Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 10hIt's rarely a fair fight in war. Probably best not to dwell on that 100
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 15hAbsolutely. And Starmer assumed lefties would have nowhere else to go so would suck it up. Might've been right if Polanski hadn't made the Greens into an alternative home for those people. 010
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 16hInteresting that the ships were tied together to avoid being separated and overwhelmed. 100 v 1 may be a different prospect to (say) 400 v 4. 010
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 18hIt's a curious thing to see so many people outside the Green party calling for him to go. Even more curious after the recent electoral success and Green influence in turning Labour away from Starmer, then seeing all the good stuff in Burnham's speech. Greens made that happen that under Polanski. 2161
Reposted by Chopper ChilversToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20hless pattern recognition, more recognising there is a pattern 512231
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 21hI don't think there's any doubt the galleon is the superior fighting vessel. The question being asked is how much better is it? Yes, tactics and strategy will influence the outcome, but the question is how many triremes is enough to overwhelm the galleon? Is 100 enough? I think so. 100
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Faster in the open water, obviously. But it's not a race, it's a battle. If the triremes are close enough to shoot at, they're close enough to sprint in. If it moves away to tire the rowers, why would they rush at it? They can choose to wait too. 100
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It can't outrun them. It's heavy and depends on weather for propulsion. They will fan out, and when it turns to fire, those not in line will close the gap very quickly. Ram it or board it, either option wins. 200
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It has to turn to fire a broadside, and can't shoot in all directions simultaneously. It is very catchable. 100
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The ship with the guns needs to stay close enough to shoot. That's the only way it can win. It might try to dart back and forth, but it must get closer at some point, so is highly likely to get hemmed in, because there are just so many enemies. 200
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If it's running away, fair enough. But that's not really a battle, let alone one that it wins. 100
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They have 100 ships. Most won't be able to get close to the action and can chill out at the back until their turn. 100
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If normal physics applies, then the crew that's expected to quickly reload cannons for hours on end is going to tire. Not sure how common loading accidents happen? Thats assuming they don't get boarded and need to stop loading to fight hand to hand. 210
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not always so smug. Working in support, I know why that works. It's because the developers have left a bug in there. Which is as frustrating for me as it is for you. Especially when it's a long standing bug I've told them about. 110
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The problem with this approach is that rejoining will take time meaning an incoming right wing government could tear the whole thing down midway. Even if there is no right wing government, the mere possibility will make the EU think long and hard about expending resources on negotiation. 010
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.theregister.com/public-secto...theregister.comPalantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective dataFormer Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures 030
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In what capacity? Business or pleasure? 000
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just can't help himself trolling Lewis there. Classy. "We do wonderful things. PS Fuck you Clive" Effortlessly fitting in to the company culture. 001
Reposted by Chopper ChilversAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653113277
Reposted by Chopper ChilversRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony. 481120302
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear. 251457342
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea . 271370380
Reposted by Chopper ChilversDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentUsually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025. 44949318
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026She can identify as whatever or whoever she wants. But it begs the question: why would a politician run for office governing people that she does not identify with? (not saying she can't or shouldn't. Just that if she doesn't feel she fits, how does she think she can make the right decisions?). 010
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So, closest to "authentic" would be the cast talking normally? I recall John Fowles complained that the correct period speech for FLW was too like modern English to sound authentic, even though it was. Such is life. 010
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Rebellious kids speaking the frumpy language of authority? An obscure local vernacular would be more appropriate. 110
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is just populist pandering. To be authentic, it shouldn't be using any germanic language, new or old. It should be in an antiquated/extinct romance language. 250
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed. 281173380
Reposted by Chopper ChilversStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comThe Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism: The Stephen Collins cartoonContemporary British political life is a rich tapestry indeed 916970
Reposted by Chopper Chilverssolomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nothing says "lets clean up politics to deal with Reform's super rich donors" like holding a No.10 drinks party for Labour's Ultra High Net Worth donors. 38231
Reposted by Chopper ChilversMB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it. 7172151583
Reposted by Chopper ChilversGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We should ask ourselves why this is something a Labour Prime Minister feels the need to refute. After 16 years of austerity, a tax and spend socialist is just what we need. 43738148
Reposted by Chopper ChilversStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The media treating this story as some hilarious 'village that roared' nighy-dench-mirren movie is pissing me right the fuck off. It's soft-selling fascism. We have become an inward looking, xenophobic joke. 1152795
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Liberals don't like working with socialists against the right but they will if they're the senior partners. But given the choice of being junior partners, they don't all play nice. Some go beyond grumbling and actively try to sabotage the alliance. This destroys trust on the left. 010
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The elections work differently in the UK and US 000
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When someone explicitly tells why they they have a problem voting Dem, a response of "Just vote Dem" is pretty obnoxious. At least try to engage like you're more than a trollbot. 280
Chopper Chilvers @chopperchilvers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Sort of. It goes both ways. Holding your nose and voting for the least bad option is exactly how the UK got Starmer, who did so much damage to leftist causes. This debate is never going to be settled because both sides have supporting evidence for their case. 1200
Reposted by Chopper ChilversHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026How it started / How it's going 31777325
Reposted by Chopper ChilversStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Why are there so few bank holidays in autumn? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comThe bank holiday calendar explained: the Stephen Collins cartoonThere’s a reason for the bank holiday ‘gap’ 812527
Reposted by Chopper ChilversPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The way you win over voters to the right is to say you understand their concerns and that they’re right about everything. The way to win over voters on the left is to tell them you hold them in total contempt. 12505101
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets! 44850304
Reposted by Chopper ChilversPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns. 201782453
Reposted by Chopper ChilversMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022 9528284
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time. 7751198
Reposted by Chopper ChilversAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Labour MP & ex-immigration minister Mike Tapp here, telling the racists they’re right, & criticising them only for going about it wrong & being insufficiently appreciative of the government’s efforts to placate them, and also equating racists with the targets of racism 611141
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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