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 March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know, The persons of prognostication are coming now. Also Covid is ongoing, but the vaccines are actually looking good, but the roadmap to Johnsonville is looking a bit too fast, so: 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 ONS reports that the UK economy shrank by 9.9% during 2020, its largest annual contraction since the Great Frost of 1709. • Cumbria County Council suspends plans for Woodhouse Colliery, the UK's first deep coal mine since 1987, following strong criticism over its environmental damage. • The government announces tough new measures for British and Irish travellers. People moving in and out of the country, not a racism thing. It will also be a racism thing. • The R rate for Covid-19 falls to between 0.7 and 0.9, the lowest level since last July. • Brexit Hath Wrought The Worst Cerberus  In The Courts  • The Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers must be treated as workers, rather than self-employed, and should therefore be entitled to minimum wage and holiday pay. • The Supreme Court rules that oil-polluted Nigerian communities can sue Shell in English courts. • The High Court rules that Matt Hancock "acted unlawfully by failing to comply with the Transparency Policy" and "breached his legal obligation to publish Contract Award Notices within 30 days" when awarding contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic. • Ipswich Crown Court rules that David Wilson is a nonce. Also Piers Morgan had a normal one about the gender of potatoes.  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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" Tolkien Reading 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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These days if you stay in England you're arrested and thrown in jail, these days.
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TACD posted:The list of CLPs feels like a relic from another age e: ^^^  
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Some time after the British press stops being racist.
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CoolCab posted:Christ is it march already  Jose posted:kw starmer
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Happy birthday, people with birthdays. Which were the good soundbars that were decided upon itt?
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OwlFancier posted:It's been lovely sunshine the last few days hasn't it.  A var of crisps.  Crisps are piped up the backside.  Rare photo of Kieth on a rooftop. radmonger posted:And I can certainly believe that there are those who would put Corbyn in that camp. forkboy84 posted:I'm happy to say despite being a left libertarian I'd prefer Tankies in charge to Tories.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Has this happened to anyone and did the money turn up?
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Julio Cruz posted:I need some new trainers because the current ones are literally falling to pieces, where's the best place to look that isn't Sports Direct? MikeCrotch posted:"sex workers aren't workers, they know what they got themselves into"  I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the "poor soiled doves" argument of the religious right/SWERFs/women's christian temperance union.I guess 'better' in that at least it's one that could be applied to everything, like Amazon warehouse workers also know what they got themselves into, so if you're going to take that route why bother with unions, dehumanize yourself and face to pissbottle.
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Jedit posted:Philip isn't going to have a state funeral. He's said he doesn't want one.
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It makes me wonder how the "ah ah but they count it as a covid death if you get hit by a falling safe and then do a little accordion dance if you had a positive test within 28 days" lot are going to spin the sudden decrease. Brexit impact on ACME imports?
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Yeah, the first gen smart meters were poo poo, and my supplier keeps saying they'll install new gen smart meters in my area any day now (this does not happen). I like the old spinny meters that went backwards if you were generating more than you were using but the power companies don't for some reason  .
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*hammers See Less repeatedly* u brexit ukip it posted:I don't know exactly what a smart meter can and can't do, but my main concern would be whether it can send live readings. When (not if) the power company gets hacked, somebody can then essentially see remotely when somebody is or isn't home, since that correlates pretty well with power usage.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:And seriously the list is just Irish surnames.txt Please refuse all bookings from: • Top hat wearing monkey-people waving bottles of spirits and smoking long pipes. • Big fat popes, cardinals, bishops &c. embezzling from the public trust. • Vagrants walking pigs and shouting about home rule. • The Lucky Charms leprechaun. • Sentient potato selling crisps. We are not racists, Pontins
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Skeletome posted:https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1366739606125899784 Just bring someone on to tell bigoted lies?  Seriously though I hope this blows up more than anything like this has any likelihood of doing. Spread it wide.
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Ah speeding up that reunification drive.
