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https://boingboing.net/2025/04/09/trumps-new-loyalty-test-golden-trump-bust-lapel-pins.html Not reminiscent of a dictatorship, no…

https://bsky.app/profile/skinkpunch.bsky.social/post/3lmcoefp4zk2l

Yeah, why don’t we buy your cars? Might be because they’re far too big for our roads and our dwellings, and are ludicrously fuel inefficient. (Petrol, as in gasoline, is as of this posting, is averaging 136 pence per litre, as in US$1.74 per litre. FWIW.) (edit: that’s US$6.59/gallon.)

Inevitable, really. But then again, and I don't want to make this too dark, we should probably be worrying more about core expenses like food and fuel rather than affording the newest Nintendo console.

Yes. It’s the same sort of rhetoric we had here in the UK about a catastrophic thing that happened to my country. “We’ll start manufacturing things here for a change, it’ll be great!” – nine years on (urgh), all it lead to was business closures and higher prices.

hug me, those tariffs. Good thing I brought forward purchasing a new computer to last week. :/ I think the republic is dead if there isn’t actual full major backlash to this. This isn’t normal. This is economic mismanagement by a lunatic with geriatric dementia. What Liz Truss did to the...

This is going to end mainline Transformers releases. A Deluxe is going to cost, what, $40, $45 over in the States? And consider the target audience (namely kids), buying action figures aren’t going to be a priority for parents when just getting basics like food in regularly will destroy the...

https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3llnyyljbei2u Banned from running for office for 5 years, 4 years prison sentence (2 years suspended), €100K fine. That’s how you deal with these far-right populists.

If you’re in the UK, you can currently get an Antangony for £7 (plus £4.99 postage): https://www.game.co.uk/transformers-gen-select-voy-antagony-action-figure-925973#colcode=92597390 Legacy Selects Gobots set for £38, which is the lowest I’ve seen it being sold for...

Nah, not really. That’s like comparing apples and oranges. I mean, the president of the US is simultaneously head of state and head of government. Canada’s head of state is King Charles, and the head of government is the prime minister. Think of it as like if the UK changed prime minister, but...

Oh, that results chart was for the recent Ontario provincial election. The new prime minister, Mark Carney, got the job because he was chosen to be the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, the party which has the most seats in the House of Commons. Despite not being an MP yet – his aim is to...

I don’t really follow this sort of thing, but isn’t the F-35 a massively overpriced white elephant anyway? (Thinking back, Thrust in TF Armada was an F-35. That was over twenty years ago. Shows how long these pieces of military hardware take to get in service, given they’re only being rolled...

The figures look to me like the Jungle Planet (from TF Cybertron) meets Combiner Wars, with a splash of the Autobot’s combining gimmick from TF Energon.

I am half-wondering if Trump had read some classified documents with plans for annexing Canada and Greenland (etc) during a global emergency / war, and thought “hey, that’s a good idea”.

Howabout seeing it as "nation founded on the basis of rejection of an absolute monarchy reforms its laws to prevent the 21st century equivalent from happening"?

Realistically, you need a “second republic” in a post-Trump America. A transformation of the established institutions to prevent a Trump ever happening again, and to contain any threats within to both American democracy and the wider international order.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/13/technlogy-secretary-peter-kyle-asks-chatgpt-for-science-and-media-advice A Freedom of Information request revealed that a government minister was/is using ChatGPT for advice and policy ideas…

Y’know, it just struck me that as we as late-capitalist societies we are learning far too slowly why the postwar consensus existed in the first place. Capitalism at all costs without social guardrails is a self destructive shitshow.

Basically, part of the reason was that Georgescu broke Romania’s anti-dictatorship rules by publicly praising the 1930s/1940s fascist rulers of Romania. He’s gotten himself barred from contesting the re-run election as of this past weekend.