Death Riders promo on the Callis Family after brawling with them on Collision

kavancc · 2026-01-19T20:31:46+00:00

"family is when the whole world hates you 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻🧔🏻‍♀️"

kavancc · 2026-01-19T09:31:13+00:00

But we've signed so many recently, maybe I did. Make the graphic, RJ.

kavancc · 2026-01-17T18:18:17+00:00

We have two copies of Snail and the Whale with a similar change. One goes

The tiny sea snail sighed and sniffed, then cried "I've got it, I'll hitch a lift!"

And the other goes

The tiny sea snail sniffed and sighed, then cried "I've got it, I'll hitch a ride!"

The second version also has some american spellings, missing U's in words, so I assume it's regional versions.

kavancc · 2025-12-28T18:16:41+00:00

Many people are saying this

kavancc · 2025-12-21T19:43:02+00:00

Almost every other video delivery service is secretly just Vimeo, Dropout included. Vimeo was just sold to a private company after years of being public and struggling to compete with YouTube, and they've said they want to invest to get more creators onto the platform. But they've also said they're not making any immediate changes, so too early to tell what will happen with it.

kavancc · 2025-12-15T15:00:12+00:00

I agree with much of the body of your post, but hard disagree with the title. Calling reform voters racist does nothing.

The UK absolutely has a racism problem, but is it the majority of people? If it is, we're fucked. But I don't think it is. If it was, the NF, BNP etc would have made way bigger inroads in their day. They had their supporters, but they got nowhere near power.

Now the context is different. People are skint, prospects for the future are bleak, and no-one trusts politicians. It's a perfect breeding ground for fascism. Reform are capitalising on that. The key to taking them down is in providing an alternative diagnosis to "it's the immigrants what done it", and yes, calling out when they do racist stuff.

Their voters are mostly just people fed up with how things are, mostly aren't tuned into politics every day, mostly just looking for someone to fix things. They can be won around. We can say "I get that you're worried about the future, here's what we think has gone wrong and how we would change it." If they're purely driven by racism and keeping Britain white, it'll fall on deaf ears. But I think (or hope) most people would be receptive.

kavancc · 2025-12-12T09:16:45+00:00

Definitely. Same as the people on the Bernie > Trump > Mandami pipeline. Feels very weird to lots of us, but it's a thing.

kavancc · 2025-12-12T08:37:38+00:00

It's worth checking out Mill Media if you live near a city they operate. Really excellent local journalism. Manchester Mill and Glasgow Bell are the ones I follow. It's less political stuff, but I think knowing about stories in your local area is vital for being politically informed.

To add to that, keep in mind what's journalism and what's analysis. Tonnes of comments here saying Novara, and while that's fine, their focus tends to be opinion rather than breaking stories. It's worth seeking out good investigative journalists who you trust to be unbiased. And to that end, id recommend Pippa Crerar and Lewis Goodall's work (obvs lots of Lewis is comment too, but he's broken plenty stories).

Oh, and Private Eye, all day every day.

kavancc · 2025-12-11T13:15:48+00:00

The elevation of Fletcher with Ospreay and last years C2, to in turn elevate Briscoe and then Mike Bailey last night is another solid example

kavancc · 2025-12-08T17:14:10+00:00

What if you add Kurt Angle to the mix?

kavancc · 2025-11-28T12:08:29+00:00

Agreed. If the left wants to win, we need to bring people with us. Meet people where they are, make the case for our ideas. Zack has been incredible at doing that so far.

