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- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 1 hour ago:
Dangerous terrorists but being released on unconditional bail?
Me thinks the courts know this is a farce.
- Comment on UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows 1 hour ago:
The Grauniad making typos? Never!
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 3 days ago:
Hey now, don’t forget the Scots, Irish, and Welsh! Leeching from His Majesty’s Eng’rland so they can buy their heroin, drink, and sheep
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 4 days ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBiryX7a8gA&t=1230s
Skip to 20:30 if the time jump doesn’t work.
Comedy has been attacked and gutted from its previous peak as well.
- Comment on Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules 1 week ago:
Scumbags.
In contrast, Scotland just protected huge areas.
bluemarinefoundation.com/scottish-government-safe…
To see the sheer devastation and indiscriminate ecocide that bottom trawling does, watch this Attenborough clip:
- Comment on Oldmeldrum man who sent fish porn to pal as ‘joke’ admits obscenity charge 1 week ago:
- Comment on Oldmeldrum man who sent fish porn to pal as ‘joke’ admits obscenity charge 1 week ago:
Paywalled, also fuck the P&J.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 1 week ago:
Thought real hard from the sound of things. Real hard.
She’s “just tryna make her nut” but get this, if you help the fascists your nut just keeps getting bigger and you keep getting sadder. Committing immoral acts and watching as your country gets worse and your bills just go up.
What a world that the best portrayal of this bullshit stance is from a toilet humour cartoon.
- Comment on We are made of stardust 1 week ago:
Dust. High fat or low fat? Anybody?
- Comment on Public testing of the Emergency Alerts system 1 week ago:
If we’ve only got 4 minutes anyway, what’s the point?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_warning
Natural disasters, invasion, etc will be announced through so many news systems that I think I’ll stick to a nice silent phone.
So far the UK doesn’t appear to have abused the system but America certainly has and we’re ever increasingly becoming like them, so again, I’ll keep a nice silent phone and get a silent notification from the news if anything urgent happens.
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 1 week ago:
Right! Stop that. It’s silly!
- Comment on Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals 1 week ago:
Nazi punks! Nazi punks! Nazi punks! FUCK OFF!
- Comment on Met police chief calls for review of law after Graham Linehan arrest 1 week ago:
Met police chief forgets his fucking place and how society and justice function in this country.
The politicians set the laws, the police enforce the laws, the courts judge the laws.
The police have no business in politicking. That is a right they gave up in becoming a police chief.
Or should they just start questioning the legitimacy of every law? Where’s their questioning on proscription? Where’s their questioning of the Online Safety Act?
- Comment on Sainsbury’s tests facial recognition technology in effort to tackle shoplifting 1 week ago:
Ffs.
Asda, Flannels, Costcutter, Home Bargains, and Sports Direct as well according to the article.
How do you boycott every shop?
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 weeks ago:
Aye, so to compensate for a complicated, privatised, and fractured rail system, they implement a complicated ticketing system in the name of convenience. It’s a shit system to cover for all the other shit systems within English rail.
If they instead nationalise the rail, the end user can have simple fares from one easy provider.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 weeks ago:
Or nationalise it and then simplify it like this:
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 weeks ago:
Rail minister Lord Peter Hendy said: “The railway ticketing system is far too complicated
So by making it reliant upon a foreign satellite navigation system, everyone having a working phone, and a willingness to give us permission to track all of your movements, we’ve now made it simpler than a piece of paper!
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 weeks ago:
The irony being the internet is where the left retreated when the real world became too hostile
If the time marker didn’t work in the link, skip to 42:10
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 weeks ago:
But the last thing we need is our access to information tied up in an AI blackbox
The best course of action is surely therefore not to use the AI blackbox? Using it only helps it in the long run
Finding alternative search engines and giving them your patronage instead must be a better tactic to preventing the closing off of information to the common person
- Comment on Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn 2 weeks ago:
I fucking hate those dumb vehicles so much.
They serve no purpose for most people beyond being a stupid status symbol. I was so annoyed with my mum when she got one and had a rant when other family members started considering getting one, they have since decided a hatchback has suited them since the 80s so why change what has worked so far, but fuck.
It really goes to exemplify the dumb Americanisation of our population that just a little bit of marketing can push 30% of people to purchase a vehicle that 9 times out of 10 doesn’t suit their requirements. Not to mention how many of these dumb fucks are incapable of driving the things, even when they’re filled with sensors and cameras they can still take an age to reverse in and out, and in and out, and in and out, of a parking space before they’re in.
The worst part is how half of these SUVs are just chunky hatchbacks, so you don’t even get the advantage of having 4 wheel drive or rugged build quality. So unlike a (proper) Land Rover or Toyota Hilux which will just keep going forever [insert Land Rovers break down all the time joke here - they’re easily repairable!] they’ll end up in the scrap heap at the same rate as smaller cars but with twice the amount of material going to waste.
Stupid fucking vehicles.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Yes! Being active politically is always important.
Be civil and polite at first, you want these people on your side after all. But don’t be afraid to hold back if they respond with bullshit either. They are your representative, make them represent you and hold them to account if required.
Encouraging friends and family to write is usually a good idea too.
