tenebrisnox
@tenebrisnox@feddit.uk
Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!
- Baron Munchausen
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 1 week ago:
I read them from time to time. Can you give an example of where they “straight up lie or spread conspiracy theories”? They report on rumours or gossip - but that’s little different than a mainstream journalist citing “sources”. I take into account their political slant when I read them, though.
- Comment on Reform councillor would like to see wage cuts to fund his pay rise 2 weeks ago:
In our ward they don’t even bother turning out. I think the LibDem who usually wins - and doesn’t even live here! - gets about 900 votes.
- Comment on Reform councillor would like to see wage cuts to fund his pay rise 2 weeks ago:
Councilors often go on about being busy but what do they actually DO? I live in an area where councillors can earn £17k a year. I have yet to see a councillor in real life or see anything happen in our local area as a direct response of the councillor’s actions. Our councillor doesn’t even live here (in the countryside outside of our town.
From what I understand, they sit through a lot of meetings where council officials tell them what they are doing. The more meetings they sit through, the more cash they earn.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 2 weeks ago:
Why does Tommy and other right-wing goons all have Turkey Teeth? Do you need Turkey Teeth to join their club - bearing in mind lots of Tommy’s followers seem to have missing teeth?
Teeth and proto-fascists.
- Comment on Red, White and Bruised: The Criminal Hypocrisy Behind Anti-Migrant Activists 3 weeks ago:
Shame that the mainstream broadcasters and press continue to mislead by refusing to call these far-right protests (and refuse to define what far-right is just to mislead a little more). Maybe white supremicist neo-nazi is a better term.
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 4 weeks ago:
Seems to me there’s a clear call to right in the UK to escalate to violence and greater intimidation. Those of us who are not on the right really need to consider starting some form of defence groups in preparation for when things get pretty tough… which I think is inevitable now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Agree with Navidrome. Works great in browser and the Substreamer ios app.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 2 months ago:
Definitely. Most of the time communities are friendly and supportive - but I’ve noticed too that there are users who seem deliberately scratchy and saying things that are looking to provoke and who become fizzy if they’re challenged in any way about something they’ve said. I wondered if it’s much younger users who are coming from other places having picked up the “fight me” attititude there.
- Comment on Two-hour screen time limit and curfews for children being considered by government 2 months ago:
The sentence in their manifesto was: “We will also introduce a supervised tooth-brushing scheme for 3-to-5 year olds, targeting the areas of highest need.”
Scheme. Of supervised brushing for pre-school children in some areas. Far from compulsory. Looking at the reported comments by politicians like Streeting at the time it was clear this wasn’t compulsory in the way you asserted. (I have to be clear that I’m no Labour supporter. Far from it.)
- Comment on Two-hour screen time limit and curfews for children being considered by government 2 months ago:
When was there compulsory toothbrushing in schools declared? Schools have been asked to teach children how to brush their teeth (which is something that used to be taught in post wat schools up until 1980s). Not compel children to brush teeth.
- Comment on HMRC criticised by watchdog for failing to track billionaires’ tax 2 months ago:
Good thing too… if those rich people had to pay tax then they’d leave the country. Who would pay all that tax that they don’t pay if they did leave… er… er… it made sense when the posh man said it on the radio this morning and his poshness made me believe it with all my poverty-stricken heart.
- Comment on Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles 2 months ago:
For me it’s a conspiracy theory (and most likely untrue) - but it’s quite an interesting one rather than “stupid”. Raises ideas about authenticity and what people are doing when they go to look at artifacts in museums. There HAVE been paintings, for instance, hung in galleries for years that have turned out to be forgeries but - for a long time people were happy staring at the “art”. Also, ones that have been restored beyond a point where they are pretty much not the original piece. How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?
- Comment on Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles 2 months ago:
Isn’t there a conspiracy theory that everything on show at the British Museum is a replica anyway and that the real artifacts are carefully stored elsewhere?
- Comment on DietPi is great! 2 months ago:
It’s great. I’ve been using it for nearly a year and it just works brilliantly.
- Comment on Thames Water refuses to claw back executive bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan 2 months ago:
Anyone able to give me career advice about how to become a Thames Water executive? Doesn’t look hard to do and you keep getting bonuses!
- Comment on Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks 3 months ago:
Seems to me that’s the point of it: to stop people asking questions in good faith and then persisting on challenging lies and disinformation.
- Comment on "Shifty" 3 months ago:
Keep searching Youtube. It’s been put up and taken down a couple if times already. It’ll be put back up again.
- Comment on New Reform UK Council Leader Calls Ukraine War 'A Distraction' 5 months ago:
From what I understand Kemkaran was parachuted into Kent from Bradford a couple of months before the election. Locals in Maidstone have been asking for proof that her residence is in Kent. She has a background in media and has an online history that is beginning to get some scrutiny.
From my perspective this is the start of a coup by some well-organised, well-financed right-wingers.
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 5 months ago:
And why can’t the power companies pay for this out of their eye-watering profits? I don’t understand why you think the BBC needs to be involved any more. (People I know have only had issues with smart meter installations that have caused just unnecessary stress. I’m pretty much waiting until I hear that they actually work better than half the time and that there are mechanisms to verify readings before I sign up.)
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 5 months ago:
Surely cheaper than enforcing mass installations. (Although it’s customers doubtlessly picking up this cost.)
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be possible just to replace the valve transmitter with a digitised version that sent out the same signal?
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 5 months ago:
I’d not heard of this before. Most appropriate.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 5 months ago:
Help me out here? Aren’t these the same groups calling for freedom of speech and against cancel culture. It’s all so confusing.
- Comment on Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’ 6 months ago:
It’s interesting that terms like “Awful April” and “Cost of Living Crisis” are so rapidly adopted. I’m convinced they are thought up in something like a Civil Service or lobby group PR panel and then given to media. Both terms assure us that these things are short-lived and not usual when we know that “Austerity” (a less reassuring one) is now a permanent state of affairs. This is the way it’s going to be forever. Unless we go for the pitchforks and torches.
- Comment on CalDAV Server Without Exposing Server? 7 months ago:
Could you set up a Cloudflare tunnel and make sure the security rules are tight enough to keep others out?
- Comment on UK economy grows by 0.1% in unexpected boost for Rachel Reeves 7 months ago:
I struggle to understand economics. How is it that almost all the major big businesses in UK have been reporting strong if not record profits recently? And yet hardly any growth… hmmm…
- Comment on My Deep Thoughts 7 months ago:
Have you been listening to and analysing the lyrics of mid-1970s Pink Floyd? If not then that could be your next move.
- Comment on Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall 8 months ago:
“Ban work before it kills you!”
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 8 months ago:
This. Exactly.
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 8 months ago:
Why am I not surprised?
(More and more I have an absolute feeling that I’m being fucked over by already wealthy people - and there’s nothing I can do about it in any way!)