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Yes I am aware thanks.

I should warn you that there are people outside the US who drive and have the internet so this may not provide the data you're hoping for.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 16h

Restore standing bravely against having to consume vitamins! Courage and integrity!

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 16h

That typo is weirdly apt.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 18h

Actually kinda three although De Marco was quite annoyed that it seemed to be part of her job.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 19h

Elvis and the Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Animals defined their teens and twenties! But in the minds of management (all Genx and older Millennials) old people listen to Vera Lynn.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 19h

Fascinating side-issue. There is a huge problem in care homes at the moment where residents are complaining that all the music being played is WW2 nostalgia stuff. The very oldest of them were barely born in 1945, and most actually grew up on rock and roll, their first pocket money records were

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 19h

There's no such thing as a Centrist. Only shy conservatives.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

US "anti censorship" censor interferes with EU foreign interference discussion by censoring it.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Weirdly, insisting that an entire people are born terrorists and treating them as such is an extremely effective way to drive some of them to terrorism.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"pretty sure Truss hs COVID"

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That or the new societally accepted psychopomp. Less good in a Prime Minister, admittedly.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't want to look like Im boosting continuity Kier but calling someone a "Paddington Bear" anything means to me that they are earnest, benevolent, no-nonsense, that sounds like a good PM to me. Once again wishing the Labour party were as cool as Tory criticism makes them sound!

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh fuck. I bet she's mates with Galloway.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't *think* I have SAD, I just prefer summer. Mostly because all temperature is uncomfortable, and I would rather be uncomfortably warm, than uncomfortably cold.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think a lot of people in the US think TV is still made on the old syndication format where episodes were written and shot weekly and (deliberately collected and collated, not parasocially directed) fan feedback could be taken into account and could steer future episodes to retain eyes on for ads.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It honestly feels like deliberate sabotage. I wouldn't be checking her for Al Qa'ida links, I'd be checking her for Tory, Blue Labour, and Reform links.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm extremely annoyed about this. Something can be factually true, and morally correct to say, without it having to be party policy and publicity voted on in a headline making fashion days before a by-election that could very well shape the course of politics to come in this country.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As an IT support professional, I think it would be healthy to promote the idea that you can and will.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also really quite susceptible to modern antibiotics as I understand it.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(obviously doesn't help that there are some things, like permission and opportunity to do harm, that I would deprive them of. But mostly it's mirror thinking occupying the bit of their brains where empathy ought to be so that they simply can't imagine other people not meaning them harm for existing)

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And probably consult a medical professional too.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So much of the argument from the people I disagree with, who are actually doing harm, is "you want to take this [right/freedom/nice thing] away from me!" and I really struggle to make them understand "no, I don't, I just want these guys to have it too". Zero sum thinking is hard to beat, but we must

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Probably more the fault of the source material than the production!

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the same way that B99 was at its best when it was also being a decent procedural, Galaxy Quest because it was a great Trek movie. Parody is at its best when it's closest to its subject. Something lost, sadly, on a lot of people who try it.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I pften found it funniest when it was also good sci-fi though. S3-4 were my favourites. Although it could be argued that it peaked at Polymorph.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Heroes was one great season of TV.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean, there's a very real extent to which Polari was ridiculous self censorship in a similar vein

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You people are going to have to get with the custard cream program or violence will follow.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

... answer to the question "how can AI kill us all" and that is "idiots hand decisions over to it, and one day, the idiot will be in a position of great power and responsibility, and the decisions will be life or death decisions".

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whatever any of these marketing sleazeballs says (because anyone and everyone from within these companies who speaks to anyone about the issues surrounding the tech and doesn't mysteriously accidentally cut their own throat while shaving in a motel car park is involved in marketing) there is one...

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He has? Ah FFS. Ed Sheeran looking motherfucker so disappointing but not hugely surprising.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh there's that famous "Left Wing Antisemitism" aga... Oh.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nah. Don't even make references. If you want nonsense fantasy with shit Latin, 40k is right there and almost entirely written by good people.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, the stars of the (still pretty recent) movies have all "betrayed" her by openly believing that trans people are humans deserving of human rights, so she wants some new kids to dress as her creations and mold and manipulate in her image.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Coming to England wouldn't help these days. She divides her time between her mould haunted Scottish castle, and her Epstein Island visiting billionaire megayacht.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's essentially free promotion for her new TV show, her profits from which go straight into funding anti-rights organisations and lawfare.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, I fear this is tipping over into the "actually kinda disingenuous as if we need to make things up, as if the reality isn't actually easily dreadful enough" phase of "the discourse".

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Then they have to justify their position, and begin constructing myths of meritocracy, finding ways to blame the less lucky for their own misfortune so they don't feel guilty about not wanting to be part of a distributive, supportive society.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"More conservative as you age" was always a convenient myth amongst the middle class, who simply grow more protective of wealth as they accrue it. Everything else is window dressing. People who by sheer luck find themselves with two garages suddenly realise they're paying more tax, and resent it.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Permit me to make loud and semi coherent noises from deep inside the tech industry about how correct you are.

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"this is a powerful metaphor about how we treat vs. how we ought to be treating unfamiliar or distant people".

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Mejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of it, honestly, comes from media illiteracy in sci-fi fandom. Surface- reading, empathy deficient nerds reading stories about the ethical quandaries raised by sentient AI and thinking "yeah this is a deep story about how we should treat machine intelligence when it happens" instead of...

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