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 Find Your Local COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group - or set one up Also check: https://freedomnews.org.uk/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/ https://secretldn.com/uk-community-aid-groups-by-area/ https://queercare.network/our-work/resources/covid-19/ March saw us going from the first confirmed death from Covid-19 in the UK to entering the oh poo poo phase of the exponential curve, and the cabinet go from 'herd immunity' and 'take it on the chin' to 'oh poo poo that might include me' and a moderately enforced lockdown. The FTSE crashes, sterling crashes, health minister Nadine Dorries infects half of the legislature, and all the sports and festivals are cancelled. The Bank of England cuts interest to 0.1%, the lowest rate ever, Charles takes drastic steps to try and speed up the order of succession, and Boris Johnson threatens Prohibition before testing positive himself and isolating. Welcome to the Roaring Twenties.  https://twitter.com/cmgaston/status/1243545879237271552 Also concluding this week is the Labour Leadership Election, that's still going so get your vote in. Some good news though, the contactless payment limit goes up from £30 to £45 today, so you can buy more without having to touch anything. Hesiod posted:For the gods keep hidden from men the means of life [crops]. Else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste. But Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk, so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterwards Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: "Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire—a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction." So said the father of men and gods, and laughed aloud. In Other News  • Corbyn-19 reverses austerity, gives people money to stay at home, nationalizes the trains, and declares broadband a vital utility. • Alex Salmond is cleared of all the sex touching he did. • Other news cancelled due to Coronavirus. April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.  Boris Johnson visits local hospitals. Après moi, le déluge All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Après ski Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Après Lounge Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The second-most UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. Alpha 2 Omega - Tom O'Brien talks political strategy. Requires Improvement - Podcast of lefty teachers exploring all things education, from a socialist perspective. Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" Après-soleil Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. Hunter No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age - Jane McAlevey Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Café – Malatesta The Method of Freedom – Malatesta In Praise of Idleness – Russell Political Ideals – Russell Declaration – Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History – Domenico Losurdo God and the State – Bakunin The Conquest of Bread – Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg Violence – Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam Tooze Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom – Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left – Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital – Karl Marx and Goons Après la révolution (thanks feedmegin) quote:I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land. The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Or on Discord for other UKMT Chat and Podcast Conspiring https://discord.gg/QErneZT  Do Not Post In This Thread:
learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Maugrim posted:
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big scary monsters posted:I wonder what the April fools' jokes are going to look like on the news sites this year. 
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Why are we using the US spelling of metre in the thread title? Pls fix. goddamnedtwisto posted:We GOT BREXIT DONE and so will not be using filthy French spellings any more.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:measure drugs and other injectables in mg/ml but blood in pints.  But pubs can sell beer by the pint or half pint. And also sell coca cola by the 15fl oz (although I'm not sure if they should and I've no idea why, 426.2ml isn't even a can size). Azza Bamboo posted:Seeing as we're not going to change our road signage ever I wouldn't mind if we sold fuel in gallons. We will have phased out the internal combustion engine before that gets sorted though. And even then we'll be selling household electricity in kWh and measuring cars in kcal/mile or some poo poo.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:This is what fire is for.
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A UK unit of blood is 525ml +/- just enough to make it actually a pint.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.blood.co.uk/the-donation-process/after-your-donation/ e: 3 pints is near enough exactly 1.7L, which is about as close as you can get to a nice conversion.
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feedmegin posted:Not actually true - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identification_Data
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If you fly tipped a ton of soil in some of our barren fields around here I doubt anyone would notice. Everyone would assume it was one of those anti-Traveller humps.
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Sloth Life posted:Ok, household talk. I'm useless.  There will be a ton of YouTube tutorials for this though, I'm sure. One of the few advantages of massive plugs is there's a lot of room for forgiveness on cutting the wire length exactly right.
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Wachter posted:How common is the loss of taste in covid patients? My wife just said the spag bol tastes weird and it can't be possibly be because my cooking is crap
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Went for a long walk this morning (well 1hr) up the river bank, hardly anyone about. e: ^^^ will the covid beat IDS for national deaths to date?
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justcola posted:Speaking of sport, what are all the sport sites and radio stations doing at the moment? Reminiscing about subbuteo and scalextric? Rumours are that Bob Footballs will transfer to Dynamo Scunthorpe if we don't all die, manager's fury at interpretation of line in contract while no sports happens, etc. crispix posted:Early on they had one where an old couple had to wear masks on their holidays with hilarious tanning consequences and I was told from an informed source that their latest front page was the seat sniffing bloke from years ago suing the council for putting him on lockdown because he can't indulge in his favourite passtime. It's really quite predictable Pesky Splinter posted:It's a pretty good step by step of most stuff, although I haven't touched any electrics or plumbing for risk of being zapped to death, or drowning in poo poo. Technically everything has to be signed off by an electrician now but if you're just e.g. replacing a socket and not replacing the house wiring then nobody cares. Plumbing is something I wouldn't do myself beyond like changing a sink trap or toilet siphon, because water gets everywhere and ruins everything. Gas, no.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Basic plugwiring and blown fuses yeah, though I'm still not confident enough to do anything further The one thing that I am comfortable doing with gas (and everyone else should be too, tenant or homeowner) is checking for gas leaks with washing up liquid and water. If I see bubbles it's straight to turning it off at the meter and calling someone else. Algol Star posted:Get some of these for hanging stuff up. Can hold ridiculous weights and don't leave marks if you use and remove them properly. Better than wall hooks.
