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This is why when my cat demanded I buy him a trained capuchin monkey I absolutely refused and took away his credit card. If cats get access to some other primate that they can more easily dominate we are doomed.

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Well I guess if humanity was wiped out then it would be good for biodiversity but I don't think it is a policy position that will get a lot of support from humans — who apparently are a major part of the voting public (I suspect dogs might be mainly pro-human also. Cats on the other hand...)

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Eyre not Eyrie damn it

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That's what I was going to say! Poor old Australia doesn't even have those! Lake Eyrie is the biggest and much of it doesn't usually even have water in it.

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"Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza."

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The Republican Front - the alliance of all non-fascist parties against the fascists - is clearly there with the voters, even if the political parties are less robust on that point. Ils ne passeront pas

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I haven't seen this yet but I've got tickets. Really excited.

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A bit squeakier than I imagined - not trying to voice shame Starmer it was just not what I expected (not that I could say what I expected).

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I think he will try very hard to avoid discovering that

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To match classic TV screen ratios of 4:3. Widescreen hotdogs come in packets of 16 with 9 buns, as progress demand should

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Because I tend to read about UK politics rather than watch UK current affairs programs, I hadn't realised what Keir Starmer's voice sounded like.

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Rebel with a cause: inside the moment Fatima Payman quit the Labor party

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I think Footist is probably what I've always been :)

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Australians can sound smug about elections when we also have stupid right-wing government & far-right power grabs. Electoral reform can't erase the entrenched power of the wealthy (eg. Gena Rinehart & Rupert F-king Murdoch). Still, elections are genuinely better here. Voting reform is worth it.

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I see Will Frank already posted Jason and Chris's investigation which gets inside what was done. If you want to nerd out with graphs & numbers, Heather Rose Jones and I wrote this docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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I grew up thinking of them as the enemy so to speak (very Labour Party household & the SDP were traitors etc...) so Clegg confirmed a lot of my entrenched biases from decades earlier. In reality, they were always right about electoral reform. Not a panacea but definitely makes things less shit.

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In their defence, they did attempt during their limited time in semi-power to push through electoral reform. That would have changed the game somewhat in the UK.

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The Libdem coalition with the Tories under Cameron is a key part of how the UK got into this mess. There are lots of politically principled Libdems but the party itself tactically will run to the left or to the right of Labour depending on which way the wind is blowing.

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I think when polls close in the UK it will be about 7 am here in Sydney. Good time to see the results but a bad time for a drink :(

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Elections are more interesting when you are in a marginal seat :)

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OK - mixed feelings about voting when I don't live there anymore (and also, I only lived in safe Labour seats) but I know of righ-wing expats without such qualms and it would have been nice if only symbolically to vote this time around.

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I have a UK passport but the last time I checked (which was probably over a decade ago) I needed to have stayed registered at a specific local registration office (wherever I was last registered). Having not done so, I couldn't get back on. But rules may have changed.

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As much as I dislike Starmer & have long since lost any right to vote in the UK, an electoral wipe-out for the Tories will make me so happy.

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I just finished...Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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I lasted less than a minute

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2005 Sutekh stuck in a London housing estate with kids writing rude graffiti about him.

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As I said in my editorial in the new issue of Journey Planet that I helped edit.

"When things have broken so badly that multiple winners have stepped back and renounced this honor, you have a serious problem that needs to be addressed."

www.journeyplanet.org/journey-plan...

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Honestly if money were made unnecessary to live we would almost certainly be getting more art out of people, not less, let's make money superfluous to existence and find out

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