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2020. It's... over? We're into  A brief summary of the past year: (some  )January https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1212679425629859840 February https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK2fszWUGCo March https://twitter.com/Jimllpaintit/status/1243554528680706049 April https://twitter.com/llewcid/status/1306530293319446528 May  June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04NXGb1pA6g https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1270106081969213444 July  August  September  October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZTAdmOLIg November https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1333355057056780288 December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnFMLTTjgkM https://twitter.com/SloughForEU/status/1343901000046931972 Also even though we now have two approved vaccines these may still be useful, because it's still ongoing: 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 Government U-turns again on schools, except some of them. The SNP has appealed to Tory 'humanity' in government approach to refugees who are trying to cross the Channel. Debenhams stores are set to close with the loss of 12,000 jobs after attempts to find a buyer for the retailer fell through when JD Sports pulled out. Four people are killed after a large explosion at a waste water treatment works in Avonmouth, Bristol. The UK becomes the first country to approve the new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, planning for 40 million in 2021, enough to vaccinate 20 million people. A group of former rugby players including Rugby World Cup winner Steve Thompson begin a claim against the game's authorities after being diagnosed with early signs of dementia, saying that repeated blows to the head from playing the sport are to blame. Protein folding is solved by London-based AI company DeepMind A new mineral, kernowite, is discovered in Cornwall. Brexit. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. Get Organized Month UKMT December 2020 - Best viewed with Brexcape Navigator 4+ 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) Rubber Ducky Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Static Electricity 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" Data Privacy 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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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Brexit 
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Happy new year everyone! Fingers crossed 2021 is less lovely than 2020.
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I'm playing Fallout: New Vegas this evening, and by lucky happenstance was on the 'Take Drugs, Kill A Bear' quest when the clock rolled around to midnight. Reader: I took all the drugs.
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Happy 2021 folks..! I really enjoyed the London fireworks/drones - wasn't expecting there to be any at all. A pleasant surprise and a nice message.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Happy new year everyone! Fingers crossed 2021 is less lovely than 2020. Given the UK's economy just crashed, the plague is spreading without any meaningful way to contain it, and Boris is in charge? I may be genuinely worried. I may have been for a while.
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James Acaster is a national treasure: https://twitter.com/i/status/1344760176474267648
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Lets make it a good year, lads (for a change).
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Happy, y'all
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Last major news I heard in 2020 was that legendary rapper MF Doom has died. What a shite loving year
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I imagine twitter is overwhelmed right now so maybe they'll show up later. Bye 2020 - Happy 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bubOcI11sps
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Here we Here we HERE WE FUCKIN' GOOOO
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EvilHawk posted:James Acaster is a national treasure: Why isn't he queen yet?
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stev posted:Why isn't he queen yet? Not inbred enough
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Ground floor 2021. Happy new year guys, hope it sucks at least a bit less than the shithole we just crawled out of.
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Happy new year, thread. Feels like the bar to clear is very low but I hope your 2021 is better 
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The propaganda fireworks and lasers were very pretty Like the one show in explosion format
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endlessmonotony posted:Given the UK's economy just crashed, the plague is spreading without any meaningful way to contain it, and Boris is in charge? You contain it with a lockdown. We're not in a lockdown. They aren't trying.
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Yo. Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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Gort posted:Yo. Don't let the bastards grind you down. Too late. I hope everyone's invested in a nice sturdy wheelbarrow.
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RIP flash
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Happy new year thread. Or at least a marginally less poo poo one, maybe.
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Regarde Aduck posted:You contain it with a lockdown. We're not in a lockdown. They aren't trying. And they won't. See also: The point about Boris being in charge.
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endlessmonotony posted:Given the UK's economy just crashed, the plague is spreading without any meaningful way to contain it, and Boris is in charge? There are clearly meaningful ways to contain it because other countries have done better than the UK. The government should have a much tighter definition of essential worker (it is not essential that Game is open for example). People coming into the country should have been quarantined in hotels or similar rather than the farcical trust system. The government should have been paying people to stay at home. The notion that nothing more could've been done is utter bollocks. Especially as we did absolutely gently caress all for ages. Okay, you understand that but just worded it poorly, fair enough.
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Anyone else feeling weirdly free tonight? Just like... boundlessly unshackled from foreign bureaucrats or something?
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Happy new year! Did embedded tweets just break for anyone else? 
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https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1212679425629859840 https://twitter.com/Jimllpaintit/status/1243554528680706049 Convex posted:Happy new year! Seem to be ok for me. I'm using laptop. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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Ms Adequate posted:Anyone else feeling weirdly free tonight? Just like... boundlessly unshackled from foreign bureaucrats or something?
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Ms Adequate posted:Anyone else feeling weirdly free tonight? Just like... boundlessly unshackled from foreign bureaucrats or something? From anyone else I'd think this was brexit joke, but I'm like 95% sure you're being literal here
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Guavanaut posted:I am feeling like hypothetically that someone could import whatever they liked through a container port as long as it was plausibly labelled for the next 3 weeks, does that count? I think it's close enough! Niric posted:From anyone else I'd think this was brexit joke, but I'm like 95% sure you're being literal here Believe it or not the references that might have seemed bondage-y were actually completely innocent that time and I was making a Brexit joke.
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forkboy84 posted:There are clearly meaningful ways to contain it because other countries have done better than the UK. The government should have a much tighter definition of essential worker (it is not essential that Game is open for example). People coming into the country should have been quarantined in hotels or similar rather than the farcical trust system. The government should have been paying people to stay at home. The people who are competent enough to solve these problems are prevented from doing so by failsons who need to feel important. An obstacle that wouldn't be there if people were smarter, but then, that can be said of most obstacles.
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I wondered why some people had been letting off fireworks at 11pm rather than waiting til midnight, until one of my friends on our Google Meet call suggested it was probably people celebrating Brexit since that officially happened at midnight CET. Fucks sake.
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Noxville posted:I wondered why some people had been letting off fireworks at 11pm rather than waiting til midnight, until one of my friends on our Google Meet call suggested it was probably people celebrating Brexit since that officially happened at midnight CET. Fucks sake. Didn't hear any of that here. Scotland wins again
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gently caress 2020. pre-emptively gently caress 2021 as well, not gonna give it the benefit of the doubt with boris at the helm and keith studiously lining up the deckchairs in neat rows new years resolution: try to become more active in my union, because i'd like it to still exist in 2022
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I'm Canadian but I live in British Columbia so I feel obligated to wish you guys good luck this year.
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Noxville posted:I wondered why some people had been letting off fireworks at 11pm rather than waiting til midnight, until one of my friends on our Google Meet call suggested it was probably people celebrating Brexit since that officially happened at midnight CET. Fucks sake. I feel like the people most inclined to celebrate brexit would be the ones least likely to do so on European time. Ms Adequate posted:Believe it or not the references that might have seemed bondage-y were actually completely innocent that time and I was making a Brexit joke. 2021 already unmasked as the most disappointing year on record
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Noxville posted:I wondered why some people had been letting off fireworks at 11pm rather than waiting til midnight, until one of my friends on our Google Meet call suggested it was probably people celebrating Brexit since that officially happened at midnight CET. Fucks sake. i suppose it is also just about plausible that they had some empathy for people nearby with young children, pets, ptsd, etc and decided to get the loud bangs and flashes over and done with a little earlier in the night? its probably the bad thing though
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I got to become a Lord over a square foot of Aberdeenshire land for christmas. How about you?
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Grouchio posted:I got to become a Lord over a square foot of Aberdeenshire land for christmas. I got that like... two? years ago Never once demanded that I be referred to as my actual title.
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