David

He/they 🇬🇧 | Pan 🌈 | Tea-fuelled queer introvert with a fursona, a blog, and way too many tabs open. Gaymer, sketcher, more active on bluesky same name.

[David @nerdlegend]

Hi used be more active here you can find me on bluesky these days. Discord as I mod a server or two. Handle the same and just ageing gaymer.

[David @nerdlegend]

@TitanClumzy Good luck whatever you do in the future!!

[David @nerdlegend]

@LAClennell I'm so sorry for your loss. At least he won't suffer anymore now.

[Pupsker @Pupsker]

Rent a Excalibur Prime will pop off end of year in Warframe!

[Makari @Makarimorph]

Oh man I love living in a country that has banned gooning and now requires me to ID verify my self for MY OWN discord... what a archaic system.
Nothing like punishing the masses cus some Ipad parents dont want to actually parent their kids

[David @nerdlegend]

@Makarimorph I ain't been keeping up with things but I hope you're doing well much love 😘

[David @nerdlegend]

@HisServant77 Yeah....it has changed so much and now in closed gardens again also I think I remember you.

[David @nerdlegend]

Who knows maybe somebody sees this but I haven't used twitter like I used too. Things changed my engagement with people used to follow disappeared. Part of me wants to delete this account. Part of me wants to sign out. Feel like everybody went somewhere else or didn't bother.

[David @nerdlegend]

@ZenBooda1 Take your time grief is a process. I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you’re taking care of yourself. The upload can wait, no worries

[David @nerdlegend]

@LAClennell I'm at LR5 and slacking good to see you're on WF still. Need to play it again.

[David @nerdlegend]

@ZenBooda1 A boy asked me out and I got denied. Hope you're doing well loved your content.

[David @nerdlegend]

@paullewismoney @resfoundation But what about renewal claims wouldn't they be under the new system?

[David @nerdlegend]

@Black_Kettle I looked at some of my older content and went I don't know why I posted that.

[David @nerdlegend]

@Milnerant Most of the extremists are UK born and natural citizens. I would be more worried about information silos full of disinformation and misinformation leading to radicalisation.

[David @nerdlegend]

@Milnerant Most of the market is held with very few people who well I don't need to explain. I don't think it controlled but group think with bunch of people who believe in the asset that completely worthless :)

[David @nerdlegend]

@IronEconomist Four problems at once. Very strict benefits system pushing people towards it. Very low payout without it. Trying to save money but ends up costing money. Complicated by design to push from claiming. Complicated with incentives not to pay out on pip. Most don't get full story.

[David @nerdlegend]

@lewis_goodall Europeans should be going it alone without the Americans. We cannot surrender European sovereign to the Americans. That however requires leadership and pushback.

[David @nerdlegend]

@BIackEyeSMITE Huh that something I hadn't even considered I wonder if any more examples like this.

[David @nerdlegend]

@fleetstreetfox Largely accurate but Americans pay us for the lease. Any payment going be American money. No British citizen works on the island. It an American colony. This "important" island has been mentioned on average 2 times a decade until 2010s. At most in commons.

[fleetstreetfox @fleetstreetfox]

OK this requires a long explanation, because it's so wrong and there'll be a lot of people for whom this is the version of the truth they're picking up from the news and current debate about the Chagos.

1. We didn't buy the Chagos. France gave it as part of a surrender in 1814, we used Mauritius as a colonial base, and Chagos was a slaving pitstop. After WW2 the US wanted a base in the Indian Ocean, and demanded we provide them with one. The British govt expelled the Chagossians, hived the islands off from the administration of Mauritius, and did a 50yr deal with the US. In other words, we snaffled it, kicked the residents off, and gave it to a foreign power.

2. British sovereign territory, my fat arse.

3. We are not handing it back to the seller. Mauritius didn't sell it, and didn't own it, and its claim goes back beyond French colonisation which was, ipso facto, also not a sale.

4. The fact we're paying Mauritius to keep using one of the islands is a) a requirement of the US, which we're still bending over for, and b) the result of repeated rulings by international courts which have, quite reasonably, pointed out the whole thing is a fucking mess.

5. Britain is setting up a fund to help the Chagossian diaspora, many of whom are now British citizens and are STILL being denied the right to live in the place where they were born. The fund, if it works, is good, but the people are still being fucked over and it is, ultimately, all the Americans' fault.

6. The pickle the govt now finds itself in is a result of being a servant nation to the US, a thing which has been the case for decades, and the last US govt ok'd the deal, the new one is humming and hawing as it is about everything, and the fact we're paying the political and reputational price is par for the bloody course.

7. TL;DR: It's not Starmer's fault. It could be better. It probably won't ever be, if you're Donald Trump or a Chagossian.