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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 42m

*elections not seats obviously

Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 44m

(In fact checking this joke I learned the bizarre fact that Labour has won exactly half the seats in *three of the six* Senedd seats)

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 45m

Welsh Labour has literally never had a Senedd majority so clearly it’s not responsible for the state of the Welsh NHS or schools, thanks Tom!

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 7h

God bless Pedro but it really does help that all his opponents are Road Dahl villains

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 7h

He may have been a mass murdering dictator but at least the economy was good *gets note* no hang on, correction

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 7h

Could be worse, in Spain The Argument is about um, Franco

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 7h

What’s the Irish equivalent of, not just Thatcher, how intensely Canadians argue about Pierre Trudeau or Australian about Gough Whitlam or John Howard

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 7h

Modern Irish politics (Dev aside) does from the outside seem to relatively few “half the country still misses them half think they ruined the place” Taoiseachs?

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 19h

Joseph Ratzinger turned 72 a few weeks after the Matrix came out

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Benedict XVI “overdosed on red pills”?
Peter, what the fuck are you talking about.

Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21h

The obvious way it scales is they’re all in one building so you only need uber tight security for one building (the UK actually does this for official residences, several cabinet ministers are given residences in the same four-story building), which would be extremely funny

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21h

Put it this way, India is so big that the 122 major ones could have 10 million speakers each (over twice as many as Norwegian) and there’d be an entire Brazil’s worth of people left over

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I do want to know what makes normal tampons not vegan Tbf

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

In practice all this has actually meant is any Americans have to live on the east coast but I can see it being an issue

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

That might honestly be part of it (source: I work for a company that has a work where you want in the world policy *as long as you’re within 5 hours of London*)

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of the day the world decided South Africa had done enough when Nelson Mandela said they’d done enough and the world will decide Israel has done enough when Marwan Barghouti says they have

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think the various organisations who implemented South Africa boycotts all had defined lists of simple demands and a clear idea in their heads on the shape of a new South African constitution

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

I think
A) I agree with you
B) An SA-style long term boycott until Isreal withdraws to the 67 borders would be entirely legitimate if ppl wanted to do that
C) this kind of decentralised spontaneous civil society action is never going to be coherent and it’s a but unrealistic to expect otherwise

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I mean about English being fairly culture neutral, Korean is like if you literally couldn’t form a sentence without understanding the signifiers of the UK class system

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

Oh English is far too decentralised for spelling reform lmao. The relevant comparator is Spanish which tried it and gave up when the peninsular and Latam couldn’t agree

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump did conduct a bold experiment in this by single-handedly annoying the canadians into voting liberal

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

Or rather list him as his own successor but keep the clock going on time in office which is an amazingly sarcastic compromise

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

Both English and French Wikipedia have decided to just not acknowledge his resignation

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

Ftr I think old little sounds weird but I am having flashbacks to an American on here who lives in NL complaining Dutch people don’t know what “quite” means and they were just being taught the British use of the word

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

I agree but I would say that I’m an Anglo.

I do English has relatively little of Anglo culture hardcoded into it (eg no t/v distinction let alone Japanese honorifics mean you can express your own culture’s politeness standards out the box) which likely helps

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 1d

I do wonder whether if a famously difficult to learn language (Japanese?) has had all the advantages the UK and US’ consecutive global hegemony gave English it would have become as universal

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