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I’m almost resigned to the fact that national governments will all put off doing a fraction of the bare minimum to mitigate climate change, and in 15-20 years we’ll all be living under drastic, draconian measures enacted by authoritarian regimes.

Meanwhile, the Tory government here announced yesterday they were junking most of their (incredibly weak) climate change mitigation policies, and doubled-down on “climate change isn’t our problem”-ism ahead of a general election next year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66831593 Conspiracy YouTuber Russell Brand has been up to no good (TW: descriptions of sexual assault).

I have two main issues with Tripredacus: one, the transparent plastic bits are brittle and impossible to avoid breaking. Two, he has always looked to me like a mutant demon version of Krusty the Clown.

Hope you're all managing to deal with the heat somehow. It's pretty difficult to manage these sort of high temperature here in the UK; our residential buildings were built to insulate rather than dissipate heath, and we don't have air conditioning in our typical homes. Also, what was considered...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/09/uk-weather-southern-england-headed-for-33c-heat 33 degrees C weather in England. In September.

Yeah, you’ve got a point with how the British-style electoral system props up the Lib/Tory duopoly. Then again, the NDP managed to become the federal opposition once, and who knows how the Liberals will fare post-Trudeau, particularly if the NDP manage to get themselves a truly popular leader?

Did look up the fed NDP platform out of curiosity, and it’s pretty solid. Nothing extreme to my eyes, basically generic Western European centre-left with a bit of generic Western European green party. (“Pharmacare” still being a thing separate from regular Medicare is depressing to contemplate...

I'm a pessimist and think that mugshot is going to be an infamous and well-known image for decades if not centuries to come. I can easily seeing Trump milking the notoriety and victim narrative to get himself back into the Whitehouse and turning America into a dictatorship for at least a...

Musk’s a native English speaker. Apparently he didn’t enjoy learning Afrikaans (the language descended from the Dutch spoken by the Boers) as a second language at school in South Africa.

I’m just relieved our police are never routinely armed with firearms, and may that continue forever.

The arrest was for verbally abusing a police officer, not homophobia.

Someone's Transformers collection, sometime in 1998. Old photograph scanned. (No recollection who actually owned all this.)

Looking for some instructions booklets in a drawer, and found an old photograph of the Transformers I got for my birthday back in 1996.

Learn some basic reading comprehension skills **scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub** Just a friendly reminder to attack the argument and not each other. Wheels

Speaking of McD’s, there was a news story in the UK media about endemic sexual and racial harassment taking place in their British outlets. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66231131.amp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/15/europe-heatwave-red-alerts-italy-cities-weather Parts of Mainland Europe are a furnace right now. This is not good.

Threads the app (presumably named in homage to the 1984 film) isn’t available in the EU as it violates the union’s online privacy laws. Which is yet another reason why Brexit has been terrible for Britain...

Are we still surprised that Space Wanker has basically fascist, ethnostate-y sort of views? Shouldn’t be. Anyway, give Mastodon a try? It’s flawed and not a like-for-like replacement for Twitter, but if you can use something as complex as an old-style web forum like this, you can use Mastodon.

I think Space Wanker’s intent on making Twitter subscription (“premium”) only, and at first making it as unusable as possible for the masses used to social media being free. Good luck with that one Elmo, as that strategy has always worked out well…