Ruchbah

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

After everything that’s happened the last few years I didn’t think I could be surprised by any headlines any more… but “bird sniffing is not a crime” are a set of words I never expected to see out together in a sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is excellent planning! I must remember to do that next year (but I suspect the clock change will just sneak up on me again)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awake at 5am but held firm at keeping the lights off and just trying to cwtch until close to 6 when we got up properly.

So far spent the day outside in the sun playing with high energy activities and have managed to time nap time perfectly so fingers crossed that will all help with bed time later tonight.

That all being said… please can we all just scrap the bloody clock changes and stick with BST all year?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

What an absolute crap-fest of a PM and a political party as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You can pick a message and sign one of the postcards here: https://findothers.com/tools/postcards-for-refugee-children

 

Thousands of asylum seeker children will be sent postcards with bright and cheerful cartoons on them after ministers recently ordered murals at two reception centres to be painted over last month.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Voting is how things pass

You can combine that with other action if you are motivated - protesting, writing to your representatives, campaigning for whoever is closest to your views and so on…

yes the game is rigged.. the media is (mostly) bought and paid for, the impact of social media manipulation is awful…. But ultimately - not voting does nothing to help, worse than that.. not voting actively helps those people stay in power who stack the deck.

Voter apathy.. “they are all as bad as each other” is a ploy to stop us holding those in power to account.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Could you expand on that?

I mean… I get the frustration with Keir Starmer and how hard it is when you can’t find a party or person who properly represents those with left or more socialist view… but worse than the Tories? Really? I mean I just can’t see how that’s possible.

The only people who win when we don’t vote is the Tories… and we can all see what damage that has done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It’s just so comically evil that a political party would be against Human Rights… at least it would be comical if there wasn’t a real chance that the tories could actually scrap it and that there are voters who have been tricked into agreeing with them.

The chance is very low, the Good Friday Agreement depends on the ECHR but after Brexit we know what level of destruction the Tories are willing to do to this country in order to cling on to power

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive

These are extremely late self administered abortions. Absolutely tragic for all involved and the current laws may not be appropriate but although most people agree that a collection of cells or tiny foetus is not a person yet… when someone is at a point in the pregnancy where the baby can be born and survive then I don’t think it’s as simple.

Note: I’m assuming that’s what the line meant about being capable of being born alive (as the other recent case I was aware of was a really really late abortion and I think this is a similar case based on the posted link)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m using the My Movies app too and like it a lot… but I’ve really only just started out so not much on there yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can never resist popping into a charity shop in the hunt for Blu-rays if I happen to be near one.

I don’t really have many yet but after being burnt one too many times by crappy streaming services or digital purchases that you don’t really own I’m just keeping an eye for deals on physical media instead.

I do inevitably digitise them for easy playback but I’ve always got the proper disc if I want to watch it (and to know that I actually own it)

Plus Music Magpie with their 4 for £5 Blu-ray deals

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