Peter Moore
@petejmoore.bsky.social
🇺🇲🇬🇧 - British-American former rail worker and father to an autistic child
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Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
Though on a serious note it does lead into me real 'make everyone hate me' opinion that the Thatcher government was the only government we have had that figured out how to run nationalised industries successfully and then pretended that they hadn't.
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Though on a serious note it does lead into me real 'make everyone hate me' opinion that the Thatcher government was the only government we have had that figured out how to run nationalised industries successfully and then pretended that they hadn't.
(I joke but only tentatively)
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
(I joke but only tentatively)
I mean at this point BR c. 1989 might be an improvement...
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I mean at this point BR c. 1989 might be an improvement...
A certain kind of upper middle class conservative had the experience this summer of realising they were on the same side as white van men and opposed to their City worker children.
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A certain kind of upper middle class conservative had the experience this summer of realising they were on the same side as white van men and opposed to their City worker children.
To be kinda harsh about people who I grew up with, I think they saw it as a really unwelcome assertion of working class-ness in public spaces.
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
To be kinda harsh about people who I grew up with, I think they saw it as a really unwelcome assertion of working class-ness in public spaces.
An interesting development for me as someone who knows a few rump Tories is how the 'tatty flag' summer has shifted them to being a lot more open to my wokeness
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
An interesting development for me as someone who knows a few rump Tories is how the 'tatty flag' summer has shifted them to being a lot more open to my wokeness
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Why is half the country so out of touch with the views of the public?
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Why is half the country so out of touch with the views of the public?
Suspect it also helps that they can both sincerely talk shit about Cuomo.
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Suspect it also helps that they can both sincerely talk shit about Cuomo.
Suspect that, admittedly in large part due to the particular idiocy of our governing class, we're just ahead of the curve on a lot of this stuff rather than pitiable freaks off to the side.
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Suspect that, admittedly in large part due to the particular idiocy of our governing class, we're just ahead of the curve on a lot of this stuff rather than pitiable freaks off to the side.
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Why am I, a white man being told by a British Asian woman I am not racist enough? I feel like I am taking crazy pills
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Why am I, a white man being told by a British Asian woman I am not racist enough? I feel like I am taking crazy pills
So I suspect a year of lag, then four years of it clearly becoming a problem, and then two years of screaming at anyone who notices the problem, before turning on a dime shamelessly.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
So I suspect a year of lag, then four years of it clearly becoming a problem, and then two years of screaming at anyone who notices the problem, before turning on a dime shamelessly.
2032? Something grotesque about doing this *at the same time* as throttling higher education.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
2032? Something grotesque about doing this *at the same time* as throttling higher education.
I know someone in Irish politics who has commented quite happily on the fact that it's mad that over the course of 15 years they've gone from being worried about the NHS poaching HSE staff to actively poaching NHS staff.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I know someone in Irish politics who has commented quite happily on the fact that it's mad that over the course of 15 years they've gone from being worried about the NHS poaching HSE staff to actively poaching NHS staff.
No one should ever forget that Jeremy Corbyn of all people managed to beat this crowd *twice*.
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
No one should ever forget that Jeremy Corbyn of all people managed to beat this crowd *twice*.
Wonder what odds I'd get if I tried to place a bet that Britain will become a country of net emigration by 2032
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Wonder what odds I'd get if I tried to place a bet that Britain will become a country of net emigration by 2032
Hebrew has a commonly used verb of 'to rhinocerise' from this play which I have found darkly hilarious ever since I learned that in my Hebrew classes.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hebrew has a commonly used verb of 'to rhinocerise' from this play which I have found darkly hilarious ever since I learned that in my Hebrew classes.
Yeah, it's hardly tragic cos it's not a huge issue but I've got a chronic health issue that has rumbled on most of my life and the last couple of years my NHS experience got worse than when I was uninsured in the US pre-Obamacare
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Yeah, it's hardly tragic cos it's not a huge issue but I've got a chronic health issue that has rumbled on most of my life and the last couple of years my NHS experience got worse than when I was uninsured in the US pre-Obamacare
There are all sorts of things that the British state offers on paper, offers that 15 years ago were actually real, but which today are at best paid lip service but more realistically are just entirely theoretical
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
There are all sorts of things that the British state offers on paper, offers that 15 years ago were actually real, but which today are at best paid lip service but more realistically are just entirely theoretical
And I know that in Monroe County in western NYS the EI provision would have exceeded that long before he had even turned 2.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And I know that in Monroe County in western NYS the EI provision would have exceeded that long before he had even turned 2.
To start I would say that brutality is not incompatible with functioning services, but as a personal example my 4yo son is autistic and minimally verbal, has been known to services as delayed since he was 19 months but in that time we have had a total of eight hours of any kind of therapy or support
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
To start I would say that brutality is not incompatible with functioning services, but as a personal example my 4yo son is autistic and minimally verbal, has been known to services as delayed since he was 19 months but in that time we have had a total of eight hours of any kind of therapy or support