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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · 15h ago

Keir Starmer to bring forward EU rules legislation in King’s Speech - https://www.ft.com/content/b0316ac9-e013-41f8-985d-5394284ff397

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Oh? Good? and it seems they finally clocked Brexit fights are bad for brexiters?

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Feb 27, 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/26/drop-in-overseas-workers-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes Soooo, following the pretty large #Green win we've just seen, is the government going to do the decent thing, which is to march the whole of the Home Office into the sea, and do what's the standard everywhere else: give immigration to the Economy, which can at least be counted on to not try to kill the country to appease the racists? Seriously #Labour, you only needed to be moderately not racist.

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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social @oneiros@ruhr.social I view Adams as a cautionary example of the perils of isolating yourself from the world while thinking yourself into a superiority complex. (It was vi

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@cstross@wandering.shop @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @oneiros@ruhr.social I enjoyed his early humor, but the "OSC" effect was strong in Scott. it's really a shame some guys just turn out to be asshole

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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @oneiros@ruhr.social I think Adams began to turn sour a few years after he went full-time as a cartoonist working from home. Even though he d

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 13, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop He also experienced family loss to addiction. But ultimately, everyone's pain makes them want to lash out, or at least make it mean something. It's normal. The test of it is to resist the urge. But then, there's failing the test and then there's turning nazi... @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @oneiros@ruhr.social

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115887342621053928 All you need to know to understand how actually-existing crapitalism operates. (You don't deal with a mafia organization by fining them o

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 13, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop In principle, I think the fines are Ok. Merely they need to go up, no limits as you repeat the offense. Possibly make the repeat criminal after a while. Escalation with off ramps is good: in the end we want compliance, not full jails.

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@oschonrock@mastodon.social @rootwyrm@weird.autos @iinavpov@mastodon.online No, globally blocking THE BIGGEST INSTANCES is not a viable strategy.

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 12, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop ultimately it's about moderation quality, and appreciating moderation is genuinely difficult. @oschonrock@mastodon.social @rootwyrm@weird.autos

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online @cstross@wandering.shop one of the reasons I basically don't accept follows from mastodon.[social|online] is because both of those places are utterly *infested* with a whole

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos @iinavpov@mastodon.online I vet all follow requests from those instances and block any that have even the faintest off-odor. (And I check their toot/reply history, not just their

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 11, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop You being an important person with significant reach, this makes sense. but it feels like a lot of effort for a pretty small platform to be running campaigns. Leave no stone unturned, I guess. @rootwyrm@weird.autos

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Parenthetically, where ARE all these "Iranian unrest is a CIA/Mossad black op" drive-bys coming from? There's something very smelly about the social media activity around this rebellion.

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 11, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop I'm sure there are plenty of plants. I'm not so sure they're very active on here... However, there are plenty of idiots who sincerely think that if you oppose the US, you're good, and hence Hammas and the Ayatollahs are good, thus the opposition must be a CIA plot.

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 10, 2026

We're on a collision course towards war against the US. This is unpleasant. It's possibly more unpleasant that we may not be out of cowardice.

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 10, 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/10/two-thirds-of-uk-voters-wrongly-think-immigration-is-rising-poll-finds This is the correct way of reporting a poll where the public believes insane shit.

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Meanwhile, the media in the UK—and the USA—are TOTALLY IGNORING the ongoing revolutionary turmoil in Iran, with running street battles, a general strike, dozens of cities in open rebellion against the

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 09, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop I did wonder. It's quite a big thing to ignore.

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AAAHGH GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN I suddenly feel a compulsive need to write a thinly-disguised knock-off of Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about a dying billionaire who has his brain transplanted int

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@cstross@wandering.shop honestly I've been saying for years that it's time "I Will Fear No Evil" was written/copied by someone who knows what trans people are

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@foone@digipres.club Heinlein in the 60s was 100% identifying issues which would be hugely important in another few decades (this is where the best SF comes from!) but made a total dog's dinner of tac

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop counterpoint: Heinlein *is* a crash course in early 20th century American history... (but some notes don't hurt) @foone@digipres.club @davidgerard@circumstances.run

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So, it looks like Russia finally won the cold war.

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Dec 08, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop It's not over until the fat lady sings. As things stand, the US, out of greed, have lost leverage on Ukraine, and Putin is looking at a collapse of his regime. So...

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#WritersCoffeeClub 25 Nov What are some tips you can share to avoid 'clunky' phrasing? Everybody's suggesting reading your work aloud, but I disagree: prose fiction should not focus on replicating spe

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@cstross@wandering.shop As against that, a lot of people now "read" by listening to audio books. Do you adapt for this at all?

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@wendyg@mastodon.xyz No—although I probably should consider it. (I can't absorb information from audio books *at all* so it's a non-consideration on my part, although the market has exploded in recent

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Nov 25, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I read a lot to a little one, and it's not really a factor: reading aloud for a listener means going much slower than reading for oneself. But occasionally you stumble upon awkward constructions that could have been edited for the benefit of both speech and reading... @wendyg@mastodon.xyz

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Stopped clock syndrome: shockingly, Boris Johnson isn't wrong, for once. https://mstdn.social/@pravda/115594525607249823

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@iinavpov@mastodon.online · Nov 22, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I thought at some point Bojo was a Russian asset, but for all his astoundingly many flaws, he's apparently not. Too slippery and buffoonish even for them.

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