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RE: https://bots.robots.rodeo/@scream/115888391625487240 Someone told me that quote posts are now officially sanctioned on Mastodon, is this true?

“I will not be a member of a party that overlaps with far right populists in any respect.” They’re fighting the 2029 election when they should be implementing the result of the 2024 election. And they’re fighting it cosplaying as Reform. Hard nope.

Well I’m out. I tried. But I’m not having this.

Tariffs get their name from Tarifa, a pretty Andalusian port just west of Gibraltar which was base to notorious pirates who used to mug traders passing between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

My sister pretty much nails it here. They dropped the apartment block on those kids because they wanted to play with their new toys.

You keep talking about British and French ships. The following ships have been involved: 2 Belgian 12 German 10 Dutch 16 Italian 15 French 1 NZ 3 Portuguese 20 Spanish 3 UK 4 Greek 4 Swedish 1 Norwegian 1 Finnish 1 Romanian 1 Ukrainian 1 Colombian en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

Just a reminder, the EU has been operating a naval mission in the seas around Yemen to keep freedom of navigation open "at great cost" since 2008. A number of non-EU countries have contributed, including Ukraine... not the US though. I guess you could call that American free-loading. eunavfor.eu

And the Europeans were able not only to challenge Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas but to outperform and eventually outsell them with better products, developed without illegal subsidies (yeah I went there) using innovative financing arrangements. I wrote about it once: blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/...

Airbus is a great example of what Europe can achieve. Nobody would ever have believed it could meaningfully challenge US dominance in large-scale civil aviation, especially given the American use of indirect subsidies, paying US defence contractors to develop then used in their civilian businesses.

A Tesla was parked illegally facing traffic straddling two on-street charging bays, stopping me from charging my car. So I left a note on his windscreen telling him to park his nazi car more responsibly, this wasn’t the Sudetenland.

I may just have done something immature but satisfying 😬

When Chamberlain and Daladier negotiated with Hitler, excluding the CZ government, and agreed to let Germany take the bits of Czechoslovakia that had a German-speaking majority, that led to a just and lasting peace didn’t it? Nothing bad happened after that, right? #Ukraine

@gruber So good to hear your views on the Jackson films, for the longest time I thought I was the only one

My Dad first came here 80 years ago, I first came here 50 years ago, and it’s still the best children’s attraction bar none. www.bekonscot.co.uk

My wife’s family has a tradition which is that, whenever they come to Scilly, they leave 10p pieces and other treasures for other family members to find on their next visit to the islands. Just found brother-in-law’s carefully hidden painted shell.

Wondering what the person who shipped this Porsche Cayenne to St Martin’s was thinking when the main (indeed only) road on this island is a narrow concrete path about 2km long. #Scilly

6yo wants orange socks so what better way to spend a stormy island day than experimenting with a new (for me) #knitting technique: using magic loop to knit both socks at the same time. 🧶

Out already! Amazing work @sturdyalex.bsky.social - this is 👌

aaaand done client happy #knitting 🧶

ooh it was clear at the horizon

If you’re like me you hear and read a lot about both Trump and Musk but you very rarely hear them speak. So give this a listen, it’s eye-opening. These men come across as deeply stupid. It’s kind of shocking. Mad props to @sturdyalex.bsky.social for taking one for the team.

I want to apologise to my followers on this platform for not posting here regularly, to be honest I have been a lot more active on Bluesky of late. I’m hoping that there will be a way to merge what I do there and here. In the meantime my Bluesky posts will be federated via this account […]