Re-elect Sister Smudge for Secretary-Treasurer
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Uphold Sister Smudge Thought. He/him.
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Thankfully the IPCC's models of future climate action do not lean heavily on something so profoundly absurd to allow for a picture of more gradual fossil fuel decline in the future :) :)
*presses finger to ear*
Uh getting some updates here
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Uh getting some updates here
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Thankfully the IPCC's models of future climate action do not lean heavily on something so profoundly absurd to allow for a picture of more gradual fossil fuel decline in the future :) :)
*presses finger to ear*
Uh getting some updates here
*presses finger to ear*
Uh getting some updates here
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By the above measures, the Johnson/Sunak governments were also amongst the most leftwing in British history
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
By the above measures, the Johnson/Sunak governments were also amongst the most leftwing in British history
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
people do not just decide to have a kid because of a change to universal credit payments, they just don't, this is a phantom problem
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
people do not just decide to have a kid because of a change to universal credit payments, they just don't, this is a phantom problem
(not being able to wait for a book to be available in the library, i mean)
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
(not being able to wait for a book to be available in the library, i mean)
it's a pretty consumerist attitude!
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
it's a pretty consumerist attitude!
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But the idea that the solution is *Suno*, a service which teaches you nothing, provides a legally shaky form of ownership, builds no relationships, fosters no development, has no possibility of reflecting anything at all about you as a musician, is bad. It’s not democratising, it’s fake.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
But the idea that the solution is *Suno*, a service which teaches you nothing, provides a legally shaky form of ownership, builds no relationships, fosters no development, has no possibility of reflecting anything at all about you as a musician, is bad. It’s not democratising, it’s fake.
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Access to instruments is a political issue - schools should be fully equipped to provide all kinds of music education in my opinion, and community studios have been historically important in making recording accessible to all since recording began. These things take effort to sustain.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Access to instruments is a political issue - schools should be fully equipped to provide all kinds of music education in my opinion, and community studios have been historically important in making recording accessible to all since recording began. These things take effort to sustain.
this is because:
a) people are unsurprisingly not engaging in rational economic calculation when deciding to have kids
b) often people have kids then suffer a circumstance that then means they need to claim benefits
c) if you have less money it can actually be more difficult to get back into work
a) people are unsurprisingly not engaging in rational economic calculation when deciding to have kids
b) often people have kids then suffer a circumstance that then means they need to claim benefits
c) if you have less money it can actually be more difficult to get back into work
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
this is because:
a) people are unsurprisingly not engaging in rational economic calculation when deciding to have kids
b) often people have kids then suffer a circumstance that then means they need to claim benefits
c) if you have less money it can actually be more difficult to get back into work
a) people are unsurprisingly not engaging in rational economic calculation when deciding to have kids
b) often people have kids then suffer a circumstance that then means they need to claim benefits
c) if you have less money it can actually be more difficult to get back into work
in the real world it actually had extremely small if any effect on the number of children people were having, and it had no impact on working hours or employment rates:
www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
The two-child limit: a growing hole in the UK's safety net
As UK government policy restricts financial support for parents with more than two children, families in Britain are left deprived.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
in the real world it actually had extremely small if any effect on the number of children people were having, and it had no impact on working hours or employment rates:
www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
half the time when I have tried to check up on what information sharing or engagement processes are in place, they seem to remain ad hoc and easily ignored or skipped. you don't need to be a raging cybernat, or even trust the SNP, to think that's bad!
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
half the time when I have tried to check up on what information sharing or engagement processes are in place, they seem to remain ad hoc and easily ignored or skipped. you don't need to be a raging cybernat, or even trust the SNP, to think that's bad!