You're welcome. I can't recommend a specific one, but I'm sure someone here knows a good option.
Just be a bit cautious when you're picking - I don't think *all* the sites which offer to do it are as benign as they seem. In particular if it tells you you have to download a file to view it, leave.

Wow, can @labouruk.bsky.social MP @tomhayesmp.bsky.social give any reason why he’s taking @greenparty.org.uk leaflets from properties?

This is unacceptable.

For news outlets you want to access but not support, if you search "article paywall remover" you can choose one of the options, paste a link to the article in and it will (try to) provide access to it.

It seems very backwards to me that the idea seems to be that once the machine has pissed someone off enough that they're shouting, it will transfer them to a Human who is actually affected by that anger.

So much of politics these days makes me think of a little kid shrieking "I DIDN'T STEAL THE CHOCOLATE YOU'RE BEING SO UNFAIR!" while their mouth is covered in chocolate.
The main difference is nobody says "We can all see the chocolate, now stop being awful".

You are correct - I do not applaud people for not engaging with violent fantasies in political interviews, I just consider it a bare minimum standard they should achieve by default.

Yeah it's really not hard to say "I don't want to taser and deport anyone for disagreeing with me and that's a weird thing to bring up. I agreed to an interview to discuss politics, not engage in violent fantasies."

Didn't get one either but if it helps:
The Home Secretary reportedly made the jibe during a recording of Matt Forde’s podcast when she was asked who out of Zack Polanski, Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch or Ed Davy she would taser or deport.

According to Politico, Mahmood replied: “All of the above.”

I always feel genuinely sorry for all the Hindus and Buddhists who have to explain to western tourists that the swasticas carved into their temples are ancient holy symbols of prosperity and wellness, were there long before the Nazis stole it and really, really don't mean *that*.

Worst case scenario, if the money's vanished, you could just send the bill to the billionaires who've been happy to pay for every other crime Trump commits.

I think a lot of that loops back to what I was saying about education being based in producing good workers, not well rounded people - that class has certainly done nothing, ever, to make my employers happier, so it's disregarded as "useless hippie shit that nobody needs to know".

I think a fair bit of that is just good old fashioned academic snobbery towards the humanities.
It's like there's a saying of "If you put 'Social' in front of a topic it stops being science." but 'Social Antrhopology' etc are extremely complex and respectable specialities even among scientists.

Yeah, this one works with most call AI's - they're designed to detect frustration in customers so if you start shouting and/or swearing into the phone it's often the quickest way to get through to a person.

I didn't say it is a joke class, I said it sounds like one. I have never bought up that title and not had people sneer and say "Oh like watching films right?" or similar.

This feels like throwing out the friend equivalent of a fishing lure and honestly more people should probably do it.

I recently discovered some of the US administration are slightly younger than me (34) and, without trying to be shallow and judgemental, I sincerely thought they were in their 50's.
Evil ages you.
And so does trying to hide that with excessive botox and surgery.

Why should I bother answering your questions when you're explicitly dodging mine?
Have a nice night.

Who does "Dancing is resistance exlcude" and how? These constantly shifting goalposts are getting a bit tiresome to be perfectly honest - it wasn't a complex question.

"What do we do about the people who are determined to undermine society and harm others for their own benefit/satisfaction?" is a valid concern. There are answers that would have bothered me, but no, "Work around them and strive for a system they can't abuse" does not.
Now, if you'd answer me - (1)

You didn't ask for a definition, you said raves were about inclusion in a way that implied this was about exclusion.

Regarding the second quote, which seems to have now appeared at random from an entirely different topic, can I ask why you're quoting the question but not the answer he gave to it?

Who do the words "Dancing is resistance" exclude from the rave scene and how?

I wish this was true but it's really not.
The people suffering the most in the US right now aren't MAGA, it's (probably) the teenage girls who were abducted by ICE, have mysteriously become pregnant while in custody and are now being held in an isolated wing of a concentration camp.
Keep fighting.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Absolutely.
The one that always sticks with me was my history teacher telling us "The Allies never intentionally bombed civilian targets". Which, to say as a history teacher, is either a bold faced lie or a sign you're not qualified for your job.
I got detention for listing the cities we bombed.

As an autistic kid I honestly lost track of the amount of times I got into trouble over being willing to die on the hill that "Correcting the teacher isn't rude if you know the teacher is wrong".
Luckily for me my Mum backed me up on that when she got called in over it.

One of the biggest problems with the education system IMO (alongside funding, which ruins everything when there's not enough of it) is that it's designed to produce obedient workers, not well rounded people.
Critical thinking skills in particular are ignored, while research skills are undervalued.

Yeah, the poor teacher of that class - devoted her life to educating people on the subtle undercurrents of media bias and how to spot them, and now it's just bloody great neon signs flashing "We picked a side!" while someone shouts "And it's Reform!" through a loudspeaker.

The most useful class I've ever taken was "Communication and culture studies" which sounds like a joke class but was focused on breaking down the language of news articles etc - what are they trying to communicate with their wording? Are there signs they've taken a side of this debate or not? Etc.

When I was growing up the BBC was one of my primary resources to learn about the world. My Mum would let me stay up late when an important panorama etc show was going to air, so that I had a better grasp of what was happening.
I dread to think of the person it would shape if you did the same now.

To be clear, the United States military is not just "war crime" evil, and "genocide support" evil - it is also lawless pirates.