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a pipe smoking dog posted:The look on his face is very much "stop bothering me, I'm trying to take a photo of my arse." e: well that was a snipe. 112 is a good number to know if you're going to attempt that
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Some good ones in here for connoisseurs of Rare Brendans https://twitter.com/stellaomalley3/status/1678324494379753474?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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It's the inner voice that's ruling me tyranically, spitefully, and self destructively. Definitely the inner voice.
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My inner voice is calling Brendan O'Neill a forehead apocalypse but also my outer voice because he is.
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Brendan's inner forehead but instead of foam it's poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Aoc4ffXlRA&t=130s
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Guavanaut posted:Brendan's inner forehead but instead of foam it's poo poo.
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Welp, my UCU (University and College Union) branch officially voted to go on strike for the first two weeks of the semester. Looks like we'll be back on the picket lines soon enough. Also just discovered that the UCU congress quietly voted to pass the following resolution at the end of May, which has led to much consternation among various local branches since: quote:i. UCU to call upon Russia to withdraw its troops and for the UK government to stop arming Ukraine. 
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Sounds okay as long as it's in that order. Does the UCU hold much sway with the Russian armed forces?cat botherer posted:Excited to die by suffocating on foam instead of smoke!
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MeinPanzer posted:Also just discovered that the UCU congress quietly voted to pass the following resolution at the end of May, which has led to much consternation among various local branches since: To be fair, if the Russians hosed off home we wouldn't need to further arm Ukraine. But it takes a special kind of stupid to think that Putin wouldn't say "lol, sure" if that deal was on the table then come back five minutes after we'd collected up the last loaned piece of equipment.
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Perhaps the UCU would like to be armed instead.
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Jedit posted:To be fair, if the Russians hosed off home we wouldn't need to further arm Ukraine. But it takes a special kind of stupid to think that Putin wouldn't say "lol, sure" if that deal was on the table then come back five minutes after we'd collected up the last loaned piece of equipment. That's the main problem I have with this resolution, which is relatively coy but clearly of a piece with a lot of similar arguments made by leftists: it equates Russia's invasion of Ukraine with the West's support for Ukraine's defence, as if they're comparable examples of imperialism. There's always some kind of mealy-mouthed language about Russia being in the wrong, but it's paired with an equal amount of condemnation of NATO and American/British imperialism. I'm not a fan of the MIC or NATO expansion, but this perspective completely ignores the fact that this was a massive imperialist invasion of a sovereign country with at best the intention to seize its resources and install a puppet government and at worst to commit widespread atrocities and cultural genocide. The two sides can't be equated!
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I mean more pressing to me is the close ties to the Tories and the current government of Russia, rather than our aiding the defence of Ukraine.
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Tesseraction posted:I mean more pressing to me is the close ties to the Tories and the current government of Russia, rather than our aiding the defence of Ukraine. This too, if we're going to talk about Russia--how many Ukrainian vs. Russian oligarchs are pumping money into Tory coffers? Which is why it's annoying that the UCU congress specifically went out of its way to pass a resolution that basically stated "Russia is bad, but Ukraine and the West are bad too, so who is to say who's worse?"
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I always think back to this reporting https://time.com/5725041/uk-russian-assassins-heidi-blake/ Russia Was Linked to 14 Deaths in the U.K., but Britain Looked Away. A New Book Explores Why
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Public calls on UCU to end strikes, and government to meet demands.
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OwlFancier posted:Public calls on UCU to end strikes, and government to meet demands. Exactly. See also the equating of responsibility for violence you get from Tories or Republicans whenever they're called on to comment on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Also like, fundamentally failing to engage with the method of achieving the outcome, that the one exists to achieve the other. It has all the significance of writing down your wishes on a bit of paper and throwing it into a well.
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Ah, the Scott Adams solution (the wishes are all racist)
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Bug Squash posted:British libel laws are problematic, that's for sure, but I think I enjoy the weird little song and dance you have to do. It's like a high stakes magic trick, where if you gently caress up you're bankrupted and do a couple of years in prison. They're not even that problematic any more, that got reformed like 20 years ago though that hasn't really seeped down into the (American) public consciousness. Try posting something like that in the US and you'd better drat well hope you're right or you're getting sued too.
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Bit late but Huw Edwards was one of the least lickspittle reporters on the BBC, kind of sucks tbh.
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MeinPanzer posted:So how long until the offender is likely to be outed? Seems like it can't last more than 24-48 hours at this point. He’s removed BBC from his bio Each time someone sends me a photo on WhatsApp I’m semi shielding my phone out of fear it’s that photo and I’m at work. Mesopotamia fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Mesopotamia posted:He’s removed BBC from his bio
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Private Speech posted:Bit late but Huw Edwards was one of the least lickspittle reporters on the BBC, kind of sucks tbh. Him telling the BBC to gently caress off when they told him to take the Welsh flag out of his profile was a great moment.
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From my mate at ITV - rumour is Edwards has recorded a sit down interview with Amol Rajan , as per Philip Schofield
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feedmegin posted:They're not even that problematic any more, that got reformed like 20 years ago though that hasn't really seeped down into the (American) public consciousness. Try posting something like that in the US and you'd better drat well hope you're right or you're getting sued too.
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https://twitter.com/SunApology/status/1678450932537860110 I think the Sun are going to get bankrupted over this lmao.
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https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1678450172521586711 https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1678414004811710468 Good thing nobody ITT said the name
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I saw posters asking why people weren't posting names earlier today, and this is exactly why.
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I’d like to see the gutter press wriggle out of this one!
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you could all have posted the name while pointing out a blurry photo of a 60yo mans rear end is not proof of child traficking 
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It will own so hard if this is the S*n "News of the World"-ing themselves
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As I recall I have only commented on the rear end. And to be frank, I have seen better. I question why someone with a mediocre rear end should be on the BBC.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Lol the Sun is going to be getting incredibly sued I don't even care if it's true or not, this is the ideal outcome.
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Is this going to turn out to be something like the (unidentified) presenter being a subscriber to some teens only fans, which while legal was also a bit creepy, and which the mum got a hold of some pics and decided to cash in to the tabloids?
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Other than the Sun lining up for a financial beating (nice) i have little interest in the story. 
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Thanks Ants posted:It will own so hard if this is the S*n "News of the World"-ing themselves If this did it, it would kind of be disappointing that what ended the Sun wasn't demonising the city and people of Liverpool, it wasn't stoking up rape culture with it's page 3 girls (and using underage girls.) Or any of the other stuff it has done in it's history. It was defaming a celebrity when it's own power and fortune had waned.
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keep punching joe posted:Is this going to turn out to be something like the (unidentified) presenter being a subscriber to some teens only fans, which while legal was also a bit creepy, and which the mum got a hold of some pics and decided to cash in to the tabloids? That would be one (boring) option. The funniest thing would be its completely made up.
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Private Speech posted:Bit late but Huw Edwards was one of the least lickspittle reporters on the BBC, kind of sucks tbh. If it is Edwards, then we shouldn't be too surprised that the BBC didn't defend him specifically.
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