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Shitty neighbors in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] 2 points 2 hours ago

They thought they got him a partner, but they just got him a partner in crime.

If a honey badger can escape, then so can I!

That was a great watch, thanks for posting it!

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    • Greek prime minister vows to ‘ramp up’ efforts to regain Parthenon marbles in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
    Andy Burnham Urged to Put Compulsory Voting at Heart of His Electoral Reform Plans in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
    [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Brexit showed us what happens when people who don't know how things work vote. I don't believe in mandatory voting. People who don't know or care what they're voting for isn't a good thing, I think. Before any talk of mandatory voting, it should be a mandatory part of the secondary school curriculum teaching kids how parliament and elections work.

    I had a colleague, who when told she should have voted in the GE, said, "Never mind, I'll vote next year."

    I mean, this was back in the early 2010s. Nowadays that argument holds more water, I suppose.

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    Love Rouge One in c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    I deliberately called my NationStates country The Rouge Nation of Tamhlacht and not one person picked up on it.

    It's even worse with chaise longue. They even pronounce it as "lounge".

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    Zack Polanski Exposed The Scariest Thing The Media Are Ignoring in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
    Drug addict tells Pope he isn’t allowed to weigh in on the harm drugs cause because he doesn’t do drugs in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    Drug addict tells Pope he isn’t allowed to weigh in on the harm drugs cause because he doesn’t do drugs in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
    BT strikes deal to rescue troubled TalkTalk from administration in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
    [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    We were on talktalk for over a decade, at least they allowed me to access the mullvad website and dns. We moved to virgin media earlier this year and I can only access the mullvad site via tor now. Can't access the dns at all. I was always trash-talking talktalk when we were using them, but man, virgin is way worse :(

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    • Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
    My political views in a nutshell in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    Greens announce plan for three-year emergency brake on private rents to give renters ‘breathing space’ in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
    [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    Action on empty homes has breakdowns:

    Long-term empty homes

    To be classed as ‘long-term empty’ a home has to be liable for council tax and to have been unfurnished and not lived in for over 6 months. This figure is increasing all the time, but as at October 2025, it was 303,143 - a rise of 14% on 2024 and over 50% up on 2016 - the year after the last national Empty Homes Programme ended.

    More here: https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/facts-and-figures

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    • Everything helps in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 12 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Here's a really good video by Barry's Economics on the topic:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_lgy337KiA

    One of the most powerful beliefs in modern politics isn't a policy. It's the belief that nothing can change.

    You hear it everywhere and I feel it too. Most of us do.

    But the strange thing is that when researchers study how change actually happens, they keep finding the opposite. Social change rarely arrives because everybody suddenly agrees. It often begins with surprisingly small groups of people connected in the right ways, reaching a tipping point that makes what seemed impossible suddenly feel inevitable.

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    Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot - Channel 4 News (m.youtube.com)
     

    Earlier this year James Orr, the party’s Head of Policy, and Dan Jukes, a close aide to Nigel Farage, arranged for a US company to secretly fund three influential polls that were commissioned by the party.

    Mr Orr and Mr Jukes did not know that the supposed donors behind the US company were actually an undercover team from Verbatim posing as a wealthy American and his UK-based son, “William Lockwood”.

    The US company that made the poll payments and the supposed American financier, resident in the US, are not permissible donors under electoral law. Donations of this size must be declared to the Electoral Commission.

    Mr Jukes also proposed a scheme to get a larger sum of money into the party by having the American father donate via his UK-resident son. This would be illegal.

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    Did anyone else used to call the game "tag", "had"? (self.ukcasual)
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    The game where someone is "it" and has to catch the others. I went to school in Hackney, London in the late 80s/90s and we always called the game "had" and would say "had" when we caught someone. My cousins in Hackney also called it "had".

    This is one of those things that's tricky to look up because of the nature of the name. Does anyone else remember this game going by the name "had" or know anyone who still calls it this? Or did you have a different name for it entirely? I'm wondering if it was really just localised to our area.

    Some of the kids in my family go to the same school I went to and they call the game "tag" now.

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    Royals @ Dodgers Game 1 (m.youtube.com)
     

    Someone pointed out at 7.54, the second baseman didn't even touch the base after he got the ball. Freeman and Edman should both have been safe.

    Nice to see the Dodgers' bats finally wake up.

    That was a great sliding catch by Edman! Muncy coming in clutch and clearing the bases.

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