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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will not follow legal requirements, faith school tells Ofsted⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way of saying “We will not follow legal requirements” is “We will break the law”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Working fine from mobile phone, Yorkshire. 4G Talkmobile (using Vodaphone’s network). Loaded immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wrecked 'em 💀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Attempt to set the new world record!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wrecked 'em 💀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  9 Cadbury’s Cream Eggs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s openra.net which is an open source “all the Command and Conquer games” engine, which may be of interest?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨transformations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, that was actually pretty cool.

  Thank you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨transformations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what that is, so I’m going to try and deliberately avoid it unless recommended otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨transformations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’ve got that “Grace Kelly” song by Mika stuck in my head for the next few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t they just… have some (more) public toilets, or have any existing public toilets open for more hours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly it’s not just inflexibility of Universal Credit - the base rate of Universal Credit isn’t high enough anyway, but you’ve also particularly got elderly people on state pension only, people with disabilities and people with children.

  Surprisingly, the majority of food bank food apparently goes to households with at least one person in work - though this might not be “old style” work where you have set hours and wages and rights, but instead “zero hours” or “flexi hours” or “our company considers you self employed” etc.

  Huge increases in gas costs are one of the biggest contributors - children, the elderly and the ill couldn’t manage to just switch the heating off all winter. Ridiculous house price/rent increases are also a massive factor.

  I’m also a little unsure about a nationalised supermarket - but there are probably some solutions in this direction that would work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the fairest assessment - It has delays as “trains more than three minutes late”. Not ideal, especially when you’re changing trains, but 3 minutes rarely makes a difference, compared to the 10/20/30/40 minutes late ones.

  A few years back, when working in places “two trains away”, I was getting trains 10-20 minutes late every day, which normally meant missing the connection.

  By my own experience, Northern and Transpennine have had fewer cancellations and fewer noticeably latest.

  However, Northern are still shit at sending a two-carriage Sprinter as a commuter train that needs 3-4 carriages for everyone waiting to actually get on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That can’t be true because he’s medically unable to sweat.

  Not, as he likes to say, because of something something Falklands or whatever.

  It’s because he’s a lizard-man in a human suit.

  Prince Andrew is a lizard nonce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents and students fight against anti-racist book banning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the good way round.

  A Tory had pressured a local school to ban a few books because they showed white-on-black racism as a negative thing, and this fact hurt his racist Tory feelings.

  A comparatively large group of anti-racist parents complained, and got the anti-racist book unbanned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. Put controls and regulation on the stock exchange, investment banking “venture capitalism”.

  Oh, you didn’t mean that? Do you just mean “poor people gambling”, where people gamble with their own money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously, they’d be in danger of learning something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What role has Britain played in the history of Israel and Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “The baddies”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think there’d be that much disagreement.

  “Oh, do you hate libs and love Putin too?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or “Minors always granted access”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost none of these abbreviation based etymologies are true - they’re made up years later, normally as a joke, and somehow you end up with people spreading them about as facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Stargate UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To anyone skimming through /all and nust noticing the headline, this may save you a click:

  It’s just an AI thing. The UK is not, I repeat not, building a Stargate.

  • Just some AI thing ✅️
  • Gateway to desert planet Abydos ❌️
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like everything is these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stop Trump coalition published this video⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out it’s the Welsh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss Mock the Week :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that all went out the window during the Tory era, with things such as replacing the head of the BBC with a Tory, threatening to pull all funding unless they started promoting the government’s right-wing perspective and caving into Rupert Murdoch’s pressure that he is poor and starving because the evil BBC is taking all his rightful TV money and viewers.

  BBC comedy show and dramas are still on the whole centrist or a bit left leaning, but the news skewed heavily to the right about 10-15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨University Mergers - not the best sign!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything less than “Grent” will be disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, though they’re traditionally considered to be left wing, and people were expecting them to be slightly-right-wing, they’ve enacted all the Tory (very right wing) policies that were in the pipeline, and in an attempt to appeal to the far right, have jumped from “a little right of centre” into a government more right wing than David Cameron’s Tories were. They’re probably still to the left of where we’d be if we’d actually got Tories or UKIP.

  For example (I have paraphrased and sensationalised the descriptions, because I am sad and angry):

  • Starving the elderly and disabled
  • Banning trans people from being allowed to use I public toilets
  • Implemented a ban on any website which could ever potentially contain a picture of a boob, or offer things like “quitting smoking support”, unless you upload your name/passport/3d scan of your face, postal address and email address to a dodgy company in Cypress or the USA
  • Come out in complete support of a genocide
  • Banned peace protesting and arrested hundreds of innocent people
  • Come out in complete support of the other year’s Tory/UKIP rioting
  • Come out in support of far-right nationalist flag-shagging
  • Come out in support of killing refugees
  • Various other atrocities. I’m sure you get the idea

  I’ve used slightly loaded language and twisted a few specifics, but I’m sure you get the general idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most of the people disagreeing with the post are from the USA, which has completely different costs/taxes/prices etc.

  In the UK (as the original post is), it depends where you live - our mortgage is about £350 per month (5 bed terrace), but if would have been almost £500 a month without the deposit. Rent in the area is about £600 - £1500 per month, for similar or smaller properties.

  Note that this is in Northern UK, in the sort of town sometimes described as “a bit of a shithole”. I could get a train to a town an hour away and the prices would literally double - but the ratio between mortgage and rent would be pretty much the same.

  Even with the cost of repairs, and a tiny bit on insurance etc, it’s a significant saving. Also, the repairs actually get done, which was not the experience I had in rented accommodation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in a “less desirable area” you can still get a house for less than £100,000 in some places in the UK. You might find yourself with limited job opportunities or a long commute, or poor local facilities though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Budgie the Little Helicopter” and “Jimbo of the Jet Set” are both terrified.