I can clearly remember one of my classrooms in First School (circa 1976) had a metrication poster on the wall, but rather than showing conversions or units, it was just a map shaming America for not being Metric
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Yes, that one. British by birth, Australian by choice. Saying things; around the place. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.
Deeply embarrassing that I'm solidly middle-aged and this report came out 10 years before I was born. Genuinely think that flubbing metrication was one of the things that set the UK on the reactionary path it subsequently went down metricviews.uk/2026/08/04/c...
Change to the Metric System in the United Kingdom: A 1968 Turning Point
In May 1968, the Standing Joint Committee on Metrication delivered a landmark report to the Minister of Technology, Anthony Wedgwood Benn. It was a document that captured a moment when Britain stoo…
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Almost impossible to get "Bad Enoch" in "British politics of the last 100 years" as a nominative determinism achievement, and I don't think she's quite there yet, but she's really fucking making a go for it
This seems plausible. Also plausibly also why everyone yells at charts guys so much (actual related point here: I am perplexed every time I visit the US how much higher they score in *MEDIAN AS OPPOSED TO MEAN* standard of living charts than other civilised countries I have visited that seem better)
John Avocado 宇杰@supercroup.com · 7h agoI wonder if the "everything is much worse than it used to be" is just a visibility thing because of the internet – everyone can see how weirdly bad things are in America and thinks they are experiencing that, and everyone in America can see the rest of the world and uses that as a comparison point.
Fuck, the man is an idiot! GPEW is obviously going to cop both genuine and spurious complaints over being overtly anti-Zionist; anyone in their right mind would be condemning the fuck out of Nazi Josh specifically to highlight that they think antisemitism is very bad and different from anti-Zionism!
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 9h agoHello I'm an idiot
an unfathomable amount of stuff has got better over the last 40 years - hell, even over the *last 15* - and anyone convinced it hasn't does not remember or know what things were like 15 or 40 years ago.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
I do wonder if The Media Class of this country have been on the mercury cocaine. Their brains must be as hard and crumbly as Edinburgh rock. Imagine writing that paragraph and thinking *Séamas* is the bad guy.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13h agoNow, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
Not hard to see why Burnham is less enthusiastic about a snap election than some others on here.
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 10h agoMRP Poll | Labour 81 Seats Short: LAB: 245 (+138) | 26% RFM: 174 (-112) | 23% CON: 99 (+19) | 21% LDM: 67 (-17) | 11% SNP: 25 (-8) | 2% PLC: 8 (-2) | 1% GRN: 7 (-13) | 10% Via @convergent-opinion.bsky.social, 25-30 Jul. Changes w/ 15 Jun MRP.
I guess the thing about taking a lot of drugs is that this does not necessarily lead you to make the best decisions
Martin D.B. Brown@martindbbrown.bsky.social · 11h agoNods.
Just thinking how Johnson spoke like a newspaper column — colourful, bantering bullshit — whereas Badenoch speaks like the worst kind of comment section: querulous, chippy, pedantic (I'm just talking tone here, not content)
Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
Enjoying how the 65yo man they vox-popped for this silly hit piece is the most sensible person in the country www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
In some ways, this is a game about how much French theory you’ve read.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
To the extent there are problems with The System, they’re largely (1) poor people suffer, (2) women suffer, and (3) people of color suffer. These are all things RFK likes about The System. To give him credit for “shaking things up” is to out yourself as either a eugenicist or a dumbfuck. Or both.
PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2d agoYou actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.
this is clickbait garbage a) it wasn't ~dronez~ stuff, it was the same vanilla GPS jamming that has occurred at WSMR for decades b) a crew should *absolutely* be capable of conducting a nonprecision approach to an ILS, *ESPECIALLY* if there's a NOTAM out for PNT jamming
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6d agoA routine medical flight, on a clear night, ended with a plane crash that killed all four people onboard. Investigators say it's the first known US civilian plane crash tied to electronic warfare. This won't be the last story of its kind. A must-read from @jeffwise.bsky.social for @wired.com
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
can I just mention how delighted I am to have found out that the Official Monster Raving Looney Party helped make the pedestrianisation of Carnaby Street happen
me when someone i dont like leaves up a post i dont like: does the knave know no shame? he makes clear his unrepentant, beastly nature! victory is mine! me when someone i dont like deletes a post i dont like: ha! the coward retreats, acknowledging his foul crime! victory is mine!
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
Iranian cleric honestly a little let down to discover the United States is actually an Indecisive and Middling at Best Satan.
