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kingturnip posted:So this is basically performative. On both sides. Yes, party politics is performative, well noticed
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forkboy84 posted:Yes, party politics is performative, well noticed Yeah, and if this was The West Wing, we'd all give a round of applause and something valuable would be learned. As it is: Conservative +2
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Jan 15, 2023 01:16
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personally I'm here to call a holocaust survivor saying we shouldn't repeat the dehumanisation that led to her family's murder 'performative' take that murdered refugees, you wokescolds
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Personally, living just less than 10m from the river when it's 'full up' and spilling over the fields the other side, I have spent 3 days glued to river level graphs, high tide timetables, weather forecasts and shunting stuff in my flat to higher shelves if possible or deciding it can be sacrificed in a flood. Had little mental energy to read about political shenanigans. Based on 1 data point ie me, I conclude that the govt has no incentive to resolve crisis situations (financial, health, child care, whatever) because then more people might have the head space to question.
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https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1614432120172052481?s=46&t=b1Y2tYo_4o214Gh1vKbrrg Controlled opposition going all in on 'lol, gently caress the NHS'.
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Why did nobody that let stqrmer in initially google that he was in the trilateral commission? Or was he appointed from on high, /protected by satan himself a la the usual suspects? It was interesting to see Bojo experiment with the Rochdale attack line and immediately have a key adviser resign ( everything else is ok but THIS? this is a line I will not cross!!) Anyway I was reassured to read in the guardian that he listened to the smiths as a teenager so I'm sure he's a good egg. We are so hosed
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Yeah, looks like the beast is now sufficiently starved that we just have no choice but to put it out of its misery.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1614432120172052481?s=46&t=b1Y2tYo_4o214Gh1vKbrrg But yeah, extra gently caress him. Saying the NHS is no longer the envy of the world. Wonder why that is. Lets not ponder the reason why or how we could get it back to being that, lets just grab its wallet while its down.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Personally, living just less than 10m from the river when it's 'full up' and spilling over the fields the other side, I have spent 3 days glued to river level graphs, high tide timetables, weather forecasts and shunting stuff in my flat to higher shelves if possible or deciding it can be sacrificed in a flood. Had little mental energy to read about political shenanigans. There is nothing like the fear of water damage is there. Whether flooding or leaks it's just all-consuming. In my last place we had what I can only call a basement conservatory - it extended out in front of the bay window above, 75% below ground level, with a translucent plastic roof. Which leaked. I became so hyper attuned to the sound of dripping signalling a leak that most of the time I heard rain I'd end up going round checking there was no ingress. I found it hard to get to sleep when it was raining because it was so noisy on the plastic roof and all I could think of was leaks. Then one time, during the horrendous rain of either summer 2020 or 2021 (can't remember which) I was on the phone in an adjoining room when I heard a trickle - not dripping, but like the sound of water running. When I went to check, I saw that the drain at the bottom of the back steps had clogged, water had filled up against the glass/PVC back door in the stairwell, and it was streaming in through the seal. Cue having to go out in the worst rain I've probably ever experienced, with bin bags and bricks, trying to create a makeshift flood barrier until I could get the drain unblocked. I hate being at the mercy of the weather, though where I live now it's wind.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:
I think this is just me though, as soon as something breaks or malfunctions I can never really trust it again, I am constantly on edge waiting for it to go again. Especially technology. If I was rich I'd definitely be one of those knobheads who replaces their technology the second it does something weird.
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Jan 15, 2023 09:29
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Okay, this is the first time I've seen a photo of Wes streetling. You can not convince me hes not Kier's lovechild.
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Grey Hunter posted:Okay, this is the first time I've seen a photo of Wes streetling. he sounds like he looks too it’s a good job the media still ignores most of the labour party
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Grey Hunter posted:Okay, this is the first time I've seen a photo of Wes streetling. Nah Piss Streaking is a meat puppet. A soulless automaton designed to do the bidding of whoever bribes him the most.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Nah Piss Streaking is a meat puppet. A soulless automaton designed to do the bidding of whoever bribes him the most. A politician then.
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Jel Shaker posted:he sounds like he looks too I wish they didn't and I wish they hammered them more on the corporate donation stuff. So many of my lib friends were shocked about Streeting basically being paid for by private healthcare interests. Welcome to the doomer train everyone, no matter who you vote for, you lose the NHS.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Minor point, but isn't making family doctors "Direct NHS employees"a good thing? Given that currently there's a huge problem with GPs running private practices contracted to the NHS running up massive fees, or have I misunderstood that? I'll admit I haven't read Streetings proposals in depth but I imagine its part of the framework to force patients into the private health sector - combined with allowing self referrals there's an obvious two track approach developing where you can go to a GP (eventually) who will refer to their NHS employer service and you will be (eventually) treated or you refer yourself to the private provider and pay to discover and resolve your issue. That's similar to what happens now except people pay for their initial diagnosis as well and there's stigma about going to the GP because it's incorporated into the failing public sector more openly. I'd expect GPs to still refer to the independent (private but takes NHS patients) sector in this model but the perception would change.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:There is nothing like the fear of water damage is there. Whether flooding or leaks it's just all-consuming. Fortunately it seems like it's only a single shitey piece of fibreboard with no structural role that was already mangled by whoever fitted it way back that has blown. Still adds "pull that poo poo out and put some wool insulation behind a new panel" to things to do.
