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RT Bear Kilpatrick
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Just a bear. LGBTQ+ being. Cars, music, retrotech, alternative. Makes stories, poems, and questionable life choices. Help me learn Mandarin!
Cardle 2/5
Streak 21🔥
Total Score 748
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November 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Say goodnight to Indy, she is tired and wants me to stay sitting under her favourite and very worn out blanket
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Post your getaway vehicle
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
They've been pushing this so hard until it stuck. But it's a fallacy, and one easily unpicked. Thin end of arguing for means-tested disability support and private insurance.

Follow and watch. This organisation is not acting for the common good, and already influenced harm and decline for many.
Giving people access to wheelchair-adapted vehicles makes sense. But, the vast majority of Motability cars are standard models. 🚗

Providing these cars at the average age of UK vehicles would immediately save £3.4 billion annually without undermining the purpose of the scheme.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Wow.

Section 1.17, OBR report on tax - "A new mileage based charge on electric and /plug-in hybrid/ cars from April 2028 at around half fuel duty".

Plug-in hybrid cars already pay fuel duty. Stats show few users use them properly, plugged in. So PHEVs get charged twice?
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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“I’ve never directly racially abused anybody.” Farage wheeling out one of those excuses that tells you they’ve thought about this, so back off. Like people who have a complex and nuanced set of personal rules about sexual abuse, with lines they’re careful not to cross. The reddest of red flags.
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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I for one am COMPLETELY dumbfounded as to how Nigel Farage has swivelled from horrific poisonous teenage racist to the open-hearted generous empath that he is today
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Oh, sneaky!

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Streak 20🔥
Total Score 736
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November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Shorthand: Motability cars are not relevant. The Adam Smith Institute has been pushing for privatised welfare insurance in place of benefits for years. Extracting profit is not better value. I hope @zackpolanski.bsky.social will keep these opaque think-tanks at a distance as the party grows.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
SOME GREAT PHILOSOPHERS ONCE WROTE

NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY
VERY NAUGHTY
Aa handful of complicit sycophants does not count as "many great legal scholars." Also, they urged people to disobey illegal orders, which is part of their training and required by law.
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Of course 85% of claimants make advance payments.

The allowance-only cars are short-range EVs and a couple of superminis you couldn't get any other kit in.

No extra .gov cost - just in-work benefit for /assessed/ condition.

Adam Smith Institute pushing this story hard since 09/2025.

Bad Actors.
Motability hopes to take the heat out of criticisms by taking posh cars out of the scheme bit.ly/4ikutWl but convertibles may still be available! 😉
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Latest budget story on BBC suggests alterations to sugar tax.

Forget Thatcher, Thatcher, Milk Snatcher
I bring you:

Starmer, Reeves
Milkshake Thieves!
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Way too easy

Cardle 1/5
Streak 19🔥
Total Score 727
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November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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I don’t allow gambling ads on my videos. YouTube lets you opt out at channel level.

(Saying that, I’m not above raffling off a car if I thought I’d sell enough tickets.)
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You could buy my dad's house, live in beautiful town in the Borders that's as close in time terms to Edinburgh as Camden is to... well, south of the river - and have money left over.

Or this.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Brexit left the UK divided societally, impoverished economically, and diminished internationally.

Farage, Johnson et al acted to undermine the nation state of the UK for their own (or other's) nefarious ends.

They should be hauled up for treason.

(h/t @richardbentall.bsky.social)
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Loving the use of the word world here. Not PLU, just, people. All of 'em.
YES YES YES. This is ultimately what matters, and we need to do everything we can to create a world where this is a reality for people
Ash Sarkar, "What's your vision of the good life?"

Zack Polanski, "I think it's one where we can spend more time with the people that we love"
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Assuming Starmer had ever done anything before his leadership role beyond wait inside calmly inside his packet in the fridge of a provincial service station, just hoping the next customer wanted a beige sandwich meal deal, can you imagine self-aware humour like this?
Zack Polanski, "Careful, you make me sound like a hypnotist"

Ash Sarkar, "You know I thought they were getting bigger"

😅
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"If you go back a million minutes, get to the start of 2023. If you go back a billion minutes, you get to the Roman Empire. That's the scale of inequality we're living with." Zack Polanski

Such a brilliant illustration.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I would love the victims of his "harmless racism" to come forward and have a free psychiatric assessment (with the professional not informed of their history beforehand) given what we know of childhood bullying and trauma.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Remember the happy days when you could install software on your own hardware which let you do pretty-much anything you wanted with it? And all without the hardware maker trying to sue you? Good times, man, good times.

web.archive.org/web/20060823...
IpodPort < Main < TWiki
home download documentation mailing lists wiki IRC forums daily builds CVS builds feature requests bug reports patches
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I just could not remember these existed

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Streak 18🔥
Total Score 712
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November 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
More evidence that I may actually be 3 LLMs in a trenchcoat :/
I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM