Barney Higgins

Terminator wip

#warhammer40k
#miniaturepainting

The Content Situation is Crazy YouTube video by Zane Little

I said this in like 2018. I am glad to hear it still echoed.

When someone new follows me, I check out the profile and block if it's spam, porn, or empty. My profile shows 259 followers, of which 80 are not blocked.

Surely no person offered a vote on the lesser of two evils can be upbraided for choosing not to vote for either.

Witness the endless problems caused by insistence on discussing deeply complex and nuanced social and economic challenges in binary terms. Nothing is simple. Nothing is easy. Every decision leads to a vast, spreading network of important consequences when we're working at such scale.

Get nuance.

Does GDP tell the full story of thriving societies?

According to our chief executive, @dhnnjyn.bsky.social, there's more: We need an urgent reset of our economic fundamentals around growth, equity, and human flourishing.

His full thoughts: desapublications.un.org/un-desa-voic...

I had to stop halfway through part iii - too intense! I really like Dan Abnett's unapologetically lush, dramatic prose.

Are you fucking serious? The co-leader of the Scottish Greens is into Warhammer?? And you've read all the Horus Heresy books??? This makes me extremely happy :)

British.

Returning to bsky after a long absence, weeding out a handful of spam accounts that have followed my account in the interim, typing this... that's plenty for now.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

I feel the same. I was overexcited about it at first but I’m also holding back and watching til it takes more shape. I’m more Green I think, and in Scotland the greens have exciting changes happening so I’m there for that. collaboration is the key .

I’m a person who worked as a chainsaw operator for many years, it’s very odd that these people think posing with chainsaws but without safety gear is smart or cool. If you fuck that up at all you’re in life changing injury territory. Not voting for anyone who doesn’t have the sense to see that.

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This is great, well worth reading through to the end.

Gillian's consistent message of focusing on policy is incredibly important. Too often, actual policy gets lost under a sea of sound bites. That lets politicians away with forgetting manifesto commitments after election day and slipping damaging policies through under the radar.

"I would also make a point of providing support and solidarity to those too frequently at the sharp end of unacceptable behaviour...

We have lost far too many great volunteers, particularly women, as a result of this atmosphere of negativity. That cycle needs to be broken."

This. Thank you.

Did you spot JD Vance in the background HATING every minute of progress being made? ~AA

This is important for Starmer & Europe to get right. Holding Trump to a process which respects & stands with Ukraine & is not appeasement of Putin & reward for his aggression.

UBI would be a catalyst for economic changes that would benefit so many people. UBI would empower communities and individuals to get involved in politics, in art, in volunteering, in starting new businesses. It would fix the broken tax system, cut inequality, reduce rents, and boost economic growth.

We have to ask why such misconceptions are still so common? I suspect it's because a Citizen's Income would empower poor people to make choices that would threaten the interests of those who extract most profit from the current system. So silly. Everyone could live well if everyone worked together.

I love this. Modern economics feels more and more like an exercise in extraction. Corporations extract money from the country's economy in the form of profits, incentives, and tax breaks, and are allowed to do so on the false premise that the money is trickling down, rather than flowing up and out.

Responses from candidates for Leader of the Scottish Green Party Responses from Scottish Greens Leadership candidates to the Questions Green House Think Tank is asking of potential Green Leaders

"By offering solutions rather than solely highlighting problems, we can transform how we do politics." ~Gillian MacKay MSP.

So many good things here from @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social and @ross-greer.bsky.social. Not just good lines, but a lot of solid, clear, ambitious, actionable policy direction.

Voters are poorly-served when elected representatives oversimplify complex arguments and amplify reactionary, inaccurate narratives. But complex problems require complex solutions, and communicating complexity in a way that people can get behind is more challenging than just getting people wound up.

This reminds me of the justifications for austerity: "It's like a household budget." Or about the approach to Scottish independence: "It's like a divorce."

Drawing parallels between complex political challenges and day-to-day personal life is patronising, lazy, and ultimately counterproductive.

Voters are poorly-served when elected representatives oversimplify complex arguments and amplify reactionary, inaccurate narratives. But complex problems require complex solutions, and communicating complexity in a way that people can get behind is more challenging than just getting people wound up.

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Collaboration and communication are the most important tools we have available to us if we want to challange the terrible norms of global politics.

I was excited about the Your Party project at the beginning, but watching @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social and @ross-greer.bsky.social campaigning for the Scottish Greens leadership recently, I see that the SGP already stands for much of what I want from YP should do.

Scotland needs Greens in 2026.

Unregulated market capitalism has caused massive and increasing income inequality. Capitalism is predatory; one group's riches can only exist in the context of another's poverty. There are enough resources for all to live well. The problems come from an economic system that incentivises inequality.