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Roads were clogged around my area yesterday as so many people were panic-buying petrol. As this journo points out, the opposition political parties and most of the media (the BBC in particular) won’t even mention that Brexit is a negative thing causing these problem, as it’s not the...

We also have: a shortage of CO2 as used in food and drink production. As a knock-on effect of all the Brexit supply chain jive.

Well, I’ll give you that it’s been a mixed bag in Generations recently, harking back to how it was before the CW/TR/PotP trilogy, and thankfully looks like it’ll continue being so next year! (It’s just being a big BW fan, I was annoyed by its absence for so long. Even a year or so ago I...

Quickly: I’m pleased that we’re getting Beast Wars characters in the next incarnation of Generations. I’m a bit worn out with G1 characters getting their 73rd action figure, personally.

Bought Dracodon, because he’s Beast Warsian and has a “zombified Yoshi” look to him in photos which I think is cool. Unfortunately, he’s misassembled, and can’t transform into beast mode. And I can’t find a replacement. Bah to QC issues.

Ah, that’s actually incorrect information on Wikipedia, as one of the other channels on the Sky service at the time broadcast Transformers rather than Sky One. But that’s Wikipedia, unfortunately.

Petrol (gasoline) shortage crisis mounts (due to Brexit): Food and goods shortages building (due to logistics crisis caused by Brexit, and already very visible where I live): Surging prices of natural gas used for heating (due to leaving the single European energy market and the ongoing...

Nah. It’s deliberate culture wars jive. Tory MPs are making it a point not to wear masks.

Not really surprised by this:

Hah, true. Only thought of that comparison a couple of hours after I'd made the post.

The whole thing would be darkly funny if it wasn’t for all the money wasted and all the people possibly infected along the way. Never seen anything like it. Well, outside of Israeli politics, sort of.

I did watch some episodes out of curiosity, because being from the UK, only the first season was ever shown here on television in the 1980s. So I’ve not watched much of the cartoon. I’m… Not a fan, honestly. Saw one episode that had a funny line about “dinosaur electrons” and Trypticon stealing...

I know a fair number of Germans who feel similar about the SPD, despite it otherwise being perhaps their natural party. The legacy of the Hartz IV ‘reforms’, and similar have really harmed the SPD, just as (I’d argue) the welfare cuts and payroll tax changes during Gordon Brown’s premiership...

So, you don’t want to get vaccinated because the vaccine doesn’t provide 100% protection against Covid, yet are happy enough to wear a mask and carry out regular hand hygiene… Neither of which provides 100% protection against Covid.

Also, the obligatory “the EU is imminently about to collapse” take, which we’ve had daily in the British media for the last five and a half years. Edit: plus if you only ever read and watched the British media, you’d think that Merkel and the CDU are centre-left social liberals, AfD was a...

Upload Beast Wars next, Hasbro, you cowards.

The UK and American media are just as bad at reporting on German elections, I see…

Bought Kingdom Galvatron, because I found a non-misassembled one. Probably should’ve held on for the Marvel comics-accurate one, having grown up reading Marvel UK, but, eh. My girlfriend’s described Galvatron’s cannon-equipped arm as his “pasta arm”, as the cannon barrel looks like a piece of...

Demote it to a territory?

Incidentally, I had a look into when a Green Party first entered government in Europe – assumed it was Finland in 1995, but it was actually Italy in 1993, although that only lasted a few days, because Italian politics is weird.