Woe betide me to give That Man any credit, but the "blob" of British government style is pretty obvious. My kingdom for a sense that the election did something!

parts of Bluesky think the Starmer Govt is bad because they're Actually Right-Wing or Too Centrist or whatever and this is fundamentally wrong because the thing is, they would be much better if they were any of those things, or indeed Left-Wing, or anything coherent, rather than *fucking useless*

Anyway: both the state and private developers need to build at far greater rates, the default aim should be 'a dual earner couple on average incomes can live in non-crowded conditions and raise a family', and the model family *for policymakers* should be three for obvious reasons.

*outweigh, obviously. Don't type with a bloody finger that you haven't been to hospital about because of steadfast principles of "just suck it up" and "I ain't never being a burden on the NHS because I'm just built differently"

Am sure I'm a small anecdote/a lefty luvvy living in london, but is this a symptom of what, IIRC, @stephenkb.bsky.social talks about the govt having no vision/depts contradicting each other? Wes going "self care is critical to managing health in community" and HMT going "no health perks for you brr"

Is it not, crudely, He Rich? You can see it with Elon too, so many fawning interviews pre-2020 when the more we've seen of him he's utterly charmless and largely quite thick. He's just rich, and in many cases struck lucky.

My radical view is that the story about the president being implicated in a notorious paedophile ring should be covered as an important story *in its own right*, and then secondarily any political consequences can be covered later

i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.

Britain is first and foremost a gerontocracy and screw anyone who tries to better themselves through any means other than ageing.

Me telling tales in the garden to my friends in 2005 about how the Yuuzhan Vong TERRAFORMED Coruscant based just on reading Wookiepedia - fun, campy, a chance to live out stories beyond films

Internet weirdos INSISTING that if we don't acknowledge Wookiepedia footnotes in all media - lame, boring

I think the almost zealous commitment to 'Lore' and 'The Canon' that has risen over the past decade is the most frustrating and restrictive cultural movement we've seen, on par with how streaming means no one commissions tv beyond one series at a time anymore.