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Richard Gadsden@po8crg.gadsden.online |
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Three-time Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, Man Utd and Red Sox fan, cis man, he/him/his, 83 protons, not a werelabradoodle, in spite of my appearance
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Richard Gadsden
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The most generous interpretation of this is that he wants cohabitation with the RN because he thinks he can outmaneuvre them. The less generous interpretation is that he just supports the far right getting into power.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)
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finding out you can get excommunicated by email is the funniest thing that has happened to me all day
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Richard Gadsden
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I mean, what is the point in having political parties that are nearly four hundred years old if you can't use that history to clown on them when they pratfall?
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Richard Gadsden
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Yeah, it does get ridiculous, doesn't it.
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Richard Gadsden
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121 Tory MPs is the worst result for them in a General Election since 1761 (112). Just thought I'd cheer some people up.
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Richard Gadsden
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Y'know how I feel? I feel like we just spent the last few years digging our way through every item in Pandora's Box and we just got down to the very bottom, the very last of all the horrors... and we found Hope. Well, Sir Keir, you got this little fragile thing called Hope. Please don't break it.
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Richard Gadsden
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"The Right Honourable Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, King's Counsel, Member of Parliament, First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister" if you're going to do that.
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Julia Azari
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i want to see a superPAC ad that says "recreational sex is on the ballot"
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Richard Gadsden
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His appointed successor was Howling Laud Hope.
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Richard Gadsden
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"Sir Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister" is perfectly fine. Just as "Mr. Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister" would have been yesterday. It's no longer and it doesn't grate. And just shorten it to "Starmer" on the second reference.
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Richard Gadsden
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I think it's because there are actual titles in the UK (like "Sir", for an obvious example), so there's less tendency to turn (important) jobs into titles. You'll see Brits making the same mistake in reverse sometimes - "Mr. Biden, the President" and the like.
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Richard Gadsden
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So is turning jobs, like President, or Senator, into titles. He's Mr. Joe Biden. His job is President of the United States. I'm Mr. Richard Gadsden. My job is Software Developer. No-one calls me "Developer Gadsden".
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Richard Gadsden
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Feels a lot like we got to the bottom of Pandora's Box.
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Richard Gadsden
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@linothel.bsky.social is this you?
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Nick Barlow
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Lib Dems now have more than half the number of seats as the Tories have, first time that has happened since 1923.
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Richard Gadsden
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Some Americans are confused: it's not a title at all. It's just his job. It would be like going into Starbucks and referring to people there as "Barista Smith" and "Barista Martinez", or calling me "Programmer Gadsden", or calling KJ "Author Charles".
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Richard Gadsden
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No, it's not a title. It's his job. It would be like calling me "Programmer Gadsden".
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John Bull
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This will be doubly awkward as the number of NOMINATIONS required for a candidate to make the Tory Leadership ballot ISN'T a percentage. It's a fixed number. 100 MPs. I'm sure it sounded reasonable at the time. Good luck getting 100 Tory MPs to agree on something when there are only 121 of them.
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Andrew Hickey
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Well that's annoying, looks like the one out-and-proud TERF Lib Dem candidate is going to win the recount in Inverness, Skye, and West Rosshire. This is the problem with vastly overperforming expectatios -- you always get a few utter arseholes winning by accident
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Stephen Bush
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An important thing to understand about the UK's exit poll is that it is really accurate for predicting, e.g. 'the Liberal Democrats will win around 60 seats' but it isn't designed to spit out the *right* 60 seats, so really don't spend anytime looking at what those are:
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Stephen Bush
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Every day I get a cogent, clearly expressed email from Conservatives. Unfortunately these emails are from FT readers in their 50s and 60s who are still working, and could and should be getting selected and seconded ala Gillian Keegan, while the official Tory material I get is mental.
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Stephen Bush
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Cracks me up that I can now say “oh, that end has the centre left natural wine bars, and that end has the leftwing natural wine bars”.
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Stephen Bush
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There’s a window on the estate that has, since the last election, had a “vote Diane Abbott” poster which has over the last few days changed to “Vote Green”, which is just a beautiful snapshot of how odd electoral behaviour can be.
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Richard Gadsden
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A question for the serious psephologists who are bored waiting for the exit poll to come out: if there's a 1992-style polling error in the opposite direction this year, would *any* Tory MPs survive?