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Maybe there's a community-driven approach if the EHRC persists in being useless fuckers. They've got nice big signs outside to stencil "no Irish" or "we are racist" or "paedophiles welcome" on repeatedly, but they keep them behind the gates. I suppose putting a few bike chains around all those big heavy gates early in the morning would be a pretty fun hypothetical that would cause no harm to anyone but the company and provide useful work for local locksmiths.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ed: why is only said of lefties: "s/he is a card-carrying member of the Communist/Labour/SWP/whatever party" and I never hear anyone except me say "s/he is a card-carrying member of the Tory/UKIP/Brexit/BNP/other proto-fascist party". Same with religions: you only ever here of devout roman catholics / muslims / jews / hindus. You never hear of 'devout anglicans' even though there are many. Jews and Sikhs are more often portrayed as observant or practicing rather than 'devout', because there's more overt aspects of ethnicities as well as religions. I'd guess it has something to do with negative social typing of certain groups as a proxy for ethnicity, someone can be seen as 'a Catholic' or 'a Muslim' just by being a certain type of brown or Irish person without necessarily being religious, so there's a social cue for dividing between 'people who actually go to church' and 'people we don't want at Pontins'. When 'devout Presbyterian' gets used in that manner it's often as a stand in for 'miserable Scot/Ulsterman' or 'Gordon Brown' though. Borrovan posted:Anglicans are catholic  
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Or a once in a generation chance to see what people are actually doing during a pandemic that they can compare to the census before and after vv
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Mebh posted:Wonder if I should still put jedi as my religion on the census. Seems a bit naff now. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Lots of US things I don't really understand like sophomores
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If it destroys the relationship between the Windsors and MBS then on balance it's a good thing. It won't tho 
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Failed Imagineer posted:The transphobe brain is always a puzzle, but I don't understand this at all. Like, both chefs and waiters are either gender but stereotypically male...
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sebzilla posted:Progressive would be banging out a UBI and then taxing all income above that, but whatever. Leggsy posted:EDIT: Someone on twitter caught it too: https://twitter.com/PerthshireMags/status/1367139783672291330
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OwlFancier posted:What the hell is the "large immobile gamete" thing from? I keep hearing it and I have no idea what it means unless you are a big egg and parliament lost the majority of its high profile eggs in the corbyn years. This works for things like explaining why male seahorses can get pregnant or how pine trees can have both dongers and lady parts, but is pretty much worse than useless for explaining any human interaction outside of the one immediate case where you want a babby form, not even any of the recreational stuff preceding that. So of course they latched onto it like gospel truth and want large immobile gamete toilets.
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OwlFancier posted:I would wager that I can throw an egg a lot further than I can throw sperm.
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Angepain posted:like yeah, it's not feasible to actually do anything against a person who's been found not guilty, but like... it doesn't mean he definitely didn't do the specific bad things There's a whole wide gulf between provable guilt to criminal standards and someone being a good person, and the big hazard there is that absent a rigorous standard of evidence people will let their own prejudices slide in, like "they're gay/Muslim/Scottish so..." which is bad, but the solution to that is to educate against those prejudices rather than either extreme of demanding weaker evidentiary standards or accepting courts as the only arbiters of any and all guilt, criminal and social.
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Lungboy posted:You just know that if the Tories ever decriminalised or legalised drugs, Labour would oppose it. Failed Imagineer posted:You can just look at the price sticker and it tells you the price per kg, you don't even need to do any simple division (unless Britain has somehow opted out of this in which case lol)
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crispix posted:p sure take a break that's life chat magazines do that every week Nestle: 6p cheaper, ethically similar
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I read that he's the son of Will Carling and James Hewitt, neither Charles nor Di were involved. The magazine had some great chocolate reviews too.
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Maybe there is some antisemitism in play that Epstein died in prison while Prince Andrew didn't, or maybe it's some other kind of structural privilege. Either way, let's jail Andrew to make sure we're not treating anyone unequally.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Holy poo poo, I've just renewed my driving license and it looks like a cheap forgery where they've Brexited it - the format is the same but they've changed the top line to remove the EU flag and just slapped "UK" on it, and added a completely pointless Union Flag next to the text lines e: Looks like it started in 2015 for reasons that can be summed up as "lmao the tories". Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Mar 4, 2021 |
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Comrade Fakename posted:A lot of people vocally hated Diana, though they suddenly went quiet in late summer of 1997 for some reason.
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The cul-de-sac out of space.
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The ol' spicy kieth change.
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What the gently caress will they even be for if they're running to the right of the tories on economic and social and cultural issues? It'd be like "what the gently caress are they even for now" turned up to 11 with JOBS JOBS JOBS flashing in the background.
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