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Maugrim posted:lol I just went to cancel my Kindle Unlimited subscription because I'm in a reading lull, and Amazon automatically offered me the next 3 months for 99p They are garbage, don't. Read some Iain M. Banks instead if you're craving space opera.
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Private Speech posted:They are garbage, don't. Funnily enough I've been considering just that, since I retrieved all my old books from Dad's last month, including all the Iain M. Banks novels. I'm always sad when I remember that Banks is dead (edit: loving 10 years ago now? Didn't think it was that long) and there will never be another Culture novel.
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Epic High Five posted:If it ever comes to it, Keith loses the media instantly and completely and loses by 20 points right? Yes but the fact this is a looming threat, and he knows it, means they might not have to do it. "Stay in line, work in our interests or we'll destroy you" means he's controlled and useful. He knows they can do it - they did it to Corbyn based on the merest hint of anything dodgy. With Starmer they have actual ammunition, because he's a spineless, duplicitous and inconsistent piece of poo poo. Just off the top of my head: Didn't prosecute Savile or Worboys while DPP. Supported Jeremy Corbyn Lied about every single one of his 10 pledges he made to get elected leader. Has just recently been going hard on Tory expenses, but charged taxpayers £160k for a private car to get him to work while he was DPP - even though he only lived 4 miles away from where he worked. (https://bywire.news/articles/keir-s...ic-prosecutions) Has poo poo hair. Has been expelling (left-wing) Jews from the Labour party. There's various degrees of truth to those things (it's arguable that he didn't actually have much to do with the Savile/Worboys stuff) but we've seen that doesn't matter.
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Don’t panic. Keith is doing a Boris in Kyiv to assure everyone war will continue as planned 
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Maugrim posted:and there will never be another Culture novel. We're just gonna have to make a Culture reality  
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smellmycheese posted:Don’t panic. Keith is doing a Boris in Kyiv to assure everyone war will continue as planned
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"i have been to the shops, which makes me very hard and real af"
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WhatEvil posted:Didn't prosecute Savile or Worboys while DPP. Not to say Starmer isn't a total ratfucker, but didn't he come in as DPP just after the Savile thing had been kicked out by his predecessor?
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OwlFancier posted:loving north face jacket lmao Think starmer would win tho, just drunkenly reverses over putin ten minutes after he thinks it's over. Then a week later his liver feels a bit worse than usual and he pisses out a solid radium pissrock and carries on with his day.
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OwlFancier posted:"i have been to the shops, which makes me very hard and real af" boss level for her would be asda's whoops section
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This is fantastic news for that impoverished borough of Kensington and Chelsea. They've had it so tough https://twitter.com/GregHands/status/1626242535843680256
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i do vaguely remember feeling proud of myself going to the supermarket and getting groceries but i was ~8 years old
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fuctifino posted:This is fantastic news for that impoverished borough of Kensington and Chelsea. They've had it so tough They did this a while ago, I recall it coming up around the time of the grenfell fire.
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smellmycheese posted:The Grauniad comment section really is beyond parody Thankfully, there’s one columnist there still worth reading https://twitter.com/hkesvani/status/1626169036827394050?s=46&t=eCoLHF2o6ismicq-licGyA
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Only British journo who's allowed within 100m of school toilets and he's terrified of them. It's like ray-hee-hain on your wedding day.
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Maugrim posted:Funnily enough I've been considering just that, since I retrieved all my old books from Dad's last month, including all the Iain M. Banks novels. I've found the Ancillary Justice trilogy to be a fair substitute, but it's lacking the background utopia you get from Banks.
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Noxville posted:Thankfully, there’s one columnist there still worth reading I love Chiles dearly but he doesn’t count. He’s shagging the boss so it’s Carte Blanche
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Apparently it's being revived under the boundary commission changes: Makes a lot more sense, thank you! I only did a quick check on Wikipedia and began to assume that he had to be a parody account. Still on the fence but leaning back towards real now.
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Maugrim posted:Funnily enough I've been considering just that, since I retrieved all my old books from Dad's last month, including all the Iain M. Banks novels. I just finished rereading The Algebraist today! Still enjoyable, I love the Dwellers. I had somewhat forgotten how he loved to include sections of horrific torture and unpleasantness in all his books.
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Noxville posted:Thankfully, there’s one columnist there still worth reading Chiles for PM
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Piss Masterkillerwhat posted:I had somewhat forgotten how he loved to include sections of horrific torture and unpleasantness in all his books.
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Gonzo McFee posted:The Guardian loving sucks. it does, op
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killerwhat posted:I just finished rereading The Algebraist today! Still enjoyable, I love the Dwellers. Guavanaut posted:Piss Master I remember throwing away my first copy of The Wasp Factory when I was 13 or so. At least he had the good manners to make it loving clear that torture is an awful thing perpetrated by (relative) barbarians. Most stuff by mainstream authors has it down as a necessary evil to make sure society only kills innocents slowly.
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smellmycheese posted:I love Chiles dearly but he doesn’t count. He’s shagging the boss so it’s Carte Blanche his opinion columns were so powerful that she actually started dating him after he was hired
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Zalakwe posted:I remember throwing away my first copy of The Wasp Factory when I was 13 or so. Didn't he say The Affront was based on the Tories? Literal fartbags obsessed with torture and loving
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smellmycheese posted:I love Chiles dearly but he doesn’t count. He’s shagging the boss so it’s Carte Blanche galadriel? Nice
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Failed Imagineer posted:Didn't he say The Affront was based on the Tories? Literal fartbags obsessed with torture and loving The Culture Wiki posted:An average adult Affronter's body consists of a bulbous mass about two metres in diameter, which hangs from a frilled gas sac one to five metres in diameter depending on their desired buoyancy and which can be deflated and covered by protective plates. Six to eleven tentacles of varying length and thickness grow from the central mass, of which at least four end in leaf shaped paddles. Many Affronters have lost one or more tentacles in combat or duels. Beaks on the front and rear of the central mass cover the creature's mouth and genitals, respectively. The eyes and ears are held on stalks above the fore beak (they also have a sensor bump atop the gas sac). An anus/gas vent is located in the bottom centre of the main body. The latter is one of their sources of propulsion, though they usually 'walk' on their limbs or 'paddle' through the air unless in a hurry. 
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Cyrus Starmer... lol https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1626300356811423754
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OwlFancier posted:macron as jupiter fighting starmer as cyrus when Shouldn't Macron be Taranis? Or maybe Toutatis.
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Guavanaut posted:Tasdemerde 
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