Notices by Nick Barlow (nickbwalking@zirk.us)

Tories: our country is facing a range of new threats and only we can be trusted to protect it.
Also Tories: the armed forces, emergency services and NHS should devote a huge amount of time to finding something to keep a bunch of teenagers occupied.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo
#UKpolitics

The Telegraph running a story about a Lib Dem candidate being deselected for his "Christian beliefs" without stating which beliefs in particular got him into trouble. (To save you looking, it's the homophobia and transphobia, not the Sermon on the Mount) #ukpolitics
https://archive.ph/BeAUj

@goatsarah "We have to kick over your sandcastle so we can sell the beach to our friend's sandcastle company, and you'll be able to buy ready-made sandcastles from them instead. We're only laughing and pointing at you because you haven't worked out how much better that market-based solution is for your sandcastle enjoyment."

Thought I'd start a thread for the books I read during this year, to keep track and share what I've been spending my time with. Happy for recommendations along the way, but do already have a decent-sized to be read pile (and ebook library). #books #reading #bookstodon

@goatsarah Normal Large Chunk Of The Middle Of A Continent doesn't flow as easily, though.

Jenrick resigning because he won't be allowed to break international law is the inevitable end of the Brexiteer "but I don't wanna be told what to do by anyone" tendency. They'll soon be demanding a referendum on Copernicus, because they're convinced the sun revolves around them. #UKpolitics

You can trace the post-WW2 history of the Tory Party from how their Home Secretaries have gone from David Maxwell-Fyfe, a prosecutor at Nuremberg who was a key figure in creating the ECHR, to Suella Braverman insisting the UK should leave the ECHR in order to persecute refugees even more. #ukpolitics

Went to the end of the world today. There were goats. #Finisterre #fisterra

"Twitter rules now insist that all tweets must begin with 500 words of praise towards Glorious Leader Musk, I'm required to join the Nazi Party and I have to supply a pint of blood a week to keep posting, but I think it's important to ensure voices like mine remain there and anyway, Mastodon is too complicated for me. Must go, they're prepping me for the brain surgery to insert my compulsory Neuralink."

@goatsarah @po8crg @pseudomonas for me 'quiche' implies something that's mainly egg-based, so it doesn't fall into that category, though it is as much a pie as it is a pizza.

No, Guardian, Wolves are not "a Birmingham club" any more than you're a Watford newspaper.

The PM calling a degree a "rip off" because it doesn't lead to a high-paying job - and this framing being uncritically adopted by the press - is the UK showing it's a country that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66216005

For those of you who don't get the reference, congratulations on having never seen Threads and being unable to forget it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

Odd for Meta to be launching Threads while it's Elno and his team currently doing a re-enactment of the emergency administration team trapped under City Hall.

@goatsarah I'd like to propose an add-on to this service for people who would like to buy bitcoin. They can send me all their money and I'll deposit it all in my bank account which perfectly replicates the user experience without harming the environment.

Good to see Nick Cohen taking responsibility for his actions, the way his columns used to lambast "the Left" for not doing. Oh no, wait, it's the other thing: "He blamed their accusations on a campaign by his critics, including advocates for Russia and for transgender rights."
https://archive.is/PVURc

After two semi-finals and tonight, I'm now conditioned to dash to the loo as soon as I see the United By Music graphic on screen. #eurovision