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

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Recession? That’s optimistic.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/spain-portugal-power-outage Hope this isn’t Russia testing the waters…

Saw some polling from Yougov (UK polling company), still a narrow estimated gap between Liberals and Tories even with the Liberals ahead. BQ doing middling, better than 2011 but hardly 1993. NDP look like they’ll be virtually wiped out or sink to the same seat count as the Greens. Just hope you...

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_e6ce6e4a-4161-476f-8d28-94150a891092.html Judge Dredd was written as a warning, not a how-to guide.

Just a reminder, GI Joe is still “Action Force” in my ageing brain, as the was the branding over here. To distance itself from the American origins, even back in the ‘80s. (IIRC some of the characters were changed to not be Americans on the packaging bios, something like that.)

Honestly, I’d prefer that they were able to get membership of both. It’s more that I think the EU defensive pact (or a future incarnation of one) will be more ‘useful’ in the longer term than NATO, because I am concerned about the future viability of NATO depending on how reckless the US...

Realistically, membership of the EU is the more important of the two. Certainly in the longer run. Although being honest, I can’t see Ukraine fully joining the EU for bare minimum 15-20 years even if the war ended with Russian retreat tomorrow.

Reaching the Erdogan point on the authoritarian leader scale. All this is escalating far faster than a pessimist like me believed would happen. He could be full dictator by the end of the summer at this rate.

Oh, I realise that. Just was commenting that for overseas (as in non-American) Transformers fans, the appeal is going to be marginal. Usually the collaborative figures are related to franchises with a higher level of international recognition. However, given the NFL figures seem to share...

I think it's rather... Brave of Hasbro to release these products, given that there isn't going to be much interest in them outside of the United States? Not that there aren't followers of American football outside of the sport's homeland, but I doubt there's enormous numbers of them who also...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y42zzwylvo Florida-style toilet bans are here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crldey0z00ro Starmer again demonstrating how he’s the most socially conservative British prime minister since Thatcher. Horrified how the Labour Party has gone from being...

I genuinely believed that it’d take six months to several years for the Trump admin to get this nakedly authoritarian, and I consider myself a pessimist.

You’ll need a Second Republic. But the Democrats are so utterly inept as an opposition, I doubt they collectively have the ability to handle a reconstruction if they regain power nationally.

Wouldn’t be surprised. He’s more rightwing in practice than the last Tory prime minister, is a social conservative, doesn’t want rapprochement with Europe…

In the UK, retailers by law had to charge for plastic bags from 2015 onwards. It apparently drastically reduced consumption of plastic bags, and many of the major retailers no longer even sell single-use bags.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-women-nhs-supreme-court-ruling-b2734976.html One day after the verdict, and trans rights to healthcare are already under institutional attack.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t More crap news from Terf island, the UK Supreme Court has ruled that trans women aren’t women and therefore don’t have the same legal protections.

Just a thought, but anti-Americanism will be a factor in many countries going forwards. As in American brands like Transformers could actively lose a lot of support overseas. This tariff crisis will spike prices in the rest of the world, and people in not-America will be angry at the nation...