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Sunny, dry and 16C where I am in England today. England in February. Should be grey skies, humid and bitterly cold. This is all accelerating faster than governments of the world can react to.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/february-on-course-to-break-unprecedented-number-of-heat-records?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other (What was Rattrap’s catchphrase in Beast Wars, again?)

Local MP had some angry protesters surround his house due to his stance on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Even noticed by the national newspapers (including this terrible tabloid). Apparently he’s considered “pro genocide” by the protestors for not calling for Israel to be abolished, or some...

Candidate now suspended from the party: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-rishi-sunak-general-election-keir-starmer-12593360?postid=7219038#liveblog-body

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-candidate-rochdale-offensive-claim-israel-b2494286.html 0 days since last incident of Labour antisemitism, plus ca change.

https://bsky.app/profile/strandjunker.bsky.social/post/3kl3o5gxcf222

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/donald-trump-says-he-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-countries-who-dont-pay-bills America’s next president happy for there to be WWIII as long as the US can sit it out, it seems.

Won't be buying the Grimlock or Shockwave as I already have the moulds, but I'm just simultaneously amazed and pleased that the Marvel comics version of Transformers has gotten some official recognition for the first time in ages. Seeing as it's mostly semi-forgotten about in terms of official...

Our scumbag prime minister made a jibe about transgender women in the House of Commons today, while the mother of a young transgender murder victim was watching from the parliamentary gallery. Nice man…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/05/king-charles-diagnosed-with-cancer-buckingham-palace-announces King’s a bit unwell.

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-border-controls-coming-into-effect-today-will-force-up-price-of-food-and-flowers-13060123 As if foodstuffs hadn’t already become significantly more expensive since 2016-20…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kate-osamor-holocaust-gaza-genocide-whip-b2486325.html Another Labour politician “all lives mattering” the Holocaust.

Same. He doesn’t care unless it means incarceration, and if that ever looked likely, I can see his legal minions quickly switching to an Uncle Junior defence. (I mean, probably with some success, given that Trump does seem cognitively impaired.)

January 1.) Legacy United Windblade (£15.61) March 2.) BW reissue Iguanus (£4.99) 3.) Legacy United Energon Megatron (£11.99) 4). Legacy United Silverbolt (£32.95) April 5.) Legacy United Shard (£24.99) 6.) Legacy Evolution Armada Megatron (£23.99) 7.) Legacy United Tasmania Kid (£11.99) 8.)...

Tip of the bloody iceberg, I imagine.

I feel positively ill contemplating that this time next year, Trump is likely to be president-elect. I just don't know how to process that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67796546.amp Probably was inevitable at this point…

OK, I haven’t read too extensively on that issue, but the SGP is a really minor and pretty extreme party (revolutionary socialist, and not like the more mainstream socialist Die Linke, which is represented in federal and state parliaments and several state governments), and the WSWS is an openly...

https://bsky.app/profile/stevepeers.bsky.social/post/3kgsvelasjg2y Hah, I really hope Space Wanker blows his top and pulls Xitter access to Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/17/argentina-president-javier-milei-security-guidelines-protests-currency-devaluation Who’d have guessed that a Libertarian government would be ultra-authoritarian?