@padrewill.wales
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well, their rhetoric on immigration was the final straw for me β¦ precisely on the basis of the cruelty being the point.
having joined Labour in 1997, I am now a card-carrying Green.
and eggs? how much are they?
Yeah, Iβve gone straight to the circus seal line from βClerksβ.
Donβt know it? Google it.
Credit Karma: βCongratulations! Youβve hit a milestone on your credit card!!β
Me: βo yeah?β
Credit Karma: βyouβve paid it off!!β
Me: βerm. I do that every month.β
:: sigh ::
Honestly, Iβve got a few colleagues Iβd be happy to recommend β¦
Screenshot of an email that must be about 50-75 pages if it were printed that starts out with (in all caps): βATTENTION ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS: THE JUDEO-SATANIC-ZIONIST-TRUMP-MILEKOVSKI-ZYLENSKI-SATANYAHU'S ANTICHRIST WARS OF BOLSHEVIK HOLODOMOR MASSACRES AGAINST INNOCENT CIVILIANS IS NOWβ.
Sometimes the mere fact of being a clergy person means you attract people with β¦ errm β¦ interesting worldviews. This email, which would probably take up 50 to 75 pages, if printed on paper, was cheerfully awaiting me when I awoke this morning. βοΈ
I wonder what this means for his Nobel Peace Prize.
CBS is now bought and paid for, sadly. I can only be glad that Cronkite didnβt live to see the day.
βCurling!β, spits my belovΓ©d. βYipe-yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe!! Itβs just shouting at rocks!β #milancortina2026 #winterolympics
Jar of Original Blue-Emu Super Strength joint and muscle gel. (At least that what they say itβs for.) Contains emu oil. That would appear to be the selling point. I have questions.
Charleston, South Carolina, Publix supermarket. 14th Feb. 2026.
And who knew that emu oil would be a viable commercial product?
honestly, it beggars belief that Epstein is about to bring down the british prime minister, but not the US president.
Tailgated by a Fiat 500 this morning. Now *that* was an experience I wasnβt expecting.
Hell, I didnβt know they could even do 90.
This is precisely what confuses me almost to the level of my soul itself about every other metro system on the entire planet.
no one told you that, technically, you can leave them up till Candlemas? π
and β¦ yβknow β¦ does he really need to keep making them anyway?
yeah. dare say indeed. but only because heβs retiring. easy to do when youβve got nothing to lose. could have stood for some of these jerks to grow spines before announcing their retirements.
iβm not sure anyone should be getting a gold star for saying the thing that any moral person should say.
A series of playlists on an iPhone labelled Country 1, Country 2, etc.
Wife is out to dinner with a friend. Kids moved away. Iβm home alone. So Iβve put my iPhone in karaoke mode and Iβm singing my way through my country playlists.
The Tiny Cat isnβt the least bit sure what she thinks of this development.
I really dislike the jingly winglies. I mean, theyβre better than nothing. but, honestly, just a bit too busy for my tastes.
yeah, i can see thatβs a legit way to go. π
Well. I mean. God, I hope youβre right.
On the Feast of Christβs Baptism, I remembered baptising my own boys. In fact, my first boy was my very first baptism. In both cases, I blubbed like a baby myself. βYou are my belovΓ¨d son in whom I am well pleased.β What daddy wouldnβt want to give his child the kingdom? βοΈ
La humanidad ha logrado algo ΓΊnico: es al mismo tiempo la especie mΓ‘s inteligente y la mΓ‘s estΓΊpida de la Tierra.
As an immigrant of 30 years standing, Labour member from 1997, UK citizen from 2007, 1 am appalled at the sheer brutality of the new "earned settlement" system that Labour is proposing, clearly as a rear-guard reaction to the rise of Reform. I want Labour to be better than a johnny-come-lately to racist and monetarily elitist pandering. I have spent the last 30 years of my life (most of it as an anglican priest) working hard and self-sacrificially for the material and spiritual wellbeing of the British people in general and my local communities in particular. I have voted for Labour for as long as l've been eligible. And, whilst I know that a big tent party can't please all its members all the time, I expect a Labour government to be fundamentally decent.
The "earned" settlement policies you are proposing are cruel for the sake of cruelty, tarted up as forcing people to be of benefit to Britain, with a finger-wagging and condescending attitude that makes a mockery of my gift of well more than half my life to the benefit of this nation. They punish the poor for being poor, they offer asylum seekers a slap in the face when they are at their most vulnerable. They arbitrarily kick a class of people who cannot fight back with votes. And they cede the moral ground of immigration to Reform. And worst of all, they won't work. No Reform voter will vote for Labour enacting Reform-Lite policies, when they have the ability to vote for the real thing instead. You are letting Reform lead you by the nose, for no likely tangible benefit, not even a cynical one.
My observation over 30 years is that when the problem is said to be illegal immigration, every government of every party answers it by kicking the legal immigrants because they're the only ones you can control. (If they could have dealt with illegal migration, they would have done.) So, in a sense, I'm not surprised. But I am disappointed β even hurt β by the sheer brutality that Labour has adopted on this go-round. Obviously, immigration needs to be controlled and orderly. But that's not what "earned" settlement is about. Basically, I expected Labour to be the good guys, and decent, in approaching this topic. And you no longer are. You no longer fight for the morally decent position. And so you no longer fight for me.
I've now joined the Greens because, although I'm not convinced they're the next big thing, I can now sleep at night. What I can't do is continue giving Labour my fiver a month to kick the hell out of the people that I once was and, in my heart, still am. I don't feel welcome in this country anymore. But I don't have to pay you for the privilege.
My resignation letter today to the Labour Party. #notinmyname #labour #labourgovernment #greenparty #greens #green
On the brighter side, we were at the little reception afterwards, and I kept looking at this ordinary looking sort of guy who was there in regular clothes supporting his graduate wife and thinking, βwhere do i know him from?!β Penny dropped. It was Prof. Sir John Curtice.
yeah, after discussing and taking note of various bits during the day, it appears he was just doing the extra year to convert his ordination training from Staggers into a common award BA. which he has now duly received. mystery solved.
In the UK, where Reform wants to usher in ICE and Labour wants to imitate Reform, we should not regret, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, to inform ourselves of who is going to win.
Fascism is here, but there are more antifascists than fascists in the US and the UK.
ΒΏy cuΓ‘l parte no era totalmente la verdad? π€¨
Back in Texas, we used to have a joke to this effect starring Texas A&M students. It was not quite so clean, however.
A female anglican priest with a big smile in colourful clothes and Durham MA academic dress. With Calvin Robinson incidentally mooching about behind her.
Update: heβs graduating, it appears.