I’ve been watching TNG for the first time and so far season 1 has been hit or miss. Ether a episode will be really good or really bad. So far I think episode 23 is a really good episode! I hope that Tasha isn’t actually dead. I liked her and thought she was a gorgeous woman! This is the one and only time I will ever want...
Fair. Although I suppose my point was more that season 1 was weak, rather than that there weren't individual episodes that were worse than season 1. Sub Rosa is a terrible episode but season 7 as a whole is dramatically better than season 1 as a whole.
Yep, clearly a massive Lib Dem target. In general there are a number of Tory seats across the South where the Lib Dems finished 3rd but are the stronger challenger due to the ceiling on the Labour vote - places where Labour might be 2nd with 20%, but where the number of people willing to vote Labour will never go above 25-30%. That's what we've seen in a number of by-elections over the last 18 months where the Lib Dems jumped from 3rd to 1st.
This is not one of these places though. As you say, the Lib Dems held the seat for 18 years and are the current 2nd placed party. They also have a majority on Somerset council. But they (or the Liberals/SDP before them) have been 1st or 2nd in this seat going back even further, in fact in every single election since the seat was formed in 1983 - and have been either 1st or 2nd in the two neighbouring seats it was created out of going back to the mid-1970s.
The Lib Dems in the South West will be able to flood this seat with activists, whilst there is nothing about the area or its electoral history or profile to suggest Labour should waste any resources here when there are concurrent better by-elections for them to target.
Several times. The record is 15 in 1986, when all the Unionist MPs resigned to fight by-elections in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Outside of Northern Ireland, there have been instances of 5 at once and one instance of 6.
I've noticed a number of memes already popping on this community. One thing I always valued about Reddit was that the larger communities were often able to clearly delineate which spaces were for different types of content, and I'd hate for that to get lost in the move to the Fediverse....
Daystrom was one of my very favourite places to browse on Reddit - far smaller than the main Star Trek sub but a great example of how that didn't matter when you had a well-engaged community and a dedicated team of moderators.
Since there's not a lot of meme activity yet, things are probably fine for the time being.
That's not what it looks like to me. Many of the top items I see when I open startrek@startrek.website right now are memes and low effort posts: 'Seven of Nine arrested', 'There's an ass in assimilate', 'Not every day on the Enterprise is adventure', 'Khan', etc.
I think there's a danger of this becoming the default 'Star Trek shitposts' community, which I don't think is going to be much of a draw for r/startrek uses to come over from Reddit. I'd say least nudge that stuff towards Risa before people get too settled (which is what I'm suggesting in this post), but at some point I'd be happy with stricter moderation too if nudging doesn't work.
What is so striking, every time one of these videos leaks, is that the people in it clearly knew they were breaking the rules but thought this was a far more frivolous matter than the rest of us. Whether it's Allegra Stratton joking about the Downing Street leaving drinks not being socially distanced, or the guy here joking that they shouldn't stream that they're 'like, bending the rules hahaha' - it's so brazen. The dancers in this video are even twirling past a sign telling them to social distance!
Oh that's very interesting. I'm having an identical issue with an account I made on another Lemmy instance (feddit.uk). I'm still trying to work out where I'll settle long-term (including whether that is on Kbin or Lemmy) but for the time being the inability to access my feddit.uk account is making the decision for me...
If I'm honest, I've not yet discovered hugely different features. My understanding is that kbin allows more integration with the non-threadiverse bits of the Fediverse (for example, Mastodon) than Lemmy, but so far I've not made use of that. Kbin is also newer and therefore seems a bit rougher around the edges, but that will pass.
What initially drew me to kbin was more not wanting to get dragged into the tankie noise around Lemmy, but as the number of instances have grown that seems to have become less of an issue.
What I will say for kbin though is that Ernest (the kbin developer, who also runs the kbin.social instance) seems quite nice and is very responsive and transparent with the community.
Anna is based on a home worker with no dedicated workspace who instead opts to work from bed
I mean, if I'd been working 5 days a week from my bed for the last three years then I think I'd probably be pretty fucked up by now. The article doesn't purport to be every home worker, it says it's about people who work without the right office equipment.
I work a few days a week from home now, but I'm fortunate to have a spare room with a good desk, a full-sized chair with lumbar support, natural lighting, etc. Not everyone has that. When my office first reopened, the first people to return were often the recent graduates who lived in cramped flatshares with overburdened shared WiFi, who had been either working from their beds or sharing a kitchen table - working from home had not always been a fun experience for them. The people most reluctant to return were those in their 30s and 40s who could afford the full home office setup (as well as who might not have felt they got the same benefit from having experienced colleagues around to learn from, given where they were in their careers).
Tl;dr: a vote would force all Tory MPs to choose sides and thus expose just how much his stock in the party has fallen.
