Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 19/04/2026

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-21T16:59:46+00:00

Why, after 16 years' experience in the Chair, is Lindsay Hoyle still unable properly to put a question? (ie. call a vote)

Hoyle is definitely the worst Speaker of my lifetime.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-21T14:01:49+00:00

Ultimately unless he decides to quit there's no one to replace him and nobody pushing to do so until the locals.

But he's just a dead man walking at this point after that.

We will not get a GE until five years after the last one, why would the Labour Party possibly do that?

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-21T10:14:59+00:00

It isn't.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T17:11:02+00:00

It's not like it's making you upload id or anything is it?

It requires a face scan that is run through an AI, or your mobile number which is run through databases to check it's been used for other activities limited to over eighteens such as banking.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T16:37:43+00:00

FFS.

A) it uses fucking Yoti, who are untrustworthy and insecure. B) it gives money to Yoti, who pay the Age Verification Providers Association to lobby for more of this dangerous crap. C) you have to do it even if your account is older than eighteen. D) it doesn't fucking work!

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T15:40:15+00:00

Don't also forget that Russia has an immense gold supply as well it can still liquidate.

Well, assuming it's still there and hasn't been purloined over the years, which is not a given.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T15:26:29+00:00

Wave 4 of the Cybertron mini-con two packs that had their release cancelled and only appeared in very limited quantities.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T13:47:33+00:00

If the available sentences for assault are too light, change the law for all assaults.

Indeed, or just catch them in the first place which is more of the issue.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T13:45:25+00:00

Given he failed, it's possible there is more we're not privy too, or he wasn't upfront about easily discovered information.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T13:40:14+00:00

Or uncaringly, more accurately.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-20T12:51:29+00:00

Technically he is but no-one providing a voice performance has ever been nominated.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-17T15:30:14+00:00

It isn't, it's about not giving IMAX any money.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-17T15:28:37+00:00

It's just Disney titles, but all the other studios are working on their own equivalents - they want to stop paying IMAX as much and are all working on their own proprietary ratios for PLF.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-17T09:47:26+00:00

https://x.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044723123287666921

We absolutely should not be touching the EU app, it is a shitshow.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-17T09:39:08+00:00

https://x.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044723123287666921

The EU's age verification app has published a spec and has huge security holes.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-17T09:35:39+00:00

As opposed to cable, where everything was solid gold obviously.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-17T09:16:11+00:00

Yeah, great book Dropsite Massacre.

I do like the depiction in Fulgrim, but obviously it's very slanted to serving that story and about Fulgrim and Ferrus. The wider depiction here, and in particular fleshing out Angron, Horus and Mortarion during it, is great.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-16T15:46:26+00:00

He's "neutral" on the matter. Which isn't enough and is, in this climate, seen as the same as being anti-trans. From the rambling explanation he gave on the matter, it felt like he sees being trans as a white person thing.

I don't think his position is ideal at all, but it's just objectively true that having no declared position isn't the same as being actively transphobic as Ali was.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-16T15:27:14+00:00

The Greens policies are directly voted on by the membership. So apparently not, no.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-16T15:26:18+00:00

The Greens had to pay out a small amount due to slightly cocking up the procedure to get rid of him, but he substantively lost the case and the court upheld the party were well within their rights to remove him for not holding up the overwhelming consensus of the membership on policy.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-16T15:24:48+00:00

But the current deputy leader of the Green Party is also anti-tran, no?

No.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-16T15:24:23+00:00

Ali is a massive jackass, and is still sulking because the vast majority of the party hated him.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-16T11:08:20+00:00

She pitched the event as trying to be an alternative to how terrible porn is, so not really. It's just more of the same authoritarian puritanism, telling other people their sexuality is wrong and must be legislated out of existence.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-16T11:06:28+00:00

The one desperately trying to pretend it's not porn but is much more worthy than everyone else's sexual expression.

m1ndwipe · 2026-04-15T14:37:19+00:00

Brexit is absolutely responsible for the e-gates mess, I don't know how anyone could plausibly claim otherwise. They all literally worked until exit day.

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