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lol at the breaking news that the Tories might actually support the extremely racist moron, especially given that this was first reported on Sunday and expanded upon today https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/may/01/tory-hopeful-for-london-mayor-joins-anti-ulez-facebook-group-rife-with-islamophobia and Sunak refused to condemn it at PMQs because he wholeheartedly agrees with whatever his team does, from the article: quote:On Monday, the day after the revelation, her official Facebook page joined a seventh group called “Bexley say no to Ulez expansion”.
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May 1, 2024 17:30
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smellmycheese posted:3 Bedfordians posting here does seem unusual and me went to Hastingsbury (rip) though, so we got our drugs by beating up the kids that went to the myriad of public schools for them
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May 1, 2024 17:52
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christ, whoever said they trying to time this for the locals was absolutely on the mark, what the gently caress kind of PR is this meant to be https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1785635671316537510
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May 1, 2024 18:02
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The only people I knew who went to Hastingsbury called themselves the Hastingsbury Whores and used "literally" as a tic, the same way that later became a meme on the internet.
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May 1, 2024 18:04
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Look and lol at the state of the editor of the New Statesman 
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May 1, 2024 18:16
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When you're writing your fantasy stories you should avoid just making up words for everything just to make it sound different.
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May 1, 2024 18:18
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starmerism a bowl of microwaved dogshit imo
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May 1, 2024 18:28
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0 pillars
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May 1, 2024 18:28
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I, for one , welcome our new, progressively real, securonomic briefcase wielding overlords
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May 1, 2024 18:28
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with a wee union jack cocktail umbrella perched in it
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May 1, 2024 18:32
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where’s the starmer stone
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May 1, 2024 18:37
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Jel Shaker posted:where’s the starmer stone thats just Starmer himself
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May 1, 2024 18:52
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I know Weet Hot Takes are frowned on ITT but still: (Just had to see how her we are lit site is doing - nothing since 2021 LOL)
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May 1, 2024 19:10
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I know Weet Hot Takes are frowned on ITT but still: In fairness to Ms Weetabix I kinda admire the grift of becoming a councillor, turning up to like two meetings while pocketing the salary, then convincing some dumbasses to give you a grant for a 'media platform' which you proceed to, again, pocket and do nothing with
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May 1, 2024 19:19
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I divide Starmerism into three pillars: one focused on dullness, one on breaking promises and one on copying the Tories
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May 1, 2024 19:53
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Hello, my name is Mr Ressarts and I come from uh... Argentina. Yes, that'll do. 
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May 1, 2024 19:57
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ThomasPaine posted:In fairness to Ms Weetabix this is an insult to the real Ms Weetabix, who has only ever broadcast reasonable opinions, primarily about the inadequacy of titchy breakfasts 
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May 1, 2024 20:00
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Leetabix
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May 1, 2024 20:03
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issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the Weetabix Gang
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May 1, 2024 20:05
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Guavanaut posted:Leetabix lmao  I need to dig out this atlas when I go back to my mum's next
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May 1, 2024 20:11
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I know Weet Hot Takes are frowned on ITT but still: Must sting to have lost all that attention after being fully eclipsed in the poo poo take punching bag stakes by an old NME editor. Edit: was in London for the first time in years this week and did a visit to the Imperial War Museum. Their "new" (few years old now) Holocaust exhibition is really well done and really hard hitting. Recommend it if you're nearby, but allow an hour or so of downtime after. Mesopotamia fucked around with this message at 20:22 on May 1, 2024 |
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May 1, 2024 20:19
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The thread has performed the respectful one hour downtime in honour of the museum exhibit.
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May 1, 2024 21:35
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Mesopotamia posted:Must sting to have lost all that attention after being fully eclipsed in the poo poo take punching bag stakes by an old NME editor. Yeah, imagine being a successful attention-seeker who achieves glorious publicity, then peaks and is pushed aside by newer, even more outspoken and extreme replacements. Must feel like being one of those failed gods that blow sadly around the place in Terry Pratchet's Small Gods.
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May 1, 2024 22:01
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I wonder what a discworld take on social media would be like. At least he never had to live to witness it.
