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Gonzo McFee posted:loving Hell, what an actual hero if this is true. Did he manage to get out? Non serious injuries which suggests a pretty narrow escape.
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Tarnop posted:I know this question has been asked before but I couldn't remember the answer when my friend asked me tonight. She wants to join a union, her workplace isn't unionised. Is it IWW that this thread normally recommends under those circumstances? The advice is generally "IWW AND a more mainstream union who have the infrastructure to provide you support". It depends on her industry basically. https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union is a starting point. crispix posted:
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OwlFancier posted:I have to wonder what the score is for random members of the public vs the security services actually stopping terror attacks. You never see the terrorist attacks that don't happen because people think it's not worth loving with our taxi drivers.
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Lady Demelza posted:If the target wasn't the maternity hospital, then it could have been the Cathedral just round the corner where the Remembrance Parade was taking place. It depends at what point the taxi driver realised what was going on and pulled over. That sounds much more likely to me. Was anyone 'famous' at the parade?
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peanut- posted:I never know if this account is real news or not, but holy poo poo if it is. Someone was seriously going to blow up a maternity hospital? I wouldn't trust it any more than any other random Twitter account to be honest, in fact slightly less because as of yet the path to monetisation for their schtick - which is just to repost stuff with attribution in a reply tweet, but often with extremely clickbaity and often completely misleading headlines - hasn't shown itself yet, and in that case I basically assume dark money. In particular in this case they're purely reporting purely on what as far as I know is completely uncorroborated posts on Instagram, some of which are being massively signal-boosted by the far right. There's some very big and important pieces missing here and right now I'm taking everything with a massive pinch of salt. In no particular order: - Why was he at the hospital? Yeah the cathedral is around the corner but the hospital is in a cul-de-sac. Could be the driver had suspicions and just wanted to get him somewhere that there would be authorities around? - The "explosion" can't have been *that* big - windows of cars right next to the burning car are all intact, and also (assuming the videos I've seen are accurate and show the immediate aftermath) the car is extremely on fire (most explosives don't actually give off a huge amount of heat, certainly not enough to ignite car upholstery etc). It's *possible* a small explosion in the back seat could break the fuel tank and cause a fire that way but normally you'd see burning fuel under the car rather than the car being on fire from front to back. - These arrests are a bit weird, at least timing-wise. Look away now GCHQ but if I'd planned a terrorist attack that had failed (or succeeded) I'd not be sitting around at home at 8 o'clock. 3 arrests at 2 locations - who are they and how are they connected? I'm not actually  ing here, but I'm also definitely not trusting wet-cement reporting like this, especially with just how rabidly the far right are latching on to the story.e: Weirder, Beeb say the raids happened around 1400, but the videos I've seen are definitely evening. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Nov 15, 2021 |
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There's still loads of rumours about the whole Liverpool attack thing and no real confirmation on what has happened. My local gossip groups on Facebook are pretty loving wild with theories right now. Counter terrorism police have made 3 arrested in relation to the incident but it's not terrorism  This is making me think it is actually related to some sort of antivaxx and/or anti abortion thing if the hospital was the target. iirc there's been a few issues there in the past?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The source for the "hero taxi driver" story so far appears to be a Facebook post from someone claiming the driver is his mate. Yeah, apparently he works for a local taxi firm. Fundraisers and "ARE SCOUSE HERO" jerking off has taken over my feed ughhh. Bunch of other Facebook posts popping up from local people saying there's more full geared officers evacuating people from homes. Not sure what is happening or what is true.
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Liverpool incident: More info via Graun - seems to be from the police rather than instagram posts: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/14/liverpool-womens-hospital-one-man-dies-and-one-injured-after-taxi-explodes quote:Three men have been arrested under terror legislation after a passenger was killed when the taxi he was in exploded outside Liverpool Women’s hospital.
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Around the same time we started to hang up pinata's of WW1 soldiers filled with black jacks and fruit salad penny chews for the kids to beat open.
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happyhippy posted:Around the same time we started to hang up pinata's of WW1 soldiers filled with black jacks and fruit salad penny chews for the kids to beat open. I genuinely don't know if this is a joke.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Also how the *gently caress* do people browse YT without an adblocker? Bloody awful isn't it. I was just searching for some classical music that I wanted to show my wife. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU Which, to my mind, is one of the absolute heights of human creative endeavour. But because I was doing it on my tablet rather than my PC, no ad-block, and before the piano started, I got some ad jingle (and reflexively said "gently caress OFFFFFFFF!"), which is the absolute lowest point of human creative endeavour (the jingle, that is, not me telling it where to go). Capitalism. Make u fink.
