth rate is setting ourselves for serious problems in the next 20 years. It's something we need to turn around.
The current birth rate is setting ourselves for serious problems in the next 20 years. It's something we need to turn around.
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Austerity has been caused by an ageing population. The problems we face right now will be a picnic compared to if we actually start to depopulate.
The current birth rate is setting ourselves for serious problems in the next 20 years. It's something we need to turn around.
The current birth rate is setting ourselves for serious problems in the next 20 years. It's something we need to turn around.
Pro-natalism means wanting to increase the birth rate.
And yes, the first ones to jump on it were the far right white nationalists who want more white babies so the white race isn't "replaced", and they want women to become "traditional" again.
But despite all that...
And yes, the first ones to jump on it were the far right white nationalists who want more white babies so the white race isn't "replaced", and they want women to become "traditional" again.
But despite all that...
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Pro-natalism means wanting to increase the birth rate.
And yes, the first ones to jump on it were the far right white nationalists who want more white babies so the white race isn't "replaced", and they want women to become "traditional" again.
But despite all that...
And yes, the first ones to jump on it were the far right white nationalists who want more white babies so the white race isn't "replaced", and they want women to become "traditional" again.
But despite all that...
Making it more affordable to raise a family is to "capitalism harder"?
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Making it more affordable to raise a family is to "capitalism harder"?
Even that started before the election. It was the June 2023 figures that were initially 740,000, later readjusted to over 900,000, that set off the concern about numbers.
Although those figures were only released around 8 months before the election, so you're not that far off
Although those figures were only released around 8 months before the election, so you're not that far off
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Even that started before the election. It was the June 2023 figures that were initially 740,000, later readjusted to over 900,000, that set off the concern about numbers.
Although those figures were only released around 8 months before the election, so you're not that far off
Although those figures were only released around 8 months before the election, so you're not that far off
The "stop the boats" panic started long before 2024.
I think it was 2022 when Priti Patel first unveiled the Rwanda policy.
I think it was 2022 when Priti Patel first unveiled the Rwanda policy.
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The "stop the boats" panic started long before 2024.
I think it was 2022 when Priti Patel first unveiled the Rwanda policy.
I think it was 2022 when Priti Patel first unveiled the Rwanda policy.
I think the left should go pro-natalist.
I think it would go well with our calls for tackling problems with house prices and public services.
I think it would go well with our calls for tackling problems with house prices and public services.
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I think the left should go pro-natalist.
I think it would go well with our calls for tackling problems with house prices and public services.
I think it would go well with our calls for tackling problems with house prices and public services.
Erika Kirk's freudian slip where she says Charlie Kirk was a grifter
December 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Being able to unfollow someone's retweets was a good feature on ye olde Twitter.
December 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Being able to unfollow someone's retweets was a good feature on ye olde Twitter.
But isn't one of the major downsides is that we've ceded our influence?
Boris Johnson, in most ways the worst PM we've ever had, was quite good on Ukraine, but thanks to Brexit amd Britain's marginalisation, his influence and impact was far smaller than it could otherwise have been.
Boris Johnson, in most ways the worst PM we've ever had, was quite good on Ukraine, but thanks to Brexit amd Britain's marginalisation, his influence and impact was far smaller than it could otherwise have been.
December 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
But isn't one of the major downsides is that we've ceded our influence?
Boris Johnson, in most ways the worst PM we've ever had, was quite good on Ukraine, but thanks to Brexit amd Britain's marginalisation, his influence and impact was far smaller than it could otherwise have been.
Boris Johnson, in most ways the worst PM we've ever had, was quite good on Ukraine, but thanks to Brexit amd Britain's marginalisation, his influence and impact was far smaller than it could otherwise have been.
I'd have gone with Bong-out-o
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'd have gone with Bong-out-o
I disagree with this.
It likely does benefit the "already privileged", but is the best way to redress this imbalance to level up or to level down?
I think that scrapping it would be a grumpy Philistine's response.
It likely does benefit the "already privileged", but is the best way to redress this imbalance to level up or to level down?
I think that scrapping it would be a grumpy Philistine's response.
December 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I disagree with this.
It likely does benefit the "already privileged", but is the best way to redress this imbalance to level up or to level down?
I think that scrapping it would be a grumpy Philistine's response.
It likely does benefit the "already privileged", but is the best way to redress this imbalance to level up or to level down?
I think that scrapping it would be a grumpy Philistine's response.
The only time I hear the "Europe doesn't by us line", it's from Labour supporters/politicians who want the EU to be a convenient excuse for their party's lack of ambition.
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The only time I hear the "Europe doesn't by us line", it's from Labour supporters/politicians who want the EU to be a convenient excuse for their party's lack of ambition.
Out of interest, which European politicians have said this?
Whenever they're directly quoted, they usually criticise Britain's attempted cherry-picking. Trying to get market access without rejoining the SM.
Whenever they're directly quoted, they usually criticise Britain's attempted cherry-picking. Trying to get market access without rejoining the SM.
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Out of interest, which European politicians have said this?
Whenever they're directly quoted, they usually criticise Britain's attempted cherry-picking. Trying to get market access without rejoining the SM.
Whenever they're directly quoted, they usually criticise Britain's attempted cherry-picking. Trying to get market access without rejoining the SM.
1) Reducing the trade barriers is good for them too
2) It's a major political victory for them, Britain effectively admitting that brexit was a mistake and that it has to do things the EU's way.
2) It's a major political victory for them, Britain effectively admitting that brexit was a mistake and that it has to do things the EU's way.
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
1) Reducing the trade barriers is good for them too
2) It's a major political victory for them, Britain effectively admitting that brexit was a mistake and that it has to do things the EU's way.
2) It's a major political victory for them, Britain effectively admitting that brexit was a mistake and that it has to do things the EU's way.
I mostly like her style, but the "return to Twitter" argument falls a bit flat.
Among other things, social media is supposed to be fun, not missionary work.
Some of her other ideas are better, like engaging with conservative podcasts, because at least that format allows for a proper conversation.
Among other things, social media is supposed to be fun, not missionary work.
Some of her other ideas are better, like engaging with conservative podcasts, because at least that format allows for a proper conversation.
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I mostly like her style, but the "return to Twitter" argument falls a bit flat.
Among other things, social media is supposed to be fun, not missionary work.
Some of her other ideas are better, like engaging with conservative podcasts, because at least that format allows for a proper conversation.
Among other things, social media is supposed to be fun, not missionary work.
Some of her other ideas are better, like engaging with conservative podcasts, because at least that format allows for a proper conversation.