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- Comment on Birmingham exodus as 80,000 people flee city 3 hours ago:
That site is a cancer.
To save a click: 80k left. 63k arrived. All English and Welsh cities are seeing a drop in population because people are moving to towns and the countryside instead. Presumably due to being able to work from home.
- Comment on Retail sales in Great Britain fall despite heatwave increasing food and drink demand 1 day ago:
I hope you forgot your /s.
In the past I would have said this is obviously sarcasm, but there’s too many open and confident bigots now to be sure these days. Even on anarchist servers like dbzer0
- Comment on Me rocking up to Lemmy all feed 2 days ago:
An itch in my brain wishes they’d drive off like 50 Cent
- Comment on Farm defends Titanic-themed ride after backlash 2 days ago:
Nice whataboutism.
Just because one thing is shit doesn’t mean another can’t also be.
- Comment on Dog food recalled in UK after reports of pets losing their sight 2 days ago:
Years said on its website that the recall followed reports of some dogs having a potential adverse eye reaction to buckwheat, an ingredient included in its meals.
Buckwheat was added to the company’s meals several months ago, and a now-deleted blogpost on its website dating from February this year explored the question of whether it was safe for dogs to eat it.
“In most cases, yes, buckwheat is safe for dogs to munch – provided it’s cooked properly and fed in sensible portions,” said the blogpost, adding: “Here at Years, we carefully calculate the right amount of buckwheat to include … ensuring your dog receives all the benefits without any risks.”
“Here at Years, we carefully calculate the risk to profit ratio and determined it was worth it. Unfortunately we fucked up and turned thousands of dogs blind. Woops… Or should we say, woofs…”
- Comment on Farm defends Titanic-themed ride after backlash 2 days ago:
“We’ve had autistic children who are obsessed with Titanic… they love coming here and going on it because they know all the facts and all the figures,” he said.
He said: “It never even crossed our minds that there would be any backlash.”
“Because all we saw were £ symbols and a chance to profit, safe in the knowledge we could hold autistic children in front of ourselves to shield us and deflect any criticism. Next year we have a bumper opening of 9/11, 7/7, and Hindenburg rides! That way we can cover all forms of transport obsessed autistic children to ensure we can never be held accountable for our vile profiteering from death and disaster.”
- Comment on Reform councillor quits – but sends resignation letter to wrong council 3 days ago:
We live in the information age, receiving a constant bombardment of information. Consequently we all miss details here and there, there’s just so much to take in and process all day every day, so there’s no need to feel shame. That’s why we’re on a social site discussing the information, so that collectively we can get more from these articles than we would do in isolated reading.
Enjoy the rest of your day / night :)
- Comment on Reform councillor quits – but sends resignation letter to wrong council 3 days ago:
Ms Duffy handed it directly to the clerk of Kidsgrove Town Council.
- Comment on Reform councillor quits – but sends resignation letter to wrong council 3 days ago:
Her resignation letter was shared by a local political group, Kidsgrove Independents, who claimed Ms Duffy handed it directly to the clerk of Kidsgrove Town Council.
Ms Duffy hit back at the publication of the letter, writing: “I am appalled that a private letter, provided in confidence to the Clerk of Kidsgrove Town Council
She didn’t send it to the wrong council. She hand delivered it!
The only solace to the rise in bigotry and fascism is their absolute idiocy and incompetence.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 3 days ago:
Because the BBC is fucking shit? It’s government propaganda disguised as an independent impartial broadcaster.
Yes it makes some good content with some good talent that may make you laugh but institutionally it’s anti Scottish, pro Palestinian genocide, downplays climate change to almost denial, and uses false balance to push the Overton window rightward.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#History
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Controversies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_controversies
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_independence
You need read any one of those Wikipedia articles to find a list of reasons for disliking the BBC. I recommend starting at the beginning though and going with History first of all.
- Comment on ‘Birmingham Four’ lawyers hope spycops inquiry will help reopen case 3 days ago:
“‘The exchange of messages in the heavily encrypted ‘three musketeers’ Telegram group account and elsewhere were only explicable upon the basis that he was plotting an imminent attack. A partially made pipe bomb was found in his van. He answered no questions in interview and did not give evidence to give any explanation for the many incriminating pieces of evidence against him. In my judgment, the evidence against him was overwhelming; the conviction is safe and his application for leave to appeal against conviction is accordingly refused.’”
Even silence is incriminating now?
What happened to:
“You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”
- Comment on Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims 4 days ago:
That’s capitalism baby! You wouldn’t want to see the poor poor shareholders destitute on the streets while their homes are in ashes would you? It’s only right that they get massive payouts at the expense of their victims.
/s
- Comment on Wildfire phone alert was 'entirely appropriate', government says 4 days ago:
Agreed. Unfortunately it isn’t, so instead opt out
- Comment on Dry humor 1 week ago:
Mans in the video speaks as if he’s just reading an AI script. Ew.
No substance, all waffle.