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WhatEvil posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU Almost, but not quite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYM84n-2Sas Basically all of my classical music knowledge comes from 1950s cartoons.
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Long live king Charles III Truly wonder what he will do as the newest monarch You know he's vested in the status quote of The Crown as they were helpful in dealing with Diana.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Almost, but not quite: Wait what? We watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpEfHVFilRc immediately after watching the other vid I posted... but I didn't know it had also been used in Bugs Bunny!
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peanut- posted:I never know if this account is real news or not, but holy poo poo if it is. Someone was seriously going to blow up a maternity hospital? Knight this man and jail the terrorists for life.
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Nonsense posted:Knight this man and jail the terrorists for life. Have to second this statement especially if he prevented a terror attack. I wonder if this is going to be linked to the whole incel movement, I suppose only time will tell
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Mebh posted:Is this like, rhyming slang for blackhawk down or something? biscuit browns were the mealy cardboard biscuits that corked you up for a couple days, then unplugging with the i think bourbons, ingenius system
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Lady Demelza posted:Russia's not nuking anyone. They've successfully taken out their enemies on British soil several times in the last decade with no consequences, just ask the people of Salisbury. After the first half a dozen senior politicians, military commanders and royals mysteriously
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Tarnop posted:Thanks! A lot of my office has joined Prospect and we're aiming for union recognition. They have been very involved in this effort. They also provide what seems like an endless stream of zoom seminars on all kinds of workplace topics, often with Q&A sessions. I can't speak for their 1-on-1 advice though.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wouldn't trust it any more than any other random Twitter account to be honest, in fact slightly less because as of yet the path to monetisation for their schtick - which is just to repost stuff with attribution in a reply tweet, but often with extremely clickbaity and often completely misleading headlines - hasn't shown itself yet, and in that case I basically assume dark money. In particular in this case they're purely reporting purely on what as far as I know is completely uncorroborated posts on Instagram, some of which are being massively signal-boosted by the far right. The person behind the account is a young Tory https://bylinetimes.com/2021/05/04/strictly-impartial-politics-for-all-platform-run-by-conservative-brexit-supporter/. He has a patreon but it generates £70 a month so that's not doing gangbusters. No idea what the goal is.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:A lot of my office has joined Prospect and we're aiming for union recognition. They have been very involved in this effort. They also provide what seems like an endless stream of zoom seminars on all kinds of workplace topics, often with Q&A sessions. This sounds very promising, thank you
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WhatEvil posted:Wait what? We watched this: Funnily enough it was the other way round for me, I remembered the Bugs Bunny cartoon but not the Tom and Jerry one - there were a *lot* of cartoons based around that basic plot of "Character tries to play bit of classical music", I assume because it was cheap to animate and the music was out of copyright. As it happens I originally posted the Tom and Jerry one because that came up when I searched for the Bugs Bunny one and assumed it was a Mandela Effect thing, instead it just turns out Warner Bros' copyright attack dogs are slightly louder than Hanna-Barbera's.
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kecske posted:Prospect also isn't allowed to have any political affiliation because they represent civil servants, if that matters to you at all. Right now that just feels like leaving early to avoid the rush.
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WhatEvil posted:Wait what? We watched this: To me it’s always been this bit from Roger Rabbit though https://youtu.be/JSIw0nD5GT0
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I can't get over hearing voxpops in 2019 of people in 'red wall' constituencies saying they were voting Tory because Labour had been in power so long that they wanted a change! churchill was a oval office but he was right that the best argument democracy is a conversation with the average voter
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I wouldn't trust it any more than any other random Twitter account to be honest Well the mayor of liverpool, according to the independent, has said the same thing. Seems like they might be in a position to know whats going on? Also, i am an expert on car bombs having just google image searched 'carbomb' and its a bunch of burning or burnt out car wrecks so looks pretty standard carbomb to me. There's also a video of the car bomb blowing up here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-Hospital.html NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Nov 15, 2021 |
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Tarnop posted:Thanks! I'm a Prospect rep (very new and as yet untrained but still) and they're/we're alright!
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