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https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1253308893712842754 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/ Free Academic Books For All Your Lockdown Needs Here Jaeluni Asjil posted:Load of free non-fiction books from Springer: everything from computer touching / physics / maths / business / theatre / social justice etc etc. April saw the whole country in lockdown, with more than nine million workers expected to be furloughed under the job retention scheme, Debenhams goes into administration again, Oasis and Warehouse close, Boris Johnson goes into and out of intensive care, then into and out of his house in the country. The UK death toll from the virus becomes the second highest in Europe at 26,097. Michael Gove concedes that Boris Johnson missed five COBRA meetings in the early stages of the viral outbreak, and that the UK shipped protective equipment to China in February. Current UK COVID-19 Plan: A 100 year old war veteran walks laps of his yard to fund the NHS. National Living Wage went up 6.2% if you're still in work though. Easter Status: Cancelled VE Day Status: Singing Vera Lynn from the doorstep to pot and pan percussion Whitsun Status: Cancelled due to possibility of very large coronaviruses disguising themselves as a god   Lingg was one of eight anarchists tried for murder in the aftermath of the Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago in 1886. The bombing took place during a rally for the eight-hour day on May 1, and came to be known thereafter as May Day, the International Workers Day. Despite an almost complete lack of evidence, Lingg and four others were convicted and sentenced to death. On the eve of his execution, he took a small bomb that had been smuggled into his jail cell, and killed himself by igniting it in his mouth. In Other News  Sir Keir Starmer, MP for Windsoacke-over-Trigpoint, is elected as the leader of the Labour Party. MPs take part in the first virtual Prime Minister's Questions, via videoconferencing service Zoom. John Horton Conway exits the Game of Life due to a fast replicator. Liz Truss comes out with a bunch of medically illiterate TERF bullshit. Downing Street concedes Covid-19 testing targets will be missed. Other news still cancelled due to Coronavirus.  May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.  Boris Johnson leaves hospital and becomes a father again. Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) World Whisky Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Culture Freedom Day 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 OHagan 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" mehall posted: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 - Hocktide 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 Cafι 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 International Workers' Day (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. 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Ms Adequate posted:I have to say, that doesn't do a huge amount for his "I wasn't involved in the bombing" claim.
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Ms Adequate posted:Nah the cruelty is the point. I remember a documentary I watched a few years ago - think it was Portillo whomst was presenting - and after finding a potential means of execution involving some gas or other widely believed to be painless if it was used for such a purpose, took the idea to some top pro-execution oval office in Texas or somewhere. I think it's only Washington state that bothered to go with measured drop hanging. Idaho and (at one point anyway) Utah let you pick firing squad, which seems fairly humane compared to all the rest. I'm surprised it isn't more popular given certain law departments' love of shooting people and the psychological positioning of the gun as a tool to turn injustice into justice. Portillo's method was dry nitrogen gas, which works very well, but you might die without knowing it, so justice does not happen. Also he got hanged in effigy in the documentary so it's worth watching. Anyway, speaking of extremely normal things happening in America, Maryland has called in the National Guard and state police to guard coronavirus tests and supplies, to stop them being seized by the federal government to be redistributed to states that DJT likes. Dead Goon posted:Just having a click through the Podcasts as you do when there's a new thread and the OP is the first post you see (and you are adding podcasts to your catcher that you will never listen to).
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Thanks, updated.Dell_Zincht posted:£14.48 to pay in fines
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Going back to cooking as repeated worker appropriations of cooking up whatever you have with whatever you have from last thread, this looks like something I want to eat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn1ttBVVx7U
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Also from last month's thread, but there's some extremely pro stuff at this place.Soylent Yellow posted:https://brew2bottle.co.uk/
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Renaissance Robot posted:iirc the bizarre cocktail they use for lethal injections is used specifically because it keeps you awake until death (and has a chance of feeling like liquid fire is being pushed through your veins), when you could much more reliably kill people through injection by ODing them on anaesthesia. As the inventor of the original cocktail puts it, it's currently at the stage where it's more humane to just use a guillotine.
