mojumi.bsky.social
Mojumi are two cats - Mojo and Sumi. I'm a calligrapher, liberal, egalitarian, and I think it's good to talk. If we had bacon, we could have bacon and eggs, if we had eggs. You can see my calligraphy at https://www.instagram.com/cancelleresca/
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Granted, the sign is ambiguous, but it seems clear the cheese is the one who was bored. I think you were supposed to whip out the ukulele and give them a little song. Express your appreciation of cheese through the medium of interpretative dance. Or maybe tell them a funny story.
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Agree on not govt appointees, but it’s difficult to find truly independent leaders. Independent appointments commission, like judges? Also recognise that the BBC’s public service role extends beyond news and current affairs.
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BY which you mean hiring and firing, and that's dangerous.. The Tories installing loyalists has been disastrous. Govt should have no say in appointments. IF you want to talk about how it's run - the DG should only ever be someone with proper editorial experience, not a commercial appointment.
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It's pretty clear that the policeman aims at her directly. He should be identifiable.
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If their presence in an establishment deters other customers from bringing their business, yes. I wouldn't eat in a restaurant if I saw a thug and his cronies. Nothing to do with what he believes - it's the potential for unpleasantness.
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Time for the govt to begin a robust discussion of how the BBC is funded, I feel. If they are hell bent on distorting the news agenda, perhaps a significant part of the licence fee should be diverted to ITN, to contribute to their ITV and C4 news operations.
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You're right, but I don't think Trump appreciates that. As @themysteryinc.bsky.social has pointed out, he just wants an excuse to impose martial law. What are Trump's promises to his crowd, beyond an appeal to the TikTok mentality? Trouble is, they ruin lives.
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I note, Mick, that genial personality, Television's Stephen Mangan, has been silent. Will he replace Steve Rosenberg as the BBC's Moscow correspondent? Is Fiona Bruce's seat on #bbcqt secure? Will he launch a podcast with Romesh, to rival Campbell/Stewart, in which they agree disagreeably?
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I think we're all quibbling about definitions at this point. I think you're right that what he wants is to impose martial law. It might even be for as trivial a reason as making himself feel powerful. But when a goat imposes martial law on its own citizens, i'd argue it is already at war.
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If socialism means anything, it means being aware of the people around us in the society that Thatcher sneered at. In a sense, I think the three minute chat with a shopkeeper you see regularly is as important to a caring society than re-nationalising the railways.
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All of these areas are people's jobs. Some of them provide tiny morsels of contact for the isolated. I don't want to sound like a Luddite, but we are surrounded by weapons of mass distraction - just like we are right now - which mean all those trivial interactions disappear. MTF
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This is territory that should be colonised by the left. Local branch closures, the chatbots who make reaching fault support impossible, the death of the high street, or the manned checkout counter - you don't have to want to return to the 50s to want human contact in an increasingly isolated world.
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When a govt meets its citizens' protest by putting troops in full combat gear on the streets, debating whether it is civil war is like arguing about how many angels dance on the head of a pin. Trump is already at war in his head, and his admin revel in allowing him to persist.
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I'm not looking for anything, beyond stopping a pompous lecture about what a civil war looks like. You are, of course, right that it won't look like the ACW2, but that's hardly a devastating political insight.
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I think we could also benefit from a reminder that there are people in our Parliament who revel in the same violence of the mind, and wish they could use the same tactics on our shores. If our media doesn't stop treating them as a vital part of our national conversation, we won't be far behind.
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And you don't think that's a civil war? Having lived through the troubles, I promise you, it isn't what you call it that's the point. To quote Attlee, “A period of silence on your part would be welcome”.
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No, not all and it's true Clinton and George Mitchell (among others) played a significant role in the Peace Process.
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Good thing you don't pretend. Like most Americans you are ignorant of anything outside your country. There are still six countries of Ireland under British rule. Keep your ignorant nose out of our affairs.
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Trump wants a civil war, doesn’t he?
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Your president wants a civil war.
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Can a film be perfect if there isn’t a bit you have to close your eyes for?🤔🧐
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He wants a civil war, doesn’t he?
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He wants a civil war, doesn’t he?
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Never mind where it places her on the political spectrum - we know. But the ECHR is a poor choice for the hill on which to die.
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We have a 9 month old juvenile delinquent who knows the cardboard box the croissants come in, has figured out how to open it, and that access is easier if it can be pushed on to the kitchen floor.
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Do you mean that they shouldn't nationalise it?
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And yet the media persistently allow them to set the agenda. Nobody cares - for example - about a burqa ban, but there'll be a confected question of #bbcqt asking if "the panel thinks" we should have ban. Just so they can get Mr Toad, or Tice on.
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I agree - he should know better. But at least he's been working with her. I don't work with any kids who labour with a condition, after all. My point is-he misused a word, and he's a 5' piece on the news. Pochin is deliberately generated hate, and the story is the Reform chair resigning.
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And yes, #RosAtkins is terrific.
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I think "heated debates" have a place. It's when the potential for heated debate is what drives a news agenda, not level-headed assessment of the importance of a story, that is the danger. EG nobody is bothered about a burqa ban, but you can bet that Tice/Farage/Pochin will be on #bbcqt before long.
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Has anybody investigated who they ACTUALLY are? Are they full time ICE employees, or deputised from Trump's Pardoned Private Militia?
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I have to be honest and say that while I don't like her, I think the alternative on Sky News is worse. As a matter of interest, who - apart from the excellent Ms Derbyshire - would you replace her with? (I'd revisit what the show is meant to be)
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What Borthwick said was bad, but it was born out of ignorance. #Pochin's burqa question in #PMQs was born of her odious racism, and I don't see her being dragged to the stocks. He can learn and amend his behaviour. She won't because she's racist scum.
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Known in other jurisdictions as The Ways and Means Act: "If it is desirable that a party be got, then there is ways and means by which he can be got."
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A principle which, it is perhaps worth saying, appears to have been modified by the US Supreme Court. So good luck with that. Maybe you should have nailed the fucker when you had the chance, instead of pissing around with committees, and trying to "heal the nation."
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Fnarf, fnarf...
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If he gets off, fun's a-coming.
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Is this a previously undiscovered verse from Dolly Parton's lovely The Grass is Blue?
"There's snow in the tropics
There's ice on the sun
It's hot in the Arctic
And crying is fun
And I'm happy now
And I'm glad we're through
And the sky is green
And the grass is blue"
(Great album btw)
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Mick, it is clear from the ladette in the denim skirt that Reform are a very inclusive party. Hard Lard, from the chip shop, says that a brief liaison ended abruptly when under the denim he found "Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse" as the Bard said. And not in a good way.
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Why the party who came in third needs continued news coverage to justify appearances on Question Time.
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Greatest post on all of social media this week.
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That's what you might call an authentic tribute.👏