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- Comment on I understand what Trump cares about, says Starmer 1 day ago:
“Of course, when we say ‘family’, we include the lesser-known definitions of the word, such as ‘supporting Israel’s far right government in their genocide’, ‘trying to make trans people illegal’ and ‘starving the poor’”
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 2 days ago:
It’s not really that tough, is it?
“People driving vehicles expected to pay attention to their surroundings and take responsibility for their actions”
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 5 days ago:
Yes, he’s had pretty much a constant stream of chances for over a decade.
For people who actually weren’t given a chance, we need to look at people like Ed Milliband, who once ate a sandwich wrong, or Jeremy Corbyn, who thought we should increase taxes on rich people (which was, according to the news at the time, apparently antisemetic).
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 5 days ago:
I’m hoping it’s not one of those sudden lurches to the far right which seem to occur when someone suddenly needs access to the “special lawyers who make historical allegations disappear”.
🎵 “You’ve got too much money and now you are a Nazi
Tell me Rod it isn’t so. Is it for defending, sexual offending? Tell me Rod it isn’t so.” 🎵 - Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 6 days ago:
Sadly, it’s been reported in numerous newspapers, from an interview between him and The Times.
Here’s one from The Independent, but it’s pretty much in all the papers.
“Rod Stewart tells UK to ‘give Farage a chance’” - The Independent
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 6 days ago:
I’m more appalled by Rod Stewart saying:
“We’ve got to give Nigel Farage a chance”.
and
“It’s hard for me because I’m extremely wealthy, and I deserve to be, so a lot of it doesn’t really touch me. But that doesn’t mean I’m out of touch.”
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 1 week ago:
I hope the “Donald Trump Baby Blimp” makes an appearance at every place he visits :)
- Comment on Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now 2 weeks ago:
or a selection of CEOs, perhaps?
- Comment on Oink 3 weeks ago:
And rightly so. We just call them “serial ports” these days.
- Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*. 4 weeks ago:
It depends where it was in the country. Even now, after fast travel, radio, television etc, you can still get completely different vowels within 100 miles.
If I took the word “road” and travelled 100 miles either North/South/East/West, I could find it pronounced (as it would sound to me) as reud, raad, rird or roud.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 5 weeks ago:
We don’t quite know what you mean. Do it on Prince Andrew first, as an example.
- Comment on gotta be sure... 5 weeks ago:
Yes, a good reasonable name like draft-final-final-final-final_v2_to_print_THIS_ONE_b
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I’m not American, and I’ve likely only seen it on Lemmy, and likely in satirical forms.
Anyway, I’ve read the other linked info and a bit more, so at least feel I do know now :)
I’m also not a youth, but I’ll absolutely take that as a compliment, thank you very much :D
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 5 weeks ago:
What what what?!? The “Tread harder, daddy” snake is based on a real thing?!?
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 5 weeks ago:
The American Right-Wing Christians don’t seem to care for Jesus - they appear to pretty much ignore everything in the New Testament because it’s “lefty and woke”. They do seem to like the Old Testament bits where you kill/enslave/rape/rob people who are weaker or slightly different from you.
- Comment on FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs 1 month ago:
You say “best”, “highest performing” etc, but we asked a panel of immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders who their ideal upper management employee was - and they unanimously suggested other immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders. Employing anyone else is a DEI hire.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
It’s a shame that every sink in every public toilets, workplace toilets or other people’s house still has soap with Sodium Laureth Sulphate in. Even the products that say “gentle on skin” tend to be full of the stuff.
I tried various moisturisers for years with not a lot of effect. Swapping my soap, shower gel and shampoo for ones without SLS in them really made such a difference, and so quickly.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Okay, but how do I trim and smooth out the skin irregularities near my fingers?
Also, where do I acquire the spare skin I need to eat?
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 2 months ago:
We kind of go “brur”.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
My fork is the correct fork. None of these are my fork.
In the event of a fork loss, any of these forks could become my fork after a period of time, probably about a month or so until it felt right.
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 2 months ago:
Oddly it looks like the article is only referring to people coming back from holiday, bringing a bit of meat or cheese with them. It doesn’t seem to cover the cargo ships full of the stuff.
Obviously this makes sense, as whenever I go on holiday and bring back some delicious foreign cheese or meat, the first thing I always do is go down to my local farm and share it out with all the animals :)
- Comment on Michael Gove gets lifetime seat in UK’s House of Lords 2 months ago:
“Hi, is that Guy Fawkes? I’ve got a little job for you”
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 2 months ago:
I think others have pretty much covered her social and economic destruction of the UK, so I’ll add “Section 28”.
To “protect our children”, she introduced the policies to ban any books/songs/art/plays etc from schools which mentioned or suggested homosexuality in any way neutral or positive - obviously this led to an increase in the already fairly popular “gay bashing”.
Thankfully nothing like that would happen anywhere now, outside of the few countries Vladimir Putin runs.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 2 months ago:
I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net
If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)
How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.
If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.
- Comment on Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault 2 months ago:
This is Russell Brand we’re talking about.
I think you meant:
“He always seemed a bit rapey-wapey”
- Comment on Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising 3 months ago:
Tony Blair’s in 2006 originally, then it got binned off for a while, but came back under the Tory/Libdem coalition, which has gradually morphed into what we now use. More info on wiki page
Sadly doesn’t give us a very good idea behind the intent without, as you say, reading a lot more about it.
- Comment on Be alert. Don't let Santa trick you 3 months ago:
“That’s a challenging wank”
Sean Lock on “8 out of 10 Cats” (skip to 3 minutes in)
- Comment on Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising 3 months ago:
Short answer : Not a lot.
Long answer : If they reach a certain amount, they get discussed in parliament and you get an official response to the issue. The response is normally “no”. I don’t know of any occasion of one causing major changes.
What it does do though, is force (somebody within) the government to take a position on an issue, and they can no longer say they are ignorant of it. Having an official response means they must explain their counterarguments and reason for denial. If this is then brought up by other means in future, you know what you’re arguing against.
Depending on where you live and who your local MP is, you may get better results writing to your local MP, who in theory should be supporting the views of their constituents.
Ultimately, it’s a bit weak. Perhaps the response is worth it, as a stepping stone to further methods on an issue - though it’s been suggested that it’s a distraction, making people fill in a form to “get the anger out of their system”, and then not protesting or raising awareness by other means.
I still fill them in, but I don’t expect much from them.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 3 months ago:
I wish I could be a big enough
thotcapitalist to sell my farts for $45k.You should give them away for free, comrade. They are the people’s wind.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 3 months ago:
I know society expects me to dislike a macaroni cheese pizza, but that looks absolutely delicious.