cazdoespolitics.bsky.social
PhD International Relations student, studying Sino-Russian relations in Africa. Gamer, politics nerd, never Tory, Remainer
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Trying to find a likeable and trustworthy Tory feels like an oxymoron.
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Were they running any especially critical news stories?
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It's a valid point.
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Oh she is quite the special person isn't she?
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I like 3
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Why is it that you never see the typo until after you hit post?
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Rewriting history is political policy in Russia. If you want to know how far that policy goes (very far indeed), this ook is informative:
www.amazon.co.uk/Putins-Russi...
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She's a fantasist.
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It's an article in search of a problem. Honestly, Kelvin might be confusing the first time you use it, but you just find the colour temperature you like then buy bulbs with that.
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Whatsapp is so dominant that I suspect that a change would essentially cut you off from all your contacts. But other Meta platforms? Yes, I am thinking about it.
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Given that benefits 'debt' is often incurred because of mistakes made at the DWP end or by difficulties with the sheer complexity of the system, AND that the level of benefits we pay is so low that basic living costs are not fully covered, I think it could catch many people.
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Because a benefits system that is underpinned with the ethos of getting people into work should be policed by measures that potentially prevent people from being able to work???
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Interesting choice.
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Treat it like the early days of Threads, at this point its algorythm training and people lurking and getting a feel for the place.
Its much like when people knew they wanted to leave Twitter, but hadnt quite made the jump.
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We need a much more coherent public discussion about this, possibly with other comparable countries as a case study to show how clean streets, hospitals that work, pensioners who can afford to heat their homes and good schools come from higher taxes.
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So fragile is their self-esteem that to acknowledge the efforts of ordinary people is a threat to their contrived 'brilliance', and so they attack the very people they need to maintain their businesses.
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Not to mention that having made universities dependent on the market, cutting out foreign participants in that market to serve some white nationalist fantasy of self-sufficiency was always going to lead here.
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I'm sure the staff at Universal Credit and Job Centre Plus are ready and willing to help. They just need to try harder. Are they actively searching for 37 hours a week? 🤭
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I'm good thanks, you?
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I paid. I use it every day, so it seems reasonable
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A warm house....
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Awful
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CEASE AND DESIST! 😂😂😂
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Appalling.
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Totally normal. (Also autistic.)
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I think this place is very much like Threads was when people started there. Lots of confusion, lots of weird stuff on the timelines because the algo has no idea who you are, lots of 'interaction here is crap'. It gets better when you use it. 🤷♀️
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That's about where I fall too.
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I hope you enjoy it. I certainly did.
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Slight aside, but I remember when starting to study international relations coming across a book called 'Theories of International Politics and Zombies'. It applied said theories to government responses to a zombie apocalypse. Epic stuff. www.amazon.co.uk/Theories-Int...
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Hello from Glasgow
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IRC, I remember those days.
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It is possible, but being entrenched in the present makes it difficult to imagine any other way of being. Until we make changes, I expect more extreme actors and ideas to emerge as the symptom of the underlying problem.
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are the modern whipping boys but the disease is older is deeply entrenched.
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There is a real problem with people feeling disconnected from society, devoid of purpose and hope. IMO it comes down to extreme inequality, and the loss of the feeling that we can improve our lives by working hard.
Without hope, the next step is to find someone to blame. The EU, women & migrants
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Sadly, he is a classic case of someone that believes his own press. I actually do think he is at least partly serious, though money making underlies everything he does and milking the credulous is his business model.
But we should not dismiss him. I remember many of us dismissing Farage...
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Same. My zero engagement policy is the result of years of hard learned experience of the futility of talking to people who post in bad faith.
There are some people who are willing to fully engage, but they are the minority. Most just like to be vile for kicks, and are not worth my time.
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To summarise this week's health news, milk is good for the bowel (but dairy is bad for cholesterol which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke), and red wine is good for the heart but bad for cancer as alcohol is carginogenic...
So do we drink both or neither? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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There are, but the mute for all and block functions and a zero engagement policy means we have the power to stop them impinging on our experience.
Simply put, if you engage with someone toxic, even to rebut them, the algorithm assumes you want more like this.
I don't engage, so I don't see much.
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If there was any doubt, the manifesto confirms it.
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Go for it.
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Wow. I love astrophotography.
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Lots of us already have just in case accounts.
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Does said journalist also know the lottery numbers?