Josie Stripe
@bzzjosie.bsky.social
Feminism, nursing, puns, biscuits 🍪, #stripelet, socialism, queer.
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku)
Breaking news! The Government has announced that from April 2027, disabled people across England will be able to use our bus passes 24 hours a day. We've been campaigning with others to lift time restrictions for a while now, and are proud to be part of that movement for change.
Good mind to go out there and start a fucking wildfire for that, fuck off
told my housemate I wlr be home late and smightly drunk, which are the t2o genders, and tonight I am bigender, and it is true
, or: how unions fight for working people to get fair recognition and treatment for the work that they do. Collective action gets results! Joining a union is one of the most powerful things you can do as a worker, not just in healthcare but in any field. Well done to @bma.org.uk ✊🏻
disabled transport nerds, apply to work with me!
Transport for All@transportforall.org.uk · 4mo agoWe are recruiting for two roles in our Policy, Public Affairs, and Campaigns team. If you always wanted to appear before a Select Committee in Parliament, love a consultation, or read transport strategies for fun, we want to hear from you! Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3KJbYyn
Finding out about the death of Humphrey “Sam Smiths” Smith the way he would have wanted, on my phone while saying “fucking hell”
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
Sue Smith@suesmith.lol · 4mo ago"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...
The least compromised song contest in Earth history. New songs, new lore, new problems. Morlvision is tonight at 7pm on www.twitch.tv/seanmorl
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Circumstances required me to get the spare pair of socks from the emergency bag in the back of my car today. Because of who I am as a person, I have about three bags in the back of my car for different types of emergency, and it took me a moment to work out which one a sock emergency falls under.
Can't believe none of you sent me this list and I had to find it myself!!!
just remembered when @bzzjosie.bsky.social was helping me and @morl.bsky.social move, and she accidentally drew herself with the GPS tracker while we were trying to find a petrol station
The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...
the sun is out and has illuminated a thousand fresh possibilities and new beginnings
Only just found out that Butlerian Jihad has nothing to do with Judith Butler.
So nice of The Times to make sure we finally get the other side of the story.
![The parable of the Nazi Bar, a screenshot of a series of tweets by Michael Tager (in a screenshot from Google Images).
It's a long text and I'm not going to transcribe it here, but this Wiktionary explains it link and full Wiktionary definition below):
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar
Popularized by an anecdote shared by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) on Twitter in July 2020. Tager recounted visiting a "shitty crustpunk bar" where he saw a patron abruptly expelled: the bartender explained that the man was wearing "iron crosses and stuff", and that he feared such patrons would become regulars and start bringing friends if not promptly kicked out, which would lead him to realize "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now" only after the unwanted patrons became too "entrenched" to kick out without trouble.[1][2] (Instances of people noting that if a bar starts serving Nazis other customers stop going and it becomes a Nazi bar are older.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xfrwohjwxmkytdzadc4lqqy6/bafkreiefmg6zucjna7se4szf7ykihyrej4gzgjujgeicnraj3h4duqpl7i)
@littlehux.bsky.social I was driving so I couldn't get a photo, but I've just passed a huge billboard on the A6 advertising a holiday company, which is a close-up on two people reading paperbacks (presumably on their holiday) - and one of them is Hits Different 😊