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edit: There was a coup attempt by hardline communists in the USSR in '91.Mebh posted:I found it. The worst take. https://twitter.com/IslingtonChap/status/1496051046938034176 There seem to be a lot of people taking Twitter parody/satire accounts at face value recently.
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It is, admittedly, hard to tell them from the real ones just by the content.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 21:12 |
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I've been playing Not for Broadcast lately and the news looks really different to me now. Reminds me of how it used to feel switching over after The Day Today and catching the last ten minutes of the 9 O'clock News.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 21:14 |
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oxford_town posted:edit: There was a coup attempt by hardline communists in the USSR in '91. It really is impossible for me to tell to be honest.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 21:30 |
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Bug Squash posted:Quit posting and go watch Robocop. Not directed at anyone, we should all do this. Start streaming and post a link, I'll watch
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 21:55 |
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therattle posted:I don't think this excellent statement from the Kenyan ambassador to the UN re Ukraine has been posted here yet. It's worth reading. There is a really good video of the speech. https://twitter.com/ThomasVLinge/status/1495978202728210435?t=CM3DrX7V-7mL9pD7foe2Bg&s=19 Also watch Robocop. Or play Robocop 3 on the Amiga (it was one of the earliest open World simulators.) Or watch Robocop intros from Mortal Kombat 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoS2oKsBxoQ Or this, the greatest Robocop thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VetQvN4lA20
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 23:12 |
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that lass in the background is loving styling it out cyberpunk
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 23:30 |
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Having rewatched Robocop recently I chose to rewatch Starship Troopers yesterday instead, which is much more on theme for current events.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 23:32 |
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This longer video of the speech includes reference to current members of the security council (4:45+) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf0gb0sQI40
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 00:35 |
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Having rewatched Robocop recently I chose to rewatch Starship Troopers yesterday instead, which is much more on theme for current events. Sky Marshall Truss has been replaced with Sky Marshall Raynor. Sky Marshall Raynor: To defeat the Russian, we must think like the Russian! And also shoot them first!
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 00:37 |
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Now this is cancel culture: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/22/whitworth-gallery-director-alistair-hudson-forced-out-over-palestinian-statement quote:The director of the Whitworth Art Gallery is being asked to leave his post by the University of Manchester, after a row when a statement of solidarity with Palestine’s “liberation struggle” was removed from an exhibition of works by a human rights investigations agency. This is related to the Forensic Architecture row from last year. I have the Forensic Architecture book - had it for 4 years, still not managed to finish reading it as I get so angry - not with the book but in what it shows of the way one particular country gets special treatment (which is anti-semitic surely) on various technical matters around GPS and so forth.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 00:45 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:... the group had “pointed out to the university that the director of the Whitworth Art Gallery had falsely assured the vice-chancellor that they had established the accuracy and legalities of the work presented in the Forensic Architecture exhibition”. Maybe I'm missing something, but why would there be a need to establish anything about a piece of work going to exhibit?
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 08:50 |
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domhal posted:Maybe I'm missing something, but why would there be a need to establish anything about a piece of work going to exhibit? If they are saying that Israeli cops murdered a bedouin and then lied about it, then they really should back it up with facts. Which I trust they did. But those kinds of facts are bad for Israel!
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 09:02 |
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Lizz Truss is trending again https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1496404306530123776 https://twitter.com/Kevin_Maguire/status/1496388512840564737 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Just learned Gary Brooker died this week. Procol Harum.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 09:53 |
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OwlFancier posted:As might be evident I have not watched robocop. You should watch it, it's pretty funny for it's naively optimistic take on the future.
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Rust Martialis posted:Just learned Gary Brooker died this week. and Mark Lanegan died today (but don't worry everyone, with covid, not of covid)
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:09 |
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It's so surreal seeing all the war fever in the press over a conflict that we're not involved in and aren't going to get involved in. All this breathless, pompous posturing: it's like a bizarre piece of performance art.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:23 |
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Barry Foster posted:and Mark Lanegan died today they havent said what he died of or with, but reading an article extract from his pretty swiftly delivered covid autobiography he sounds like he hosed himself up pretty badly on everything going. he also sounds like kind of a oval office to the medical staff
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:27 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's so surreal seeing all the war fever in the press over a conflict that we're not involved in and aren't going to get involved in. All this breathless, pompous posturing: it's like a bizarre piece of performance art. How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be preparing for energy price hikes and hacker attacks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:30 |
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All the press does is try to conjure emotive reactions in people so they keep paying attention to it, there isn't really a difference between confected outrage about biscuit genders and anything else they report on, other than some differences in the intended audience.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:33 |
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the problem with only knowing one bit of history is you can't help but see everything through that lens
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:37 |
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The two genders.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:38 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's so surreal seeing all the war fever in the press over a conflict that we're not involved in and aren't going to get involved in. All this breathless, pompous posturing: it's like a bizarre piece of performance art.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:55 |
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Christ, it's real lol
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:56 |
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"Horror map shows EXACT effect on house prices if Russia nukes people you're ambivalent about on any other day." I guess it beats the Telegraph's bizarre civil war about wood burners over the past weeks.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:58 |
deranged lol
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:59 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's so surreal seeing all the war fever in the press over a conflict that we're not involved in and aren't going to get involved in. All this breathless, pompous posturing: it's like a bizarre piece of performance art. All out war? No probably not but its going to effect things like petrol and gas prices. Economy overall will take a hit and we know full well who the tories shift that burden onto. I can totally see Putin giving a green light to incredibly large number of hacker groups in the country to go after what ever they want too.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 10:59 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:Christ, it's real lol You had to search too? Yup https://twitter.com/aitchrobertson/status/1496407715073171457
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 11:00 |
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The disconnect between the news media screeching “ITS WAR!!!” and the government shrugging and maybe, possibly freezing a couple of long dead bank accounts is loving surreal.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 11:00 |
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smellmycheese posted:The disconnect between the news media screeching “ITS WAR!!!” and the government shrugging and maybe, possibly freezing a couple of long dead bank accounts is loving surreal. specifically ones who are already sanctioned so can't attend any tory fundraisers
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 11:09 |
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Does the red circle around London mean that Labour is gaining seats? City falls to libdems though?
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 11:10 |
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The newspapers aren't talking about gas prices and hackers tho: they're talking about Putin dropping nukes on us. I'm sure that there's a story about the potential economic effects that a war could have on us but that's not the story that the press is pushing.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 11:17 |
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It’s perfect for them - they get to wank off over WAR and NUKES and all they without, you know, the actual risk of it happening to them.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 11:48 |
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WAR + NUKES = WOKES (p2 - 7 inside)
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 12:05 |
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If Jeremy Corbyn became PM he would first get rid of the Tridents and next thing is Putin drops Tsar Bomba on Big Ben
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 12:07 |
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Guavanaut posted:WAR + NUKES = WOKES (p2 - 7 inside) I've definitely got Wordle brain now after looking at these words and hallucinating green /yellow squares
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 12:29 |
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If it ever came to that this tiny island is getting blanketed with nukes end to end and we'll get at best 4 minutes' warning of it - they're not going to drop just one. We're all dead. The only places not getting a direct hit are like the Yorkshire Moors and the Highlands and then enjoy starving to death before you die of radiation poisoning.
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# ? Feb 23, 2022 12:32 |
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Jesus loving Christ https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1496451915277873152
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"unguarded" definitely a euphemism there
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