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Ffs. Really now, has anybody ever said "omg yay Santa Baby has come on! I welcome this development!"
Or am I simply the world's worst grinch because it makes my teeth grind so much?
B-b-but mah racism!
NPC reaction comic. panel 1: guy 1 says "Starmer didn't pledge to fix immigration". Panel 2: other guy replies "He pledged to fix the problems you blame on immigration". Panel 3: guy 1 is quiet. Panel 4: guy 1 is angry.
...aaaand it's half price at The Works
£15 is still a bit much though isn't it?
StopTheTories.vote : Share and enjoy!
Updated advice. It's a long shot, but it's worth trying to force the Tories into third place. Share with your local friends.
https://stopthetories.vote/Open linkView original on lemmy.worldVoter ID | The Electoral Commission
Please check that you'll be allowed to vote!
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-idOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldCyclist vs Gammon rule
Edit: I don't have any answers. I stole it from https://feddit.uk/c/okmatewanker because I thought it deserved a bigger audience.
Enshitification hits Postman. POSTMAN!
I'm a bit late to the party here because I haven't needed Postman for a while, but how is it okay that now we have to LOG IN TO POSTMAN and send our API requests to them for them to store on their own cloud?
https://community.postman.com/t/collections-in-lightweight-client/53367Open linkView original on lemmy.worldDiscussion: Where are all the dystopias?
Thanks to the glorious shovelling of Classic Who onto BBC IPlayer, I have been enjoying a glut of mid-80s classic Who.
It struck me how many of the CBaker-McCoy era stories are dystopian tales, reflecting the pro-establishment neo-captialist society that the writers felt was being inflicted on them.
Varos, Paradise Towers and Terra Alpha (of Happiness Patrol) are obvious examples; Necros (Revelation of the Daleks) and is a particularly nasty one. Even Trial of a Timelord was, at its heart, a tale of authoritarianism and narrative control.
Modern Britain is clearly in another phase like the 80s. If anything, the authoritarianism is more extreme, and the government's avarice more naked.
So where are the writers' reactions to that nowadays? Whenever the show has recently attempted to address societal issues, it has been either a direct sermon like Orphan 55 or an incompetent muddle like Kerblam.
Where are the dystopias?
Suella Braverman says rough sleeping is ‘lifestyle choice’
Home secretary criticised for tweets vowing to restrict use of tents by homeless people ‘many of them from abroad’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/04/suella-braverman-says-rough-sleeping-is-lifestyle-choiceOpen linkView original on lemmy.world


