As it spreads through the population, the more likely it is to develop into a strain that the current vaccines are ineffective against. It wouldn’t just be the horse paste fuckers that this would effect.

Also it’d make it harder to reach herd immunity in the population and therefore place immunocompromised people in further risk.

You can’t individualism your way out of a pandemic, everyone who undermines attempts at stopping the spread puts everyone’s lives at risk.

• Hannah Spencer (Green Party): 14,980 votes
• Matt Goodwin (Reform UK): 10,578 votes
• Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party): 9,364 vote

Some blairite think tank is probably right now pitching some previously unheard of form of fascism to Kier Starmer in an attempt to claw some of those Reform voters over next time.

It turns out I’m wrong, they can get that fluffy.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but I think those photos might’ve been edited.

I’m not an ornithologist but, according to the RSPB, this is what they look like:

I’m wrong, they do go like that sometimes.

And here’s a picture of one during the summer when they’re less fluffed up:

The way that first one tapers at the bottom, that’s probably a conical flask.

My first guess for the second image is a burette but I’m not too sure.

How would you even pierce the skin like that with a micropipette?

It’s a warning about carelessness when crossing certain patches of desert in Kenshi.

“It’s just one beak-thing, my party can take it.”

Honestly, other than that terrible Eurovision episode, it’s been a good series overall. Some of the best Dr Who in recent years.

I enjoyed it, it’s not exactly a light read considering the subject but it’s well paced and tightly written. Its depiction of war and trauma may be triggering for some people.

Your experience may vary depending on the translation. Most English translations are based on the 1929 translation that made the odd choice of switching German slang and cultural references with rough English equivalents as well as trying to tone down some of the darker parts.

I read the 1993 translation which tries to be a bit more accurate to the original book, but does do the thing with swapping the slang around which comes across a bit odd especially earlier on where it’s layed on a bit thick imho.

I’m currently working through my book backlog.

Last book I read was All Quiet on The Western Front, right now I’m partway through House of Leaves.

I’m really good at palming coins and doing variations of disappearing coin tricks. Suck at any other form of slight-of-hand but I can make a coin-sized object look like it vanished with remarkable ease and smoothness.

Thatcher then Blair’s neoliberal privatisation plus a decade and a half of Tory austerity has completely fucked the country, and that’s the kinda weak position that America will use to enforce its will on us.

Kier Starmer’s Labour party has already shown unwillingness to move away from austerity policies so we’re likely on the same track of decline with or without being in the EU.

I would, but it pissed down, like, an hour after the snow settled and now all the snow’s gone.

If you pause it, it’s much clearer that it’s just been overlayed onto the video.

I disagree, usage of drones hasn’t worked to put down any armed struggle in the US’s puppet states.

Cis is just the opposite of trans. If some people are trans then it follows others are cis.

20 years ago you’d be pissing and whining about the use of heterosexual.

Another unnecessary sequel?

I’m gonna skip this one, let me know when they put Jesus in space, or make him fight Jason Voorhees, or whatever these sortsa franchises do when they run outta ideas.

How’s that for dead internet theory?

Huge problem imho, is that a lot of these people who rattle on about voting for harm reduction candidates go home after voting on election day and then don’t get involved politically until the next election cycle.

In these bourgeois “democracies” political parties are always going to move to court wealthy donors and thus shift right wing. If you lot over in America can’t mobilise enough people out in the street to fight for these causes, to grind your country to a screaming halt if needs be, then the Dems will be where labour is soon. Maybe not this election, but check back in with this comment by the midterms.

I guess there’s some small comfort that they’ll at least pay lip service to trans rights then.

The labour party won an election over here and one of the first things they did was stop access to puberty blockers. During the election I was told by a lot of liberals preaching harm reduction that, as a trans woman, that I had to vote for them 'cos the Tories would be worse.

I’m worried about trans people over on your side of the ocean being in a similar position where the elections are between trans exterminationist and transphobe.