tenebrisnox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greggs announces hundreds of job losses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t Greggs doing so well that it was opening branches everywhere (we have two in our small town) plus giving employees bonuses for the profits being made? What’s happened?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to jump by £276 a year from January⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Our overlords think we still have too much of their money in our pockets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Strong indications’ that Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, says Burnham⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta keep that threat level up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of chatter online that they were petrol/diesel thieves robbing local farms. The logo on their vans was “Fuel2You” and there appear to be barrels inside the vans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …until we become our own cameras watched by a great big camera in the sky…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major incident declared near RAF Fairford as men held on suspicion of explosives offences⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the way to deal with “terrorists” is, of course, to release them on bail. Perhaps the Keystone Kops got a bit over-excited?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The government is keeping a list of people who question their policies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I would imagine that the UK state has a file on pretty much anyone who has joined a political party, signed a petition, turned up to a demonstration and so on. It’s probably been like this at least since the start of the 20th Century and is now - with the help of big tech - able to do it at scale. I’m pretty paranoid about this sort of stuff but I reckon the UK is riddled with inoffizielle Mitarbeiter types who live on our streets or work with us. And that all the political parties from left to right are infiltrated with state operatives. We live in a country with a only a vaneer of freedom and democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Officially Rewriting ‘Strange New Worlds’ Winning Formula for Season 5⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet presented cartoonishly without any of the sixties psychedelic surrealism. Plus, generally episodes like The Savage Curtain are widey derided as being among the worst TOS episodes. For me they have a quirky charm (but willing to accept that’s just nostalgia at work and they were just shit). I also wouldn’t be so grumpy about this if Once La’An a Time was the only silly episode this season. Unfortunately…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x10 "Tomorrow's Enterprise"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! If only they had that in mind. You’d think that Trek could hire some innovative SF writers rather than produce this junk. You get the impression that most tv (and movie) SF is produced by people who’d prefer to be making angsty teenage relationship shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony is that the BBC continues to turn out “popular” trash like The Traitors and Strictly Come Dancing and the mediocrity of BBC Three comedy for the viewers who actively want the demise of the BBC. I genuinely can’t remember the last time I watched a show that was any good… maybe some time in the 1990s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x10 "Tomorrow's Enterprise"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to think of a word to describe the episode. Clunky seems about right. Of this season only one episode came near to not being cringe (and that was because it tried to recreate the “theme” of an old TOS episode). Production quality is exceptional; narrative just cringe and clunky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Officially Rewriting ‘Strange New Worlds’ Winning Formula for Season 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agree. The closest they came to a decent episode was the kirk-centred TOS-themed episode. Foolishly, I thought that they’d pulled out of the nosedive… but we had more fairytale nonsense and space baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories target universal credit claimants in plan condemned as ‘fast track to poverty’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tories punching down and demonising the poor again. Not news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x10 "Tomorrow's Enterprise"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Space baby. Hmmm… Not the jaw-dropping finale that this season needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pupils to be offered vocational GCSEs in radical shake-up of system in England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things:

  One. The issue with UK education is that it is overloaded with content. Secondary schools have to race through the content and barely finish teaching it. Too much is dry learning by rote. Slimming down the curriculum and ensuring that all pupils leave school literate and numerate should be the priority. Many - perhaps as many as half - don’t.

  Two. Unless Labour MASSIVELY invest in this “shake-up” it will arrive dead-in-the-water. Labour in government has a history of introducing strategies and initiatives that overwhelm schools, have little impact and are quietly dropped later. My suspicion is that little new money will support this “shake-up”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car now’: diesel crisis ripples across Britain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you are likely correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car now’: diesel crisis ripples across Britain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you elaborate on how it’ll be positive in the long run? The 70s oil crisis was the effective end of Bretton Woods/Keynesianism and heralded the fuck-awful neoliberal economic order we’ve endured for the last 50 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 25 per cent of children walk to school alone compared to 86 per cent in 1971. What went wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a parent, I’m worried about cars. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and you could still kick a ball about in the road. The occassional car would drive up and we’d stop and let it pass. Now, traffic is constant and many speed up and down. It’s just not safe. Recently a car mounted the path and knocked down a traffic light just around the corner on the way to our youngest’s school. Outside the school parents drive and park like idiots so it’s not safe to let him walk there alone. My older son walks to secondary school and there are incidents where children are knocked down from time to time. There’s only so much you can teach your children about road safety when there are so many reckless drivers.

  (Thinking more about it, the increase in cars has generally gone hand in hand with the increase in how shit the UK has generally become.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x08 "Orders of Magnitude"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SMW actually makes a Star Trek episode! I’ve heard this described as the best episode of Star Trek for 20 years. I think I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Adults Overwhelmingly Support UK Ban on Illegal Israeli Settler Imports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked it up - yougov.com/en-gb/daily-results/20260909-8d692-1

  Seemed to me that men are slightly more in favour of the ban than women and that age was only a factor in those that disapproved. It’s probably not significant anyhow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Adults Overwhelmingly Support UK Ban on Illegal Israeli Settler Imports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those breakdowns seem to be pretty much to reflect the general divisions in UK society (certainly since 2016).

  Do you know the age breakdowns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many teachers disagree with hardline attendance policies, report suggests⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This issue of attendance (which is currently the top priority for schools) is often framed as being parents being soft of their kids or about taking holidays in term time. UK state schooling is unsuitable for many children and the 10% is the tip of the iceberg. For lits of children - particularly neurodivergent and disabled - mainstream schools are hostile and brutal places. For children without additional needs its pretty much the same. There persists a weird “survival of the fittest” mentality in UK education.

  I’ve been recently reading about Japan’s Yutori education where the Japanese govt attempted to reduce the academic demands on children in order to promote their happiness and wellbeing. It remains controversial there but I’d certainly like to see this happening in the UK. (Or at the least parents given the choice of enrolling their children in Yutori-style schools here.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reform cultists will explain this as an Establishment stitch up and already claimed it was entrapment.

  I reckon Farage could be filmed shaking Putin’s hand and taking a plastic bag full of cash from him and agreeing to crash the UK and the cultists and their voters will simply applaud.

  You could see at the Reform conference that this is a party of crazy old people who don’t want the UK (or the world) to continue without them after they die. It’s a death cult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right: third decade! I’m so behind the times. I hear that the army’s going to start using bows and arrows as there’s nothing like saving a bit of cash. All does the same job in the end, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because it’s the second decade of the Twenty-First Century and the tech should be much more advanced than 100 years-old balloons. It doesn’t provide confidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Entryist” suggests an organised faction like the Militant in the Labour Party in the past. Are you sayimg that she belongs to a group that is attempting to take over the Greens? If so, who are they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You couldn’t make this stuff up:

  The emergency system, called Low Frequency Fall Back or LFFB and codenamed SUNFLOWER, used a “blimp” style tethered balloon or aerostat (illustrated) to lift a 1,500 metre long radio antenna.

  So the communications with nuclear-armed submarines is a 1940s-style blimp baloon? Launched in 2003 and tethered to the ground with a wire.

  I do have to ask, where are all the £billions on “defense” going? Certainly not on blimp balloons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are the “entryists”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billions lost to Brexit could make NHS waiting lists disappear, top economist says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just imagine what could be done with the TRILLIONS that’ll be lost when Farage and his chums get elected!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big brother watch report reveals free speech is in "downward spiral" in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s when the article leads with

  • Former Minister turned Reform member Nadine Dorries backs calls for review of “dogs dinner” online safety laws her government led

  that I tuned out, sorry. Mad Nad isn’t a great advocate for free speech.