I was like oh huh is there a Welsh feddit? Ah no its flurries OK.

Can’t have semaphore gridlock if you don’t have semaphores.

When I told my husband some Labour politician is calling for this he said it’s not going to be taken seriously. He was surprised and dissapointed to find out the country that says it’s terrorism to hold a sign also bans even ultra-centrist Cenk Ughyr for not being a zionist.

I think that the government restricting my ability to hear anti-Israel speakers is worthy of condemnation even if it protects Cenk and Hasan from having to endure the UK for a few days.

You will encounter a lot of paranoia on the left, this is mostly for good reason because there’s a lot of infiltration and interference in political spaces. But it also often becomes disruptive in itself because people can get caught up in hunting spies and engaging in recriminations which ultimately just sows division and makes working together harder. Best thing to do with suspected spies is to give them a lot of non-sensitive work to do, if they do it well great, work was done. If they do it badly then you clearly shouldn’t be giving them sensitive stuff to do anyway. For everyone else not being provoked and disrupted is the same whether the person is well meaning but struggling (with ptsd from real spies, from unrelated mental health issues, with just having a disruptive personality, from being misguided etc) or actually trying to disrupt.

I think obsessing over word use is counterproductive and it’s better to understand where people are actually coming from. Some words are coded one way or another way because of who tends to use them but in the end the user of a word can have very idiosyncratic intentions with it and it’s better to just take the time to get to know them and then you will know for sure how they’re meaning it.

In terms of my own communications I’d avoid it in serious (inc. jokes meant for a wide audience rather than a contained one) content because of the connotations.

Magpie and woodpigeon, the rest of these birds are too small have you got anything for someone who never remembers to bring her glasses out?

If they might spitefully withhold money if its not spent as approved and groceries are approved I’d suggest buying some prepay cards at the grocery store and then spending unspied on.

A a fellow glue conuissure.

…and what do they say to that?

…c…child slave?

Could be worse she says. Oh ok lets watch a nice relaxing youtube video to distract myself from my profound lack of agency under capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-DdaDJmOI0

Well fuck.

I am interested in finding something similar but aimed at ~9yos.

Its stupid to kill people at all over a pointless territorial dispute. Its UNHINGED to suggest killing cities worth of civillians with a nuke because of beef between their authoritarian admins.

You sound completely unhinged.

You don’t think its extreme to set off a nuke over some piddly islands with probs more sheep than people in the South Atlantic? Are you daft?

Bit extreme. Being from the UK I couldn’t give a shit one way or another which stupid authoritarian government gets custody of the islands and while I am sure the people who live on them do care and presumably the government does a bit, all it all I suspect the vast majority of ppl here would see it as a total shrugfest either way.