[โ€“] 23 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

I love that girl versions of things very often are just boy versions of things with either bows and/or eyelashes.

I appreciate that it is very much a default male root, but I honestly love that these two things are now somehow the universal way of indicating a gender-ambiguous character is female. Not boobs, not genitals - eyelashes and/or bows are the universal cartoon gender indicators.

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 5 days ago

    Nothing. In the book he dies because he actually stabs the picture with a knife. Looking at it presses home just how decrepit he should actually have become, but it isn't until he stabs it that he himself feels any actual injury.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    No they absolutely don't support it.

    The trouble with the vote was they've now painted a huge target on themselves for the right-wing media that conflate Zionism with Judaism itself.

    The vote hasn't actually achieved anything positive, but has definitely made the party significantly less attractive to the casual voter.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    Zack Polanski is literally the only thing keeping the right-wing press from branding the Green Party as anti-Semitic - especially after the recent ill-advised vote on Zionism.

    He's also the reason that at one point the Greens were polling better than Labour.

    Getting rid of him would be a disaster. The Green Party is pretty much the biggest party that is actually democratic. As I mentioned, I don't think the recent Zionism vote was a good move (and it has certainly tanked their performance in the polls), but it was tabled and voted on democratically.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 week ago

    Mario Kart Tour is a now-defunct mobile game that even at its peak only ever scraped middling reviews.

    Mario Kart World is a best-selling Switch 2 game that has won multiple awards.

    Mario Kart Tour is the answer.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    TBH, mine hurt far more when they were in the kidneys than actually passing them did. Passing them just felt like peeing out a scratchy grain of sand with the rest of the flow. When they were still in the kidneys, though, I'd get pangs of pain that would completely crumple me over and make tears come out. Not nice.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Looks like loads of the replies have been put under too!

    I took a peek at your profile and a few of the others just to confirm - I suspect the difference is down to countries.

    I'm from the UK. Broadly speaking, the NHS won't risk using general anaesthetic if it's not needed. My appointment was just an out-patient affair. On the table, on your side, bum out, think happy thoughts... The whole thing took probably thirty minutes at most.

    The best part of being awake is that you can ask questions. I could see the screen and the doctor pointed out what he was looking for when he found it (and to answer the obvious follow up question, it was just a weird blood vessel thing).

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    It's been nine years since Grenfell. The fact that this urgently-needed legislation is only just on its second reading should make everyone question what on earth Parliament has been playing at.

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    As far as I can tell, this is referring to this proposed amendment of the Representation of the People Bill:

    https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/stages/20676/amendments/10035247

    So, not quite a petition for getting rid of FPTP per-se, but proposing an independent body is set up to determine the fitness for purpose of the current system, and suggest ways to make it fairer.

    There's a little reading-between-the-lines needed.

    Why Ireland? (www.independent.co.uk)
     

    Donald Trump has been posting images again.

    One of them shows him attacking the Earth from space with lasers. Two places are being blown up, the clearest of which is Ireland (the second might be Bulgaria).

    Donald Trump attacks the Earth from space.

    I'm British, so not totally up on US politics, but it surprised me that he was attacking Ireland.

    I appreciate that he sometimes posts weird stuff, but it usually seems to be related to something. Attacking Ireland from space for no reason seems random even for him, so I'm guessing it's related to something.

    So, please can someone with more insight explain why he'd blow up Ireland?

     

    Hi all!

    I've been looking for a video that I used to play for my kids when they were little, maybe 11-12 years ago.

    It's a music video featuring a Korean (?) (maybe Japanese) rock song accompanied by a really cute animation of a hunanoid bunny or cat trying to deliver a cake.

    The animation style was line outlines apart from a few solid colours used for emphasis.

    The main character is trying to get a birthday cake to their friend's party, other animals are waiting.

    He manages to keep to cake safe despite being squashed on the train, bumped on the street, and having a gang of thugs chase after him. While running from the thugs, he bursts through the door of the venue, trips, and the cake flies out of the box and squashes on the floor. It's a happy ending though, because the girl bunny loves the cake even though it's squashed, and the thugs are even allowed to have some cake.

    I vaguely remember the lyrics saying in English "It's your birthday" during the chorus, but other than that it was all Korean/Japanese.

    Please, if anyone remembers anything about this, help me!

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