[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Paisley of course being instrumental in those 'plantations' - i just thought it weird to suggest he didn't start the Troubles, when he pretty much did.

Not to say Musk is comparable - he's not even close to the main actor here. But he is a public figure who has been using the social media platform he owns to stir up hatred against particular groups of people in the UK. And not just on this occasion, he's been chiming in for years.

[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not understanding your comparison to the Troubles, because Paisley was the lead figure who fuelled the fires of religious hate through his influence, having founded a number of the groups involved in the incidents that kicked off the Troubles.

Maybe it wasn't a single speech that caused it, but he was very much the face of the loyalist movement for most of his life.

[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It was last revised under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 where it was raised from 13 to 16... so I would think it probably was designed exactly that way. None of the parliaments in the UK seem to have any intention of raising it.

[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I only use Google Alerts and it's absolute trash. You can set it to only give alerts for particular regions and it's constantly giving me hits from India, USA, and Australia (I'm also in Europe!).

[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, @bikini.bottom.news!

[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Omg this is exactly what I've been looking for. I do a lot of media monitoring for work and have been using MBFC to try to measure how reliable my current Google Alerts are, because it throws up some weird and wild news sources.

[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tomie isn't as meme-ified as Amigara fault, or as widely adapted as Uzumaki, but is another of his bigger works, would recommend!

Also, you may have seen a few images from Uzumaki (the hair, the face) but the story is quite long and really unsettling! Would still recommend giving it a read.

[-] Lorela@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Have you ever tried some sort of stimmy food like pepitas? They're kinda a pain to eat if you're not used to it. I can do one at a time and don't have the best success rate of even getting the seed out ๐Ÿ˜‚.

Lorela

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