Re-elect Sister Smudge for Secretary-Treasurer
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Uphold Sister Smudge Thought. He/him.
meanwhile my cat is just a sweet, even-tempered, affectionate angel
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
meanwhile my cat is just a sweet, even-tempered, affectionate angel
also a very rare "Claire Fox has a reasonable point" moment
![Baroness [Claire] Fox, a non-affiliated peer and former Brexit Party MEP, added: “I do not want DWP civil servants, who might have been on a minor training course, to have that power. I think it is wrong.
“For them to have that power of physical force aimed at people on benefits seems wholly wrong and morally dubious.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x6mawsaptfqsnqipd5g5sxgi/bafkreicav7t2djt7aa6uicjiijphl37i6wsy5mtyi3fh36outh3k42cs4e@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
also a very rare "Claire Fox has a reasonable point" moment
cake and violins for all, in civic abundance
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
cake and violins for all, in civic abundance
I'm not big into St. Andrew's Day as a thing but would appreciate it as a buffer holiday against the Relentless March of Christmas
October 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm not big into St. Andrew's Day as a thing but would appreciate it as a buffer holiday against the Relentless March of Christmas
This is precisely what I was worried about before and why the *context* in which digital ID is being introduced actually matters - anti-trans organisations absolutely see it as a way to undermine the GRA even more, and to provide a way to make the upcoming EHRC guidance more enforceable
September 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This is precisely what I was worried about before and why the *context* in which digital ID is being introduced actually matters - anti-trans organisations absolutely see it as a way to undermine the GRA even more, and to provide a way to make the upcoming EHRC guidance more enforceable
"Just return them. This is precisely the point. We must not allow the ECHR to stop us dealing with it."
September 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Just return them. This is precisely the point. We must not allow the ECHR to stop us dealing with it."
whenever folk talk about how different Starmer and Blair's policy approach to immigration is, they're not wrong, exactly, but this kind of stuff about asylum seekers keeps rattling around my mind as important for how we got from there to here.
September 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
whenever folk talk about how different Starmer and Blair's policy approach to immigration is, they're not wrong, exactly, but this kind of stuff about asylum seekers keeps rattling around my mind as important for how we got from there to here.
The art in the Star Trek Adventures RPG can be variable but "Klingons and Andorians playing ice hockey" is both delightful and my primary example of how the game just Gets trek as a whole
September 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The art in the Star Trek Adventures RPG can be variable but "Klingons and Andorians playing ice hockey" is both delightful and my primary example of how the game just Gets trek as a whole
honestly the sample just sounds like every single Daily Mail article that Imagines The Terrifying Future
September 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
honestly the sample just sounds like every single Daily Mail article that Imagines The Terrifying Future
I think it might be a good idea if we had some standards around what The Lads could say at work, yes
September 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I think it might be a good idea if we had some standards around what The Lads could say at work, yes
September 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"well if it isn't my old friend mr mckay, with an eye for a tooth and a tooth for an eye"
September 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"well if it isn't my old friend mr mckay, with an eye for a tooth and a tooth for an eye"
September 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Example was given here, which does sound like it was unpleasant and the kind of thing you don't want to get to the ears of the hirers-and-firers, but I'm unconvinced that this is something purely aimed from the grad student left
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Example was given here, which does sound like it was unpleasant and the kind of thing you don't want to get to the ears of the hirers-and-firers, but I'm unconvinced that this is something purely aimed from the grad student left
Beyond everything else, despite any quibbles i have with yimbyism as a movement the one thing I would describe as a red line for them is urban densit; putting "these guys want to build big single family houses instead because it will help fertility(?)" under that umbrella is just... wrong?
![Dark Abundance is also distinguished by what it wants an abundance of. While it shares the YIMBYness that all abundants have in common, it is less excited by urban infill housing and much more excited by the prospect of large, family-size houses that could facilitate much higher rates of fertility. It is very relaxed about the [screenshot ends]|](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x6mawsaptfqsnqipd5g5sxgi/bafkreibqsktfwpfozm5hgo4wwpyeoc2u6oeaiawgmnqskso4hxxtnaewle@jpeg)
September 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Beyond everything else, despite any quibbles i have with yimbyism as a movement the one thing I would describe as a red line for them is urban densit; putting "these guys want to build big single family houses instead because it will help fertility(?)" under that umbrella is just... wrong?
Indestructible
September 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Indestructible
"we paid for Angela Rayner's education" is of course a world-historically stupid thing to say, but it did lead me to finding out that yer man's private school fees were paid because his dad managed to charm his way out of an intellectual property theft suit from the guy who wrote Paddington
September 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"we paid for Angela Rayner's education" is of course a world-historically stupid thing to say, but it did lead me to finding out that yer man's private school fees were paid because his dad managed to charm his way out of an intellectual property theft suit from the guy who wrote Paddington
i mean, this seems like extremely weak tea to me
![His [Ian Murray MP] allies believe that campaigning experience made him extremely well-equipped to out-manoeuvre the SNP on other areas, including promoting his "Brand Scotland" strategy to promote products like whisky and salmon overseas, and challenging the SNP over its opposition to new nuclear power stations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x6mawsaptfqsnqipd5g5sxgi/bafkreibvsp723hcgowtvxwhza5ainjgbhpk5qgkna4vhnvkx2xvs3ddff4@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
i mean, this seems like extremely weak tea to me
I am once again asking modern conservatism to have one accusation that is not a confession
September 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I am once again asking modern conservatism to have one accusation that is not a confession
the same guy in a Labour fringe event about campaigning against the GPEW, as discussed here by a Green activist:
September 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
the same guy in a Labour fringe event about campaigning against the GPEW, as discussed here by a Green activist:
ding ding ding
September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
ding ding ding
It would be extremely unfair to suggest that a think tank founded by two Tory MPs and a Tory councillor who became an MP, whose director is a Tory peer, and has a rotating cast staffing Tory administrations might have anything to do with electoral politics. They're just interested in ideas.
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It would be extremely unfair to suggest that a think tank founded by two Tory MPs and a Tory councillor who became an MP, whose director is a Tory peer, and has a rotating cast staffing Tory administrations might have anything to do with electoral politics. They're just interested in ideas.
