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Somewhere there's bound to be a person making the most of their antique air raid siren collection
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Apr 30, 2020 20:20
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Someone set off a firework on our street during  THE CLAP . Fair enough.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:33
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Does anyone know what Labour Left Alliance are like?
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Apr 30, 2020 20:34
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crispix posted:Somewhere there's bound to be a person making the most of their antique air raid siren collection Used to be (still may be) a band in Oxford called Mary Bendy Toy who used a manual crack siren in their set. It was amazing.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:38
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Milo_Edwards/status/1255811201713557505?s=19 Ah yes, the guy that is such an enormous dickhead that they literally made a Hollywood movie about it and banned him from the set because he kept turning up and irritating everyone I'm sure he has something interesting to say about.... his wife? No this can't be right, who would pay someone to do that
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Apr 30, 2020 20:40
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OwlFancier posted:Does anyone know what Labour Left Alliance are like? They're Chris Williamson's grift brigade, way too concerned with loudly denying that they're antisemitic to get any actual leftist work done. Forward Momentum is probably a better choice if you want left-wing Labour fringe groups.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:41
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Hm that's a shame, some decent seeming lefties just got in contact with me about joining it.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:42
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OwlFancier posted:Hm that's a shame, some decent seeming lefties just got in contact with me about joining it. I can believe that decent individuals are involved with it, but the organisation itself gives me little hope for its future.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:43
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A year or more on and I *still* don't know the rights or wrongs about the Williamson case so I'm sticking with my gut instinct of him being a Galloway-style chancer and self-publicist and steering clear.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:45
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I feel I should continue to share my worst creations with the thread.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:48
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Darth Walrus posted:I can believe that decent individuals are involved with it, but the organisation itself gives me little hope for its future. They mostly seem pissed off at momentum cos it's just lansman's personal army, which I find it hard to disagree with given how poo poo he's been generally. In terms of grifters he doesn't seem in a position to throw stones.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:48
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Braggart posted:I feel I should continue to share my worst creations with the thread. instead can you share the LSD you were on when you decided making this was a good idea
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Apr 30, 2020 20:54
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Convex posted:Ah yes, the guy that is such an enormous dickhead that they literally made a Hollywood movie about it and banned him from the set because he kept turning up and irritating everyone The previous episode in this saga was his wife writing an article about how while the dickhead was writing articles about how everyone should ignore Covid and go back to work he'd Howard Hughes'd himself in his room convinced he had the Disease.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:59
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Apr 30, 2020 21:05
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Apr 30, 2020 21:12
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Gonzo McFee posted:The previous episode in this saga was his wife writing an article about how while the dickhead was writing articles about how everyone should ignore Covid and go back to work he'd Howard Hughes'd himself in his room convinced he had the Disease.  Wow, now I want a black mirror where toby young is locked in a digital cell with a perfect clone of himself (created from extensive AI analysis of his newspaper columns) for 5 million years Convex fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Apr 30, 2020 21:17
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Does anyone know a good microphone and webcam to have for chatting to folk?
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Apr 30, 2020 21:24
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Josef bugman posted:Does anyone know a good microphone and webcam to have for chatting to folk?
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Apr 30, 2020 21:40
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Josef bugman posted:Does anyone know a good microphone and webcam to have for chatting to folk? I couldn't find a webcam for love nor money at the beginning of lockdown so I ended up trying out Droidcam (https://www.dev47apps.com/) with an old Android phone and it's been really good. I've connected it via USB debugging mode though so I can't vouch for it's quality over Wifi.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:44
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Josef bugman posted:Does anyone know a good microphone and webcam to have for chatting to folk? You can pick up second hand PS3 one for a couple of quid on eBay.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:48
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What's the likelihood of the lockdown ending early, like say in the next few weeks or a month or two?
