"well, Satan, I've been a courtroom lawyer, so if the price of a second term as PM is bandying words with a blithering idiot every PMQs, where do I sign?"

Badenoch Vs Jenrick Jesus ****ing wept...

Seems a recurring theme

Absolute mic drop near the end of a fascinating thread.

DHdreadships.bsky.socialOct 8, 2024 9:27pm

And from a modern point of view it's weird that the Nazis picked on him anyway. Anyone still hanging around on Twitter knows they'd instead be hating on smart gamer women who can do maths and make them look silly.

Hadn't thought of this nugget - it's a true fear of the unknown. The idea of your little darling becoming a teenager with a smartphone must be terrifying. Not letting them have a smartphone won't actually help, of course, and probably isn't what they're truly afraid of...

DDgarwboy.bsky.socialOct 8, 2024 8:56pm

There's also this This whole thing is dominated/driven by parents of primary school kids. Which A) Makes logical sense: they're the ones most likely to have kids under 14, i.e who the campaign is aimed at B) Means they have little/no experience of actually dealing with teens and smartphones /5

And of course it's a bloody academy, the ongoing slow motion car crash of one of the Blair administration's stupider decisions.

Head teacher needs striking off. Ridiculous attitude. BBC News - Neale-Wade Academy in March wants proof for period pain absences - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Neale-Wade Academy in March wants proof for period pain absences

The school says it is also not accepting explanations such as

Honestly unsurprised.

The whole "it's a stop smoking aid, honest" routine never squared with the shop shelf presentation.

I suspect a little experiment would show a version with the titles randomised would be shared just as widely - it's faux profundity for people who probably haven't read/seen most of the examples, much less understood them.

Ttwlldun.bsky.socialOct 7, 2024 1:36pm

Always fascinated by people who share this meme and don’t stop to think “hang on, how can these radically different dystopias overlap and how are we at the centre of all of them?”