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jacksbrat posted:I wish they didn't and I wish they hammered them more on the corporate donation stuff. So many of my lib friends were shocked about Streeting basically being paid for by private healthcare interests. Welcome to the doomer train everyone, no matter who you vote for, you lose the NHS. Lol the press spent the last decade screeching in incoherent rage because the people on top of Labour weren't the ones who would take bribes. Ed was cowed and weak but vaguely principled for a politician and Corbyn actually believes all that poo poo about public service. Wes is the kind of man they love. Obviously corrupt and nakedly right wing. They'll cover for him like he's the new Peter Mandelson and a photo of him snorting dried Adrenal gland powder with Epstein leaked.
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Tesseraction posted:tyical liberal fake news monster pretending like in the real video the holocaust surviver was actually adolf hitler and suella braverman revealed her previously unknown jewish heritage I don't think Braverman's heritage is previously unknown, nor that it has passed notice among the people who care about such things.
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gotta love how quickly and quietly that donations story died down like when saville or me too cropped up, it suddenly got a bit real for some folks and then media interest was snuffed out like a candle
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Jan 15, 2023 11:38
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You can replace Wes with Wet fairly easily, let's workshop the rest of the name.
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Wet making GBS threads.
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Good work everyone, thank you for attending the workshop
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Amazing powers on display here https://twitter.com/FoodForestNetwk/status/1614470043185647616
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smellmycheese posted:Amazing powers on display here The little pat on the shoulder is amazing lol. wehrmacht_in_autumn_1941_colourized.mp4
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He's asking them "What are you blokes thoughts on this mud."
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The shove at the end is incredible
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I want to know what magic shoes the wizard has that give him mud immunity +10
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smellmycheese posted:I want to know what magic shoes the wizard has that give him mud immunity +10 if you tread lightly and aren't too laden down then depending on the mud you can indeed stay on top sometimes friar tuck fucks imo
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Bobby Deluxe posted:He's asking them "What are you blokes thoughts on this mud." Lmao
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Friar Tuck seems to be wearing large flat shoes while the cops seem to be wearing heeled boots. The pressure applied to the mud from heels is greater than from flat bottomed ones so maybe that's why. With Benny Hill music applied: https://twitter.com/f4nt0m3ldb/status/1614602613185708032
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Bobby Deluxe posted:He's asking them "What are you blokes thoughts on this mud." "Can't narc there mate"
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I despise this man beyond my ability to express in words.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Friar Tuck seems to be wearing large flat shoes while the cops seem to be wearing heeled boots. The pressure applied to the mud from heels is greater than from flat bottomed ones so maybe that's why. Young and tripping* EV escaped at very least extreme trauma at the hands of some Windsor Angels because the flat soled "Covenanter" boots (basically a Campus boot) I was wearing allowed me to ski at speed through the deep mud that was Glastonbury '85 after I'd inadvertently interrupted their sacking of a café stall by asking them for "two cups of coffee and a cup of tea please". *I know the peril wasn't just the drugs talking because I met one of them years later who confirmed that some of them genuinely wanted to gently caress me right up. Also when I learned that Hells Angels on the rampage have at least two sober members for threat assessment. The worst person you know etc. etc. Tory think tank Bright Blue calls for ‘minimum income’. Saved from life threatening cognitive dissonance by the BBC's decision to use pictures of comfortably upper middle class types stressing about whether they can have that second skiing holiday to make it clear that they're not thinking of me or my friends.
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Perhaps folks can weigh in on something my friends and I disagreed about. When news outlets, and particularly the BBC in this case, have a headline like "health secretary defends <stupid policy>" do you feel like the wording implies that they were successful? Maybe it's my own view clouding things but it feels like "health secretary attempts to defend <stupid policy>" would be more appropriate.
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I would suggest it is as close to "neutral" language as possible given that "attempts to defend" would imply they have failed. But that in itself is exemplary of the contemptible refusal to actually acknowledge the reality of anything they report on. Government says a thing, no idea if it's correct, but they said it, and that's all we'll say.
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in journalism, I found this essay interesting: https://twitter.com/joshi/status/1614567710859337728 quote:“It’s all around us – we’re like: when did all these pop up,” she says, referring to the black and grey blocks of flats that characterise New Islington. “We’re the outsiders now.” In Pollen, we are surrounded by the new people – the ones who have flocked to the 13th coolest neighbourhood in the world (Time Out). They have much fancier-looking baby buggies than her and they live a different kind of life to the older residents – generally renting their homes and often only for a year or two; living far from their families; working in jobs that require laptops and Slack. And the truth is that the two worlds feel almost entirely distinct. quote:One very noticeable thing about this area is the lack of amenities beyond the lines of New Islington – it’s mostly housing and the youth clubs, cafes and pubs of the past are almost all shut. (the Vietnamese groceries and tapas bars probably do not qualify)
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