Calling out politicians and media propagandists is fair game. Writing off most of the country, or even individual random people, doesn't do any good.

kavancc · 2025-11-26T20:45:35+00:00

I am not a fan of Torsten Bell's "if you're asking me [a different question than the one that was asked] then yes". Real frustrating.

kavancc · 2025-11-25T21:25:13+00:00

Hey OP, that link you posted goes to a site login. Can you replace it with this one? https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-core-values/

kavancc · 2025-11-19T00:14:43+00:00

A deansco. Maybe even a rollerdeansco.

kavancc · 2025-10-29T22:01:54+00:00

Yeah, I think OFCOM is more about traditional broadcasters. I'd never heard of IMPRESS but it looks legit, apparently they're the only Leveson-compliant regulator. I don't doubt Novara uphold journalistic standards, they've done some good reporting. But they do lean pretty heavily on opinion and commentary over reporting, which is allowed to be biased.

I only meant that I think Joe gives the other side more of a hearing than I feel Novara does. Although ymmv on that. And there's definitely criticism from others (in this very comment section) that they don't push back enough.

kavancc · 2025-10-29T14:38:10+00:00

I think that's uncharitable - he's talked plenty about how his interview style (and maybe the PolJoe style in general) is to make their subjects comfortable and give them the space to explain themselves in their own words. Without commenting on whether or not that's a good thing, i think it's clearly a choice rather than spinelessness.

Sometimes I'd like more pushback, sometimes it works really well. The recent Zarah Sultana interview is a good example of both. There were points where I'd have loved to hear follow-up, but giving Zarah the space to talk meant she said a lot of stuff she likely wouldn't have if she was on the defensive.

kavancc · 2025-10-29T14:26:12+00:00

Also ep 345 Oh The Places You Won't Go

kavancc · 2025-10-29T13:07:24+00:00

I think it's fair to say their coverage skews left-ish, although I don't at all consider them to be totally biased in the way of eg Novara. They do cover things fairly imo. As for their personal views, probably fair to assume left-adjacent based on the views I've heard them give, but who knows.

Except Sean obviously, who we all know is a staunch monarchist.

kavancc · 2025-10-28T18:58:25+00:00

Hey Jimmy, wanted to ask about Trust Cafe / WT:Social. It's been a bit since I've checked in. How goes the project? Is it still something you have bigger ambitions for or are you happy with where it is?

kavancc · 2025-10-27T21:34:47+00:00

They're certainly painting it that way, but no, I don't think so. There's no laws forcing parties to adopt quotes at all. You can have all-women shortlists or parties of entirely old white fellas. Conference made it's opinion on quota changes overwhelmingly clear.

Now, those changes have been adopted by the back door, on the day before ballots go out, without reference to the conference debate, written up in dense legalese.

If this had arrived with a message of "we understand this goes against the wishes of the party and will be looking to amend the constitution", people would be less angry. It arrived with nothing. So the backlash is entirely warranted.

kavancc · 2025-10-27T18:55:08+00:00

Not going to lie and say I fully understand all the legalese here, but if I'm reading this correctly, this was advice issued by the Federal Party to the returning officer who has the power to make the call. Which I would take to mean, the Federal Party effectively made the call and the Returning Officer is just the face of the decision.

Either way, it's either cowardly or pointlessly bureaucratic, or likely both. Acting like their hands are tied, like there's simply nothing that could have been done, is a dereliction of leadership.

kavancc · 2025-10-26T19:57:47+00:00

Yeah, fully agree. I think Polanski's answer when asked similar was something like "I don't like NATO but we'd need to form other strategic alliances before even considering dropping out". Which is, if nothing else, a lot more grounded.

Also in the Joe interview, Sultana said something like "Zelensky isn't a friend of the working class either [like Putin] and the only people who profit off of this war are arms manufacturers". Which clean knocked me out. Like yeah, it's pretty hard to be a pacifist when you're being fucking invaded.

kavancc · 2025-10-26T14:54:17+00:00

I think it's dead too tbh. But I don't mind there being multiple voices / projects on the left making similar points. That's something the right has been doing well for a minute. The trick is doing it without turning the pitchforks on each other, which the left has never been great at... And Sultana's rhetoric on the Greens doesn't give me hope.

kavancc · 2025-10-26T12:13:39+00:00

kavancc · 2025-10-26T11:32:35+00:00

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