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@petersuber@fediscience.org ...so the UK Government *can* make senior managers criminally liable, but *wont do it to, say, banks or water companies? Interesting.

@apenkop@mstdn.social @RandamuMaki@mstdn.social @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Traditionally, Binface (as well as other costumed candidates) tend to run in elections with wide fields and a strong Favourite knowing they're unlikely to win- Binface himself has generally run against the incumbent PM, for example. The straight up capitulation and irresponsibility of the other major parties by pulling out has changed the equation slightly here, making Binface effectively the only real opposition. Blame should be with the Conservatives for not fighting their corner, as the second place winner in the election proper and with Labour for pissing away two years of being in Government and not building up a strong enough offering to take a decent crack at the seat. (And Farage for being a pillock, obvs) Even the LDs and Greens should be side-eyed a little here for not even trying to be the anti-Farage tactical lightning rod.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Today Burnham (re?) announced a programme of prison-building, so I wouldn't hold out much hope.

@GlasWolf@mastodon.scot @Wen@mastodon.scot @MarkSquiresWine@mastodon.social @andrewducker@mastodon.scot Supposedly someone got away with "Literal Democrats" once.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Having also done my time as Microsoft, pre-pandemic: can confirm that it is basically run like a group of warring states.

@futurebird The island of odd socks.

@Mara@hachyderm.io I had never heard of UV laser engraving machines before this post and now it's the one thing I want most in this world.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot Commentators still making the mistake of seeing Starmer as a neutral or pragmatist. He is neither of those things- he doesn't "lack" politics- his politics are those of the hard right.

@Thebratdragon @PGBeattie @ShaulaEvans Especially considering you can, pretty much in 100% of situations, substitute it with "shite" to add a little extra pizazz.

@APBBlue@thepit.social @michelestrider@mastodon.social I was going to come in and go Full Brit and suggest the Argos catalogue, so +1 from me.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us And what about those of us who previously opted out of being part of any central database?

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us The Wikipedia pages for each set of Locals tends to carry a table with both the This-Election results and the overall totals. There isn't one on this year's yet (linked) as we're still waiting on a handful of results, but last year's pretty much backs what you say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_Kingdom_local_elections

@Geri@veganism.social Because Plaid can't get a majority just with the Greens and Lib Dems.

@Geri@veganism.social Serves them right for running such a Crude campaign.

@Geri@veganism.social Now, question is, will Labour swallow their pride and go into coalition with Plaid? (And would Wales accept a coalition which contains a party they so comprehensively rejected?)

@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social Saves Reform moving it there, I guess ;)

@Geri@veganism.social That'll probably be enough for Labour to claim victory over them, or at least enough to give them a narrative to dismiss them as a threat.

@foldworks@mathstodon.xyz 🎶 When I get that feeling, it's like 🎶 Hexual ceiling

@futurebird@sauropods.win In the late 80s/early 90s, when television was new, the fourth channel to launch in the UK had its entire daytime schedule dedicated to programmes designed to be recorded for use in classrooms, each show preceded by this banger: https://youtu.be/_9NzqmlcJpc which you'd somehow be disappointed if the teacher didn't play all the way through before the programme. Shows would even have workbooks teachers could send off for. The BBC equivalent even had counterpart computer games. I'm not sure anything similar still exists, even with all of that there Internet we've got to play with now.

@adrianww@mastodon.scot @Wen@mastodon.scot I wonder if smaller cars are just easier to get out of the water?

@Geri See also: Royal Ascot vs Notting Hill Carnival

@Wen@mastodon.scot @junesim63@mstdn.social @BashStKid@mastodon.online She might get away with the family name as she isn't called "Starmer"

@h0m54r@mastodon.social New reaction clip.

@andypiper "I have taken to just eating the pods"

@futurebird@sauropods.win I think you've invented Hex: https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Hex

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I wonder how well that will work considering what would be normally considered to be the largest part of that alliance- Labour- is already in power and people are underwhelmed? Given a blue-Tory government as in 2024 then The Devil You Don't is actually an option. Given the red-Tory one we theoretically will have in 2029, it isn't.

@futurebird@sauropods.win Good thing animals don't just repeat their name, like Pokémon.

@futurebird@sauropods.win Amazon have talked about using the data centres for regular cloud computing if AI doesn't take off, Microsoft also have running consumer cloud computing services that they could use the capacity for- and now they've tricked the taxpayer into paying to build them. I'm not sure that wasn't the strat all along.

"You've gone and farted out a fucking ostrich!" #Taskmaster

One of them is going to interpret it as "only saying those three words", aren't they? #Taskmaster

"He's clingfilmed meat to his legs!" #Taskmaster

@futurebird@sauropods.win Just coincidentally encountered this, if it wasn't on your radar already https://store.steampowered.com/app/3016940/Garden_of_Ants/

Today I walked from Camden to Waterloo and back, with two rounds of DDR for good measure. Tomorrow is going to be *unpleasant*.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange The Tear 1 subscription is free, Tear 2 £10/month...

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @books@newsmast.community Welcome back!

Same, Monochrome Mobius. Same.

Almost a perfect game for Armando! #Taskmaster

@FSonder@mastodon.ie One second-hand shop buys another

🎵 We'll remember this day 🎵 For the rest of our lives #HoloAllForOne

We are live: https://twitch.tv/bitparade

@david_chisnall @linuxgnome @ChrisMayLA6 You've reminded me Windows Phone existed and now I'm sad. I miss that OS.

@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social Holy shit, that's actually a half-decent policy. Now, let's see how she fucks it up. I'm betting on it only being applicable to businesses paying the most rent in a small handful of specific places (probably freeports) and/or the difference between rent paid and rent wanted has to be paid off in full as soon as the freeze ends.

"We are the sardines" is very "Am I the spider?" #Taskmaster

Romesh is watching Amy's approach with anger. #Taskmaster

@jerry@infosec.exchange @k3ym0@infosec.exchange Captcha stopped being for stopping bots and started being for *training* them long ago.

Thanks for watching! Back in two weeks with the maintenance!

So despite #Taskmaster Australia starting today, it won't be available on Channel 4 until July 1st, presumably because translation takes that long?