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[EuchreJack]

I thought this was entertaining:
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/juries-deserve-the-truth-on-climate-protests

[hector13]

John Swinney has ruled himself out of the leadership of the SNP.

New leader is to be announced on March 19th I think, so the emergency SNL conference thing to determine the future direction of the party has also been postponed, ‘cause having a new leader anchored to a position they may not necessarily accept is a silly idea.

[Starver]

There's a TV advert, that I think ran around the turn of the New Year, to advertise how something (ISP service? Mobile phone contract? I forget what, and by who...) that 'predicted' things that would change this year, like chainmail[1] becoming fashionable and the door to 10 Downing Street being made into a revolving one.

One of the things was that turnips would become a major consumable (in all kinds of ways, including a "turnip latte"). Well, now there's actually this...

(And I've made my own chainmail, before, so maybe I should dig out my ring-maker and the rest of the tools!)


[1] The 'armour', not the spam.

[Starver]

...ok, so Ash Regan, Kate Forbes and Humza Yousaf for SNP leader.

Not so much as an obvious fish amongst them, unfortunately.

[hector13]

Forbes recently announced that she wouldn’t have voted for gay marriage if she was an MSP at the time, which basically tanked her campaign on day one and is “tearing the party apart” if news reports are to be believed, and has said she wouldn’t challenge the UK government’s block on Gender Reform Bill, while Regan quit the government over same.

So yeah. Yousaf it is. Opposition parties seem to consider him the contender given how much they’ve said about his poor performance as health minister.

[Grim Portent]

Of the three Yousaf is the only one I would consider an acceptable leader. Scot Greens might be getting all my votes in the future, rather than just my list vote, depending on how things shake out though.

[Great Order]

Forbes recently announced that she wouldn’t have voted for gay marriage if she was an MSP at the time, which basically tanked her campaign on day one and is “tearing the party apart” if news reports are to be believed, and has said she wouldn’t challenge the UK government’s block on Gender Reform Bill, while Regan quit the government over same.

So yeah. Yousaf it is. Opposition parties seem to consider him the contender given how much they’ve said about his poor performance as health minister.

On the other hand...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/kate-forbes-most-popular-candidate-29296053

[hector13]

More people in that said they don’t know who they’ll vote for than said they’d vote for Forbes :p fit was also a very small sample.

I thought I shouldn’t click a Daily Record link and I was right not to, but now I have icky tabloid cookies. Thanks :p

[Starver]

I thought I shouldn’t click a Daily Record link and I was right not to, but now I have icky tabloid cookies. Thanks :p

(I hate pretty much any newspaper/similarly-newsy website, with so many cookies/etc. I often check what things I can aactual refuse as "non-essential", and one place I found myself on last week had hundreds of individually listed 'partners'. Maybe just any place they'd even marginally been connecting with, for included iframes and the like, in a web of Web-dependencies.  ...I was actually more concerned to find that my gas-supplier's web-pages was clearly loading up components from "tiktok.analytics" (-dot-something-or-other, but I forget exactly how the full thing went). But it's either bad practice or sheer laziness, the amount of externalised .js loading most commericial (or even merely "commercialised) web-pages do. And even the BBC seems to be doing similarly horrible things, in a subset of its web-based apps. But that's a gripe for another aside...)

[hector13]

Eh just be happy you have the .co.uk version of the BBC website. As a user outside the UK I get forced to the .com variety, and have adverts on the pages! Some are horrible pop-up type things that I have to actively close, some are scrollable for some bizarre reason and I get times when I’m scrolling through headlines and the page stops because I’m scrolling through some shitey advert on the side of the screen I was not even paying attention to (great use of advertising budget, certainly), not to mention the ones that you scroll past but kind of lock the screen onto them for a bit, because obviously the reason I’m not clicking on it is because I haven’t looked at it properly rather than having more interest in reading an article on Cocaine Bear or my local football team.

[scriver]

Humza if he was Swedish could have been forced into "hummer" which is Swedish for lobster, but I think in English that's slang for blowjob?

I am very disappointed in the fishlessness of this selection. I might have to reconsider my stance on Scottish independence

[Frumple]

Humza if he was Swedish could have been forced into "hummer" which is Swedish for lobster, but I think in English that's slang for blowjob?

For a specific sort of one, actually. It gets the name from involving, well, humming.

[Great Order]

Never heard of "hummer" before, aside from someone who hums, or the car make.

[Frumple]

There were a great many jokes made about that car, too, heh.

[Starver]

For what this article is about, it seems my big takeaway is that the niece of a certain gentleman (who left passive-aggressive notes on the office desks of those who were working at home) was someone who herself made use of legislation (at least partly created by the EU, to be additionally ironic...) to apparently take an extended leave of absence from her job.

(But then I've been awake for about 26 hours, really shouldn't be finally preparing for bed by winding down by reading news-sites, and may well not be concentrating properly on the intended message.)