Frank Podmore 🌹 @frankpodmore@social.coop

If you'd like to read a blog about why Ocarina of Time was the first videogame that aspired to be a work of art, boy do I suspiciously have exactly that blog for you: https://frankpodmore.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/20-years-of-ocarina-of-time/

I don't quite understand people who feel the way to end factionalism in Labour would have been to appoint as General Secretary of the Labour Party someone factionally opposed to the leadership.

Huge nerd moment for me, as I excitedly contemplate rejoining the Labour party

Well, the kid and the wife have coughs, so I'm working from home till this Thurs at least. Anyone got any recommendations for not going stir crazy?

Why do people never pick the most obvious explanation for why people voted for a particular politician (they agree with them)? Always has to be some weird pop psychology thing.

If you've got a barn, prepare for it to be stormed: https://twitter.com/i/status/1235535792895909894

This is all a roundabout way of saying: you do not have to defend everything your chosen politician does. You do not have to agree with them entirely. You don't have to give up your intellectual autonomy to defend them; in fact, you don't have to defend them at all! Make your choice freely, discuss it freely and let other people freely make their own choices - none of this entails slavish devotion - quite the opposite, in fact.

I feel quite bad for people who feel they have to defend every little thing their candidate says or does.

A couple of week ago, all RLB stans were out in force saying that she didn't have to call out a racist who asked her a racist question, racistly, or that she already did call him out. Now, she's out and about saying she should've called him out, so her stans have to now forget they ever said anything, repudiate themselves or contradict her...

Brown endorses Starmer. And, because he's a class act, says nice things about RLB and Nandy, too

Gordoooooooooooooooooo

Last RT: If anyone in or near London, UK wants to protest the Brazilian embassy on 15 March, I'm up for it.

Student 1: I intend to study accounting, because I would like to work for a big accounting firm and one day be a CFO.

Student 2: I intend to study English, because I would like to be a teacher and one day be a head of department, maybe.

The government: Hmm, interesting, clearly accounting courses are worth more money.

Immigration controls have the exact same logic as apartheid: that it's better if non-white people are separated from whites, and it's just an irrelevant coincidence that everything on the 'non-white' side of the fence is far worse than the stuff on the 'white' side. Add some pious bullshit about how, after all, the non-whites will be better able to fix 'their' problems if they just keep to themselves.

Let's clear this up, once and for all: if you are 'concerned' about immigration, you are a racist. No, I will not be taking questions.

Just occurred to me that lots of people see Keir Starmer as a 'dull, safe pair of hands' kind of candidate, who's mainly going to mop up after a big defeat. This is *exactly* what people said about Attlee. Just sayin'...