when did it fucking finish?
around the time the hostile environment ended I think
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:14 (three years ago) link
*burns Daphne & Celeste playlist*
@MaxTundra37mWild that Corbyn fans are out there criticising Starmer for adopting a different strategy to the guy who gifted Johnson an 80-seat lead. What happened to “get the Tories out”?
― nashwan, Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
love Max but he's always been a bit melty and wish he wouldn't talk about it, same goes for a lot of other artists on twitter
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link
That Max and Mutya collab can't be far now.
― nashwan, Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
Luckily I've never knowingly listened to the cunt's melt-tastic music
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
Corbyn fans out there saying maybe it would be an idea to stop gaslighting Black and Muslim people who want overeager policing and structural discrimination towards them acknowledged by the leadership?
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
I've heard MT is the musical equivalent of a Dunty barbershop quartet covering Belle & Sebastien. Never heard either tbh!
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:37 (three years ago) link
I'd never tell anyone not to vote for Labour, and some smug prick telling you it's practically your duty to vote for them really gets my blood up.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
scientists have been warning us for years about tundra melt
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
I am low-key Twitter pals with the great man but I certainly don't engage him on politics, lol (and not because I completely agree!)
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
So basically an semi-informed semi-celebrity called Max is going to indulge in a bit of vote-shaming every Thursday from now on?
Meanwhile, schools basically back to normal in September with all the difficult stuff left to headteachers to decide.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
imo we should all hold hands and forgive the melt friends we all have, they know not what they do
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
alternative point of view: execute the fuckers, they will never be of any worth
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
my son is going back tomorrow. they've closed the dinner hall and food is brought to the classroom, they have a serious social distancing regime as much as is possible for an autism school. They have fucked off local authority transport and doing in-house transport. He is only going one day a week to acclimatise him to the new regime. Barnsley where about three quarters of the staff come from is a Rona hotspot, so I'm slightly nervous about all this still.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
i know how important respite can be for everybody involved, best to hold onto that thought and trust the teachers to do their best
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
not had a day off for 5 months and I'm running out of t shirts and on the verge of becoming a f/t smoker again so a day is needed!
it's nice to know that Tundra sometimes takes a break from venturing on a Fantastic Voyage up his own arsehole to do smalltalk and make great music, what a relief!
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
obv also Alex is missing the fuck out of school!
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
meanwhile, what? the? fuck? does? this? mean???
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eb6dWfIWoAE23g-?format=jpg&name=900x900
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
"i encourage the Prime Minister to go for it, but also i am putting you on notice that i will say 'i told you so' when this thing i'm encouraging you to do goes tits up"
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link
must be a lawyer ting
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
Johnson has worked out how to play that one back at him now, I'm surprised they're still going with it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
good news chaps
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/07/01/boris-new-deal-creates-a-loophole-for-developers-to-ignore-biodiversity/
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
'terminus house' the most appropriately-named building in a while
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
when he isn't being Schrödinger's Melt he's saying he supports what the tory govt are doing but he's morally superior to them, because he feels bad for how many needless deaths their bungling inaction is causing?
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
what i will say for sir kier is that he is playing a bad hand badly
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
good luck with the school thing calz
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
cheers
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
as a fifty push-up real man he Starmzy doesn't wanna stop the lads going dahn the boozah to catch the ronah
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
He's following the polling there, definitely. The majority of the country agrees, dunno if that's lockdown fatigue, worry over livelihoods or that people have absorbed the government messaging that really everything is going to be fine now.
Be interesting to see how that breaks down according to region, though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
i opened that biodiversity report btw, with one part particularly in mind
In the recent past the GB has intercepted two species (Asian hornet Vespa velutinaand raccoon Procyon lotor), eradicated three species (African clawed toad Xenopuslaevis, fathead minnow Pimephales promelas and black bullhead Ameiurus melas)and eradication is underway for a further four (water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora,topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasorba parva, monk parakeet Myiopsitta monachus,American bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus).GB’s first contingency plan for an INNS, the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) has beenadopted and measures implemented, leading to the destruction of two confirmed nestsin England since 2016 so far preventing their spread into the UK (Defra 2017).On a larger-scale, the GB Ruddy Duck Eradication Programme, which began in 2005,is almost complete. The population has been reduced from 4,400 to around 20-25birds. Control is ongoing.
tf is wrong with monk parakeets and ruddy ducks u fucking loons
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:39 (three years ago) link
also raccoons! altho i can see why they'd be disruptive. but raccoons!
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
xp combo of lockdown fatigue and the government somehow conveying the impression that they've got covid done and wow a thousand deaths a week became background noise even quicker than I predicted
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
there is wild colony of parakeets in my locality, they've been there decades apparently and it was nothing to do with jimi hendrix. What a beautiful sight they are.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
I don't know what Greenpeace's endgame is imago, roll back to a pre-Norman ecosystem? Pre-Roman? Pre the last ice age land bridge?
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
If they go after the wallabies in the peak district I'm gonna form an armed militia to shoot on sight tho
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:43 (three years ago) link
What a beautiful sight they are.
Noisy fuckers tho
― nashwan, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
the parakeets you usually see are ring-necked, and the bat is def out of the bag there
monk parakeets are smaller and newer. absolutely no idea why they need eradicating. i suspect they don't
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
*cat, even
Monk parakeets don't seem to be much of a threat to 'native' wildlife but apparently they build large communal nests that can disrupt electricity supplies
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/24/monk-parakeets-culled-dangers-species
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
The key problem is the huge communal nests built by the monk parakeets as these can cause blackouts when built on pylons and then drenched by rain. The US has already spent millions of dollars removing nests for this reason. The nests have also been linked to fires.
I assume this isn't all parakeets - our living room is at treetop level and we've had a couple of parakeets hanging out there for much of lockdown and no one is fucking with them at this point.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.windycityparrot.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Monk-parakeets-nest-transformer-blog-2.jpg https://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/04/17/nyregion/12Journal.600.jpg
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
What's wrong with Ruddy Ducks?
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 July 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
Those don't look especially safe, give them time and the monk parakeet will probably end up eradicating itself.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link
otm
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
The majority of the country agrees, dunno if that's lockdown fatigue, worry over livelihoods or that people have absorbed the government messaging that really everything is going to be fine now.
About half the population round here is milling around as usual, no masks and no distancing and bleak looks for anyone who tries to scramble out of a 1m radius, so definitely seems to me like both #1 and #3 are happening.
Re Tundra, I grimaced at that tweet and its replies, but as with another Jewish friend of mine who used to be v v Labour but hates Corbyn - I don't believe JC was antisemitic and think the claims against him were almost entirely made in horribly bad faith, but I also don't want to skate too close to implying to Jewish people that their concerns were made up by saying anything even least-worst-option about Corbyn, so... time to shrug and leave the room when these topics come up, I guess?
sorry, this post is v boring and parakeets are much better, more parakeets please
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
Ruddy Duck is even more sinister tbh - it's to prevent it interbreeding with the v similar White-Headed Duck in Spain. basically it's eugenics
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
let the birds breed however they want, your priority is protecting the fucking ecosystems u fucking racists
― imago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
I wdn't throw shade on any Jewish person hating Corbyn for antisemitism, fairly or not, but the tweet upthread was pure melt realism re: how to win an election by promising not to change anything
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
white-headed duck are a protected species in spain and if they disappear, the ecological protections afforded to their habitat will be eroded - it is about protecting the ecosystems xp
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Thursday, 2 July 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link