JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.scot

I talk about Wales-related things at https://toot.wales/@JdeBP, London-related things at https://mastodon.london/@JdeBP, and other stuff at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP.

For the command-line and system tools, specifically, see https://tty0.social/@JdeBP.

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JdeBP, to UKpolitics

As I was saying a couple of days ago, if the pattern holds of running against the incumbent PM, at the general election @CountBinface will be running in the Richmond and Northallerton constituency.

I wonder what policies the Count can come up with for North Yorkshire. Making the two National Parks join up at Great Langton, perhaps? (-:

#UKPolitics
#UKGeneralElection #Yorkshire

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest:

John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors (and is recommending bans on protests against both those industries)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest

JdeBP,

@cstross

I wonder who filed the story first.

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/05/16/john-woodcock-jobs/

JdeBP, to humanrights

"The [European] Convention [on Human Rights] was drafted [...] in the aftermath of the horror of the Second World War, but over 70 years ago. And it's now clearly been overtaken by events"
— Conservative and Unionist Party MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, House of Commons, 2024-05-14

JdeBP,

People of and :

Your Member of Parliament yesterday represented you by stating that the , guaranteeing freedom from slavery and torture, the rights to life and fair trials, so horrifically violated during WW2 and fought for by many, are now out of date and should be renegotiated by the United Kingdom in favour of more limited .

Is this your view?

Are you willing to espouse this view aloud in, say, Wickford Memorial Park?

JdeBP, to UKpolitics

is often shallow, and one drinking game that can be played is waiting to see how far into the video we get until there is an utterly boneheaded factual, proofreading, or captioning error.

But this video, in spite of its faults, does bring home the sheer scale of the resignations, withdrawals of the whip, suspensions, and defections that have happened to the Conservative and Unionist Party in this Parliament.

https://youtu.be/bq0akC4kY3I

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Question for election psephologists: is Elpicke likely to win re-election in her own constituency as a Labour candidate?

(Genuine Q, I have no idea how popular/unpopular she is locally.)

JdeBP,

@emmatonkin @rzeta0 @cstross

Phil Moorehouse's argument is that the LCP is thinking 2 moves ahead here. It's not about this defector. It's about leaving the door open for at least one much more valuable defector to come.

The committee that made the decision has stronger stomachs than some, certainly. But my question is how come Reform UK Ltd either wasn't approached, or turned her away? This has to be a kick in the teeth for them.

https://youtu.be/QSDSoE6CTDM

JdeBP, to UKpolitics

Thinking about it:

The House of Lords, even after all of the reforms of hereditary peerages, the Lord Chancellor, the Supreme Court, and whatnot, since the turn of the century, still has to be one of the places in the U.K. that is by definition a bastion of Toryism.

If the House of Lords opposes one, can one in fact reasonably claim to be a ?

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

The worst thing about working on another Laundry novel is that I seem to spend 75% of my working time paging through previous years' books trying to figure out precisely which events happened in what sequence and to whom, and another 50% of my time trying to find obscure minor characters I can re-use in a more advanced role, and finally 10% of my time actually writing.

JdeBP,

@cstross

So what do you do with the other 45%?

adrianfry, to conservative
@adrianfry@mastodon.scot avatar

I've found it quite distressing to hear echo Enoch Powell's 1968 "rivers of blood" speech. That kind of rhetoric has no place in mainstream politics.

Anyone who I discover has voted after this, be they friend, family or otherwise, will be unwelcome in my life.

JdeBP,

@fkamiah17 @adrianfry

Which of Schapps's sockpuppets is supposedly this stupid?

Even I picked up on the parallels.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

What is this "Labour Day" the Americans are nattering about on the interwebbytubes at present?

Wrong answers only, plz.

JdeBP,

@slothrop @cstross

Aha! Spotted the Hungarian! (-:

est, to random
@est@emily.news avatar

cannot believe that we taught rocks to whisper Secret Numbers so vast that their names have never before and will never be spoken again in the long span of human time, and we use them to key databases for e-commerce systems

JdeBP,

@mcc @est

Easy. Small irrelevant items, like socks and ball-point pens, are deleted.

JdeBP, to random

I'm still re-reading the novels and the thing that keeps hitting me is how bad Clancy was at anything non-military.

There's a distinct lack of a good copy editor by the time of Debt Of Honor, too. Several times things, obviously dictated by the author, are replaced with nonsense homophones and one has to work out what the intended text was.

JdeBP, to random

I'm re-reading 's Jack Ryan novels. Quite a lot of things have dated really badly. Of course, it's just like reading 1940s fiction in the 1980s.

JdeBP,

@cazabon

The world really has changed a lot. I'm having to clear out my collection of recorded TCM movies, and finally watched "Unlocked", a Noomi Rapace movie from 2017.

The bad guy's monologue rationale at the end has dated really badly since COVID-19.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

This is like CMOT Dibbler holding a coup against Lord Vetinari, isn't it

JdeBP,

@tokensane @cstross

Exactly. Vetinari is a reference to the Medici, which Putin is not like.

In fact, the is the wrong place to look, as there aren't many Cold War/Soviet analogues in it.

However, is a different kettle of fish.

This is like Lando Calrissian turning on for altering the deal ("Pray that I do not alter it further!").

Although a better parallel would be General Motti going after Vader for choking him in a staff meeting.

JdeBP, to ChatGPT

Ah, lazy ignorant users making the world crap.

"In case this helps narrow it down, when I type coqc into the terminal, nothing happens and the prompt comes up again."

https://stackoverflow.com/a/76418401/340790

"try running coqc or coqtop and check if they produce the anticipated output."

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