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Ballot paper for the Clacton by-election.

Candidates are listed alphabetically by surname, so Count Binface is third on the on list above farage at #12.

A pdf of all candidates has been published on the local council website.

#anyway I'm having fun #uk politics

curtvilescomic

While I can't vote in Clacton by-election, this has given me hope.

To paraphrase: " He is the hero Clacton and UK deserves and needs. So we'll vote him. Because he can take it. Because he's our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A bin."

Make your vote Count.

lost-carcosa

#uk politics

coleslaw-frosting

I love Binface so much.

#anyway binface's policies actually slap lmao

jen-kollic

I am fucking loving how shit-scared the UK right-wing is of a man with a bin on his head. Now that Count Binface might actually win the Clacton byelection they're desperately trying to smear him with such gems as:

"He's anti-Brexit!" Good.

"He's anti-Trump!" Good.

"He's anti-establishment!" At this point I think you're just trying to make me like him more.

"His manager once called Farage a horrible cunt!" Well Farage *is* a horrible cunt, what's your point?

"He's making a joke of British politics!" Well that's very appropriate given that current British politics *are* a fucking joke.

"He's a left-wing liberal elitist!" I don't know if you can be all of those things at once, but I do know that Count Binface isn't the one getting millions in donations from cryptocurrency billionaires sooooooo...

Vote change. Vote Binface.

#for those who are unaware:#Nigel Farage - white supremacist twat in chief - resigned as MP #he resigned because he was under investigation for taking a £5 million crypto bribe #if you resign as MP it immediately triggers a by-election so that local area he represents had to vote again #he immediately announced he was standing in the by-election #his hope was obviously that he would get re-elected and then gets to claim he has some kind of 'mandate' from the people #and wants to paint this investigation as like... persecution from The Establishment #anyway all the other parties immediately saw this for the absolute sham that it is and refused to run #In steps Count Binface #formerly known as Lord Buckethead #he is a satirical candidate who runs exclusively in elections where party leaders are running #so that they all have to share a stage with him #the mainstream news suddenly got really interested in him and for the first 48 hours after the by-election announcement #it was just wall-to-wall coverage of this character Count Binface #he was being interviewed on BBC and ITV and Sky News by serious political commentators #the public love him #and the right wing are genuinely a little bit scared he might win #they are writing hit pieces on him. about how he's actually The Elite cos he comedian who made this character went to Oxford.#again - and I cannot emphasise this enough - he has a bin for a head.#Farage's main competition in this election... is a bin.#uk politics

caseyscraftycorner

watching my husband get diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea over the last year was not the thing that radicalized me re: weight and healthcare but my goodness it has solidified my stances.

sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

- if you are exhausted constantly for "no reason", and especially if you snore, you should probably ask your doctor about getting tested for sleep apnea. it is extremely common -- estimates are around 1 in 10 people -- and is also wildly under-diagnosed. like, some estimates suggest that 80% of people with moderate-severe sleep apnea are undiagnosed.

segamascott

time to do something yet?

yes

yes and voting isn't gonna cut it

Voting ended onJul 15

hunterinabrowncoat

England's major water companies have warned the government there simply isn't enough water to supply the proposed AI datacentre and industry expansion, yet the UK govt is ploughing ahead anyway. Nevermind that right now half of England and Wales are officially in a drought and every country in the UK is facing unprecedented wildfires right now as we plunge into our FOURTH heatwave of the summer 🙃🙃🙃

#ai #ai datacenters #uk politics

dorothygale

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

#there's that study that says like 98% of men admit to using coercion tactics to rape women #and I'm not saying it's not horrifying #but like... the survey was disseminated through exclusively online means like forums #and that's places where like gamergate dudebros are more concentrated #and manosphere podcast listeners #and the tactics cover a huge range of things from like... being physically imposing or threatening women #to like.... lying about your income #now. do I think pretending to be rich in the hopes someone will be interested in you is sleazy? yeah #but it absolutely does not sit in the same category as like... deliberately getting a woman drunk #or taking her somewhere she's alone #again I'm not saying it isn't bad. the results are pretty damning.#but I think it's important we examine the methodology and replicability of any study when we're making huge sweeping claims as 'fact'#and it's really frustrating that you can't bring any of that up #or question the methodology or the wording of click-bait articles without being called a rape apologist #don't even get me STARTED on that '6 million men were part of a rape academy' bullshit

triangleguy

maybe im just a hater and i never really engage with true crime content outside of the few times i was forced to in high school but whenever people are like "yeah its just fascinating.... to hear how killers think.... its so interesting to know their thought processes..." and well. 99% of the time its "they realized they had the chance to hurt somebody and took it" and they werent some misunderstood genius it was 1. police incompetence & people not caring about the victims and 2. most serial killers are white guys. and white guys can get away with a hell of a lot

#also true crime fans often treat true crime like it's fiction #they obsess in the same way fandom does #but these aren't fictional characters. this isn't a story someone wrote.#these are REAL people. many of whom have suffered horrific things #and you're treating it like your creative playground

batmanisagatewaydrug

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

batmanisagatewaydrug

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

batmanisagatewaydrug

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

cloverchameleon

uququ

after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline

life-of-jauxro

anachronic-cobra

This happens with mobility aids too. I bump into shit with my forearm crutches and say "ow" before I realize those are not, in fact, More Legs. Then when I get up and try to walk without them for a second there's a moment of feeling like a dog walking upright

hapalopus

If you find this interesting, look into extended mind/body theory :)

Author: Rachel Bourbaki Category: Philosophy of Mind and Language Word Count: 1000 Can your mind be outside of your body? Typically we think

It's so frustrating how calling people out for their ableism when it's directed at awful people makes you real unpopular real fast. And it shows how people just straight up don't consider ableism to actually be a real axis of oppression.

Like sorry but it IS actually ableist and unacceptable to make fun of Trump for being incontinent or to make fun of Weinstein for needing a walker. Disability does not function as karmic justice for wrongdoings.

It's no different to making fun of fascists for being queer and calling them queerphobic slurs, or deliberately misgendering trans conservatives. The insult only works if you think that the characteristic (queerness, trans identity, or disability) is worthy of mockery.

And idk what to tell you, but if you think ableism (or transphobia, or any oppressive bullshittery) is acceptable just because it's aimed at a terrible person, you are not as progressive as you think you are.

#ableism #trump #transphobia

bebewrites

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.