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Harley Faggetter

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You might have seen me on that other place. Walking Scunthorpe Problem Blog: https://words.falkon.org.uk

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... that has any prospects, the Lib Dems. And the electorate have a long enough memory to remember (rightly and wrongly) being burnt by the coalition government.
I can see them ending up as maybe a junior partner again.

06.03.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Greens aren't particularly sceptical about trade? They may be sceptical about big US megacorporations but... everyone should be? Also they seem to be turning away from their more NIMBY history, so... no they're not like Reform?

There's only one party currently remotely near the centre in England...

06.03.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

straightforwardly, unambiguously evil shit

06.03.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

05.03.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 2781 πŸ” 539 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 51

Oh, so he's panicking about the elections now then

05.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like the US could do with some more disruptive weather right now πŸ˜‚

05.03.2026 08:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The President of peace wants to start all of the wars apparently

05.03.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think it's something that would be trivial for individual users. Certainly someone could wrap an agent that has guardrails that make it sceptical and steer away from problematic ideation, but that requires extensive jailbreak testing. Could see someone offering that service though

05.03.2026 08:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies Alt: David Mitchell from a Mitchell & Webb sketch depicting where the duo are depicted as Nazi officers. Mitchell's character is saying "Are we the baddies?"
04.03.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Always impressed at the truly cursed houses you find

04.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Still my favourite Sam Fisher actor

04.03.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair, this is one of the reason that despite it being the core part of my political platform for the best part of 10 years I don't really push that argument at the moment πŸ˜‚

04.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Zack on Laura K

Zack on Laura K

The Green Party has been consistent on our position.

We support the Iranian people in their struggle against the brutal Regime.

And we oppose illegal bombing from the USA and Israel that has already killed countless civilians and risks an all out Regional war.

04.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 1183 πŸ” 283 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 27

UBI would be ideal, yeah. It's been a little while since I've spent much time thinking about copyright reform, to be fair.

04.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure that's fair. To be clear I'm against this too. I think copyright needs reform, but not for the sole benefit of the AI industry

04.03.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We kinda already do though. Google Deepmind is in London, and Microsoft/OpenAI also have a London campus, partly to make it easier to pinch "talent". At least as far as Gemini is concerned we've been complicit from the start

04.03.2026 09:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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03.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So I might have the opposite problem πŸ˜‚
I have so much storage but it's all currently being used, I need to plan where stuff is going and delete a whole bunch of shit

02.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I also had problems getting grub and secure boot playing nice last time I tried, but that was long before it was made mandatory for Win11, maybe that's easier now

02.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've done it before, I think ended up in a similar place and I'm just remembering that as being enough of a nuisance I don't fancy doing it just yet. That plus cleaning up my storage and moving it over, lol. I have way too much capacity on my desktop

02.03.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You know what won't stop attacks on British bases? Sending more attacks from them.

02.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love the idea of it, would consider using it again as a daily distro if/when I switch. Don't really want to fuck with dual booting but Windows is getting so unstable I'm kinda tempted

02.03.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I ran Arch on my laptop for a bit, but have now learned that it basically becomes impossible to update if you let it go slack for, um, like 6 months because you so rarely use it

02.03.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.

No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.

The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.

Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.

The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.

02.03.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 2123 πŸ” 610 πŸ’¬ 102 πŸ“Œ 62

20 years is fucking wild. Some Brits don't end up committing to staying in the UK that long

28.02.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Iran does actually have a right to defend itself, particularly from regional aggressors like Israel. Where's the evidence those missiles or bombs were imminently destined for the US?

28.02.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Feels accurate, yeah

28.02.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brooker heard the sound of Apollo's dodgeball whanging through the air and decided to put his pen down

27.02.2026 09:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

27.02.2026 07:52 πŸ‘ 2550 πŸ” 685 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 61

The Greens have some obvious policy weaknesses to attack, particularly around energy policy (Greens historically flaky on nuclear) and defense. But to capitalise on that Labour need to be a viable alternative. Something that things like the hostile environment and the war on trans rights has damaged

27.02.2026 08:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0