Silas

There are a very long list of countries with national ID card who have had them for decades. As a foreigner in Germany I have a residency title in the form of a biometric ID card. This is also the system the UK has already FYI as it is an EU wide initiative. In less than two weeks time I will become a German citizen and apply for a national ID card. Germany with 83 million people and a very well documented history of authoritarian dictatorship in the last century has had exactly ZERO of the issues listed above come to fruition. The data privacy in Germany even with the ID card is magnitudes higher than what it is today in the UK without them. What you got to fear, palantir and GCHQ can already track every nano second of your miserable existence, ain’t no one needing a digital id card for that. Plus the German database is more lucrative as the population is higher and it has not been compromised. Another large EU country with National ID and a ropey history of authoritarian dictatorship is Italy.

Woooooooooo Nice to see it’s finally official

Not yet… but I foresee at least one more change for @Scene to make and I’m not sure this one will be voluntary

Real Girl would be much more iconic, but Song 4 Mutya will still be a blast

Omg Real Girl would be perfection

Could also see them going for Freak Like Me

Finally!! After more than 15 years I just booked to see THE Tone Damli in November. Literally gonna be moving house the day before the gig and then flying out leaving my bf to unpack it all 😅😂 but I’ve said for years when she finally does a show I’ll be there regardless of the cost

Yeah I’ve always taken the cheeseblock to be like this slay/iconic/go king/omfg wot vibe

I think Morocco should announce their comeback- conditional on the genociders exclusion - and bring a few friends from around the Mediterranean who are eligible but have never participated because of Israel At the end of the day an accountant will have an outsized influence here and so by things like this you have to play the numbers. Play the financial hit of them staying off against the financial bonus of them going But that would require active organisation among broadcasters and a bit too much politicking for state broadcasters do its a pipe dream

I have a few concoctions up my sleeve. One a British girl group, that’s not the Sugababes, the Germans I originally sent last month but were deemed to potent a threat to ongoing blacksquare dominance by Brayden and a couple of others

If they did this, they would be the second new political party in the G7 with this set up to have appeared post-COVID. This is the playbook of BSW in Germany who are an offshoot of Die Linke (who Are in part the former communist dictatorship of east Germany) Very interesting trends across borders of this desire for Social Conservatism with Economic Liberalism

Only for the cooncil tho. For Holyrood it’s a bast*rdised additional member system designed for permanent minority governments and to keep the SNP out of power (lol at both). Similar to the Bundestag but with no overhang seats to even out the proportionality for the nationwide vote share. All three elections (previously 4 with the EU) in Scotland use a different electoral system

We can but dream

Free speech but only when it mirrors my views

So the streets are saying 🥲

The Sugababes are participating in a BBC documentary on Girlbands! https://deadline.com/2025/09/louis-theroux-girlbands-forever-global-briefs-1236545148/

I concur but only because I’m contractually obligated to as an Accountant

Congrats blacksquare!!! Looking forward to v2.0 of your hosting! And huge thanks to D* himself for the excellent and smooth hosting!

You keep bringing this cry baby into my forum. That is not the energy we’re projecting and manifesting for BJSC!

The taste that Altyr has is impeccable

Aiming for 34th but hoping for 19th

Happy birthday @Klumzee!! Have a great evening out Howling at this. The look I got when I was googling pictures of the Berghain doorman last month was indescribable 🤣🤣

Germany won’t pull out. too lucrative a nights ratings for so little money. They’ll never support the ban tho. They are FAR too scared about being accused of antisemitism by the Israelis. They will do literally anything possible to ignore Israeli war crimes if it means they can avoid accusations of „oh so things haven’t changed since 1945“ As part of your application to citizenship here in Germany you have to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and that you uphold Germanys special historical responsibility post WW2 to never again (except Israel of course, they can do a genocide but no one else can) So when the votes are cast they are unpersuadable

Marriage/long term cohabitation between two men is actually statistically the most stable relationship. Lesbians are about on par with mixed sex couples. So not only is this homophobia but it’s also pure shite

It really is timeless. It still sounds so current