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Angepain posted:i was worried that this coronavirus thing was going to continue to cause suffering of some kind but i've looked at facebook and The Facebook Team have added a special new hug reaction emoji thing so I guess that's it that's the virus over now thank you facebook 
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Soylent Yellow posted:It's rather telling that livestock is slaughtered with quicker and more reliable methods than people. The US execution methods (lethal injection, as well as the older mostly discontinued methods like the electric chair and gas chamber) just have so many potential points of failiure built into them that I can only assume they're deliberately needlessly complex. I think this is in part due to proponents of the death penalty having a compulsion to add a sense of theatre to the process. Something as quick and simple as a captive bolt gun or nitrogen asphyxiation wouldn't satisfy this need. You don't get that with a bolt gun, although I suppose you could have a panel of people pushing the button for a dry nitrogen chamber. The heart of the contradiction is wanting a state that kills people without any identifiable person killing anyone. OwlFancier posted:Genuinely sick and tired of these loving snowflakes whose sole concern in life is waving a loving flag around because that's the only problem they've ever had.
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Over the counter Sarco when? Aphex- posted:Best flag is the Mozambique one because it's got an AK-47 on it.
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Continuity RCP posted:I take the furlough very seriously so I'm not even looking at hilarious minion memes on the work Facebook group  
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Why choose between dying and going to work when you can have both! this has been an announcement from the Conservative COVID-19 Preparedness Team
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Josef bugman posted:Oh good we are back into "hope is a lie" I really missed this. Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it. 
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Failed Imagineer posted:Still though, don't you ever get an urge to smoke some squidgy plastic hash  ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:1990s Prod 
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Josef bugman posted:Yeah. Or read Camus' The Plague if you want something closer to home. 
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Josef bugman posted:Thank you. have currently been trying to get through some thicker books, so might aim for something a bit less heavy atm. Steve Biko explained the threefold Hegelian dialectic to me in I Write What I Like better than any number of pages of Hegel could, because he was communicating to a different audience and not being deliberately verbose. Which isn't to say that every academic book is useless, a book on organic chemistry that was completely accessible would likely not be useful, and vice versa, and I assume the same goes for the more advanced texts in social study, like Walter Benjamin and his sock fetish, but if you're trying for peasant liberation and your text can't be understood by the peasantry (who aren't thick, they just don't have the background reading and seminars) then your actual aim is Trot wanking. And on that note I still really need to read Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Oh dear me posted:And it would be hard to kid myself that any of them would appreciate all this flag-waving. They didn't ever do it themselves. I'm glad he missed all this    
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justcola posted:Twenty years or so ago people would have little flags with the English flag on that clipped onto car windows or sometimes the red and white flag hanging out of a window - but it was more associated with the working class. I think this changed a bit with the riots in 2011 and the following Keep calm and carry on merchandise and 'armies of volunteers' sweeping up the mess from riots, so now there's a group that prefer to use the Union Jack and go more for that midsomer murders aesthetic. Twee as gently caress.  There's also a white over red version for use in Scotland. The use of the George Cross seems a comparatively recent thing outside of the RN White Ensign, look at the footage of the  1966 World Cup Final, there isn't one in sight in the crowd shots.
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happyhippy posted:Technically the UK is 4 countries, but still, thats loving stupidly high. Along with everything else the UK is bad at official designations so nobody wants to give anywhere a full official title like Cymric Autonomous Oblast.
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These are the people that the Karen meme was made for: https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/02/mums-occupy-childrens-playground-protest-lockdown-12643715/ quote:We believe the number of people dead from Covid is exemplified (sic). Extra numbers are being added into Covid. We dont want to be unlawfully rejected or kept inside. I blame mumsnet.
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Some local non-chain pubs are doing takeaway from their partnered breweries if you show up with a 2 or 4 pint milk jug.
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Vitamin P posted:Honest question, if people are saying "the Karen meme seems racially specific and is definitely misogynistic so please don't use it" what is the woke rationale for not respecting that? It's also worth noting that 'Becky' never got the same kind of outrage that 'Karen' did. Beckys tend to be younger and more working class than Karens. It's also also worth noting that everyone mad about Karen found 'Shaneequa' for all black women hilarious or at the bare minimum never spoke up when it was joked about. (Also it pisses off Spiked, or at least makes them performatively outraged, which points to it being right.) sassassin posted:I don't see gender, only the manager. 
