It's just so fucking tiring, not to mention there is hardly any good content worth paying for on #Streaming or even #TV.

• Shure @arte / #arte does good stuff and I tend to check in on @dw_innovation / #DWnews and their original content, but aside from some show like #MrRobot or #CyberSix I don't even want to track down a physical copy.
  • In the past I did more often import stuff like #DoctorWho for friends (because pre- #Brexit #UK made that easy and convenient and being 18+ doesn't cause issues with unrated content...

I'm happily paying full price for good tickets at a theater (instead of asking friends who come along if they can save a Euro or two with their Student Discount) because I believe #artists should not merely survive but thrive and be rewarded for their efforts.

• And I think positive incentives are always good. I want good things and since we live under #capitalism, "Money (or rather the reciept of every transaction) is my ballout - EVERY SINGLE TIME!"

And I'm not even gonna pirate shit as a matter of principle!

• Not for [the obviously] legal reasons...

Irish Legal New: A landmark EU court ruling on legal gender recognition “double underlines” the incompatibility of a controversial UK Supreme Court ruling with EU law, meaning it cannot be implemented in Northern Ireland, Irish Legal News has been told ...

"Paragraph 54 is also a rebuke to the UK Supreme Court in FWS – when the Equality Act 2010 was laid down, the UK was part of the EU and UK protections against discrimination had to work in line with EU law, a factor in statutory interpretation that the UKSC skips over in FWS.”

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/eu-ruling-double-underlines-trans-rights-must-stay-in-northern-ireland

#Ireland #NI #UK #Transrights #EU #Brexit

Irish Legal New: A landmark EU court ruling on legal gender recognition “double underlines” the incompatibility of a controversial UK Supreme Court ruling with EU law, meaning it cannot be implemented in Northern Ireland, Irish Legal News has been told ...

"Paragraph 54 is also a rebuke to the UK Supreme Court in FWS – when the Equality Act 2010 was laid down, the UK was part of the EU and UK protections against discrimination had to work in line with EU law, a factor in statutory interpretation that the UKSC skips over in FWS.”

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/eu-ruling-double-underlines-trans-rights-must-stay-in-northern-ireland

#Ireland #NI #UK #Transrights #EU #Brexit

Ten years after the Brexit vote, fresh calls made to support UK’s struggling creative industries. The average UK musician has lost £11,545 in income since the UK left the EU, while four in five report losing work opportunities https://leftfootforward.org/2026/03/ten-years-after-the-brexit-vote-fresh-calls-made-to-support-uks-struggling-creative-industries/ #music #musicians #Brexit

Ten years after the Brexit vote, fresh calls made to support UK’s struggling creative industries. The average UK musician has lost £11,545 in income since the UK left the EU, while four in five report losing work opportunities https://leftfootforward.org/2026/03/ten-years-after-the-brexit-vote-fresh-calls-made-to-support-uks-struggling-creative-industries/ #music #musicians #Brexit

Britain will not rejoin EU or set up customs union, Starmer’s top negotiator warns.

Translation: we're still frit of the racists and gammons.

PS: Nick Symonds-Thomas is another one of those useless #Oxbridge PPE graduates that infest the UK's body politic.

#Brexit #EU #UK_Politics

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-customs-union-nick-thomas-symonds-b2937977.html

UK artists invited to apply for "seriously game-changing" £125k fund to beat "the cost of touring crisis" https://www.nme.com/news/music/uk-artists-invited-to-apply-game-changing-125k-fund-to-beat-cost-of-touring-crisis-3934434 #music #musicians #Brexit #carryontouring

UK artists invited to apply for "seriously game-changing" £125k fund to beat "the cost of touring crisis" https://www.nme.com/news/music/uk-artists-invited-to-apply-game-changing-125k-fund-to-beat-cost-of-touring-crisis-3934434 #music #musicians #Brexit #carryontouring