Oh my giddy Aunt - @ByDonkeys have pulled off yet another blinder. This would bring ANY other "government", of any era, crashing down, as the conventions of Erskine May, and the notion of "all Members of Parliament being honourable" just DO NOT APPLY to these criminal scum. 1/2
@ByDonkeys The clock is weel and truly ticking for these #ConSelfServative#ToryScum who have plundered hundreds of billions of pounds from the public purse, for themselves, their overseas paymasters, and their mates. They will be booted out of office by December 2024 at the LATEST 2/3
@ByDonkeys But the Disunited Kingdom of Breakshiteland, Scotland and Northewrn Ireland just cannot afford another 20 months of their corrupt gangsterdom. They need to go now, and every last one of them put on trial for abuse of power in public office. I will pursue them relentlessly 3/4
@ByDonkeys Because I will be standing for election to parliament in the constituency of Gravesham in North-West Kent, as an independent OR as part of an alliance seeking Electoral Reform as the highest priority. Because we can never again afford the disastrous 40 months of #ToryScumOut
@ByDonkeys ~ConSelfServative corruption that runs unchecked because of an unassailable parliamentary majority that their share of the 2019 vote simply DOES NOT WARRANT, and never did. And it must NEVER happen again. So - I will be standing for election to Westminster. 5/6
@ByDonkeys I will work with WHOEVER also recognises that Electoral Reform MUST be a primary focus. Because EVERYTHING else that's afflicting this fucked-up country can ONLY be addressed by a truly representative Parliament that TRULY reflects "the will of the people. 6/7
Their whole charade is in tatters. The momentum has about reached a tipping point, and I'm calling it now - they won't survive to a General Election at the end of 2024. They'll be out of office THIS year. I will vote tactically to get @AdamHollowayMP ousted as my MP, but then 1/x
@AdamHollowayMP Tactically hereabouts means voting Labour. I will vote Labour to remove a #ConSelfServative MP. I'm an ex-Labour Party member who then joined @TheGreenParty as the only truly socialist *electable* party then available to me 2/x
And they're still electable, as they've proved in local Government, across the country, ever since, and in Brighton Pavilion since 2010, and very nearly in a handful of other parliamentary seats, including Bristol. But NOT here, sadly. So I will hold my nose to oust Holloway 3/x
So, in years past, I have praised @ProtonMail for the awesomeness of their services, and praising their policy of providing FREE encrypted email and allied services to those who need them, but can't pay for them, to the extent of having paid for my ProtonMail for years. NOW.. 1/x
@ProtonMail ... I am in a support loop where I am unable to get a resolution to a simple issue, for which multiple valid and secure solutions are available, leaving me unable to access my primary email account, which ALSO means I am locked out of numerous services. 2/x
@ProtonMail This has now moved beyond an inconvenience to a matter of urgency. Do I have to dig out the historic tweets in which I praised @ProtonMail@ProtonVPN and @ProtonSupport for their awesome humanitarian efforts, and compare them to this current farce? Is THAT what it takes? 3/x
How did I forget to post THIS clip yesterday? I punched the air almost as wildly as @raavalicious when this occurred - it made my unapologetic polly/pan/kinkster heart SING!
Full disclosure. I am a somewhat lazy #GuildWars2 player, in that I will usually skip open-world or story content unless I have a compelling reason to do so. I usually watch a streamer play that kind of content, because I'm a firm believer in OBEs. 1/x
So even though I welcome the return, last year, of a version of Living World Season One to the game (which was essential, IMHO, prior to the Steam release) personally I was content to llet @WoodenPotatoes and @PreachGaming play the actual content. Until I had a reason. 2/x
@WoodenPotatoes@PreachGaming I now HAVE a reason. I'm completing the Coalescence II collection, in order to unlock the Coalescence III collection, prior to clearing raid Wing 7 and getting the precusor to the Legendary ring, Coalescence. Which I won't be crafting for a while, but I like to make progress. 3/x
So I literally just learned that @lancereddick died suddenly, and it's kinda knocked me for six. Not only because there were no warnings, or because he's one of my favourite actors, or his superlative voice acting, or... or... but because he was such an amazing human, period. 1/x
@lancereddick A long tweet essay follows. Not all about Lance Reddick, but he is a major part of the story. It may take a few hours, I am doing other things. But I'll keep the thread going until I've written it out. Buckle in. 2/x
I am a curator of things - words, ideas, concepts, across fields academic, cultural, technological - and one of the things I curate is a list I call "Perfect TV Dramas" - and it is a SMALL list because the criteria are strict, and there is no flexibility. Those criteria are: 3/x
I have nothing to say about the role of the US - historically, under TFG, or under President Biden - because enough other folks are doing THAT. I speak to England's role in this. This country has meddled in Afghanistan many times, whether from greed, altruism or fear. It's on us.
We have a responsibility to the people of Afghanistan, because this country has helped to create the terrible situation there. We have obligations - historical, moral, even legal - and we should stand by those obligations, AND by those who trusted that we would.
I realise that THIS "government" thinks that it is a ripping wheeze to ignore all of its obligations, whether in "limited and specific" ways, or in total, but, despite having trashed the reputation of so-called "Global Britain" in the eyes of the world, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE.