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@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ha. Valid points, for the most part. But I don’t think they would have been handled any differently under any mainstream politician. So I just don’t understand why Starmer gets quite as much criticism as he does. Did.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com I’m trying to understand just why people have been so down on Starmer. He seemed competent, if dull, but that’s a lot better than the chaotic nonsense of Johnson, etc. What was your main problem with him?
@daveycraney All fair points except possibly one, which I’ll come back to in a minute.
The thing with both the anti-protest laws and and the anti-privacy ones: I don’t think they’ll be different under another PM, of either party. I fear that’s just the way mainstream UK politics is going. I don’t like it, but I don’t see it changing under Burnham. We live in hope, though.
On immigration and running from reform (or rather, towards them), yeah, hopefully those can change. Again, though, I do wonder how much the guy at the top is really in charge. We don’t have a presidential system after all, which is why they can change the guy at the top!
I’m not sure what you mean about attacks on trans rights. If you’re thinking of the Supreme Court judgement as to the meaning of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act, that was a clarification of the existing law, not a policy matter.
Anyway, I guess we’ll see what happens next.
@daveycraney I’m interested to know what you find so bad about Starmer. I see so much of this, and yet he seems objectively (inasmuch as I can be objective) to have been fine. Not great, but fine, OK. Certainly infinitely more stable and capable than anyone in the Johnson/May/Truss/Sunak array.
So why does Starmer get so much negativity?
@mmetcalfe In case your suitcase falls apart!
@manton Thanks, will do.
@manton I installed the latest version on my Mac and now I can’t run it. I also can’t post a photo in an @-reply, so here’s the generated alt-text of the screen grab:
> A notification indicates that the Micro.blog.app cannot be used with macOS 13.7.8 and requires macOS 14.0 or later to run.
I’m on an old Mac, so I can’t go up to 14. No biggie, but it probably shouldn’t have let me install it.
@alexwolfe What fun! I look forward to Ada’s further adventures.
@JohnPhilpin LiveJournal had that distinction two decades ago. Other sites too, probably. Slashdot? Maybe. It’s a good one.
PS: You’re welcome. You are.
@manton Ah, yes, I should have thought of that:
> Bluesky: Error refreshing token.
I’ll try removing and re-adding. Thanks.
@manton I’ve just noticed my posts having been crossposting to BlueSky since the middle of April.
@manton Looks like I had the same problem. There’s no ‘Send now’ button, just a ‘Sent’ notice.
@JohnPhilpin Thanks. Feel free.
@JohnPhilpin Seemed to work.
@johnnydecimal How do you tell if a website is vibe-coded?
@acct:imyke@myke.social I’m looking forward to listening to this one. But I’ve also realised: I’m kind of missing CGP Grey.
@JohnPhilpin My memory! And searching. It was used in a TV ad in the UK maybe ten, fifteen years back, focusing on the shapely rear end of the car. ‘I see you baby, shaking that ass’!
YouTube link. Also people complained, according to The Guardian.
Which can’t possibly be right, because it says it was 23 years ago. I remember my daughter singing along with it, and she wasn’t doing that when she was 2!
I guess maybe they revived it? Anyway, that’s what I was talking about, so I’m playing <cite>Vertigo</cite> now.
@JohnPhilpin I meant the ass-shaking one that was advertised with the Groove Armada track. Which turns out to be the Renault Megane.
@manton I hate to say this, but I found a typo! The ‘Penn Station’ chapter starts with a quote that refers to the ‘Qual d’Orsay’ in Paris. It should of course be the Quai d’Orsay.
@JohnPhilpin I see what you did there (shaking that ass). Couldn’t tell you what car it was advertising, though.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Just trying to understand this. So the hyphenated form with the capital ‘S’ is the dog whistle version? Two questions, then: why? And who is being whistled at or to?
@manton I hope you’re able to fix the paragraph breaks in descriptions. That’s always been slightly annoying.
@mmetcalfe Mostly Lea Bridge, where we live. That’s a good analysis.
@mmetcalfe I’m not sure I do. From what my partner was hearing on the doorstep, the main reason for the swing to the Greens was, ‘Gaza’. Which, well… what the fuck has it got to do with the Mayor of Hackney? Or Hackney council?
@JohnPhilpin Right. I saw a banner on one of your recent posts saying ‘Created by a human in Scotland.’ But maybe that was a screengrab of something you were quoting? Hard to tell sometimes.