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Monday, July 7th, 2025 02:32 pm
Note to self, going for a bike ride to test the new turn signals doesn't work if the turn signals are still off the bike and charging.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 04:55 pm
There's briefing from "Supporters of Reeves" that the "personal issue" she suffered from today was being berated by the Speaker of the House. Reeves has had to be reminded at times that ministerial questions are not times to make speeches, and the Speaker has repeatedly had to cut her off in mid-ramble in order to move things on. This isn't like PMQs where the questions can be a surprise, Ministerial Questions are known three days in advance, and Reeve is expected to have a briefing paper in front of her to answer from, and anything that isn't on that paper that comes up in a follow up question should be referred to "The department will give a response in writing".
On one hand I feel for her, since she's obviously under a lot of stress and not in a popular position right now. No one likes getting a talking to from their supervisor when you're already worried about getting fired. But it's also a position of her own making.
On one hand I feel for her, since she's obviously under a lot of stress and not in a popular position right now. No one likes getting a talking to from their supervisor when you're already worried about getting fired. But it's also a position of her own making.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 09:48 pm
My read on today in Parliament.
Not as bad as the Truss lobby revolt, but pretty damn bad.
Last minute promises to amend the bill in committee to the satisfaction of the middle of the party, with dire consequences to be expected if they bring it back to the house without them.
Kendall got to save face by having some kind of reform agreed to.
Reeves is now left holding the bag of her fiscal rules being shattered unless she raises taxes.
McFadden's, and by extension the Cabinet Office's authority in tatters.
Starmer limps away having made firm enemies of enough MPs to start a leadership contest.
Not as bad as the Truss lobby revolt, but pretty damn bad.
Last minute promises to amend the bill in committee to the satisfaction of the middle of the party, with dire consequences to be expected if they bring it back to the house without them.
Kendall got to save face by having some kind of reform agreed to.
Reeves is now left holding the bag of her fiscal rules being shattered unless she raises taxes.
McFadden's, and by extension the Cabinet Office's authority in tatters.
Starmer limps away having made firm enemies of enough MPs to start a leadership contest.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 02:37 am
This is just going to be a short post but it's been bugging me and it's not worth actually posting on Twitter since getting into any kind of disagreement on Twitter is stupid lol. But anyway there's a tendency in fandoms for things to lean a lot towards one intepretation of a character situation (Spamton is a poor little meowmeow) then whip to the other extreme as a backlash to the first trend (Spamton is Satan incarnate). Another one I've seen is Sans being devastated by Papyrus dying turning into Sans making flippant jokes about how he doesn't care about his death at all. The overcorrection doesn't fix anything and isn't any more accurate, it's just too far in the other direction to feel superior to the people from the first one. It's annoying! Flattening someone into black isn't any better than flattening them into white, except at least white feels less vindictive.
I think there's also an element of defensiveness for going to black-flattening to try and ward off criticism of being "too soft" on characters ahead of time by painting them as much worse than they are. I'm not one of those dumb fans who ignores their faults! I'm OBJECTIVE!
Anyway as you can probably guess this is about Spamton, who I've mostly seen on the demonized side lately (seen him called the most irredeemable, vicious, evil, unspeakably cruel character in the entire game) particularly given what happened in Chapter 3 of Deltarune. Someone posted a list of his crimes from the Villain Wiki as a kind of "gotcha" about what a bad person he is and half of these aren't accurate or don't even apply to him. >:| If you want to accuse him of crimes at least accuse him of ones he actually did! It bothers me so much I'm just going to go through them here because doing it on Twitter would just start pointless arguing that'd be an even bigger waste of time.
( Overstatement is the name of the game )
The way people talk about Snowgrave lately you'd think Spamton shows up right when you get Noelle, puts a gun in her hands, and tells you to start blasting. :/
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I think there's also an element of defensiveness for going to black-flattening to try and ward off criticism of being "too soft" on characters ahead of time by painting them as much worse than they are. I'm not one of those dumb fans who ignores their faults! I'm OBJECTIVE!
Anyway as you can probably guess this is about Spamton, who I've mostly seen on the demonized side lately (seen him called the most irredeemable, vicious, evil, unspeakably cruel character in the entire game) particularly given what happened in Chapter 3 of Deltarune. Someone posted a list of his crimes from the Villain Wiki as a kind of "gotcha" about what a bad person he is and half of these aren't accurate or don't even apply to him. >:| If you want to accuse him of crimes at least accuse him of ones he actually did! It bothers me so much I'm just going to go through them here because doing it on Twitter would just start pointless arguing that'd be an even bigger waste of time.
( Overstatement is the name of the game )
The way people talk about Snowgrave lately you'd think Spamton shows up right when you get Noelle, puts a gun in her hands, and tells you to start blasting. :/
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Monday, June 30th, 2025 03:18 pm
We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Sunday, June 29th, 2025 09:53 pm
I did not order these warms, please take them back.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 12:31 pm
108 Labour MPs, at last count, have co-sponsored the wrecking amendment to the Government's Welfare Bill that would introduce massive disability support cuts. Not only would this mean that the Government would have to seek support from the Opposition to get it passed, it's also quite a bit above the 81 MPs needed to initiate a leadership challenge. Wise heads would consider dropping the bill, and having a cabinet reshuffle to bring the party back on board. But Starmer still appears to be politically paralysed by the No.10 bubble, and doesn't look like he'll change course. If he does seek support from the Opposition to get the disability cuts through, I think a leadership challenge becomes a certainty.