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Apr 30, 2020 21:49
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I ask because I would like to have one I can plug into my computer. I am fine with the smartphone I have, I would just prefer a computer one. Since my birthday is coming up and I can't think of many things I want, I thought I would ask.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:50
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Ash Crimson posted:What's the likelihood of the lockdown ending early, like say in the next few weeks or a month or two? I'm still satisfying my curiosity by spying on the work email accounts despite being on furlough, and a whole load of our suppliers are planning to open up on the 11th of May. I'm expecting most manufacturing and distribution businesses to follow suit.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:00
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Soylent Yellow posted:I'm still satisfying my curiosity by spying on the work email accounts despite being on furlough, and a whole load of our suppliers are planning to open up on the 11th of May. I'm expecting most manufacturing and distribution businesses to follow suit. what about retail tho
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Apr 30, 2020 22:01
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Ash Crimson posted:what about retail tho These are companies that supply retailers. They wouldn't reopen their distribution networks if there wasn't anyone to supply to.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:03
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Soylent Yellow posted:I'm still satisfying my curiosity by spying on the work email accounts despite being on furlough, and a whole load of our suppliers are planning to open up on the 11th of May. I'm expecting most manufacturing and distribution businesses to follow suit. Quelle surprise - Friday May 8th is the VE Day bank holiday - so Monday the 11th is afterwards. Seems they are also of the opinion that Big Daddy is going to declare the end (or extensive loosening up) of lockdown on May 8th blitz spirit, Vera Lynn, flag waving hurrah hurrah and poppies all round.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:27
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Just reading more of this latest bollox from the Board of Deputies and demands for Abbott and Riberio-Addy to be expelled, and people claiming that they would definitely know that Walker and Greenstein were on the zoom call of 600 people. More and more am I glad I quit the party and before the leadership was announced.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:49
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Quelle surprise - Friday May 8th is the VE Day bank holiday - so Monday the 11th is afterwards. Seems they are also of the opinion that Big Daddy is going to declare the end (or extensive loosening up) of lockdown on May 8th blitz spirit, Vera Lynn, flag waving hurrah hurrah and poppies all round. I can't hear Vera Lynn singing "We'll meet again" without seeing the end scene from Dr Strangelove in my mind. It would be very appropriate if it was the cue to reverse the lockdown on VE day weekend.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:57
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Josef bugman posted:I ask because I would like to have one I can plug into my computer. I am fine with the smartphone I have, I would just prefer a computer one. Since my birthday is coming up and I can't think of many things I want, I thought I would ask. I've been trying out some USB webcams for work and I'm not terribly impressed. Your phone webcam is very likely to have better output than any cheap USB cam and if you want to spend 100s on a good one you might as well get a cheap 2nd hand flagship phone from 3 years ago. I think a used Galaxy S7 is like £50ish on eBay?
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Apr 30, 2020 22:59
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Kier Starmer stance on Kashmir is like he heard the left likes non interventionism and applies it in the worse way possible.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:13
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when we locked down on 23rd of march there were 1000 cases a day and now there are 4000 cases a day and we're talking about opening up in a week, lol I tried looking up data on historical tests per day (which is not readily apparent on the gov page, but maybe I'm just being blind) but on reflection I don't think there's any way that we actually have fewer new infections per day anyway, because we're still undertesting what do they think is going to happen to the rate of deceleration of new cases if they relax the measures causing it to decelerate it's like if you were driving a car and it suddenly starts accelerating uncontrollably of its own accord, slamming on the brakes and starting to slow down a bit and then going "cool I'm slowing down now, everything's under control so it's time to ease off on the brake a bit"
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Apr 30, 2020 23:15
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Z the IVth posted:I've been trying out some USB webcams for work and I'm not terribly impressed. Your phone webcam is very likely to have better output than any cheap USB cam and if you want to spend 100s on a good one you might as well get a cheap 2nd hand flagship phone from 3 years ago. I think a used Galaxy S7 is like £50ish on eBay? The thing is the decent webcams are largely gonna be sold out, or at least overpriced just now, but a smartphone camera has two issues. One, it requires you to hold the device, as typically it means you're using that device for all the communications as it's a pain to try and send the output through a computer, so now you have a smaller screen to work with, and an object you need to hold. Two, phone lenses are typically narrower frame than a half decent webcam, aimed largely for a single user, which seems fine at first, but gets awkward if you want to have multiple people involved, or show something off. This is especially true thanks to point one as you'll often be using the front facing camera instead. The gold standard for budget webcams is the Logitech c920 or c920s, prior to the event commonly available for about £50, sometimes on sale as cheap as £25. Due to everyone suddenly needing webcams, the stock dried up so the prices have ballooned up to about £70
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Apr 30, 2020 23:24
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Sure feeling bad about judging Kier before he was in the job.
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Apr 30, 2020 23:26
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Barry Foster posted:I forgot to say this at the time and really wish I did, along with 'you're literally arguing on the same side as Elon Musk, Tim Martin, and capitalists across the globe' and 'the tories were forced into the lockdown by the people, not vice versa' There's also the thing that tackling climate change is gonna involve big life changes, people doing without stuff they've become accustomed to, and generally putting up with things for the greater good. And we need a concerted, coordinated effort to do that, with people understanding that sacrifices are necessary, and demanding them from people in power instead of going with whoever offers the easy "don't bother it's fine" option so if they're getting mad about being told to stay home during a pandemic because they want their lives back to normal, yeah I dunno how on board they are with the whole "I care about climate change" thing! It's like owl said, they already know what they want, they're just looking for ways to justify it
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Apr 30, 2020 23:28
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Fresh new podcast on the state of Labour factionalism from your thread comrades over at Podcasting is Praxis, plus also Jack off of Reel Politik - https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1255989056674107394?s=20
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mehall posted:The thing is the decent webcams are largely gonna be sold out, or at least overpriced just now, but a smartphone camera has two issues.  and use the back camera?
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Apr 30, 2020 23:45
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kingturnip posted:What does the Board of Deputies do when they're not shrieking about anti-Semitism within the Labour Party? It's nuts. If they manage to make this stupid pledge a Thing, it's gonna lead to mass suspensions. Don't think Starmer is going to want to go there so soon while he's still trying to tiptoe between the two factions.
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Prince John posted:It's nuts. If they manage to make this stupid pledge a Thing, it's gonna lead to mass suspensions. Don't think Starmer is going to want to go there so soon while he's still trying to tiptoe between the two factions. Haha, what factions are those? Because it's clearly not the left he is trying to placate
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