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May 1, 2024 22:03
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I've just got back from this show in town: https://threeacresandacow.co.uk/ Basically a two-hour tour of land revolt and protest in Britain and Ireland from the Norman Conquest through the medium of folk songs. But it ends up being basically a history of English peasant/working class radicalism. Songs (including singalongs), poems, conversational lectures and storytelling and lots of bringing the subjects of all these centuries-old songs back to modern issues like austerity and climate change. It was a case of 'went for the music, stayed for the politics, bowled over by the storytelling' for me. A real insight into how there's a whole other sort of national history out there to the one you get taught and is continually reinforced. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone ITT who can get to a show.
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May 1, 2024 22:03
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder what a discworld take on social media would be like. he... he died in 2015 in twitter's comparative heyday, and long after facebook first caused a genocide
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May 1, 2024 22:04
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Huh, I thought it was longer ago than that. I do still feel like true social media derangement is like late 2010s to now though. And I don't know how much he was on twitter before his death, I would hope not very much.
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May 1, 2024 22:06
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder what a discworld take on social media would be like. Didn't Pterry actually spend a good bit of time on Oblivion message boards during his final years, getting help with mods so he could befriend the goblins? I feel like he got to see the nicer side of social media.
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May 1, 2024 22:07
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He was a usenet poster IIRC so yeah obviously oldschool computer nerd.
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May 1, 2024 22:08
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The klacks was on its way to that, but never got past the 90s internet stage
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May 1, 2024 22:08
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, imagine being a successful attention-seeker who achieves glorious publicity, then peaks and is pushed aside by newer, even more outspoken and extreme replacements. Must feel like being one of those failed gods that blow sadly around the place in Terry Pratchet's Small Gods. You: use that attention for some sort of pointless centrist councillor race Your successor: uses that attention to date a hot Hollywood actress
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May 1, 2024 22:32
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, imagine being a successful attention-seeker who achieves glorious publicity, then peaks and is pushed aside by newer, even more outspoken and extreme replacements. Must feel like being one of those failed gods that blow sadly around the place in Terry Pratchet's Small Gods. There's just no room for a plucky amateur anymore. Not even on youtube. The production values arms-race of 2020 saw that off. All the internet niches are fully professional roles now. Twitter morons are band 6 and that comes with BUPA.
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May 1, 2024 22:43
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Endjinneer posted:There's just no room for a plucky amateur anymore. Not even on youtube. The production values arms-race of 2020 saw that off. All the internet niches are fully professional roles now. Twitter morons are band 6 and that comes with BUPA. i don't think that's really true. theres a number of growing youtube channels that are literally just some nerd in a room staring at a phone. you gotta be good at a niche, but it's still happening
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May 1, 2024 23:15
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well congrats on your success but we can't all replicate it
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May 1, 2024 23:16
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Tesseraction posted:well congrats on your success but we can't all replicate it oh i am definitely not charismatic enough to youtube or anything else lol
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May 1, 2024 23:47
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ray wiliam johnson was one of the most successful youtubers of his day, and the bar has only got lower
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May 2, 2024 00:13
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Jeez I'm getting fed up of comments around the interwebs about "men of fighting age" & "you should stay & fight for your country" when in many cases "fighting for your country" would have you marked down as a terrorist or, say, fighting for the govt would get you being killed by the UK/US/France/rebel alliance axis, fighting for the 'rebels' would get you killed by the Russia/Iran/govt axis. I guess most posters on here are 'fighting age'. One of the most moving incidents at a gig I experienced was in the early 90s when the first Iraq war had started, the papers were full of hints that young men would be called up and I think it was Acid Reign or maybe Lawnmower Deth who did a cover of War Pigs and the whole place - 99% young men of 'fighting age' sang along with it with meaning. (I might have posted this before eons ago).
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May 2, 2024 00:42
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i am fighting age in the sense that I use a LOT of voltarol
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May 2, 2024 02:28
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Jippa posted:Any posters from terrington st clement? Blimey, that's not that far away!
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May 2, 2024 04:53
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I don't recall who recommended The Comet is Coming in here but I've been listening to them a lot the last couple of days and they're really good, so thanks.
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