Richard LittlerThis is one of the dumbest fucking statements I've ever seen a human write.
#politics #conservative #UK
#politics #conservative #UK
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KatTwitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝
Tristan SnellVivek Ramaswamy wants to force 18-24 year olds to pass the US citizenship exam in order to vote.
Vivek Ramaswamy said the Constitution allowed us to win the Revolution.
The Revolution was from 1775-81. The Constitution was written in 1787.
He would fail the citizenship test.
pcawdron
Alan Ferrier"If they don’t like it they can fuck off back to France."
Not Britain First. Not the National Front. Not the BNP. Not the British Union of Fascists.
The Deputy Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party.
Hard to tell the difference these days, ain't it?
Warren Currie 🦠🦐[EDIT] FLIP is saved!
https://newatlas.com/marine/flipping-flip-ship-saved/
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Well it had to happen eventually. #Scripps is retiring FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform). This is an amazing piece of engineering (and soooo weird on the inside - everything pivots, so walls become floors). The #ship to be towed out to a location, and it would literally flip, sinking most of the ship directly down to give a *very stable platform for #oceanography research. Launched in 1962.
Flipping FLIP ship saved from scrapyard at last minute
The US Navy and Scripps Institution of Oceanography's unique FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) has been saved at the last minute from the breaker's yard. Scheduled to be scrapped in Mexico, it was purchased by undersea design company DEEP.
Churchill hated the BBC so much it was pathological. One day he called the controller to angrily complain (as he often did) about something said on the 9 o'clock news. The controller politely informed him that was impossible as it was still only 8:50pm. 'For once, Churchill was rendered speechless'.
Christopher Mimsthe way we live now:
Bluesky informs me Twitter is down, and also that Bluesky can’t handle the resulting surge in use, so I come to Mastodon to post about it
Vetinari is the problematic link, I think. He's in the story as an absolute administrative authority, but also as a force of overall reason (in keeping with his Machiavellian archetype) against which Vimes is positioned as a force of absolute (eventually) moral authority.
They tried Vimes under an oppressive leader (Night Watch) and Vetinari as an authority with hard limits (Jingo, the Moist series), but Pterry kept coming back to a Corporatist status quo, where Vimes and the Guilds deliver stability.
Even statist bureaucratic systems were seen as being overall beneficial (the running gag of new and more diverse officers being imposed on the Watch) as opposed to the depredations of more powerful, but less humanistic interest groups.