Notices by Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz), page 2

@BowsacNoodle Olive oil in your water butts to stop them being able to breed in them.

@carolen https://order-order.com/2025/03/31/the-times-perfectly-polite-asylum-hotel-was-slammed-by-labour-council-and-suffered-scabies-outbreak/

https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/the-uk-a-nation-in-crisis/

Once a beacon of stability, democracy, and economic prosperity, I noticed social, political, and economic fractures that have widened, leaving me concerned the UK is in terrible danger, heading towards a cultural collapse.

The symptoms of this crisis were widespread – evidence of significant migration, declining cultural cohesion, increasing surveillance, policing of freedoms, economic stagnation, and a loss of national pride – many of the same problems we have recently witnessed in parts of Australia. But – in true British style – the UK is doing things on a much grander scale, with less sunshine.

https://archive.ph/OVz65

Right, you buggers.

Guess who has sunburn again despite having put factor 50 on this morning…?

@KeepTakingTheSoma That seems depressingly likely to make some boys go “oh, ok then” and crack on.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/24/adolescence-and-the-moral-panic-about-working-class-boys/

Andrew Tate is a moral menace, there’s no doubt. But there are legions of moral menaces that remain unexplored by our cultural classes. There’s an online culture that entices middle-class gay kids on to a conveyor belt of chemical castration. It calls itself ‘trans rights’. There’s a virtual underbelly of religious hysteria that encouraged literally hundreds of young British Muslims to trek 3,000 miles to join a cult that crucified Christians and defenestrated homosexuals. Where’s that drama, Netflix? We all know that far more male violence and oppression flows from the online subculture of angry Islamism than has ever been authored by Tate. But if you made a drama about it, you’d be cancelled quicker than you could say ‘Allahu Akbar’.

The moral panic about Tate is a moral panic about working-class boys. As Ally Ross of the Sun said of Adolescence, it seems there’s no role in modern drama for working-class boys ‘beyond thug or bully’. Tony Blair, then leader of the opposition, exploited the murder of James Bulger to push a new authoritarianism. Now, like history repeated as farce, his heir, Keir Starmer, is exploiting the fictional murder of a kid to push his petty tyranny of social-media clampdowns. At last, we might get the war on ‘social media-fuelled violence [against] women’ that we need, says an overexcited Guardian in the wake of Adolescence. I don’t need to tell you that they’re not referring to the misogyny of bourgeois trans activists or radical Islamists. Nope, only working-class young’uns like Jamie. Who’s made up.

@Economic_Hitman @sun A lot of women are quite obsessive on the subject!

Pizza night!

It might be damp and murky outside, but Dog has started eating grass so I guess spring is officially here.

It’ll be sheep poo next, lovely!

I understand how it happens

@HebrideanHecate wtf? A piece of wood? Can you copy the full text?

@HebrideanHecate I understand how it happens, but I hate that the women are so complicit in perpetuating this stuff. It was the same with foot binding in China.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ed-milibands-net-zero-rush-is-dooming-britains-economy/

The Macroeconomic Impacts of the Net Zero Transition, prepared by the Economic and Strategic Analysis team at the Department for Business and Trade in November 2023, warns that net zero targets could provoke an economic shock on the scale of the 1973 oil crisis, which led to global recession and a decade of high inflation. A rapid transition, it forecasts, could take 10 per cent off UK GDP by 2030. It goes on to warn ministers that an abrupt transition ‘creates the potential risk of destabilising the financial system’, thanks to industrial plants and other assets being forcibly retired before their time. ‘The overall impact of the transition to net zero on public finances is likely to be negative,’ it states – coming on a day with yet another dire set of figures on public borrowing.

https://archive.ph/AnzjT

@LostInCalifornia @stephagain I have no idea who that is. Did he have a plot-significant physical trait that it’s impossible for the actor to share?

(If they wanted a non-white actor, why not —say— an Indian one who could get the hair right?)

@stephagain How are they going to give him long, greasy hair?

@KeepTakingTheSoma @polarisera @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain I suspect it’s a riff on the old joke about lesbians going on one date and then renting a U-Haul truck so that they can move in together, ie he’s saying they want a woman who will move in with them straight away.

This could be bad: collision between two ships, one an oil tanker, both on fire.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t

Oh ffs.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14461483/Possessing-photos-Muslim-woman-without-hijab-criminal-offence-MPs-say.html

The Commons' women and equalities committee said pictures of a Muslim woman without her headscarf – taken without her consent – should be considered 'non-consensual intimate images'.

Such photographs should be treated the same as child sex abuse images, possession of which can carry long prison sentences, the MPs said.

@KeepTakingTheSoma So many utterly surprising news stories on so many topics lately! Truly, we are in an age of historic investigative journalism!