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For those with a pixel phone who may be rather more adventurous. Lots of good reasons to do this but with some loss of convenience.
grapheneos.org
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A brilliant resource.
m.youtube.com/@NaomiBrockw...
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Will you be joining reform to save #BREXIT?
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I'm waiting for them to charge extra for disabling their AI gubbins.
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Yeh, I don't think that's the biggest problem with a reform government? It's - you know - their whole reason for being that's disturbing.
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Here's the thing, the #UK is addicted to cheap labour, the cheap labour universal credit tops up. Everybody should be paid a fair wage, wherever they are from & Starmer using their misstatement and low pay to justify his FarageFart is grim.
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Nothing will change until they understand the fight they're in and that the labour coalition will only accommodate so much. Their mission, should they choose to accept it is to tell a positive story about what they're doing, not just a horror story about what the Tories did and reform will do.
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It'll be like Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred all over again. Budget wise. I personally thought the two of the were great.
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He's a freelancer. This started blowing up in April. They've committed to an independent investigation.
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That you tell us about.
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Will you be opening an OnlyFans account?
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Bwahaha ..... Deep state innit & experts no one needs.
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The Stephen Elop of UK politics steps into a bigger blaze.
'The burning platform, upon which the man found himself, caused the man to shift his behaviour, and take a bold and brave step into an uncertain future. He was able to tell his story. Now, we have a great opportunity to do the same.'
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I doubt it. More likely a much simpler reflexive move of 'parking our tanks on the Tory / Reform lawn'.
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Totally agree. The only time I will tolerate an AI narrated book is when I can only get a text version of said book and I use a text to speech engine.
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Usenet was the last time I really enjoyed online. uk.tv.sf.babylom5 I think through a Demon internet dialup pulling from the constantly fluxing newsborg. Gentler times.
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I mean, it's not like people aren't telling them exactly this - for all the good it does.
Labour are in serious danger of being hosted by their own pragmatism.
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I was referring more to the mood than the machinations and manoeuvring, but I take your print.
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That can change very quickly.
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It's going to lose them lots of voters and any chance of winning the next election.
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Cooper's been on a long hike right for years, now with the press pushing & reform pulling she seems intent on ending up somewhere the other side of Genghis Khan.
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That's certainly a view I've sympathy for. Labour seem intent on pursuing an increasingly right aligned agenda antithetical to their traditional coalition.
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It's not just the left they're alternating, it's the centre also.
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That's disingenuous at best.
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How on earth do they justify that?
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Bessent says that little people who are sad about not having enough food should just have it explained to them that they will be better for starving.
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Freedom from & freedom to are quite the problem for work in philosophy of mind when thinking about intention & action. Especially if you're trying to locate that in some kind of rational / physicalist account. Norman Malcolm's thoughts on mechanism are likely helpful.
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It's a rebranding exercise, essentially. Same 'ol Tories, just unfettered by the last vestiges of the post war wets - & under newer more mendacious management.
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Labour can never be enough for Reform voters & they should stop trying.
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They didn't, don't & most won't - ever.
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BREXIT was always a post colonial nationalist take on how to do politics by exceptionalist English thinkers fuelled by an uncritical 19th century view of the empire as a civilising force for good. Failure was always guaranteed with these beliefs / assumptions in place.
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Imagine how he'll feel when he finds out 'immigrants' were never the real problem, there'll still be no money & the party he brings into government wrecks what's left of public service & descends into authoritarian tyrany, but the payback is there'll be a long list of groups he can hate and blame.
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This maybe needs to be seen is The Tory party defecting to reform in what might be a successful bid to escape the consequences of being the Tory party. However outrageous that sounds. The electorate is a fickle creature.
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That's not the lesson their master strategist will draw sadly.
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Make
All
Food
Irresistible
Again
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bsky.app/profile/clar...
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No worries. There's a philosopher you might like. WVO Quine. 'With text there is no fact of the matter' or something like that.
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No they're not - that reasoning is half way to excusing their choices.
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Quite right. Nationalism is going to be the really hard part re the EU renewing the case for itself. But the UK has a harder case to make. Even when it was positive about the EU, it wasn't. I'm sure many in the EU think the UK is better out urinating on its own feet.
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And from the EU's perspective what are they to do with a UK that may very well walk into a reform or reform light government.
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