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Vitamin P posted:*channels a normal person* You've folded the misogynistic elements into the racial bit, it's neat rhetoric but you've dodged the stronger half of the Karen critique, if women are saying "we're asking you to stop using this sexist insult of the whiney nagging woman" and your reply is "lol no nice try bitch but I see your white normality behaviour" then you haven't actually addressed their point, you've dismissed it so you can keep doing the funny meme you like under a mask of anti-racist performative intellectualism THAT YOU EVEN ADMITTED WAS PERFORMATIVE AT THE START OF YOUR POST It isn't, white feminism is as bad as brocialism. Vitamin P posted:Isn't Becky just a lesser Stacey? If there's some other element then fair play I've never heard it but there's no element of it that would provoke any outrage, and again your obfuscating the sexism but with age and class this time.
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Vitamin P posted:And yeah again we have irreconcilable differences. The Bernie Bro poo poo and "brocialism" in broad was a deliberate top-down meme to undermine the women, poc and older people that supported Bernie or any distributive movement using the lovely radlib moral framework capital is currently forcing on us. Doesn't have anything to do with Hillary only losing because of the Bernard Brothers Online, except when extremely liberal people try to force it. Tarnop posted:Calling "Karen" a misogynist slur is the same as calling the discussion of toxic masculinity misandrist (a fave of the alt right). It's the behaviour that's being criticised, but as Guava said we're in a society that loves to strictly demarcate behaviours between the genders, and those on the left are equally critical of men who use direct violence rather than calling the manager.
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OwlFancier posted:Does Orthodox Marxist mean something other than just agreeing with the points marx made? Cos I think I scored pretty high as one on that quiz thing.
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Also if women and LGBT folks don't want to join your social movement because you refuse to seriously tackle sexual harassment and worse within your upper ranks then you done hosed up. At this point I'm beginning to think that's a consequence of almost any form of hierarchy, at least that comes out of our current social environment. It affects anti-hierarchical movements too but at least they're more often prepared to gather around and talk about it rather than close ranks around the leadership.
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That's what Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes was made for.
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Coohoolin posted:There should absolutely be a mechanism to protect kids from their parents' lovely naming attempts, but it needs to be decentralised because I can easily imagine a british naming law saying no to welsh or gaidhlig names. Mandating that names with no consensus Romanization like مُحَمَّد or علي be registered as 'John' or 'Clive' to placate the haram steak lot otoh... Jedit posted:I have personally met Richard Head, so they're not all myths.
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When your real name is too hardcore for wrestling so you have to tone it down.
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Failed Imagineer posted:it's racism, op There's some racism in there in that the names considered 'chavvy' often have some degree of overlap with anglicized Irish names, but it's different in character to the urban legend 'black' names poo poo.
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Peter Hitchens's extended Sunday normal one continues, in which he asks us to please think about the landlords, doesn't understand social distancing, and threatens to walk around wearing a Red Army gas mask.
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Undead Hippo posted:There are already several. "Napoleon Complex" "Little Hitler" and "Disgusted of Tumbridge Wells" are all male assuming terms, describing similar behaviours to "Karen". An abuse of limited authority, and a jumped up sense of self importance. Karen more specifically puts the context into the area of customer abusing staff-member, but I think it's similar enough. And probably dated because I have no clue what South Park is up to now, but 'Cartman' was a good epithet for sociopathic little pricks who immediately let the tiniest shred of authority go to their heads. Totally unrelated: 
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History Comes Inside! posted:Some utter oval office that I work with has pitched "if this app works the police should be out doing spot checks and fining people who haven't got it installed, and shops should be checking at the door and refusing to let people in if they don't have it" I think that's mostly an example of the neoliberal trend of "government can't do anything right, vote for us and we'll prove it."
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Bobstar posted:Going back to Thief of Time (I always forget how good it is): before anything else, people fear Kaos. Keep you free from sin 'Till the milkman he comes
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I always assumed that's how our version of the sandman worked, because the canonical version where he puts people to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes was obviously written by someone who has never been to the beach.
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The Scottish version is just a pervert. Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toon, Up stairs an' doon stairs in his nicht-gown, Tirlin' at the window, crying at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?" If a man in a dressing gown knocks at your window at 10pm asking about the whereabouts of your children, call the police.
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