Notices by Chris Kendall (ottocrat@eupolicy.social)

Heads up UK citizens overseas! The disgraceful ‘15 year rule’ which disenfranchised you is being binned TODAY! From 16 January you can now at long last register to vote, which you should do ASAP in view of in the upcoming general election, because *gestures at everything*

https://mailchi.mp/a6cd97a73d7e/3mn-brits-abroad-regain-right-to-vote-in-uk-elections?e=897c54e3ba

@Geoff I’ve run a scientific experiment on this precise question by breeding test subjects and exposing them to various cartoon characters sequentially and I can confirm that the definitive order of preference is as follows:

1= Tom
1= Jerry
3 Bugs Bunny
4 Daffy Duck
5 Sylvester
6 Tweety Pie
7 Foghorn Leghorn
8 Pepe Le Pew
9 Speedy Gonzales
10 Donald Duck
11 Spongebob
12 Superted
13 Lion-O
14 Goofy
15= Chip
15= Dale
17 Pluto
18 Daisy
19 Minnie
20 Popeye
21 Mickey

For fucking fuck’s sake, whose genius idea was it to put the wolf in charge of the sheep’s emergency anti-predator conference?? Our civilisation is completely doomed. Sorry kids.

Lord grant me the incredible sense of entitlement to ask a democratically elected foreign government whether they’ve checked their humanitarian policies with their voters

Just because she's easy to mock doesn't mean you shouldn't https://thecritic.co.uk/how-liz-was-tinfoiled/

“The bed I shat in has shit in it”

@kentindell Leech: this host I’ve been sucking dry is looking anaemic

“Stop illegal cross-Channel migrants and their enablers”

I can’t even begin to express the contempt I have for people like this. They say we should hate the dupers not the duped - bollocks to that, I say. If they were fooled, they wanted to be fooled. https://apple.news/ApWbyHAl2QXmtYzO-9D4W4w

‘Waaah nobody told us’ YES WE FUCKING DID AND YOU TOLD US WE WERE LIARS

When I moved here from Twitter in November last year, four things were key to keeping me here: (1) following decent accounts to keep my timeline worth checking, (2) finding the right client to keep the experience high quality (in my case @ivory), (3) building new muscle memory (ie getting used to and accepting the differences), and (4) flat refusing to give Musk my custom. (1/2)

The single biggest obstacle to keeping me here was the absence of certain people I followed on Twitter and who hadn’t crossed over, or who had but then didn’t stick around. Ultimately, my reasons for staying outweighed the reasons to go back, and the more of you who come, stay, and participate, the more that equation tilts in favour of staying as part of this (imo) fundamentally better platform. (2/2)

In case I’m not making myself clear here, please don’t come (back) here and complain about the content (or lack of it). WE ARE the content. YOU are the content. Be the Mastodon you want Mastodon to be.

As usual at this point in the cycle, 90% of Mastodon content is a navel-gazing circle jerk (this thread included) but that will settle.

One more… We really *need* this to work. It is worth investing time and effort and patience in this platform. Our experience over at Twitter showed us how important and useful a ‘global town hall’ 🤢 is but also how we can’t afford to leave it in the hands of individuals. The #Fediverse is a genuine global commons. If we believe in public ownership of essential utilities then we have to make this work. And it’s easy: all that’s required is for us to turn up and use it.

Investment in high speed #rail infrastructure - a tale of two countries. #railways #highspeedrail