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thanks gombo

I think there's probably a vaguely interesting essay to be written on how the Maguire family's response to his exclusion from the England squad is indicative of a shift in how patriotism is conceived of in the body politic of Britain. "Ask not what your country can do for you" etc...

Tortoise has made a couple of snail friends. 🐢🐌🐌

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It really is perverse the way that the equalities act has been weaponised in an attempt to exclude a minority group from public life.

"The Free Market" here seems to mean decades long legally enforceable government contracts, not traditionally what one would call an invisible hand.

The single underlying problem in the UK is that there is too much wealth inequality. We have a Labour government who are actively making that situation worse and they don't understand why they're hemorrhaging votes. 🤷‍♂️

"We can't feed the poor, but we can fund a war" Seen in Inverness, Scotland

No rear leg support necessary. 🐢💚

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The Firefox technical issues icon is freakin' adorable you guys:

A concrete test of my Dad's thesis that when push comes to shove the British left will actually manage to get their shit together to stop Reform.

There has been a shameful dearth of tortoise posting of late. 🐢😔

Sounds like the flag nonces are running people down on the streets. Sounds like the kind of shit that would get a leftwing group proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

Up, down, strange, bottom, charm and top

Man like as dis lines in tracks go Sky Newman's "Your Air Force 1's look shit on you" really is top tier.

fwiw I may end up looking like a fool but I think it's pretty unlikely that Labour lose the Burnham Byelection.

I made another graph about British politics. (Venn Diagram)

I think I may have to go back to self medicating for ADD.

A lot of politics makes a lot more sense once you internalise the fact that most of the right can't distinguish between compassion and weakness.

For the second time this month I've watched a play where one character holds the arm of a second character so they can take an oath in court - both plays have been adapted for film/TV, one is British and the second American.

Damn straight.

The older I get the more I realise that Marx didn't fucking stutter when he called it class war.

As we're doing VAR chat again: My solution: make VAR a challenge system like hawkeye in the tennis (1+1 per half refunded if challenge successful) and move time keeping to a stop-clock based system like in the rugby.

Anyone played "Everything is Crab?"

This giant sea turtle was filmed in Panama. They can live up to to 100 years. Original post

'Eepy Tort. 😴🐢💚

Conservatives have forgotten the lesson of the C19th. If people aren't enfranchised they will find other more disruptive ways to exercise political power. Liberals, on the other hand, remember the conclusion but have forgotten who that system serves.

For any Journalists looking for an interesting angle on the UK local elections: the largest Yeshiva in Europe (Bensham in Gateshead) is now in a Reform run council.

One thing I will say about the British local elections is that this is a really good argument for FPTP as default to be overhauled. It was an electoral system that was dubiously efficacious when the UK was an obvious 2 party state, in a broad multiparty system it's a liability to national stability.

It is time! The Soil Gremlins must be Harvested!

The National Trust Puffin Cam is live. I Repeat, the National Trust Puffin Cam is Live! www.youtube.com/live/zt3MCin...

Where a decade of absurd British Anti Racism discourse being led by bad faith actors has led us. A protest with the stated aim of opposing a foreign state's genocide is too racist, a protest to 'Take back our country [from the non-whites]' is not racist enough to worry about.

Got a mote of dirt in my eye and now I cant tell if it's still in there or my eye has just been slightly damaged. 🤕

I don't provide half of you half as much tort as you deserve but less than half of you of get twice the tort you deserve. 🤔🐢

Some tort.

The context within which large crypto donations to Reform should be understood.

When the AMOC collapses Reform aren't going to need a single deportation camp to depopulate the UK.

ate too much potato waffle for tea 😔

I feel some of you who follow me will appreciate this.

I think there's a lot more to politics (obviously) but in terms of voting I am effectively a single issue voter on this point.

Tortoise enjoying the sunshine. 🐢😊

No meaningful problem in our society can be addressed without simultaneously vastly reducing wealth inequality.

Geoff Norcott's "Comedy" is fucking insufferable.

I am once again mad at the existence of AI call screening. 😔

In a further toddlerification of the US Presidency Trump claims that he has the necessary physical and intellectual capacity to have successfully partaken in the recent NASA Moon Mission.

Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.

Why would someone ruin an otherwise perfectly good video essay by talking about Nietzsche. smdh. 😔

I'd tweet more, but a lot of my thoughts aren't particularly tweet shaped.