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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-trade-deal-starmer-macron-b2752255.html Heh, ‘funny’ how Brexit always exposes UK governments as plain awful and incompetent.

I remember first getting Netflix back in 2013 or 2014. Around the time when the House of Cards remake with (“cancelled actor”) was released. Used my Wii U to stream it, as I had a non-smart TV back then. It was amazing. No adverts, just like the BBC! But so much content, and it was 1080p, which...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mgl71mk17o Pride events in the UK are banning political parties from attending, which is a good show of solidarity towards trans people, given there’s no parties left in this country which aren’t transphobic.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3loym4e3uts23 He’s wearing a tie based on the apartheid era national flag of South Africa, subtle…

Medicine prices, right… I looked up the asthma inhaler I take, and it’s US$180 or so in the States. Now, I get free prescriptions, but ignoring the NHS flat-rate prescription cost of £9.90 (=US$13.05) for a second, the same inhaler would cost in the £50 range if acquired via a private...

So we’ve had our “Labour” prime minister basically mimic Farage on some new draconian immigration laws, just as he has copied Farage on LGBTQ rights and public spending. All that Labour landslide last July has left us with a government functionally more right-wing than the old Tory...

That reminds me. I acquired my early Beast Wars figures by collecting the dusty unsold G2 figures I found in my local Toys R Us (and a few other retailers) and swapping them with fans in America. That’s become my main association with G2 action figures.

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelsderby.bsky.social/post/3lovfbgazhc26 If true… Calling this “corruption” doesn’t even cover it.

FFS, then nothing from Japan (and Korea and so on) will get English language international releases, because those are no longer going to be viable without the US market.

“He’s just winding people up” doesn’t work any more to explain Trump. I mean, he did that insane tariffs thing. It wasn’t all talk. He’s unhinged.

Hah, just checked the Australian federal election results and their Tory leader lost his seat too. May the trend started in Canada continue to spread worldwide.

Too many factors to take into account, history, geography, voting systems, mix of voting systems, demographics… Main one is not replying so much on the winner-takes-all system used by the States, though. (FWIW, Australia uses ranked-voting for their House of Representatives. Still ends up a...

Doing it by the book. And writing a very comprehensive memorandum with evidence as to why AfD are a threat to Germany’s democratic order. Which will certainly help if the German federal government attempt to ban the AfD.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/02/germany-designates-afd-as-right-wing-extremist-organisation-citing-threat-to-democracy/ I mean, they are as close to a modern Nazi Party as the postwar constitution allows, so…

“Let AI bots be your friends”. I mean, FFS. If we’re going to all live in a dystopia, do we have to have one which is so laughably pathetic?

The awful thing is that the US electoral system just keeps it a permanent duopoly with the entrenched two parties. I mean, the similarish system we have here in the UK sort of does the same with the Big Two, but at least we have elements of a multi-party democracy, and outside England the main...

Darkly hilarious that a at a certain other forum, even mention of tariffs is banned, because mere mention of it angries up the blood. I just despair that I share an interest with a load of wretched manchildren who can’t cope with facing real-life issues.

Xbox hardware and software prices going up significantly in the UK as well. The tariffs aren’t just affecting the States…

I find it oddly hilarious that Coruscant is London in the environs of the Barbican Centre.

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