Celestial M Weasel
@celestialweasel.bsky.social
I shot a man in Waitrose just to watch him die
Vaporise the BBC
Starmer must go
Destroy the Labour party
Criminalise bike theft
Vaporise the BBC
Starmer must go
Destroy the Labour party
Criminalise bike theft
Pinned
I know it is a small thing in the scheme of things, but the thing that grates is that this (gestures expansively) demonstrates that every pious word we have read from Americans about their glorious constitution, free and fearless press, separation of powers, free speech, checks and balances has
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It is notable how even with over a full year of almost the entire UK media trying to whip up support they’re still entirely reliant on freaks who barely leave the house
The Texas / 2nd Amendment flag is a particularly unhinged touch seeing as the protest was in Poole
February 18, 2026 at 11:57 AM
It is notable how even with over a full year of almost the entire UK media trying to whip up support they’re still entirely reliant on freaks who barely leave the house
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My soundings are that what I set out here might actuallu understate the meltdown for Labour in these areas, and that in some areas there might be pretty well nobody to put their name to a Labour candidacy.
There won't of course be much sympathy for all the Labour cllrs in the 30 areas who've been told to plan for one more year of it all and now been told to plan for not one more year of it all, but I suspect lots of them will just not bother to be candidates in May, with vacancies v hard to fill. 1/2
February 18, 2026 at 9:41 AM
My soundings are that what I set out here might actuallu understate the meltdown for Labour in these areas, and that in some areas there might be pretty well nobody to put their name to a Labour candidacy.
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There won't of course be much sympathy for all the Labour cllrs in the 30 areas who've been told to plan for one more year of it all and now been told to plan for not one more year of it all, but I suspect lots of them will just not bother to be candidates in May, with vacancies v hard to fill. 1/2
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 AM
There won't of course be much sympathy for all the Labour cllrs in the 30 areas who've been told to plan for one more year of it all and now been told to plan for not one more year of it all, but I suspect lots of them will just not bother to be candidates in May, with vacancies v hard to fill. 1/2
The BBC will still come through for their man
That'll surely change if he/Reform are the leading opposition in general election? When thhe other parties get a proper Crosby type on board.
February 18, 2026 at 9:41 AM
The BBC will still come through for their man
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Oooo remembers the Hartlepool by-election when Boris started just openly saying "if you vote Tory then we'll give you funding here"
February 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Oooo remembers the Hartlepool by-election when Boris started just openly saying "if you vote Tory then we'll give you funding here"
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I see that "politics" as a cause of ills has made a comeback at the BBC because that's more duly impartial than "things done by the Conservative Party"
This is fine as a snapshot of how things are in the place, but...what do we do?
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics
In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 8:06 AM
I see that "politics" as a cause of ills has made a comeback at the BBC because that's more duly impartial than "things done by the Conservative Party"
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Why do the quote marks make it seem like people are being homophobic to the beavers?
February 18, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Why do the quote marks make it seem like people are being homophobic to the beavers?
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One unanswered question for tech and the world in general is how long Elon's shonky house of bad cards can hold up, across the automatic cars that don't work, the AI that doesn't work and gives Nazi answers, and the rockets that are slightly better I guess
February 18, 2026 at 9:29 AM
One unanswered question for tech and the world in general is how long Elon's shonky house of bad cards can hold up, across the automatic cars that don't work, the AI that doesn't work and gives Nazi answers, and the rockets that are slightly better I guess
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While the new Extremely Fascist Party is of course in itself a bad thing, it is funny that Nigel is going to face the same problem as all the mainstream right parties of "absolute nutters syphoning off his base of absolute nutters"
February 18, 2026 at 9:32 AM
While the new Extremely Fascist Party is of course in itself a bad thing, it is funny that Nigel is going to face the same problem as all the mainstream right parties of "absolute nutters syphoning off his base of absolute nutters"
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the one true case is camel_Snake_Case
February 18, 2026 at 9:21 AM
the one true case is camel_Snake_Case
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£7.50 now......
Apropos of another conversation in my TL re cost of living: fancied making moussaka, went to the shop, nearly FAINTED at the price of not-fancy beef mince: SEVEN ENGLISH POUNDS for a not-that-large pack.
February 18, 2026 at 9:06 AM
£7.50 now......
