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goddamnedtwisto posted:They were talking about making a virtual Graun columnist though. I can generate a Kieth corpus easily enough by just hooking a white noise generator into it. Oh, yeah, I misread.
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stev posted:I feel like this is more of a blunt apology and admission of fault than we've seen from other centrists: Every other centrist seems to just pretend Corbyn was actually awful and would have been far worse than the Tories. That way they can still use Corbyn as a reason to reject any centre left candidate for the next decade. At least Jack says that Corbyn was good and they made a mistake.
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Wachter posted:KiethBot was cool and good for a very funny bit on the pod, but an AI Guardian journo is the first step towards a transphobic SkyNet 
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Oh yeah he only donated £100,000, it's not like that's a lot of money.
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SpaceCommie posted:Every other centrist seems to just pretend Corbyn was actually awful and would have been far worse than the Tories. That way they can still use Corbyn as a reason to reject any centre left candidate for the next decade. IDK how you cut through this. Centrists and tory voters alike have absorbed it as an axiomatic truth that the tories are the best at governing. No matter what happens, labour would have been 10x worse.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh yeah he only donated £100,000, it's not like that's a lot of money. I mean on the scale of tory donations thats probably the sort of donation which gets you a lunch with Michael Howard.
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Guavanaut posted:MumsNet already exists I saw someone on Twitter describe it as Prosecco Stormfront and I've never been more intensely jealous of another person's writing.
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WhatEvil posted:Also you'd have to spend a load of money cause all the poo poo he writes is behind loving Murdoch paywalls. Drops a piece of paper with the words 'bypass paywalls' and a link to the google chrome store on it while whistling.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I saw someone on Twitter describe it as Prosecco Stormfront and I've never been more intensely jealous of another person's writing. Ahem....
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Guavanaut posted:MumsNet already exists Well who's to say GuardAIn doesn't travel back in time to become MumsNet? It's like you've never watched a Terminator film!
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Endjinneer posted:"This is good news - a few more days and it will be a definitive trend" is really dialling up the hopeful too. On the subject of trains, apparently Network Rail are going to put a tunnel in place on the East Coast Mainline in the next couple of weeks. By which I mean that they've already built the tunnel, alongside the track, and they're just going to move it into place when they're ready. I thought it's pretty cool.
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Wachter posted:Well who's to say GuardAIn doesn't travel back in time to become MumsNet? It's like you've never watched a Terminator film! 
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to dumb filter apps, it will take hold of you and you'll start imagining propaganda Pixar films about how our current crop of scum are actually just loveable goofballs
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Vitamin P posted:Do not, my friends, become addicted to dumb filter apps, it will take hold of you and you'll start imagining propaganda Pixar films about how our current crop of scum are actually just loveable goofballs Ok those are actually really well done.
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Mogg is literally just the team fortress 2 medic.
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OwlFancier posted:Mogg is literally just the team fortress 2 medic. 
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OwlFancier posted:Mogg is literally just the team fortress 2 medic. Oi, the TF2 medic was competent at... uh, I'm pretty sure literally everything he was good at was a war crime?
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Red Oktober posted:Drops a piece of paper with the words 'bypass paywalls' and a link to the google chrome store on it while whistling. I'm sure bypassing them is trivial but paywalls act as a handy reminder that I don't actually need or want to read any of that shite anyway.
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OwlFancier posted:Mogg is literally just the team fortress 2 medic. 'What he lacks in compassion for the sick, respect for human dignity, and any sort of verifiable formal training in medicine, the Medic more than makes up for with a bottomless supply of giant needles and a trembling enthusiasm for plunging them into exposed flesh.' Checks out....
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I mean on the scale of tory donations thats probably the sort of donation which gets you
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josh04 posted:Paul Mason going full Time Trumpet i’m truly astonished the bbc comment section there is not an absolute sewer
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The medic's rapid fire needle gun would come in pretty handy right now, we'd have the covid vaccinations done in no time.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:The medic's rapid fire needle gun would come in pretty handy right now, we'd have the covid vaccinations done in no time. I appreciate this reference
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Kaal posted:Ok those are actually really well done. Yeah it is real competent tbh. The app is obviously designed to do female presenting faces more than male presenting faces, like it does variations of long hair really well but 100% cannot identify the existence of a beard, but it's legit fun to play around with.
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Jakabite posted:The sad thing is that the only way to actually save journalism and continue to have investigative journalism as a thing probably is pay walls.
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Vitamin P posted:Yeah it is real competent tbh. The app is obviously designed to do female presenting faces more than male presenting faces, like it does variations of long hair really well but 100% cannot identify the existence of a beard, but it's legit fun to play around with. It picked up my not-quite-beard-but-too-long-to-be-called-stubble okay, although it turned it into a goatee and me into the comic relief sidekick. One of the filters on a picture of me as a child basically turned into me now, which was weird.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I mean on the scale of tory donations thats probably the sort of donation which gets you a lunch with Michael Howard. The staggering thing is about all this corruption that goes on with Tories giving massive contracts to their mates is how loving *cheap* it is. Yes £100k is a lot of money but like, a US election costs over a billion dollars for each side. Bloomberg alone donated $150m in 2019-20, but you get the sense that in the UK donating £100k would get you noticed by the higher-ups in the Tory party for sure and probably even get you lunch with a cabinet minister, with a lucrative contract to follow.
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TACD posted:I’d be OK with a paywall if there was even one news outlet worth a loving drat. Like gently caress am I giving any money to the Guardian or NYT. If you can afford it the FT is going to be your best bet. It has to be accurate because a lot of money rides on it being. For myself, I just use Reuters and the AP, then supplement with more specialised sites about given issues.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1349371586055385088?s=19 He's very deliberately trying to garner the outer London vote in the same way Johnson did, but doing it with a selection of the hottest I Reckons that LBC and the Evening Standard letters page can provide him with rather than microtargeted racism like Goldsmith tried. TBH with the general demoralisation of London in general, the specific demonisation of Khan and the deliberate sabotage being pulled by Westminster (and the fact that - to judge by the increasingly desperate emails I'm still getting from my former CLP - that Labour are *really* struggling for campaign funds and staff) he might be in with a better chance than even he believes.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:He's very deliberately trying to garner the outer London vote in the same way Johnson did, but doing it with a selection of the hottest I Reckons that LBC and the Evening Standard letters page can provide him with rather than microtargeted racism like Goldsmith tried. Nah, Bailey is one of the most transparently thick Tory politicians in a world where Gavin Williamson, Michael Gove, Chris Grayling and Dominic Raab all exist. No-one's paying attention to him at the moment, because it's not even clear whether the Mayoral Election will happen this year, yet. When it does, there'll be plenty of time for his racist, classist, foot-ankle-shin-and-knee-in-mouth fuckups to get an airing.
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