- Comment on Tonyrefail ice cream man hit with van chimes noise complaint 1 week ago:
The ice cream wars were turf wars in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs[1][2] and stolen goods[1] from ice cream vans.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars
He was maybe committed to the route for other reasons. It escalated to violence in Glasgow but I don’t doubt it’s happening in other cities, just without the theatrics of violent turf wars
- Comment on To all the betting shops littering our high streets: people power is coming and the odds are against you 1 week ago:
slot/fruit machine-style games, found in places such as betting shops, adult gaming centres and casinos – generate an average of £35,000 in gross gambling yield per machine each year – more than the roughly £26,400 a year earned by someone aged 21 or over working 40 hours a week on the national living wage.
Fucking hell. Maybe I should make 3 little cardboard spinny wheels and some flashy lights with a coin slot to make some extra dough…
- Comment on Cambridge academics reject university’s attempt to end row over Jason Arday 1 week ago:
It’s a remarkable story that was likely to garner a decent amount of attention anyway if it were an old, white, neurotypical, short haired, tweed elbow patch jacket wearing professor of long tenure.
But he’s black, autistic, young (for an academic), makeup wearing, long haired, and gained his position after supposed “woke” BLM pressure. This story is a bigot’s wet dream because it reinforces all of their prejudices and proves they were “right” all along.
A scandal of this scale would likely get a few days of national press, die down, and then get another brief mention a few weeks later if a conclusion or something significant happens. But capitalist press feeds on the engagement and enragement of bigots to get clicks, so they’ll ride this story as long as they can and keep pumping out more about it until the clicks die down.
- Comment on Signed LFI 2 weeks ago:
The near unreadable link at the bottom: publications.parliament.uk/pa/…/antisemitism.htm
A news source about the letter: eurojewcong.org/…/over-100-mps-sign-letter-accusi…
The letter that this letter claims has disgraced academics by being factually incorrect:
brismes.ac.uk/…/letter-to-bristol-university-rega…
A followup letter in 2025:
- Comment on Autism Rule 2 weeks ago:
Y’all need
Jesusgardening. - Comment on Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song 2 weeks ago:
He goes on to describe Israel’s assault as having got “ugly”, before saying that it has done so because he “knows you want to kill every last one of us,” referring to Jewish people living in Israel.
Says the English / Irish Catholic Buddhist living in London?.. What?
- Comment on UK Government trying to deepen its Palantir integration 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Donald Trump says Andy Burnham told him he will ‘open up North Sea oil’ 3 weeks ago:
I take it you’ve never seen Yes Minister or Yes Prime Minister then, very similar principle
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 3 weeks ago:
Can we get a PTSD warning for Packet Tracer screenshots please?
- Comment on Unauthorised car park near Stansted Airport grows after notice 3 weeks ago:
Funny how the cops can smash skulls and show force when it’s the proletariat breaking the law but nothing happens when it affects the profits of capital…
- Comment on Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires 3 weeks ago:
As long as they plant trees that have had a few years in a nursery first they should be able to coexist despite the roots. Heather roots are quite shallow, tree roots would generally be able to penetrate deeper underneath them. Eventually the canopy of the trees would kill off the heather allowing other plants to come through.
The biggest issue would be keeping the deer numbers low enough to allow the trees to establish and become mature.
That’s one of the reasons why there’s been a push to reintroduce wolves and lynx, to keep deer numbers manageable because decades of hunting and culls haven’t been working.
- Comment on Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires 3 weeks ago:
On the bright side, heather doesn’t burn particularly hot, just quickly with lots of flame, so the soil should be relatively unscathed in most places.
Without the heather in the way this is the perfect opportunity for a rewilding push like is being seen in Glen Affric.
Deciduous and mixed forests don’t burn with the same ease that heather and coniferous forests do, so if they do rewild it not only restores the natural way of things but makes wildfires less likely to start in the first place.
- Comment on Can darknet fill in for NHS? 3 weeks ago:
- Is it addictive in any way? Have you got the ideal dosage worked out?
Lmfao. It’s an opioid, it’s very addictive. They’re not smarties.
There’s a lot OP can try between paracetamol and tramadol. They say the GPs probably have sob stories trying to get tramadol all the time and this reads exactly like one.
- Comment on Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare 3 weeks ago:
Twat. Starmer 2.0.
Journalists should start calling them out whenever they use the term welfare because that’s not what we have. We have workfare which is a very different concept.
- Comment on Carenheit 3 weeks ago:
The set of communication protocols to enable internetworking on the Internet arose from research and development commissioned in the 1970s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in collaboration with universities and researchers across the United States, United Kingdom and France.[4][5][6]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
Bloody ignorant loud mouth Americans claiming credit for group projects, as usual.
- Comment on Police declare 'major incident' as wind change increases Cairngorms wildfire risk 4 weeks ago:
False balance, known colloquially as bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may omit information that would establish one side’s claims as baseless. False balance has been cited as a cause of misinformation.[2][3][4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
One single local critic gets quite a bit of prominence.
