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Frances Barbarism.
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looks like Buzfeed News UK is closing https://twitter.com/amolrajan/status/1260616998909870083 i feel like this is a bad thing. if you told me ten years ago that I would be concerned about the decline of loving buzzfeed i would laugh at you but here we are I guess
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May 13, 2020 23:35
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God it weirds me out how prurient SWERF & TERFs get at like the drop of a hat. Like, you could ask them how the weather is and they'd somehow turn it into wildly inaccurate fantasy runs about sex work or trans bodies.
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May 13, 2020 23:40
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Huh, I learned a new word today.
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May 13, 2020 23:45
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Angepain posted:looks like Buzfeed News UK is closing Well that's the only UK journalism gone
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May 13, 2020 23:55
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Angepain posted:looks like Buzfeed News UK is closing So on one hand that ex-Guido turd Wickham is out of a job so that's funny but on the other Buzzfeed News did a significantly better job of journalism than any paper in recent times. Shame that. Though I still miss when Jamie Ross was there, digging up some of the weirder stories in UK politics. And the total nonsense like making Corbyn try Irn Bru on a visit to Scotland.
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May 14, 2020 00:52
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May 14, 2020 00:53
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https://twitter.com/BCredibility/status/1260274049634185216 I feel like this bookcase either makes reading really exiting or heavily discourages it, or both. Does he have a long stick and you have to poke them off the shelf and then try not to brain yourself with the hardbacks?
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May 14, 2020 01:01
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When I lived in Thailand people I saw people who had trained monkeys to climb trees to get coconuts for them. If you owned that bookcase you'd need a bookcase monkey.
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May 14, 2020 01:21
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forkboy84 posted:So on one hand that ex-Guido turd Wickham is out of a job so that's funny but on the other Buzzfeed News did a significantly better job of journalism than any paper in recent times. Shame that. Though I still miss when Jamie Ross was there, digging up some of the weirder stories in UK politics. And the total nonsense like making Corbyn try Irn Bru on a visit to Scotland. Wickham was one of the best sources for overviews of internal Tory party politics, which was kind of important since they run the country and all. Not sure anyone else does that job any more - it's just one faction or another advancing their agenda without letting on what's driving it.
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May 14, 2020 01:38
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Actually, being a bookcase monkey is a source of independence and esteem for a lot of people,
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May 14, 2020 02:41
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I shall clap for the bookcase monkey come Thursday.
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May 14, 2020 02:58
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Bardeh posted:When I lived in Thailand people I saw people who had trained monkeys to climb trees to get coconuts for them. If you owned that bookcase you'd need a bookcase monkey. You mean a Librarian?
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May 14, 2020 07:36
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Clap for the NHS! https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/1260622071958306818?s=19 No not like that!
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May 14, 2020 07:52
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Clap for the NHS! Thank you for reminding me the clap is tonight. Every time I try to stop I get pulled back into the demon drink.
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May 14, 2020 07:58
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she better have taken it down to use the material in creating one 20x larger, covering her entire house
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May 14, 2020 07:59
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Failed Imagineer posted:You mean a Librarian? Eeeeeeeeek!
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May 14, 2020 08:00
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This is a post from someone in the UKMT from six years ago (sorry, can't remember who) that I shared on Facebook and which popped up today in my FB memories.quote:"The UK is the 8th largest economy in the world, producing around 2.3 trillion dollars per annum. The UK is also ranked 8th in the world by number of billionaires - with some 37 British nationals individually worth at least 1,000,000,000 dollars. We are 4th in the world by number of millionaires, with 590,000 households worth 1 million or more. There's plenty of money... tons and tons of money. More money than you could even imagine with your puny human brain. Updated figures to enrage you: UK GDP (pre coronavirus) was 2.8 trillion, up half a trillion. There are 151 billionaires in the UK, up from a mere 37, and the UK now ranks 3rd in the world for billionaires, up from 4th. At least 821,000 households are worth over a million pounds, up from 520,000. Do you feel wealthier? I sure as gently caress don't.
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May 14, 2020 08:14
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Darth Walrus posted:Wickham was one of the best sources for overviews of internal Tory party politics On this subject. I like to keep half an eye on Tory Twitter and Conservative Home from time to time, it's useful to know what they're thinking when it's not full of people mindlessly retweeting MPs' mindless line-to-take tweets. My eye got caught by rather an odd article title to be floating around on the Spectator: Boris’s sloppy PMQs performance is becoming a problem. Now, admittedly, this might just be a contrarian outlier, it does does come from one of the oddest people in politics (and think of the ground that covers); a former political editor of the Daily Express who joined UKIP as economic spokesman, became an MEP for them, turned against Nigel Farage after 2015, left in 2017, and now makes his political home in (of all places) the continuing Social Democratic Party. But then I wander over to Conservative Home, and find their sketch writer deriding Boris Johnson's performance at PMQs as well. It's one thing for John Crace to write fawning odes to Starmer's dispatch box skills, it's quite another for Andrew Gimson to be joining him. Click down a bit and Paul Goodman's giving a platform for the backbenchers to put the boot in with a surprising amount of enthusiasm. And all this while UKMT continues doggedly pouring scorn on Sir Forensic Haircut...
