This is probably, overall, a welcome change. a couple of thoughts:

The ‘prevention duty’ will increase from 56 days to six months. This gives local authorities much more time to support anyone at risk of homelessness.

the prevention duty arises from the homeless reduction act 2018. before 56 days are up, a local authority must attempt to prevent or relieve homelessness before it can accept main duty (this is the point where a household is placed into temporary accommodation awaiting an offer of permanent accomm)

prevention mainly consists of persuading your landlord or family not to kick you out, or finding somewhere else for you to stay before you become actually homeless

if the 56 days is extended to six months, does this mean an LA must wait that long before accepting main duty? if so expect the homelessness stats to decrease, as nobody is counted as being accepted as homeless before that time is up

The priority need test and intentionality test – which have excluded people from life-saving support for far too long – will be abolished.

interesting as the priority need test is essentially are you more vulnerable than the average bloke, practically excluding all street homeless as to meet the test you generally will have to be under 18, very old or ill, or have dependents. this will entitle a large swathe of potential applicants who will previously have been fobbed off to some assisstance, which is good. it will also inevitably attract plenty of chancers who would previously have had no hope of getting anywhere

will also be interesting to see what removing the intentionality test does. one of the main effects of this was to trip up tenants who thought they were doing the right thing when they received an eviction notice by just leaving their home. seems obvious but if they did this before the landlord got a court order, they could be assessed as intentionally homeless because they left without being forced to do so. another one is about evictions due to rent arrears, where if your bank statements showed you could well have paid the rent if you didn’t spend so much on candy crush powerups etc, you would likely be found intentional

all in all probably quite a good development, i don’t mind if it lets a few more blaggers through if help is more accessible to those who need it. but i suspect the increase to six months will actually reduce the number of homeless cases who end up being offered council accomm, and just shuffle them around the private rented market. hope to be wrong about that.

( quotes from https://thewallich.com/news/homelessness-and-social-housing-allocation-wales-bill/ )

well i’m just as petty as you for checking, but as you just went through my profile to downvote old comments, i diagnose that you are very upset at the internet and a little rest will do you good

“i tagged you as x this means you are x.” you see this stupid shit now and then, what’s the point of it? but anyway ydi since three days for writing fuck you and your whole family over and again doesn’t seem excessive really

extra sets of scare quotes is to emphasise the kind of “”“so-called”“” sarcasm of it and is nothing to do with the far right practice of putting three or more brackets around the name of a person or institution to indicate that it has set off their “”““jew radar””“”

There was no mistake, not sure why the article didn’t include a picture but it wasn’t a typical leaflet, it looks like this

yes they were. leon rosselson’s the world turned upside down commemorates them well, i heard billy bragg’s version first but i like chumbawamba’s best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEv3LpXNX8U

high contrast theme is the best one imo

given the terrible signal in my works toilets this is a very welcome development

best answer, the others so far mainly seem to be just lesser known rather than actually underrated

it’s full of those sort of sinking feelings but that’s a grim one

cheers, i’ll give it a go

watched it from the tubi link in the article. it’s very amateur (not necessarily a bad thing) and would be enjoyable enough except for the two tedious hospital parts that take up half the runtime

because the posts in reddthat, ml, and blahaj all link to the same file, piefed displays the comments from all three comms on the same page. you show as OP on comments from the other posts

i read never let me go, didn’t know there was a film. do you think it’s still worth watching with prior knowledge?

Happiness (1998) is extremely dark and very funny at the same time

The War Zone (1999) is relentlessly bleak and uncomfortable

great news. love to the swarm

yes, both as in tank (=yank)

on behalf of great britain you are welcome to use shermans or septics. but the derivative seppo was invented by the aussies so you’ll have to ask them for the permit. they may throw in leftpondian for free, i don’t think they use it much any more

edit: i was operating outside my jurisdiction, septics is australian too according to https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/brdxe6y

Three weeks into the future. One teeming city. Seven streets gangs. Unlimited criminal opportunity

-gta2 manual

blah blah you get idea

i saw this one but did not think it was relevant as none of the suffererers of this condition, male or female presenting, have (a pair of) ovaries. but people (plural) with ovaries (plural) can mean less than two each i suppose. seems a bit of a stretch though