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Incidentally, remember when Hasbro owned Atari Games? (Or possibly all of the Atari IP including the hardware, can’t remember the specifics.) They punted all that off to Infogrames after 5 or so years, IIRC.

Been using it since last July. When it was Mastodon, but centralised and with actual regular users posting stuff regularly. Becoming more like early Twitter over the last few months, necessitating use of mute/block lists. (The actual block function is great though, use it and you’ll never see...

https://bsky.app/profile/politicsjoe.bsky.social/post/3lbchxpl5gc2c Latest right-wing mass protest: This time it’s farmers.

Yes, we do have hate speech laws here. I put this inaction down to a (very wrong) decision by whomever in the Cambridgeshire police force.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/18/more-than-one-in-three-uk-children-poverty-deprivation-record-high Quarter of the UK population in poverty. Can believe that, judging from what I see outside my window and on the way to work every day…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo Hopefully this is all just a precaution?

The Republicans use the abbreviation GOP (“Grand Old Party”) rather than Rep basically to avoid that confusion, apparently.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-andrew-bailey-mansion-house-b2647398.html An obvious fix for the crippled UK economy in the age of Trump Tariffs would be, you know. But the largest two political parties won’t even acknowledge the possibility.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-critics-retribution Wise decision for people to start preparing for a full-on fascist state, TBH.

Oh, like what happened immediately after the Brexit referendum, then. Human history is merely a list of failing to learn from past mistakes.

I'm shocked, in the negative sense, how quickly transgender rights turned from a non-issue to a central part of these Culture Wars. Not that long ago in the UK we had social-conservative Tory prime minister Theresa May perfectly happy to introduce self-ID laws; now the Labour Party, which made...

Conclusive proof that Dawkins has totally lost it (as if there wasn’t already enough proof over the last 15 years).

Yes, all of this. Honestly, it is better that Deathy flounced before he got comfortable and started throwing around slurs, openly wishing minority Allsparkers dead and so on. Never let a deadly infection spread untreated.

Looked up a brief description of what AOC believes in on Wikipedia (which, yes, I realise is itself a flawed resource): So, worker cooperatives, something that America has anyway, and isn’t incompatible with free-market capitalism. (We have a dedicated political party in parliament advocating...

I'm a cis-gender English guy sitting halfway around the world from most users here, and I don't want them here either. I absolutely do not want people of any minority group to feel threatened or unsafe while using this forum.

Whatever direction the Democrats go after this crushing defeat, I really hope that they don't end up taking the same route as the UK Labour Party, as in offering essentially the same policies as the Right, just with "sensible and grown-up" delivery and presentation. I mean, if there are any more...

Oh, if you thought the price rises during and after the pandemic were bad, wait until there’s those tariffs. I said this before, promising to “end inflation” by placing tariffs on everything, that’s like trying to extinguish an open fire by pouring petrol onto it. (Trump/Vance won’t be able...

I don’t get the whole “people voted Trump because they were insulted by the other side” narrative. It’s bollocks. I mean, the pro-Trump side were the ones lacking decorum and civilised manners. FFS, their whole modus operandi is being as openly unpleasant and thuggish as possible! Their führer...