Not being politically engaged, I feel, is one of the main reasons for the downfall of democracy throughout the globe. Too many people think ticking a box every 4-5 years is all they need to do.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 2 weeks ago:
Google aren’t opposed to evil any more though, they removed their motto of “Don’t Be Evil”.
- Comment on A UK government program to address obesity gets major funding from Eli Lilly, the maker of weight loss drug Mounjaro 3 weeks ago:
Why put in effort educating people on nutrition and healthy eating when we can just pump them with drugs?
Why put in effort growing nutritious food when we can just feed them the usual slop and then pump them with drugs to make sure they don’t get too plump?
Who cares that long term this will be detrimental for health, because instead of eating a balanced healthy diet and exercising to stay a healthy weight, we instead allow the eating of shit and no exercise as long as there’s a steady supply of weight loss drugs?
What could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 3 weeks ago:
Join the IWW
Join the Scottish Greens
Discuss these things with your friends and family. Get them on board. Don’t be combative, ask questions, provide information, suggest solutions. Let them think and mull things over, changing views takes time and self reflection
Speak up when you see injustice. Many people are scared to be the first voice to speak up, but it’s surprising the support you can get once you do.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 3 weeks ago:
Fuck that! The Lib Dems sold out all of their principles between 2010 and 2015, Nick Clegg is now a goon for Facebook, and Ed Davey is a walking joke.
The English/Welsh Greens are ineffective and TERFs, the Scottish Greens have formally unaffiliated from them because they’re so bad.
The only real hope is the Corbyn/Sultana party, whatever name it ends up going by. It is gaining traction, with genuine socialists, and even the major unions like Unite and UNISON are considering endorsing them.
The Lib Dems and Greens have existed for decades and achieved fuck all. Don’t waste your time with them, don’t split the left vote with them, support genuine socialists. Support real change.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 3 weeks ago:
Even more miserable being Scottish knowing we could have escaped all this in 2014.
…wikipedia.org/…/2014_Scottish_independence_refer…
Our devolved parliament is more left wing than Westminster but it has limited powers so our sanctuary is minimal.
There’s also the times where Westminster has ruled on things that should be devolved and when it has overruled Scotland.
It’s shite being Scottish!
We’re the lowest of the low!
The scum of the fucking Earth!
The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilisation!
Some people hate the English, I don’t! They’re just wankers!
We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers!
Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by!
We’re ruled by effete assholes!
It’s a shite state of affairs to be in Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference! - Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 3 weeks ago:
(New) New Labour got back in power.
Labour are meant to be the left wing workers party. Old school Labour are socialists that brought in such things as the NHS (free healthcare) and The Open University (non-elitist university education open to anybody) in the mid-1900s.
New Labour first came into power in 1997 and left in 2010, they got back in last year (2024). They are not socialist by any means. They pretend at times to be socialist because of the image and reputation of Labour but in reality they’re capitalists. These are the people that introduced privatisation into the NHS (so you can only get healthcare for certain things if you are rich enough) and started the Iraq War 2 with Bush. They have always had an authoritarian streak but the socialists still within the party generally managed to hold them off. They had plans for mass surveillance and mandatory ID cards, but never managed to implement it by the time they lost the 2010 election.
Now they’re back, and the socialist elements of the party have been shunned ot kicked out, so the authoritarians can near do as they wish now.
In one year they have:
- cut winter fuel payments for the elderly
- cut disability benefits
- continued with austerity for public services, making everyone poorer
- cosied up to banks by saying red tape needs cut
- declared nature protections to be in the way
- helped Israel commit genocide by providing equipment and intel
- proscribed a protest group that spray painted 2 planes as terrorist organisations
- given a racist speech to pander to the far right
- brought in draconian restrictions on the internet
- want a vast increase in facial recognition cameras
- announced plans to implement a mandatory digital ID
I’ve been sitting on the toilet too long writing this now so that’ll do, but here’s some more reading if you wish:
tribunemag.co.uk/…/new-labours-authoritarianism-i…
scotsman.com/…/palestine-action-ban-reveals-labou…
- Comment on Nicolas Sturgeon book reignites trans row with JK Rowling 4 weeks ago:
This reads like a Rowling hit piece on Sturgeon.
Where’s the impartiality BBC?
Oh wait, I forgot, it doesn’t exist.
opendemocracy.net/…/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum…
- Comment on Lammy admits fishing without licence on Vance trip 4 weeks ago:
I agree with HumanPenguin but your stance is a bit silly.
You don’t need to be an expert to know you need a licence, everyone else and their dog is expected to know to get one. Ignorance of the law is never accepted as an excuse by councils, police, or courts.
It sounds like he’s done right and remedied it, but again, ignorance of the law is never accepted as an excuse for breaching the law. Lammy doesn’t work alone, he has a team of people, and not one of them organised a licence. It’s either a case of incompetence or a case of thinking he’s above the rules and got caught. Both are bad optics for an already struggling government.
Don’t they look tired?
- Comment on UK cases of mosquito-borne chikungunya virus more than double 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. 3 is more than double 1. Not putting numbers in the headline is stupid.
For reference, it’s 73 cases versus 27 last year.
