Notices by Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai), page 6

pet play

an npc in one of his nightmares

xoskeleton

it wasn't me

As a geriatric millennial I have been on a journey through my life and at the age of 39 I can finally admit that alcopops are actually pretty nice and enjoyable to drink.

Genuinely shocked that just this once it's not a story of empires successfully erasing a rich cultural history even down to a name but just that nobody knew the fucking huge mountain was there because it's somewhere stupid and you'd probably die before getting a glimpse of it

TIL that the mountain K2 doesn't have another name because anyone living anywhere habitable in the area couldn't actually see from anywhere it was sensible and non-lethal to go, so never named it.

sometimes I wonder how the alleged lasagna fanny lady is doing

This is a genuine photo from a real trust but also I am basically gonna just use it all the time whenever bad discourse originates from big, established charities/museums.

@siege @yaldi gutted he didn't immediately resign as mp tbh, that would have been spectacular

@siege omfg wait he ACTUALLY QUIT

cannot get over this image, every detail is perfect, it's like an allegorical painting. the defeated look as he gives his victory speech. the big L. binface looming in the corner, mostly out of shot. the sad fascist who didn't get what he wanted. the fact the former pm appears the same size as the ventriloquist dummy. magnificent in every way.

it would have been funny if sunak lost his seat but imo it is much, MUCH funnier that he didn't because now he's going to have to turn up to work knowing he's a loser who fucked it all and knowing everyone knows it. or quit.

The next five years are going to be pandering to the far right because ~they have seats~ while steadfastly pretending that the greens don't have the same number of seats, and that Muslim independents don't have the same number of seats.

So, you're not UK based and want some context for all the toots going on behind content warnings? Let me try to explain.

The current prime minister of the UK is rishi sunak. He is a tory, and is awful. It is likely that he will lose badly. His opponent, and our almost-definite prime minister is keir starmer, of labour, who is marginally less awful (measured in nano-units)

The UK is not a country where you actually, technically, vote for your prime minister. And we don't have two main parties, we have loads of them. There's labour and the tories (officially known as conservatives), but also tons of other parties like the lib dems (bad), reform (fucking fascists), workers party (less good than it sounds greens (all right, sometimes), and some country-specific parties like the snp, plaid cymru, sinn fein and the dup

Yes, the UK consists of countries! Four to be precise. England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. The latter three also have their own governments and elections. England, having most of the power and population doesn't, but also pretty much controls the entirety of parliament, who basically make pretty much all of our laws. They govern from Westminster.

This election is a general election: electing representatives for the 650 seats in Westminster. These seats are small, partitioned-up constituencies of the entire country (all 4 countries) who each elect one member of parliament to the house of commons.

Any party can stand in any constituency, and the person who gets most votes gets the seat, by simple majority.

Anyway, the winning party vote for the PM to be PM, then the king, who actually has absolute decision rights here, rubber stamps the decision and that guy becomes PM.

So in short, the leader of the party who gains most seats pretty much always becomes prime minister. In this election, labour will likely get 360+ seats, so they'll win and mr wet wipe becomes prime minister, uncomplicatedly

Having a simple majority of seats in the house of commons means that you won. All the new MPs vote for the prime minister, who forms a government. With a majority of a party, the MPs from that party vote for their choice of prime minister, who is the leader of their party. I am about 99% certain that to qualify to be PM, you have be a member of the house of commons, too, but 1% of me says maybe they can also be a lord (more on this later)