Notices by Alisdair Calder McGregor (a_c_mcgregor@topspicy.social)

@goatsarah @zip Government is expensive. Cheap government is even more expensive, in the long run.

@grayface_ghost they explicitly don't want to be EU members because of the fishing rights; they opted out some while ago. It's part of their whole odd status where they are part of the Kingdom of Denmark but not part of the state of Denmark, or something like that.

@HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross I'm waiting for the financiers to somehow engineer a means by which the "heirs" get stiffed with the tax bill while they take the wealth

@goatsarah gender laundering?

@stavvers Only because 99% of PE teachers are dickheads

So I'm at LibDem Conference

There's been a tiny group of TERFs here, being horrid.

In response several hundred pro-trans rights LibDems made this happen:

#TransRights #LibDems

@goatsarah This is why I've had to stop talking politics to my father. He isn't actually interested in the facts; he just wants his opinions to be taken as true, even when they are bullshit.

I am incapable of letting bullshit stand.

@kaia ALT+0128

Interesting that the takes on Biden stepping down are all either total doom, or absolute relief; there appears to be no middle ground in anyone's feelings about this

@Polychrome Why not both?

@goatsarah Difficult Second Album

Apparently the Tories are having difficulty raising money for essentials.

Welcome to our world, fuckers!

#UKPol #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #GE2024

We're called a General Election - by mistake! #UKPol #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #FuckTheTories

Hey UK peoples; sign this:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

#TransRights #FuckTheTories

@goatsarah probably a crap shag anyway

In case it matters to anybody who might be looking at safe havens as the British political system slides towards fascism with a side order of transphobia, Germany has just relaxed its gender determination laws *significantly*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801392.amp

@cstross A friend of mine who has visited the US extensively once told me that he believed the fundamental issue with the US is that it's a very very conformist society with a founding myth of rebellion, and the tension between the two is the core cultural disconnect.

Reminder: "Julian Assange is a shit" and "The US prison industry is horrifically inhumane" are not mutually exclusive propositions.

@goatsarah @pseudomonas So what's the point of them federating?

@goatsarah I'm still massively surprised that the door plug didn't hit something important in the tail of the aircraft when it detached.