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josh04 posted:Apparently on a two week time delay, Mervyn King has been rolled out to suggest that long-term quarantine measures are "unrealistic" and we should be focused on getting immune people back to work. Pesky Splinter posted:Whoops, sorry sent you wrong link to an older one: marktheando posted:Why are Sweden doing better than us with no lockdown? efb
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Strom Cuzewon posted:There's something grimly amusing about the papers reporting "biggest rise in cases/deaths EVER" every few days as if its a discrete event completely separated from everything beforehand. Media's always had a short memory, but its almost instantaneous now. You need to use a log scale to really appreciate the growth! e: 6 BTC is 30,239 GBP
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Bobstar posted:What was the name of the thing where you read about your own subject in the newspaper, laugh at how wrong it is, then read the other things? Comrade Fakename posted:It's like the millennium bug. Everyone thought "nothing happened, what a waste of time, money and effort!" When the time, money and effort is why nothing happened.
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CoolCab posted::o you have the forbidden blood type. that's the good one. What's the weird astrology thing they do with blood types in Japan? The alchemist discovering pots for us.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Blood type personality theory. quote:Takeji Furukawa (1927), 血液型と気質 Blood Type and Temperament - in Europe, type A is more common than type B, while in Asia type B is more prevalent, so Europeans insisted A races are superior to B races. A Japanese scholar, Takeji Furukawa opposed that idea and asserted that B persons were active while A persons were passive.
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All this is true, but there's an important aside that you should never rely on a fuse or mechanical circuit breaker to save your life. They're dumb and a 13A fuse does not care whether it's putting 10A through your kettle or a much smaller amount through your heart that's still way more than enough to give you a bad time. Anything you might touch should have either an earthed metal case, that way if something live touches the case you've got a dead short which will draw a few 10s of amps for a very short time, blowing the fuse, or it should have a double insulated case. And if you're using it outside or in the bathroom, it should also have its own RCD. Also once you've labelled all your breakers, if you need to change a socket or something always plug in a desk lamp, switch it on, and turn off the breaker that you think turns that socket off, you may be surprised (but it's a better surprise than the other kind). serious gaylord posted:Yeah electrics is pretty straight forward and much like you I wont touch plumbing because unlike electrics, doing something wrong with pipes might not be immediately obvious until your ceiling falls in 10 years later. Crankit posted:What is the difference between the o negative and o positive blood?
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kecske posted:your whole house is on one ring? It's only a two up two down, although personally I'd prefer it if the kitchen sockets had their own ring, but that's right at the other end to the consumer unit.
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Bobstar posted:Or get a cheap multimeter. I mean, get an expensive Fluke multimeter like mine, but a £12 one will do the job for checking stuff is off, and testing continuity/resistance. The screwdrivers with a neon tube in are also good, I always poke something that I know is live to make sure the tube's working before I trust it on anything else though. But for 'did I turn the right thing off' you can't beat an old desklamp plugged into said thing. serious gaylord posted:Terrace? Built in the 60s? Ex Council? Absolutely solid build, but whoever electrified it (in the late 30s under the assisted wiring scheme if I had to guess) chose a torturous route, and later modernizations opted to keep it. The cooker and boiler wiring are modern though (last 10 years, gas option only before that) but the ring main is, yeah... Wayfaring Stranger posted:I will never not be here for Toby Young getting dunked on 
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xtothez posted:I like to think sparkies leave surprises like that as a form of Darwinism. Weed out the ones not paying attention.  Azza Bamboo posted:Mate of mine installed a power shower on their lighting loop but got tired of it blowing the fuse so he soldered a spoon between the fuse contacts. I proved it was because the breaker was a piece of poo poo first and replaced it straight after.
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Remember: if you're not allowed to advertise, product place, product place, product place. Note to editors: Currently this is a potential vaccine candidate, not a vaccine or a cure, given this is early stages of the development process. Also check the date etc etc but they've put their full 'Forward looking statements' clause on it. Answers Me posted:e: Dan Hodges, meanwhile, very much is a useful idiot:
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dispatch_async posted:The replies to that Hodges tweet lead me to this which I think might be Hodges greatest ever work Flipswitch posted:Hungary just made being trans illegal. Cool so they're burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft because they don't know what words mean again. Will the Guardian speak out 
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Jel Shaker posted:I imagine he’s like one of those PR people for big tobacco or oil, happy to be evil and/or look like an idiot because he’s paid to by people who don’t want to look like that but certainty think the same way
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's piss easy if you have a hand mirror and aren't drunk at the time
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Bear bile, which is produced in the liver and stored in the balls.
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They also got a ton of oil money to reestablish after they got sued into bankruptcy for genocide denial iirc
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ThomasPaine posted:they're dumbass accelerationists O'Neill was in the "we should technology our way through climate change into utopia" gang before the Koch money, but now his salary depends on reactionary contrarianism.
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ThomasPaine posted:I guess what I'm saying in short is 'where is the Marxism, group formerly known as Living Marxism?'
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After 6 weeks in lockdown with nothing but the Olympic opening ceremony to watch, we will all emerge with Tim brain.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/George_Osborne/status/1245359671952781313
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