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Yeah, as a former ukpol regular I am aware of the problematic nature of some of the moderation there. The following is all my personal thoughts (@NuPNuA may chime in, neither of us are particularly dictatorial in how this place is run but we haven’t disagreed yet) but hopefully gives you the gist of what I hope the community will be.

1. Because of the small size of this community right now, moderation is very light touch. Lemmy gives you the tools to block and hide threads as you see fit so mods right now are for clearing spam and stickying mega threads and not much else. That would only need to be reviewed if and when the community gets to a much more significant size.
2. Because of 1), additional mods would only be appointed if there was a need. If a Reddit ukpol mod came to this board, they’re quite welcome, but they would not be given mod permissions just because they had them on Reddit. If we decide there’s more mods required, we’ll have an open discussion with the community about filling that need.
3. That said, and I am about to go all centrist dad here, I personally am as uninterested in moderating a hard left community as I am in moderating a hard right community. Lemmy has no shortage of hard left spaces already (including, I believe, an /r/greenandpleasant spinoff) and this will not be one of them as long as I am a mod. Right now we don’t have any real rules (woo yay anarchy) because we haven’t needed to get strict with anyone. If this place starts getting filled up with soapboxing, hate speech, any kind of *-phobist behaviour, or generally becoming an unpleasant place for me to discuss my tedious centrist views, I will push for us to have rules and for them to be enforced.

If I had to articulate what I’m after, it’s a BBC / Guardian / Financial Times comments section with shitposting and more political nerdery and without the spEak You’re bRanes brigade.

None affiliated. No mods here are Reddit mods, we’re just a community, some of whom have evacuated Reddit, wanting to discuss UK politics. The megathread is here to make us /r/ukpol types feel at home.

Another one of the “safe pair of hands “ on the way out. The Tories are going to be out of power for a while, but it still matters who is left running the party. If there are fewer Wallaces then there’s more chance it’ll be one of the absolute headbangers.

I thought I’d heard that it was a girl, but actually now I’ve said that I can’t source it.

Even if they had an understanding, I doubt it extended to “give barely legal girls a (relatively) huge pile of money while also letting them know your identity” because honestly as a national figure he should realise that’s stupid as all fuck.

It seems to me that there’s a few things propelling this:

1. The Sun is out for BBC blood because that’s what they do.
2. The mum of the person continues to argue that laws were broken.
3. I’m pretty sure 17 year olds can’t sell on OF (if that’s what it was) so somewhere there has been misconduct, but probably not on the part of Edwards (it’s not his job to vet the age of OF content creators).
4. With that said he’s approaching retirement and spending more than the national median wage on teen porn over a few years. In a world of free porn it’s insane and the guy is no doubt a creep for in essence paying for a relationship while married.

I’m a child from a broken home. One parent lived in Yorkshire, the other in the midlands. When they did handover, it was at Donington Park services, the approximate midpoint. Therefore my North begins not far north of Donington Park services.

Embrace mobile gaming. Especially the classic Nintendo handhelds. I can rock my baby to sleep and play Pokémon Ruby on my GBA at the same time. Embrace RPGs and other games where reaction times don’t matter. If I’m sat in a chair with a sleeping child I can even play a game where reaction speed matters, like Tetris.

Get a flash cart so you don’t have to switch games or carry a library of carts with you. Keep it in your car for play if you’re out a lot. Oh, and get a decent modern screen mod so you can see the screen outside.

YouTube Music. Apple Music and Spotify are both technically better products, but YouTube Music is free with YouTube Premium and so I can save on a music subscription.

Before I made that call I had picked Spotify as it gave me access to a web player, and just worked better on my Google Home speakers.

I think most companies are actively against public suggestions. If they do something like what you suggest, they may be liable for paying you for that idea. But if they’re already working on something like your suggestion, and then you suggest it, then they either have to pay you for an idea they already had, or risk you taking them to court and having to spend time and lawyer money on proving they owe you nothing.

Hi! I'm in the same boat at the moment. Public (NHS) and private are the two streams available.

For the NHS, you need a GP to refer you for an adult screening. It has to be a GP, and make sure they don't fob you off on the wrong service, I got sent down a few rabbit holes before getting referred to the ADHD screening service. Then, you have to wait. I've been told that my screening should take 5-6 months to get booked in, and that's where I'm stalled at the moment. At/after your screening they will decide whether or not to book you on for a full diagnostic. The wait list for these is ~3 years. Yeah, very oversubscribed, super cool.

Given that I am looking to go private, which means that I need to start identifying private providers and what their charges are for screening, diagnosis and ongoing treatment. I've heard that these cost around £1000 for the diagnosis and then around £100 per month for any medication, but I haven't added these up myself yet.

I've heard that there is a route where you can ask your GP to refer you to a private practitioner they have an agreement with, which basically means they will accept a private diagnosis so you can get your meds (if required) on the NHS, where mostly the NHS is unlikely to let you get a subscription for meds without an NHS diagnosis. I've personally ruled this out because my local NHS have been no fun and I don't want them to piss me about for another month.

If anyone else knows of any options then I'm all ears, because right now it's either "don't get diagnosed for four years" or ££££ every year.