oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 7hConservatives by definition don’t like cultural change so they have to make it sound worse, like a virus! Everyone on the right quite quickly deciding that the England football team are actually not English somehow does not count as social contagion 060
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A very good faith retelling of my posts! Thanks buddy, I can tell you’ve been having a really fun day so I’ll let you get back to it. 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’m going to bow out here, because this is a pointless conversation - between two members no less! Every one of your posts is just Can I win Can I win Can I win Like, ok sure 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I can’t really think of any others that fit the circumstances I described above, this was a notably controversial motion as we both know! 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My personal opinion is that if the membership are going to overrule most of the party’s elected representatives (who will then have to defend the new policy), it should take more than under 1% of the membership to make the vote quorate/binding. You didn’t vote either, maybe this is an issue 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026From the green groups I’m in from my area, who are all naturally pro-Palestine and generally see this as an own goal. You can have different opinion ofc, and with only 1.8k people having input neither of us can prove our position. I think this is a problem, esp when our representatives were against 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Sure, and you still haven’t - I do think though that this is an example of where the greens’ more member-led approach has weaknesses, and lead to what is here a bad framing that I doubt most members would fully support. The motion is a mess and I wish there had been more leadership from the party. 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’m a green member - we may be talking at cross purposes here, do you mean people could vote on whether the motion went to conference at all? Bc I wasn’t aware of an online conference vote, and only 1.8k votes from 230k members would suggest there wasn’t one 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Could we? Where/how? Or do you mean pre-conference? 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And entryism may be an abused term, but it is true that the greens’ policy here leaves them more open, so that 1k activists out of 230k members can have a huge impact - a feature that may not always work out well 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think there’s a lot of eliding the difference between “pro-Palestine” (just about every green member) and supporting this specific motion and wording. Is this an accurate reflection of members’ views? Personally I doubt it’s how most members would chose to word the party’s policy on Palestine. 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think one way it can be considered worrying is that it creates a clear weak point for entryism - in this case a motion that will have little positive effect, quite a lot of negative, wasn’t supported by the leader or any of the MPs that will have to explain it, based on small number of ppl 100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I would have supported all kinds of other statements - Israel is committing genocide, is a terror state etc. But this framing seems self-destructive and unnecessarily philosophical, rather than policy focused. I think a lot of green members are dismayed that 1k conference attendees have forced this 220
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I find it interesting that this is often framed as “personalised” music - take away social context and interactions with others, and what “taste” is left? It’s not like musical taste is genetic, it’s socially constructed over one’s life. All this “personalised” music will end up sounding the same. 000
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yeah the three witches they caught at first were probably legit witches… hang on, what? 020
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Quite hard to imagine what “infinite personalised music” could mean in a world where all social elements of music have been removed - personalised how? Does he think music taste is genetic? 000
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So, one seventh of the people paid UC are in their twenties? Given that there aren’t 7 working decades of adult life, this is not out of whack, surely? 130
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think the bigger problem is clearly “how do we persuade a handful of very rich people that it’s worth growing their pile of money at a slower rate, in exchange for a liveable world for their children?” 010
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Carbon capture is exactly why “net zero” is actually, truly, stupid - from an environmental perspective. The “net” part was all about setting up trade in carbon credits, and “offsetting” with carbon capture tech that barely exists, rather than straight-up reduction of emissions. 000
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The same has been said about the kind of baby monitors that monitor movement, pulse etc - not actually reassuring, just a route to ultra-attentive anxiety 070
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sidebar about Heinlein’s politics - when he found out that new wave sci fi authors were taking out a full page ad in a prominent sci fi journal, stating their opposition to the Vietnam war, Heinlein and other members of the old guard organised a pro-war statement for the opposite page. 030
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It’s part smug, part vengeful - “fuck you, the bad guys will still win” 010
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bleak and awesome - really like “starfish” too, about deep sea workers with horrifying body mods to help them work underwater, with the core conceit that only intensely weird people would take on such a job 011
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Blocking roads is illegal, after the tories put in legislation specifically to target environmental protestors. Can just use that, for starters 070
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Ah! Well I’m sorta glad not to be so educated on these matters but glad you’re around to do the necessary! So its “not nazism, not exactly” 050
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 29/08/2026There is no magic soil but there IS magic blood! 0181
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It should be a cause for serious concern that the majority of kids across all walks of life and ability levels, simply do not enjoy their time at secondary school especially. But our culture isn’t interested in the experiences of teenagers, and the architects of this failure have other priorities. 020
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Ah, but it will have prepared them for rigorous academic success in our collapsing university system! Well, not if one speaks to anyone still lucky enough to have a job teaching first year students - and for those not following an academic pathway it’s hardly going better. 110
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Under his watch there was a push to dismiss engagement and enjoyment as woo-woo stuff that would be all sorted when kids started to feel a sense of academic success, and the results are in - we made an already test-obsessed system even more punitive and distrusting of children! 120
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There is plenty of empirical evidence that children hate the recent shift in education policy - v poor levels of kids feeling a sense of belonging in school vs oecd countries, only half saying there is an adult in school who really cares about them (from gov’s figures!). 110
Reposted by @oldskoolrando.bsky.socialMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸 1188862402
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 23/08/2026As shown by the core sentiment imo - “it’s not 2020 anymore”. You guys had your fun but it’s time to put BLM strictly in the past and get back to the way we like to do things. His inclusion of that phrase really shows that he knows what this is about. 0120
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The same people are very angry at the idea we should be teaching teenage boys this kind of thing in school, because according to them this would make teenage boys feel ashamed of their masculinity 1100
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Metal bands can have so many “but the vocals” moments where they come in and it doesn’t fit what you hoped for / expected, whereas those were unexpected but really awesome, like steam escaping some kind of industrial kettle. RIP 000
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Ah just seen your other post! Great song 000
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 09/08/2026In the UK, where the national health service was created after the Second World War to provide healthcare free at the point of use, funded by general taxation…those damn dentists dug their heels in to carve out their own territory, and so an “nhs dentist” is still hard to find :( 1150
Reposted by @oldskoolrando.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026“But what about British people…?” Support offered to Asylum seekers is far less than support offered to British citizens. 10/ 225224
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“Even if this is all fake” - no, that makes spreading it bad, come on. 01091
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 06/08/2026That American culture is desensitised to the violence it inflicts around the world because their wars have become sensationalised media events? 030
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven” is the most metal line ever. Also totally metal that a Christian couldn’t help but make the devil sound even cooler 001
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I suppose I’ll regret this deeply controversial take, but it is informed by reading someone’s Wikipedia page so I consider it my duty 030
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Why? People should care about what legacy they leave, and yes that includes public figures perhaps having to consider that if they’re a bad person in life, people won’t say nice things about them when they die - which is, btw, how it works for everyday people. 030
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The implication that the CoE relies on donations, and that therefore his threat for the headbanger right to stop paying their subs has weight, is really something. You can’t pay to get the Jesus you want guys! 1220
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 01/08/2026We reopened pubs before schools 0101
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Aside from the fact I’ve not been interested in defending liking a post that contains a picture of that T-shirt (not great, but hardly a massive crime) - this is obvious false equivalence. Hundreds of thousands of people are actually dead man, that’s not funny 000
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Come on man, I’m happy to accept “Zack should go on his phone less” but I really think “war crimes klaxon” is beneath us all, when we’re talking about 100s of thousands dead in Iraq, and the same again in Gaza. That’s not banter material. 200
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I fear your point is too cunning to be understood 000
oldskoolrando.bsky.social @oldskoolrando.bsky.social · 28/07/2026 A bribe has to be 5 million quid? Please god, no one tell my kids 211
