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It is December, but UKMT ThreadPro, who were hired to produce a new high quality thread, turned out to mostly have experience in marketing imitation livestock to Pietermaritzburg. Ah well, such is business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfddlaibfI Lungboy posted:The new regulations that MPs will be voting on tomorrow have been published, and at the end say: Which also means these may still be useful, even as we await a vaccine: 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/ In Other News  • The UK terror threat level is raised from "substantial" to "severe". • Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak extends the government's furlough scheme to the end of his family's undeclared wealth. • Government impose a ban on non-UK citizens arriving from Denmark, because nobody expected the Danish Mink Transposition. • The number of official deaths from COVID-19 in the UK exceeds 50,000. • The government commissions research into space-based solar power and laser guns and laser tanks based in space. • Labour readmits Jeremy Corbyn, following his suspension over antisemitism on 29 October, sort of. • Following three weeks of nationwide lockdown in England, the R number for coronavirus in the UK is reported to have fallen to between 0.9 and 1 for the first time since mid-August. The cold is coming. December’s winter solstice. Start of the season. Ġēolamonaþ UKMT Autumn 2020 - Thou shalt have a Rishi act a little fishi UKMT Summer 2020 - Two Pints of Saline and Abacavir for Drip UKMT May 2020 - Let them eat Nando's UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Independence and Unity Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Feast for Death of Aleister Crowley 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" Teachers' Day 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. 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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.
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He's in SoCal now, so I'm sure he can arm himself as long as he uses bullet buttons or his ridiculous wealth to buy some tax stamps.
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A free market in electricity might make some sense if they were offering some different form of electricity. Edison is offering 120V DC, but Westinghouse is offering 240V AC, but Duracell is offering 1.5V DC, who won? You decide! 500 brokers offering the exact same poo poo from the exact same grid via a variety of different financial schemes makes no sense though.
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crispix posted:I'd just make my own, probly Also fires, but some of those were intentional to run the hot air motors. Inverters and converters and variable frequency drives are cheap enough now that the great current wars are mostly an irrelevance and the whole thing could be manages as some sort of national grid. XMNN posted:it's loving landlords all the way down  *spinning the wheel of what to convert from an obvious good to a premium rental service and landing on pavmnt usr*
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forkboy84 posted:Clive seems happy with his leader.
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crispix posted:but there is no risk of the French strutting into Debenhams and taking over say the giftware and bedding sections
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OwlFancier posted:the northern racist brain 
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https://twitter.com/ClaireJHartnell/status/1333716490982465536 'age out' is a fun euphemism.
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This is the real reason that the Puritans banned Christmas.
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Ash Crimson posted:Keira bell apparently just won her case, I feel so bad for young transpeople in the UK, gently caress this awful, bigoted country Being cautiously optimistic, that's the kind of thing that the Supreme Court should throw in the bin, but hellworld so e: Just in, High Court rules that under 16s can still have access to puberty blockers (and by extension other medical treatment) but 'must understand' the nature and effects of the treatment. Where that goes I don't know, but they've refused to blanket ban it so that's at least good. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Ash Crimson posted:Huffpost reporting it as: "Transgender Children Can Be Prescribed Puberty Blockers, High Court Says In Landmark Ruling" Judges posted:It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers. I know transmed absolutism is poo poo and exclusionary, but I do think in cases like these there's an argument that what you should do when someone under 16 says they're trans and is being harmed by the puberty they're going through and the two options left open by law are "lengthy court case" or "look for medical clues" there's a case to look to the latter. And sometimes that'll be wrong too, but probably less wrong than a court.
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Angepain posted:Foxbasher's view is the puberty blockers case is bad news, I assume he's well-informed about this sort of thing: It's also something more likely to benefit people assigned male at birth, because 15/16 in some cases is early enough to catch vocal changes, but too late for most of a female puberty.
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I thought it was "private profits, public losses"
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justcola posted:whenever the BBC discusses Doctor Who they always say that people were watching from behind their sofa - how big are these cunts houses you can go behind a sofa?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Its interesting that the phrase is explicitly linked with doctor who in particular rather than just generally scary TV. With doctor who going back to the sixties I suppose it could be that the families with TVs were wealthier and had larger houses? But I think maybe also that the TV was a less dominant feature of the home at that point, both culturally and physically. So families might temporarily draw out a sofa into the centre of the room for the family to watch a particular show on a much smaller tv screen than today's larger ones that occupy pride of place in many lounges across the country. This was a 50s standard construction council house, so a bit larger than a Victorian terrace (twisto probably has the dimensions somewhere) but not a mansion. So I think it's just the layout of the time, and since boomers grew up with it it's a solid part of the culture and you're a snowflake antifa woke if you don't immediately drag your sofa out into the most inconvenient part of the room for moving around or having a coffee table or watching your massive flatscreen  .
