[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

There's so much in Infinite Jest, but I think my favourite would be "Blood Sister: One Tough Nun".

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But I thought LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder?!

Actually I never got that. WINE isn't an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

eboy:

egirl:

superstar DJ: HERE WE GO!

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

Vance faced an onslaught of bad press, as many commentators—including Harris’ step-daughter, Taylor Swift fans, Democratic officials, actor Jennifer Aniston, and several conservative women pundits—decried his comment.

My reading comprehension must be pretty bad because for a second it sounded like Taylor Swift was Kamala Harris' step daughter.

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't get me wrong I like those policies, and hope Labour win, but the messaging for the past few years has been very alienating to anyone on the left. When Labour frontbenchers are going out and calling Margaret Thatcher a "visionary leader", or Wes Streeting blaming "middle-class lefties" for opposing NHS privatisation then it makes you think "maybe they're not the party I was hoping they were". These aren't gaffes, they're part of a coordinated strategy to target more naturally right-wing voters. Because they don't think the left have anywhere to go (and they're right, but they might stay home).

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

In a leaked video published by The Times, students can be seen dancing and laughing to the song before one member spots the camera and says: “Don’t film!”

"You're not supposed to say that Darrell, you know you're not supposed to say that"

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 12 points 3 months ago

Is it that controversial? Kids run around naked all the time. The idea of this bike ride is that people can be naked just for the hell of it, without being sexually objectified. Banning kids from it would fly in the face of that.

When that 10-year-old grows up I imagine they'll be quite proud that they made a bunch of stuffy town councillors bust a blood vessel just by riding a bike around naked.

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We've been spending much more per capita in the NHS in recent years than we used to. Part of that is the aging population and Covid, but a big part is probably the increase in privatisation. Paying agency workers to fill up chronic staffing shortages etc

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 14 points 4 months ago

I think part of it is not wanting to be mugged off. Even though it doesn't materially affect you, having someone come in everyday and nick stuff in front of you would probably wear you down. No excuse for violence of course but I can see how it comes to this.

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago

Just a reminder of who owns this publication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie

This doesn't absolve Brexit, and I feel Liz Truss is a very convenient scapegoat for a Tory party who has been in power for 13 years.

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

I don't understand the story with this guy. Apparently he was arrested on January 4th, and had been an FBI informant for years: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader-idUSKBN29W1PE

How is he now getting a 33 year long sentence if we was an informant?

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I've been loving the Private Eye podcast, but they only seem to do about one episode a month. I sometimes listen to The Rest Is Politics but I find it quite hard not to hate Alastair Campbell and Rory Stuart.

Any other good UK politics podcasts out there?

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