Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

@darkufo Funnily enough, I knew the Dinosaur Jr cover before hearing the original, which led me into The Cure's other tracks. I believe they sometimes play the song in that grungy style as they loved it so much. [goes to search youtube]

@oldrawgabbit It's an absolutely bonkers system, so much money and energy wasted on this posturing, rather than real actions that can change people's lives. This is just a set of local elections to choose the *candidate*.

@leotanczt Busy month and a huge set of articles and resources there!

Tories:
"Extremism is damaging British society."
"Wait, not the *good* kind of extremism."
#UKPol

For the nth time in the last decade, Byng Place / Gordon Sq / Tavistock Sq being ripped up. How much is this costing each time? No wonder councils have no money when dodgy contractors and subcontractors are hoovering it all up.

@MAKS23 It's what happens when the government bypasses the law, demolishes democratic principles and builds a climate of fear. Even this Friday we had a lesson in gaslighting from our Prime Minister, just days after his predecessor was chilling out with the fascists and Putin apologists in the USA.

I figured he was going to refer to Liz Truss' appearance at a far-right conference, and her fascist comments, but seems not.

Nope, here comes the "critical race theory" dig, straight after we're "most successful multicultural nation in the world." I notice "patriotism" was the first quality that he claimed for Britain.

Ooh, our Prime Minister is worried about threats to democracy and is going to make a statement. Hopefully going to rescind voter ID requirement, stop his ministers circumventing UK and international law, clamp down on dodgy foreign donors. Right? Right?

@kevinrothrock Same here, that and the endless cycle of communities with barbaric leaders isolating themselves. (Maybe a bit too close to reality?) Am told the last series ends well so may skip to that.

@tferrer Al mismo tiempo, la policía aprovechó la oportunidad para atacar a las mujeres en la vigilia por la victima, y luego el gobierno aprovechó la oportunidad para reprimir las protestas en general.

So it's no wonder we have people going round chopping down Ulez cameras willy nilly. It may well be that the short-term and longer term impact on society and environment is unbalanced, but that's a policy discussion. All they're achieving now is costing me as a tax-payer, and conflating several loosely related measures.

But this is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you cause damage to law and justice.

Lead here is about people disobeying the law... as if the Tories haven't spent the last few years trying to make the law and justice irrelevant. They're quite happy to invoke "The Will Of The People" when it suits their ends, or to bend the interpretation of rules, even if it damages the rule of law and other critial civic institutions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/why-does-rishi-sunak-want-to-clamp-down-on-protests

@Free_Press To quote Jack Nicholson as the Joker, "This town needs an enema."

@Free_Press Except... Mercedes is the name of his Communication director, who was in the audience. "The Independent" used to be a proper news organisation. Yeah Trump is defective and toxic in every way, but jumping on this isn't helpful.