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Bobstar posted:I think it's the thing that makes everything look like a soap. Has something to do with high frame rates.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:For years my gaming rig was an old black and white portable with whatever 8-bit my dad had managed to get down the market hotwired into the broken antenna because the thing never even had an external antenna socket. 
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Lobster God posted:So the big name returning blairite donor is just an open racist.  I remember the days when openly saying that "apartheid was better for the blacks, here are some statistics" was the exclusive domain of neo-Nazis, the worst kind of Tories, and white South Africans. "Blacks don't fulfil the requirements imposed by society" was a solid Tony Blair belief though.
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The nice thing with actors is they perform under screen names all the time so you can talk about past roles without deadnaming them just by saying "starred in X under the screen name Y." Same as with Cat Stevens I guess. 7 is a number with all kinds of associations with luck, fortune, numerology, religious symbology, occult significance, etc., but the only place we commonly use a septenary number system is in keeping weeks. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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mehall posted:Hot take - don't dead name someone unless they've said you can do it. In Elliot's case the prior name that everyone knew him by was literally a screen name, not his birth name, so there's a bit of a different dynamic there to casually deadnaming someone or being malicious.
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mehall posted:Ehhh, that's unclear to me, the only difference (ignoring middle name) between his birth name and later acting name was dropping his mum's "Philpotts" part of "Philpotts-Page" and unless you have any detail I don't, it's unclear to me if that was an assumed name for the stage, or an actual name change. (Though either way it was likely a choice made for career progression, as I've not seen any particular indication of issues between Elliot and his mum) I think that's a good demonstration of what names are too, because surely anyone demanding that he be referred to by a dead name for whatever reason ought to insist on the birth name rather than a screen name, and if they don't it shows their intent up as what it is.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:For what it's worth, I don't feel male. I'm not sure i'd feel any better female, but I do get a bit of euphoria seeing faceapp female pictures of myself. I don't think I'm up for the hassle of having to explain what gender neutral means, so I'll probably handle the issue by not talking to people wherever possible. OwlFancier posted:loving astrology for mbas. It's probably an inherent property of consciousness. EvilHawk posted:I guess blindfolds for everyone?
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ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:Bit harsh on Belgium.
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endlessmonotony posted:EVERYONE knows what they did.
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Jose posted:its very funny imo that trump is threatening to defund the entire US military unless they let him punish people for mocking him on twitter
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Borrovan posted:On the one hand, there could potentially be some adverse long term consequences that it isn't possible to test for in the short term, but, on the other, if we don't take it then tens of thousands of people will die. Seems like a no-brainer tbh Red Oktober posted:“This hasn’t been tested yet, there’s no way I’m going to take it.”
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Gonzo McFee posted:the majority of people just want to stop the broadcast and go back to eating burgers. endlessmonotony posted:If it's inkjet, it's powered by self-loathing and the vengeful dreams of children murdered for your technology.
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Bobstar posted:The whole teeth and eyes thing is weird, and prevalent. Here in NL I can add optional (commerical) dental insurance to my otherwise comprehensive government-mandated health cover, but it's something stupid like €200 in premiums a year, and the max they'll ever pay out is €300. I'd rather spend the money on a Waterpik! e: Polydactyly is the most common congenital anomaly of the forefoot. An example would be having 11 toes.
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Borrovan posted:I guess Covid only affects poor people?  Jakabite posted:I don’t think there’s any reason to think this rollout will be without gently caress ups, but the doomposting can be a bit relentless. Anyone with even cautious optimism seems to be getting shouted down as a gullible idiot by people who seem to revel in the idea that it’ll be totally hosed. Seriously some of you seem like you’ll be disappointed if it goes well. There’s not really any incentive for this to get hosed up as far as I can tell. Not that it won’t, but it also might go alright?
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OwlFancier posted:Every time I go to the dentist she keeps basically negging me
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EasyJet tickets come in three levels: Basic - You enter a plane. There is no pilot or crew. After an hour you get out. Discount for return tickets. Standard - You enter a plane. It is a DeHavilland Comet that hasn't been tested since 1963. You may arrive at your destination. Luxury - You enter a plane. It is an Airbus with a trained crew. A man next to you screams Donald Trump speeches constantly. He can be silenced for £50 extra.
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Populists: Get Brexit Done! Make America Great! Preserve Our Homeland! No More Refugees! Centrists: What people really want is politics as nuanced market research rather than snappy slogans that turn a lot of people off.
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If Boris Johnson was the one who wrote the word down then I think I can guess it easily. Whether I'd want to say it is another matter.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Which reminds me, it's that time of the year: 
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thespaceinvader posted:No, the assholes are the ones who built the plan so cramped that you can't comfortably recline a reclinable seat in the first place.  Classless planes, classless societies. e:  at that tweet ^^
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Gort posted:If I could buy a magic device that could wirelessly connect to non-wireless devices you know I would. Hell, I'd buy ten.
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