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Tiste Simeon, on 26 May 2024 - 04:01 PM, said:

This is very much who it's for. If Reform get a significant chunk of the Tory vote this time there's probably little chance we'll be seeing a Reform MP, but the Tories will be screwed. And this goes doubly so if tactical voting is a factor; which, from the Local Authority elections a few weeks back, it looks like it will be. The gammons have this fantasy-1950s idea of a Britain that never really existed that they want to revive (it's more like "reify" tbh, but try explaining what that word means to them); y'know, before all the LGBTQ people, women and POCs started getting "ideas above their station". National Service is really just shorthand for all of that.
It doesn't matter that the Armed Forces definitely don't want it. It doesn't matter that it would cost an arm and a leg and that money would have to come from somewhere. It even doesn't matter what National Servce was actually like: I'm old enough to have spent time in the workplace with people who actually did National Service, and some of the stories I heard from them, the ones without the rose-tinted spectacles, are pretty horrific.

I mean, "Yay! General Election!"
But also, professionally speaking at least, now nothing gets decided or done for 6 weeks at just the point where a whole bunch of things needed to be decided and/or done. Treading water for 6 weeks should be fun...

Cuurently reading Max Gladstone's new Craft Sequence novel Wicked Problems. Are the antagonists from some of the previous books going to save the world? I guess we'll have to see. Fun so far, if a little disjointed. I'm only 1/3 of the way through, so it may come together later.

Snyder strikes me as someone who can produce very striking visual imagery but who also, somewhat paradoxically, seems to have a very small imagination.

New Squarepusher is out. And, as always, I'm reminded that the man is up there with the Aphex Twin for producing absolute bangers...