However, other Tory MPs suspected Johnson’s stance was motivated by a desire to avoid exposing the thinness of his support in the Conservative parliamentary party.
Only 21 Conservative MPs joined a Commons rebellion led by Johnson in March against Rishi Sunak’s deal with the EU to overhaul Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements.
I don't at all see him coming back as Tory leader. He remains popular with Tory members but not the MPs (as has become more apparent the last few days) and certainly not the voting public. Going into an election with Boris as leader would be a recipe for the Tories' destruction. He'll make noises but I see no way he'd get enough Tory MPs to ever put him through to the final two of a leadership election.
After the election, even if Rishi is gone, Boris's route back will be even tougher. First, because much of his support among Tory MPs lies with Red Wall MPs elected in 2019 (who feel more wedded to his brand of 'big state and culture wars' conservatism) - many of whom are definitely losing their seats to Labour at the next election, so won't have a role in choosing the next Tory leader. And second, because many of the southern Tory MPs who may remain - many of whom weren't his biggest fans to begin with but elected him leader in 2019 because they thought he was a winner - are going to feel even more personal animosity to him after the election when his sniping and undermining of Rishi is seen as one of the causes of a potentially huge Tory defeat.
If I had to bet, I'd say we're finally done with Boris Johnson in frontline politics - and good riddance.
So, I'm new to the Fediverse as it seems that Reddit is a sinking ship. I've been trying to figure out how to customize my feed so I only see content from the Magazines that I subscribe. Like how you can customize your feed on Reddit to only show posts from subreddits that you were in....
::: spoiler Logline A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate. :::...
Before season 1, I was sceptical about what I'd heard of the direction they were taking with Chapel, but Jess Bush's depiction of her has been one of my favourite things about the show so far. I'm happy to see more of her and Spock working their way through this.
The woman who is set to become the UK’s youngest ever life peer appears to have exaggerated the amount of time she worked at Downing Street on her public profile. Charlotte Owen is one of seven names approved by King Charles for elevation to the House of Lords as part of Boris Johnson’s controversial resignation honours’...
Her peerage is such a damning indictment of our unelected political system.
She's 29, her career trajectory has supposedly gone from new intern to life peer in six years, she has no other career experience to bring to the table, but thanks to the political patronage of a disgraced former politician she will now be a permanent member of our legislature, making laws that apply to all the rest of us, for the next 59 years based on average life expectancy.
Liz Truss says being compared to a lettuce was not funny (www.politico.eu)
The former British PM thinks the obsession with a lettuce that outlasted her was ‘puerile.’
Boris Johnson faces loss of Westminster pass as MPs back Partygate report (www.theguardian.com)
MPs endorse privileges committee report censuring former PM by 354 votes to seven
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As of right now:...
England [4] - 0 North Macedonia - Bukayo Saka great goal 47' (dubz.co)
Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/628792) (www.techradar.com)
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Season 1 Episode 23
I’ve been watching TNG for the first time and so far season 1 has been hit or miss. Ether a episode will be really good or really bad. So far I think episode 23 is a really good episode! I hope that Tasha isn’t actually dead. I liked her and thought she was a gorgeous woman! This is the one and only time I will ever want...
David Warburton: Conservative MP suspended over drugs allegations to resign seat (www.theguardian.com)
Suggestion: sticky a post explaining the differences between the !StarTrek, !DaystromInstitute and !Risa communities
I've noticed a number of memes already popping on this community. One thing I always valued about Reddit was that the larger communities were often able to clearly delineate which spaces were for different types of content, and I'd hate for that to get lost in the move to the Fediverse....
First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules (www.mirror.co.uk)
domination is inevitable (lemmy.world)
EDIT: we just crossed 30K 🥳...
Haha look at this utter bullshit The Mirror are putting out about working from home (www.mirror.co.uk)
Trying to scare people back in to the office much?
Boris Johnson urges allies not to oppose damning report into his conduct (www.ft.com)
Hello! I'm trying to figure out how to calibrate my feed to show only what I want to see.
So, I'm new to the Fediverse as it seems that Reddit is a sinking ship. I've been trying to figure out how to customize my feed so I only see content from the Magazines that I subscribe. Like how you can customize your feed on Reddit to only show posts from subreddits that you were in....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x01 "The Broken Circle"
::: spoiler Logline A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate. :::...
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Johnson’s aide nominated for peerage appears to have exaggerated time spent at Number 10 (www.tortoisemedia.com)
The woman who is set to become the UK’s youngest ever life peer appears to have exaggerated the amount of time she worked at Downing Street on her public profile. Charlotte Owen is one of seven names approved by King Charles for elevation to the House of Lords as part of Boris Johnson’s controversial resignation honours’...