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This is literally the most batshit thing I've ever heard a council propose. Whoever came up with and supports this needs to be fired immediately and banned from London for life.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2mo agoAbsolutely nuts proposal from Westminster council. The GLA should take over licensing for Soho. It is for everyone, not just the lucky few who live there (and seem to hate it) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labour defending Twitter is a good example of why they are so ineffective in government: utterly unwilling to take decisions which have any controversy attached.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4mo agoLammy says he doesn't think the Govt should come off X because that's where a lot of people get their information. FFS.
Very Ukrainian accent: "Oh Mr Vance, is it hard to negotiate peace? Is it difficult to come to a deal when both sides have fundamentally irreconcilable positions on key issues? Does not being able to trust your counterparty make things tricky? Why do you hate peace, Mr Vance?"
a man with a beard is sitting in a chair .
ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a chair .
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What has to happen before the world hits a tipping point? Epstein files? Hospitals bombed in Gaza? War crimes in Lebanon? Illegal Iran war? Children suffering in ways we shouldn’t be able to imagine? Ben Gvir celebrating being able to hang people? Wish I was going mad & this wasn’t reality.
"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time
H.E. Cas Piancey@cascoinfoundation.org · 7mo agoYou thought NFTs were bad? Wake up, babe, new fresh horrors await.
turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right
Indeed. It's also bleakly funny seeing people go 'this is harmful for teenagers' (a sentiment with a fairly limited evidence base) who have obviously cooked their brains online to the point that they cannot grasp the really simple 'we should probably ban the problematic parts of this for everyone'.
European weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
Richard Tice during an interview "Keir Starmer literally used the words: take up arms and go for the enemy" What a lemon Firstly (& most importantly) he DID NOT say that. Secondly you can’t wang on about language you don’t like AND parade Lucy Connolly like a mascot. Make your mind up.
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.
Good piece by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk. I'd add: 'won't work' can only work for a party in gov't people think that gov't's own approaching IS working. Which they don't. Similar to how Sunak's attacks on Starmer for 'not having a plan' failed to land. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/it-wont-wo...
"It won't work" Won't Work
Labour's response to Farage is bound to founder
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The fact that an anti-migrant politician, who tells us every single day that he doesn't like immigration, is saying it once again, is not in any way news
Trump taking a 10% stake in Intel for the government is yet another reminder that Dems, when in power, should stop being afraid of their own shadows and do whatever the f*ck they want and not worry about political norms or rules or conventions or media name calling.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump: "I said, 'You know what? I think the United States should be given 10% of Intel.'"
A simple 2% tax on assets above £10 million will affect only 0.08% of the UK population... Let’s get on with it.
John Wick Hex will be delisted from all storefronts in just a few days, its publisher has announced. Physical versions of the game thankfully exist, but it's another reminder in the issues digital-only poses to game availability & ownership. (Read more: Kotaku)
Terrific thread by Jonathan this. Since I was born, the area I grew up in has higher employment, has got older, has got healthier, became more likely to be in the private rented sector, got less religious, got less white. There is no non-bigoted reason to think the last of those is problematic.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · last yr...I have lived 55 years in LA where "white British" fell from ?85-90% to 40%. Over same time: - population shrank by a 1/4, grew by a 1/3 - became much richer but much more unequal - got older, less Christian, more atheist - *massive* shift in industry/occupations. ..you get the idea [3/4]
Reminder: Atari didn't collapse in 1983-84 because their games were bad. It was because they had such unrealistic projections that even their top-selling titles were considered flops Atari executives peddled the "people hated the games" story to deflect blame for their mismanagement
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last yr.EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to have 100 million players, three times more than the series' best seller www.eurogamer.net/ea-reportedl...
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I know I speak for millions of people up and down this country: We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸
You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
Truly yesterday's "main event" was spiritual poison. An absolute donkey nuts excuse for a "AAA" showcase and the best excuse we have for simply scuttling this whole fucking project and burying it in the Mojave Desert. noescapevg.com/summer-geoff...
Summer Geoff Fest #4: What a Shitshow
Look, I’ll just say it so nobody else has to: no one goes into the Summer Game Fest presentation truly believing that it’s a heartfelt celebration of the art, craft and hobby of video g…
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Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais
Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais
In Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren’t Gazans being protected in the same way?
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If as a politician you are complaining about Pride banning political parties I would strongly suggest you look within yourselves as to why this decision has had to be made, the rampant, and unrepentant, attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community for starters, before criticising those who have made it.
But populists can't be the only ones telling compelling stories. There has to be a progressive narrative too, but you can't build credibility overnight. Years of cravenness and timidity take their toll. A plague on all their houses. ENDS