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Quite a turnaround given that it's less than eighteen months since Mike Tapp and Jonathan Ashworth were flying over to tell the Kamala Harris campaign about "hero voters" with real energy of sit down son, here's how a real natural party of government does it
"It took the conservative Tory Party a decade to end up neck and neck with Reform UK, a far-right party led by known Russian asset Nigel Farage. It took the Starmer-led Labour Party much less time to alienate the many UK voters who want nothing more than a major party to stand up to the fascists"
A Blaring Warning For The Democratic Party From Across The Pond
Popularism has been tried in the UK, and failed.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Quite a turnaround given that it's less than eighteen months since Mike Tapp and Jonathan Ashworth were flying over to tell the Kamala Harris campaign about "hero voters" with real energy of sit down son, here's how a real natural party of government does it
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Katamari ass economy
The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
the AI junk that nobody - including the people making it - have enough real uses or profitable demand for is screwing up all the things that have real uses and decades of profitable demand
p.s. added alt text for the quoted post's screenshot into my alt text
p.s. added alt text for the quoted post's screenshot into my alt text
February 17, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Katamari ass economy
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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Restore UK has seen 7 members of Kent County Council join. All 7 were elected as Reform in 2025, though 6 of the 7 had been expelled by Reform last year
February 17, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Restore UK has seen 7 members of Kent County Council join. All 7 were elected as Reform in 2025, though 6 of the 7 had been expelled by Reform last year
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The right to an infrastructure levy was granted as part of the deal, then withdrawn by central government. The relevant release is here
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Addendum to the West Yorkshire devolution deal
www.gov.uk
February 17, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The right to an infrastructure levy was granted as part of the deal, then withdrawn by central government. The relevant release is here
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Pretty sure Wuthering Heights would be getting a lot better reviews if they’d used my theme tune that I sent them.
Yes, I know I’m just singing Wuthering Heights to the tune of Blankety Blank but it’s catchy as fuck and will let everyone know they’re in for a good time at the flicks.
Yes, I know I’m just singing Wuthering Heights to the tune of Blankety Blank but it’s catchy as fuck and will let everyone know they’re in for a good time at the flicks.
February 17, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Pretty sure Wuthering Heights would be getting a lot better reviews if they’d used my theme tune that I sent them.
Yes, I know I’m just singing Wuthering Heights to the tune of Blankety Blank but it’s catchy as fuck and will let everyone know they’re in for a good time at the flicks.
Yes, I know I’m just singing Wuthering Heights to the tune of Blankety Blank but it’s catchy as fuck and will let everyone know they’re in for a good time at the flicks.
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Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”.
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”.
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
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This the perfect opportunity for me to restate my view that English cities should be able to levy payrolls to bring in revenue from workers who use the city's services but live in other local authorities (as French cities already do)
February 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This the perfect opportunity for me to restate my view that English cities should be able to levy payrolls to bring in revenue from workers who use the city's services but live in other local authorities (as French cities already do)
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I wouldn’t mind it if you could go “well, at least it works!”. If telling people in the rest of England that London didn’t want them to have it stopped local objections to infrastructure, would be all for it. But unfortunately it doesn’t!
February 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I wouldn’t mind it if you could go “well, at least it works!”. If telling people in the rest of England that London didn’t want them to have it stopped local objections to infrastructure, would be all for it. But unfortunately it doesn’t!
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👇 I will keep banging the drum of “the narrative of that this stuff doesn’t happen because of politicians in That London is flatly untrue and also, unhelpful”.
From 1977: A Commons report backed a Pic-Vic underground line in Manchester, but the Conservative-run Greater Manchester Council said they'd scrap it.
As locals will know this essential backbone of the Manchester rail network *was* built and, to this day, the city has no under-investment problem.
As locals will know this essential backbone of the Manchester rail network *was* built and, to this day, the city has no under-investment problem.
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
👇 I will keep banging the drum of “the narrative of that this stuff doesn’t happen because of politicians in That London is flatly untrue and also, unhelpful”.
Bring back the Central Office of Information and scary public information films (predictably it was culled by the Cameron Clegg Osborne government)
It appears that the Government is finally waking up to the harm from misinformation and disinformation, at least for public health and measles vaccination.
February 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Bring back the Central Office of Information and scary public information films (predictably it was culled by the Cameron Clegg Osborne government)