petejmoore.bsky.social
🇺🇲🇬🇧 - Deepest, greenest Surrey, former rail worker and one time US pollster.
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FWIW my bird loving 1yo saw this on my phone and now has been returning to point at my pocket demanding more BIRB so I have shown her your photo about six times now. It really struck a chord in terms of the bird energy that she seeks from the world.
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I would side with not extraditing people to face the death penalty or clearly unfair trials, but it seems so sort of globally unfair to say that Britain will only help states protect their citizens if their citizens are rich.
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Among the many issues around this I feel it is bad if human rights laws are used to deny extradition to countries that have the rule of law but which are poorer (like Brazil), essentially creating tiers of countries based on income.
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Broadly though, I am someone who breaks and/or loses my phone on an expensively regular basis and the week or so that I go without it is often noticeably more relaxing and nicer for me.
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Gonna go all old man crank here and say that I think screens for kids were much more benign when what they had to watch was some old WW2 movie, Fraser, or One Man and His Dog.
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Real question: did he ever end up apologising for mispronouncing something?
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I'm taking this advice and going a step further and buying the AC. I've fought a valiant rearguard action against my increasingly irate American wife but I can't hold on any longer.
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So point very much taken and I take back my hyperbole! I'll stick to a much more narrow point: It is noteworthy that the most internationally prominent of the cultural figures who tried to open up a space to exist *within* Israeli society without accepting this as conditional ended up leaving.
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Doesn't help that they're still in denial about the fact their project only worked because of this graph:
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Like I don't think it's a surprise that these people - Mira Awad, Sayed Kashua - have all emigrated now. They actually tried to live up to the unfair demands to be 'accepted' and it turns out they weren't just unfair but also bullshit.
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A globally underrated turning point was that the late-00s push to include more "Israeli Arabs" in Israeli culture resulted in an ultimately successful pushback from the Israeli right, and a domestic surrendering of the pretence to have equal citizenship.
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Remember that Grant looked like an animated sack of oatmeal.
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NPR looking at the BBC alienating supporters to please people who will never like them thinking "we can do that much, much faster"
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This is an army that is deeply reluctant to "perform" on a domestic stage and to the extent that it will, it will be dragged into it like trying to manhandle someone who has figured out how to make themselves heavy by going limp.
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It tickles me to no end that this is what the Americans here ended up calling it.
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Ah man this sort of thing is so bleak and sad.
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Cos even further down the scale it isn't just career driven 30yos hitting a frustrating wall, it's also people who had too much fun at 18 hitting 26 and wanting to get a noticeably better job
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It drives me mental that every time someone talks about an agile skills economy they follow it up with "make 12yos learn to code" and not "make adult education easy and good"
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Underrated that if they get away with this and it's absorbed somehow as constitutional that it is the end of American federalism.
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This is not to say this is bad, or that people should pick up guns, but it is to say that some effort should be going into preparing for - and practicing for! - mass, obstructive protests for whenever a Democratic Senator is hauled off to jail.
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Not to be *too* harsh but I think an awful lot of Americans have a very hard time viewing street politics as even having anything between, you know, Birmingham and the Rodney King riots.
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The real canary down the coal mine was that at around the exact time that Olmert was doing these things you started to hear these stories about how it became a career ender for IDF officers to take any enforcement steps against settlers, and how the settlers informally vetted new appointments
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Even then, though, I didn't worry enough, I shared the lazy assumption of many Israeli leftists that the security state as shitty as it was would continue to always stand apart from the settlers and force whatever PM came into office to focus on the interests of the state itself.
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Because I am old and I was in that world around that time, working for a Jewish peace group in Jerusalem, and I remember being very worried that everyone was very blasé about the potential for the Israeli right to radicalise very quickly and thoroughly.
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I don't really want to pass judgement on whether or not the PA should have accepted Olmert's terms, or something much like them 18 years ago, but it was obvious at the time that he would be the last of a particular generation of Israeli politicians who took peace and its details seriously.
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(I would also go super pessimistic and note that the only experienced combat veterans on the island of Ireland are those men now in their 30s and 40s who fought in Britain's Middle Eastern wars in the 00s and 10s and it is unlikely these guys aren't pretty committed to the UK as an identity)
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This is, to their enormous credit, something prompting a lot of the SF olive branches to unionist identity you've seen in recent years but if history is any guide decades of good faith can be overturned by accidents or circumstance.
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To offer the pessimistic case something both states appreciate is that there is the potential for enormous chaos being caused by loyalists who refuse to accept the results of any border poll.
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Shout out here to my recent enjoyment hearing @duncanweldon.bsky.social repeatedly say Genghis Khan
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Think an underrated part of this is that as art in general has become ever more the preserve of those with wealth consciously left-wing artists are disproportionately likely to be annoying and lack self-awareness.
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Policing is a great example, people either have a sense of the police being on top of stuff or they don't, they don't grade it on a fine scale noticing slightly better attendance rates for burglaries.
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My first serious girlfriend was an officer in the Luftwaffe and she eagerly looked forward to when she could switch her summer tyres to winter tyres, and vice versa.
This was a frequent topic of conversation at gatherings.
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Once stayed at a German owned Airbnb in Galway and they had a big notice asking non-Irish people to take their recycling back home if they drove here due to the "unecological recycling system in Ireland"