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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/donald-trump-says-he-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-countries-who-dont-pay-bills America’s next president happy for there to be WWIII as long as the US can sit it out, it seems.

Won't be buying the Grimlock or Shockwave as I already have the moulds, but I'm just simultaneously amazed and pleased that the Marvel comics version of Transformers has gotten some official recognition for the first time in ages. Seeing as it's mostly semi-forgotten about in terms of official...

Our scumbag prime minister made a jibe about transgender women in the House of Commons today, while the mother of a young transgender murder victim was watching from the parliamentary gallery. Nice man…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/05/king-charles-diagnosed-with-cancer-buckingham-palace-announces King’s a bit unwell.

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-border-controls-coming-into-effect-today-will-force-up-price-of-food-and-flowers-13060123 As if foodstuffs hadn’t already become significantly more expensive since 2016-20…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kate-osamor-holocaust-gaza-genocide-whip-b2486325.html Another Labour politician “all lives mattering” the Holocaust.

Same. He doesn’t care unless it means incarceration, and if that ever looked likely, I can see his legal minions quickly switching to an Uncle Junior defence. (I mean, probably with some success, given that Trump does seem cognitively impaired.)

January 1.) Legacy United Windblade (£15.61) March 2.) BW reissue Iguanus (£4.99) 3.) Legacy United Energon Megatron (£11.99) 4). Legacy United Silverbolt (£32.95) April 5.) Legacy United Shard (£24.99) 6.) Legacy Evolution Armada Megatron (£23.99) 7.) Legacy United Tasmania Kid (£11.99) 8.)...

Tip of the bloody iceberg, I imagine.

I feel positively ill contemplating that this time next year, Trump is likely to be president-elect. I just don't know how to process that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67796546.amp Probably was inevitable at this point…

OK, I haven’t read too extensively on that issue, but the SGP is a really minor and pretty extreme party (revolutionary socialist, and not like the more mainstream socialist Die Linke, which is represented in federal and state parliaments and several state governments), and the WSWS is an openly...

https://bsky.app/profile/stevepeers.bsky.social/post/3kgsvelasjg2y Hah, I really hope Space Wanker blows his top and pulls Xitter access to Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/17/argentina-president-javier-milei-security-guidelines-protests-currency-devaluation Who’d have guessed that a Libertarian government would be ultra-authoritarian?

jive, sorry to hear that. My gf and friends have had years of verbal jive in the workplace due to being from a certain EU countries. Nothing worse than those sort of ‘colleagues’ who drag nationalism into everything. Wish more people would understand that a person is not their government…

The war could go on years, and most likely will. But it won’t be forever. Still, Ukraine would need at least a decade to join fully even if the war ended today, we’re all aware of that. It’s still an important sign of European solidarity, and a path for Ukraine to rebuild itself long term once...

I’m sure that won’t be completely unenforceable!!!

Ukraine’s officially in the queue for EU membership, along with Moldova and Georgia. (Obv. Ukraine won’t be joining while the current conflict’s ongoing.)

The internet was best when it was mostly the domain of hobbyists and academics. Or really, when it was a balance of the amateurs and the nerds with the more business/corporate side – there was a nice sweet spot when the internet was “useful enough” (online retail existed, and you could get your...