I was 1, but my belly is now full of cheese toastie. 7 it is.

In general, I’m not at all against seeing our flags flown. There’s nothing wrong with it, and in fact I think it’s bizarre some people actually ashamed of it. The only other place I’ve seen people act in this manner is Germany. It’s an aspect of British culture I’m not keen on. It’s fine to have some pride about where you live. I have a Northumberland badge stitched onto my backpack, I think it’s neat.

That said, cable-tying some AliExpress polyester tat onto a lamppost and spray painting a wonky flag onto a roundabout just because you don’t like the forrins? Hardly a classy move. Even aside from the sinister motives behind it, it looks shit. Particularly now that they’re all stained, faded, and tattered.

Let’s leave flags to either people putting them up on their own property, and councils who are willing to do them properly.

Sixth form student politics groups are better organised than this lot.

But but but, this way I get to feel like I’m doing something without actually doing a damn thing, and continuing to support Microsoft

Great news.

Anecdotally I’ve noticed quite a few new tracks being made near me, and an absolute shit load of trees. Tens of thousands in my area.

It surprises me there’s not more news of it tbh. Everybody likes trees and greenery.

Fucking hate how these shitheads take words from Tolkien’s works and bastardise them. Palantir, Anduril.

What’s next, a social credit system named “Silmaril”? An organisation that harvests the organs of homeless called “Rivendell”?

Just fucking stop.

Saying Labour is worse than the Tories is utter madness.

Right?

You can’t set a precedent for just not eating (or in one of these PA cases, intermittent fasting, as they are eating every other day) as a means to get what you want. Even someone with 3 braincells should be able to work out why that would be bad.

Force feeding is generally viewed as being an affront to someone’s rights, and the government would get called monsters for doing that.

Letting people off the hook if they refuse to eat is obviously not something that can even be entertained.

Letting them do what they want with their own bodies can lead to harm, although that is ultimately their own choice.

There’s no nice answer here.

They were going to be awarded bail, but they said in court they wouldn’t follow the terms of it.

Should courts just let people go free when people gloat that they won’t obey the terms of the bail?

They obviously do, though.

It’s just an Android phone, so yeah, it’ll have Signal.

The UK is getting closer to the EU. Just jumping back in isn’t an option right now.

criminalised the support of a direct action group that opposes the genocide,

No. They proscribed a group that ram raided factories with workers inside, advocated for genocide, trashed businesses for having Jewish owners, smashed a policewoman’s back while she was incapacitated on the floor with a sledgehammer, and broke into an RAF base and destroyed the engines of two jets.

allowed Israel to attack British boats and kidnap British citizens

More bullshit

continue to fly spy planes for Israel

They warned Israel against targeting civilians and gave them information on Hamas installations in an attempt to lessen civilian casualties.

and refuel their planes at Akrotiri

Stop fucking lying. Israel and the UK don’t even have compatible fueling systems.

The UK government is complicit in genocide.

If you believe that, you are brain-dead. Re-read the above comment.

No you didn’t. You just kept lying.

I fill it to the absolute brim and just walk slowly from the kitchen to my living room.

I don’t see how. Starmer is getting closer to the EU.

They publicly condemned Israel, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever came here, sanctioned much of the Israeli parliament, refused to join the US/Israel in attacking Iran, ramped up humanitarian aid for Palestine, stopped weapons exports to Israel, and formally recognised Palestine.

I struggle to see this rabid support of Israel that Lemmy posters always seem to talk about.

They did not support Brexit.

Because unfortunately, all our politicians want it, and the public wants it too.

Reddit and Lemmy are very much in the minority on OSA.

Which is a shame, because I find the OSA to be stupid and unworkable.

That was already stopped a while ago.

E: are people angry that it stopped?