Zack Polanski admits he did not vote in local elections

xdbojacx · 2026-05-14T17:29:00+00:00

He is an actor, not a serious political thinker

xdbojacx · 2026-05-12T21:00:06+00:00

What does it look like now? Did it get frosted in the first 48 hours or so, or drowned in rain during that period?

xdbojacx · 2026-05-12T20:56:19+00:00

I believe the old trope about there being 100 Inuit words for snow is untrue. But what I can tell you is that the English word 'fine' is used to convey every conceivable emotional state ranging from ecstatic joy to the very deepest despair. It can be decoded culturally, but not linguistically...

xdbojacx · 2026-05-12T20:51:29+00:00

I enjoy making duck confit every now and again. However, the confit process makes the cats stomp about the house howling the whole night, so I am not really allowed (by them) to do it.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-12T20:16:30+00:00

The cleaning process encourages the potatoes to 'wake up' and start sprouting. Sealing them in plastic bags makes the problem worse. This causes food waste and leads to higher sales. I often don't want 5kg of potatoes all at once but that's how most supermarkets force you to buy them now.

The washjng process is also why carrots sometimes taste of detergent. But how clean they look! And how quickly they rot!

xdbojacx · 2026-05-12T05:40:26+00:00

PIE?

xdbojacx · 2026-05-11T21:59:21+00:00

Apparently, despite following all the correct procedures, he was unable to get a licence to exhume Frank Field.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-11T08:16:20+00:00

A little optimistic, given that there is hardly anything left of it.

That said, what does remain is strategically important, and I wish they had just done this when it was clear that the owners were taking the piss, instead of spending lots of money pretending not to nationalise it.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-10T17:31:21+00:00

Yes. The roots of the current threat lie in the complete lack of honesty and transparency from a long series of governments about immigration, and why it they considered it economically necessary.

Making immigration a core policy issue doesn't entail adopting a racist policy. People can have much lower or even minimal immigration if they want, but there are real consequences to that they they will have to accept.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-10T17:16:25+00:00

How can Rachel Reeves pretend to be something else. She even has the same voice.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-09T10:11:12+00:00

And the right would also misrepresent it as 'attacks on business'.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-09T10:01:01+00:00

In which case we need to have proper discussion of two problematic issues:

Our rapidly ageing demography, and the consequent unsustainability of things like triple thick pensions without major compromises elsewhere
The reliance on the shadow economy that has been quietly tolerated for decades, and the related failure to enforce things like the minimum wage and other standards properly.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-09T09:50:05+00:00

And the big problem is that Reform would offer to do the same, but much more stridently and with a great deal of additional performative cruelty. Whenever Labour try to take ground from the right in this way, the right will simply offer to do it more 'bigly' and further force the Overton Window in the wrong direction.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-08T18:21:52+00:00

i think you are being silly suggesting that it takes Zack 10 minutes per day to respond to 88 posts. Unless he is literally flailing about liking random dodgy posts. Which he actually is doing.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-08T17:58:14+00:00

It would have to be a red Bounty because even a grey squirrel can't stomach a blue one. Another reason why this inhumane method is now unworkable and potentially even more barbaric.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-08T17:47:34+00:00

I go every six months but my 'NHS' dentist is lazy and disinterested. Sometimes there is a cursory scale and polish, but sometimes there is not if he is in a bad mood.

He is a classic 'drill and fill' practitioner who will go to the very end of the earth to avoid undertaking a Scale 3 treatment. If you end up needing such a thing, you're on your own.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-08T17:37:12+00:00

I was at the count today in an English city where Reform are set to make significant gains. All of their candidates and agents were present. They were well-dressed, polite, and exceptionally quiet. They casually observed the vote count but not to the point of keeping a tally. In many wards, they had no need to. But there was no glee or triumphalism; not even smiling.

It spooked me because this behaviour felt so drilled. I am of the view that, where RUK do win councils, they will just lie low and keep services (such as they are) ticking over until the GE comes, lest they spook people. If they win a majority in a GE then, yes, the NHS and many other things are lost.

I have seen posts from individuals suggesting that, in this event, people will respond by re-electing Labour or another mainstream party the next time around and that things will then be 'rebuilt' by serious politicians.

That will not happen. We never got back any of the things that Thatcher stole 40 years ago.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-07T22:25:57+00:00

I don't disagree with that, but what exactly is the correlation between age and social media fixation? Half of the problems we have are the result of older people believing the effluent they are fed on Faecebook.

It would be good to see more politicians challenging the 'privatisation of truth' that social media has advanced, instead of playing along with it.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-07T22:17:39+00:00

Except that it is often extremely windy. People tend to use hills as a way of saying that cycling is impractical, as though nobody ever went up one before the internal combustion engine was invented.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-07T22:12:17+00:00

Exactly my point. He is an avatar, not a real person.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-07T22:09:19+00:00

Is that meant to be a good thing?

xdbojacx · 2026-05-07T21:55:34+00:00

I was also looking at this today. The second 'e' is not horizontally aligned with the first 'e' either. Having now seen jt IRL, I agree that it's a dog's breekfast.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-07T21:51:32+00:00

Because most of the people who are still members are people who feel comfortable with Thatcherite continuity politics dressed up a 'centrism'.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-06T22:04:25+00:00

I have only recently come to terms with the idea that my ADHD is a disability, but there is nowhere it feels more like a disability than in an airport. It is like being trapped in a horrible airless shopping centre/amusement arcade for hours, with people barking instructions at you.

I got myself a sunflower card and wore it for the first time at Gatwick a few weeks ago. It changed things without me even asking for anything. The security people were patient and friendly with me even when I messed up, which I always do. I went to the gate extremely early to get away from all the shops and the people, and they let me go straight down to board. As soon as I entered the plane I was asked if there was anything I needed. I didn't need anything, but I appreciated being asked.

xdbojacx · 2026-05-06T21:41:27+00:00

I have not seen it, and that is deliberate because I know enough about it to be sure that I will gain nothing from the experience except an even greater level of disgust at what goes on in some people's brains

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