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May 14, 2020 08:40
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Whether he's good at PMQs or not is irrelevant cos it's not like he's going to do anything worthwhile even if he became PM tomorrow. Making fun of the useless pillock is all he's good for.
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May 14, 2020 08:50
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quote:While the Leader of the Opposition is obviously a big upgrade over his predecessor
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May 14, 2020 08:56
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Bloody leftys trashing the labour leader, don't you know the tories like him 
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May 14, 2020 09:03
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Vitamin P posted:Tbf sometimes he wins by being an unironic king and spitting truths I'm not surprised that he's coherent on the subject of "barely legal". The things that are always on your mind are the last to go.
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May 14, 2020 09:19
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Trin Tragula posted:On this subject. I like to keep half an eye on Tory Twitter and Conservative Home from time to time, it's useful to know what they're thinking when it's not full of people mindlessly retweeting MPs' mindless line-to-take tweets. My eye got caught by rather an odd article title to be floating around on the Spectator: Boris’s sloppy PMQs performance is becoming a problem. Now, admittedly, this might just be a contrarian outlier, it does does come from one of the oddest people in politics (and think of the ground that covers); a former political editor of the Daily Express who joined UKIP as economic spokesman, became an MEP for them, turned against Nigel Farage after 2015, left in 2017, and now makes his political home in (of all places) the continuing Social Democratic Party. pmqs are for the journo jetset, everyone knows they prefer starmer. they'll keep performatively bigging him up so long as there is 0 chance of it impacting anything. I would love to be proven wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.
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May 14, 2020 09:36
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Up down up down. Barely legal? Then they go positive! *nurse tucks trump in for the night*
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May 14, 2020 09:40
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even if he gets in he doesn't seem particularly likely to pose a threat to the status quo from his behaviour so far
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May 14, 2020 09:41
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Every time I see any anti-Johnson or anti-government sentiment by nominally right-wing journos I automatically assume they're prepping for Prime Minister Gove.
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May 14, 2020 10:01
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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HJB posted:for Prime Minister Gove.
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May 14, 2020 10:05
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Going with the Australian method; if you don't like the Prime Minister, there'll be another one along in a minute. Honestly wondering if it works because people are less likely to vote for a different PM just for a change.
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May 14, 2020 10:05
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Cleaner-gate hits a new high/low https://twitter.com/miss_l_locket/status/1260836701242605568?s=20
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May 14, 2020 10:09
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Guavanaut posted:Filling my bug-off bag. haha it's bug out. and I don't think there's anywhere in England you could bug out to - maybe some weird abandoned factory?
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May 14, 2020 10:11
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Clap for the NHS! It's amazing how without it being explicitly demanded by anyone, the idea seems to have diffused nationwide that clapclap time is when we pretend to momentarily feel general good sentiment towards groups of people in the abstract but don't you dare ask any questions relating to reality or practicalities - that's rude  . It reminds me now of the insanity around Christmas where people typically will generally recognise it as having something to do with good will but spend the occasion being petty over gifts, hoarding food they don't need and generally making themselves miserable and stressed to the point of emotional meltdown. But of course if you point this out and choose not to participate in any of it you're a miserable scrooge, and very, very rude
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May 14, 2020 10:12
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forkboy84 posted:Cleaner-gate hits a new high/low Different kind of "cleaner".
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May 14, 2020 10:16
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Oil barons are simply desert cleaners.
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May 14, 2020 10:18
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Clap for the NHS! This loving poo poo is why we'll never have a revolution or any form of uprising in this country. We're conditioned to see asking questions and holding our feudal lords to account as rude and insensitive.
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May 14, 2020 10:18
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CoolCab posted:haha it's bug out. and I don't think there's anywhere in England you could bug out to - maybe some weird abandoned factory?
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May 14, 2020 10:22
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I thought I hated my job before the pandemic but I've had to come in for the first time in weeks today and between the commute, colleagues I can't stand and the sheer lack of seriousness with which anyone seems to be taking this (they're all sat round the same desk in the otherwise empty office because obviously why would you change where you were sitting because of a measly little pandemic), I just want to loving scream or set fire to the lab and run off into the woods maybe both
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May 14, 2020 10:27
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XMNN posted:even if he gets in he doesn't seem particularly likely to pose a threat to the status quo from his behaviour so far Yeah, you can very roughly split Labour into the hard left, who fundamentally do want to change stuff and the soft left, who fall somewhere between the stools of "change is impossible" and "change is undesirable". For the soft left, getting into power is all about managerialism: they don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with society as it's currently set up; they just think that they'd do a better job of running it than the Tories. Starmer of course is firmly soft left and thus no real threat to the Establishment, despite his wearing a red rosette.
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May 14, 2020 10:35
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what is it with the guardian constantly publishing op eds about how any day now boris or arlene or whoever will have a come to jesus moment and against all the odds transform into enlightened liberals
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May 14, 2020 10:46
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