Allan Faulds

Mfer said politicies

(On another of my regular obsessions, it's also a lot easier to develop and cost politicies if your party hasn't run on a shoestring, for example by giving it proper public funding that isn't restricted to parliamentary work. Germany even funds parties enough they can afford their own think tanks!)

HO HO LIFE IN SCOTLAND TEST IS IT

Easy mode

But since we've got a stupid non-PR voting system in which it's possible (very unlikely, imo, but it is possible, a la SNP and Labour in Scotland in 2015) that the Greens completely displace Labour in England, "well you could have a majority so you better have rock-solid plans" is going to come up

*extremely He's On His Personal Obsession Again voice* It's also the case that broadly speaking a party that should exist in the 5-15% support space shouldn't need to have a comprehensive, sums fully adding up prospectus, because they should be working with a 25-40% party that will lead government

I actually have a very, very mild fear of frogs and toads precisely because of an unexpected hop when I was a wean - coming along a wee passage across from my house and a pile of dog poo jumped, and now I'm like PLEASE DON'T JUMP AT ME! Rationally though I am aware they are nice little guys

I did briefly forget that newts existed, despite not forgetting that the *word* newt existed, leading to me texting my pal like "what is this?" because all my brain could supply was "wet lizard"

Bringing a little torch with you so you don't step on the little frogs, toads and newts along the canal: 😊
Spotting a woman running along the canal in the pitch black without any such lights: 😱

No! Danger! Please do not smush the many amphibious friends on the path!

Can't imagine there is anything more disappointing than joining what is obviously a vanity party rooted in (English) Labour Party factionalism when you had only been playing at Scottish Green Party factionalism beforehand, real hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby matchup

How's your first day of your week off work going Allan? Oh I'd say it's fine, the useless web host for BBS have still ignored my ticket to get them to fix an issue, so obviously I'm not spiralling about that, obviously not

Gods I need to try and find something else to focus on, I'm about to burst into tears, this is absolutely awful

Yeah that entire section has collapsed since then but you're doing the lords' work telling us not to worry, real sterling service

"prospect"

Feeling absolutely sick at the prospect of Glasgow Central Station being consumed by fire, are we the most flammable city in the UK? Can we not just catch one break and have some time for the city centre to be patched up before something else is ruined?

It's especially perplexing to me as someone who actually uses that route regularly and think it's a very pleasant stretch, that's made my trips into the Buchanan Galleries/Queen Street station end of the city centre much nicer than when the best bet for years was to take the road instead

It's not even close to the top of his bad behaviour, but Anas Sarwar posting a video of a rain garden next to a Glasgow cycle route and telling people it's symptomatic of the SNP's neglect of the city is definitely an embarrassing and actually quite pathetic little turn in his campaign

Anyway extremely funny that Tommy Sheridan managed to keep Solidarity alive as an ego vehicle for 15 years, then killed it off to join some other roaster's vanity party, only for Alba to die of incompetence anyway before he got to stand for election for it. Lol, lmao even.

Someone is very tired after his three hour walk and is insisting on being cuddled the whole way home

And nothing of value was lost

Wind Turbines: very good imo

Muddly puddles: very good in Momo's opinion

Human beings are so silly, we are a ridiculous species, we get a taste of mild warmth as part of false spring and we start doing things like "wearing a light jacket and not bringing gloves to cycle to your pals" and then freeze half to death on the icy cold return journey, truly, imbeciles

The sorcerer has revealed she doesn't like the Muppets and SPECIFICALLY Miss Piggy and when I say me and @ewnhc.bsky.social are SCANDALISED, so anyway we are doing psychological torture

If the lad in Treasure Planet didn't have that rat-tail adjacent hair dangle, he would 100% fuck

Good evening

The degree to which I have simply been an Aura Monkey this session

You could also argue there's a good cause for it still being "better" for proportionality that a highly disproportionate result still doesn't give a single party majority, vs having a less GI disproportionate outcome but the reason it's disproportionate is an undue majority, imo!

Two Nat 1's

Me: Okay I use Divine Sense, any celestials, fiends, or <pointedly> UNDEAD in here?

DM: Hmmmm, give me an Arcana check as well...

The Artificer: I give the help action

Me: <makes a haunted squawking noise>

The princess to the potentially explosive revenge robot: "What it we removed the king from power instead?"

Me, the Paladin: NON VIOLENTLY! Through a constitutional revolution!

Obligatory Bracken picture

Fool's spring? Last dry day before a week or more of rain? Try eating a giant pretzel for lunch by the river across from an ancient fort on a cycle. You will certainly not regret eating a giant pretzel for lunch by the river across from an ancient fort on a cycle.