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Shiv Ramdas
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I forgot it was the 4th of July and woke up my wife with a "hey you'll be late for work get up get up" and every sailor in the world, retire, you will never top what I have just experienced, I think I learnt like 4 new swear words rn
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Richard Gadsden
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This is excellent news. Also note that only 33 of the remaining 3/4 way runoffs are ones where the RN is in first or second, ie has a realistic chance to win. 58 are where RN is third and the left and Macronists can fight each other without any risk of letting the RN in.
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kaiwhiu
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Meme wise that's:
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Sarah Brown
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You put your red transphobe in You take your blue transphobe out In out In out “No you can’t use the public toilet”
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Richard Gadsden
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Shitpost banter timeline election prediction. Labour 420 Conservative 69 Liberal Democrat 69 (it doesn't add up, Reform would have to get 30 MPs)
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John Bull
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Guidance for US people trying to understand the UK election results later: Tories under 150 seats: LOL Tories under 120 seats: LMAO Tories under 100 seats: ROFL
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Richard Gadsden
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There are so many silly titles that you could easily slip through something like "Lord President of the Hermetic Council to His Majesty" and everyone would believe that is powerless ceremonial nonsense. But call it a comprehensible title like "Minister for Magic" and people would get suspicious.
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Richard Gadsden
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All of those are real. But only Black Rod has any powers (they're the head of security for the House of Lords). Sometimes you run into one where there's a real job with a normal name (e.g. Lords Chief Whip) and a stupid name (Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms).
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Richard Gadsden
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Bear in mind - most of these sorts of things really are powerless: "Gold Stick in Waiting ", "Silver Stick in Waiting" "Lord High Steward" "Master of the Horse", "Bearer of the Royal Banner", "Gentleman Usher of the White Rod", "Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod".
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Richard Gadsden
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It's constitutionally permitted for states to have the presidential election on different days, so the constitution can't possible address election day. There is a law (an Act of Congress) that defines the fixed Election Day in November, which is permitted by the constitution.
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Richard Gadsden
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Election Day doesn't exist in the constitution, only the EC vote. The EC could vote differently if the top-of-the-ballot died, or they could vote per the ballot and then the VP-elect would become President on inauguration day and there would be a vacancy for VP.
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Richard Gadsden
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The Vice-President-elect becomes President. That's covered in the 20th Amendment.
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Pookleblinky
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All the logistical, bureaucratic issues of replacing a candidate, navigating multiple deadlines and such, all these issues would also happen if that candidate just dropped dead at an inopportune time. With candidates this old, for this long, you'd hope someone would have planned for just that.
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Richard Gadsden
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Merckx's record for most Tour de France stage wins was supposed to be utterly unbreakable. The nature of cycling had changed, no-one could do what Merckx did again. Mark Cavendish did it a different way, but he just broke that unbreakable record. 35 wins over 16 years is amazing.
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Richard Gadsden
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Hogget (Sheep too old for lamb but too young to be mutton) is great, but really expensive.
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Richard Gadsden
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One reason I like preferential voting systems is that parties that are *hated* do worse than parties that are merely not liked much, even when they get the same percentage of the vote.
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Richard Gadsden
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This is why Sunak should do much worse than Major in 1997.
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Richard Gadsden
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World-building doesn't have to make sense in most books as long as most readers don't spot the cracks while they are reading. But when the whole point is not "a story about a few people" but "The Wizarding World", then the world-building is more important than plot or character or prose.
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Richard Gadsden
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Something like "Lord President of Her Majesty's Arcane Council". "Minister of Magic" is a bit too /modern/ a title to be squirrelled away, people would notice it. Something that sounds seventeenth century will be ignored as a powerless survival.
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Richard Gadsden
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That always made perfect sense for Britain. There are all sorts of weird unelected bits of the British government that the elected bits pretend don't have any power while deferring to them. A Ministry of Magic would just be another one - though it should probably be called something older.
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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום
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I’ve been seeing posts about how it is too late to get a new candidate on the ballot in a number of states, meaning Biden stepping down would fuck the Dems, which is why I propose that for the good of the nation, Trump and Biden must both shuffle off this mortal coil
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Richard Gadsden
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If you live anywhere else with a Tory MP, and you think there's no chance of getting rid of them: there's a professional pollster who disagrees. Might be worth checking who might beat the Tory and considering tactically voting?
inglesp.github.io/apogee/?2024...
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Richard Gadsden
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In alphabetical order: Arundel and South Downs Beaconsfield Brentwood and Ongar Christchurch East Surrey Hamble Valley Maldon New Forest East North West Essex Sevenoaks South Shropshire
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Richard Gadsden
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Combining all of the MRPs, there aren't very many seats that they all think are staying Tory. There are: Drumroll Drumroll ELEVEN
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