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Regarding that poo poo Times article, lol: https://twitter.com/SolHughesWriter/status/1399679093034164226
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Jun 1, 2021 12:54
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My boiler’s on its last legs and really needs to be replaced. Because of you know, the whole thing, I was thinking of changing to an electric boiler from a gas one. Anyone know the logistics of that, or if it’s a terrible idea or anything?
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Jun 2, 2021 01:36
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Guavanaut posted:Electric boilers cost 4x more to run than even an old 70% efficient gas boiler, and are usually slower to heat water for peak use. Even a small compact gas boiler will think nothing of putting out 24kW, which would be enough to blow the main house fuse in a simple electric boiler. Yeah, this was my concern. My initial research always came up with it being all upsides, but also you’ve got electric radiators or heat pumps or whatever. Suffice to say, I don’t want to rip out my entire central heating system.
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Jun 2, 2021 10:03
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lol Lib Dems: https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1400069917467160578
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Jun 2, 2021 15:50
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https://twitter.com/cansforcastro/status/1400525488381214727
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Jun 3, 2021 22:16
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Noxville posted:How is he so good at this https://twitter.com/wooster_bert_/status/1400541883928039426
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Jun 3, 2021 22:21
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I watched the episode of Alan Partridge tonight and was reminded of Noel’s HQ. Jesus Christ it’s one of the most prescient things I’ve ever seen. We’re living in Noel’s world now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XShH--nZ-Yw
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Jun 5, 2021 02:55
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Pour one out to a real one: https://twitter.com/dawnhfoster/status/1401031543003484163
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Jun 5, 2021 15:06
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https://twitter.com/tezilyas/status/1401218902479286273 Feels nostalgic.
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Jun 6, 2021 02:45
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I'm sorry, loving Didsbury? Now I’m just confused. https://twitter.com/brownbauer/status/1401502039079895041
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Jun 6, 2021 14:28
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With its M&S foodhall and artisanal cheese shop?
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Jun 7, 2021 12:48
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sebzilla posted:Green candidate for Batley and Spen has been dropped. Don’t forget Galloway!
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Jun 8, 2021 00:02
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Gove Michael bananas sound terrible.
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Jun 8, 2021 10:21
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Trickjaw posted:Looks like Indy, Guardian and Ny times sites have gone down It's AWS, sites are down all over.
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Jun 8, 2021 11:11
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just shows how vulnerable we are! I rather go and see some nice sites, if I were a tourist.
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Jun 8, 2021 11:28
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Seems like the sites are back for me.
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Jun 8, 2021 11:59
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https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1402280931583528962
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Jun 8, 2021 16:18
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Imagine the articles that are too
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Jun 8, 2021 16:33
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https://twitter.com/theidsmiths/status/1402335472618192899
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Jun 8, 2021 21:59
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Jun 9, 2021 11:43
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Jun 10, 2021 12:11
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keep punching joe posted:Siri how can we poo poo the bed worse than England? https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1402937343519113222
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Jun 10, 2021 18:14
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It's USPOL, but I thought people here would get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuwsu109YM
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Jun 11, 2021 12:17
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https://twitter.com/evolvepolitics/status/1403320082328133635 e: Thread whip-round?
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Jun 11, 2021 13:49
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Failed Imagineer posted:I thought GDPR didn't apply in the UK after the Big Day of Freedom? Or did it just get adopted in its entirety and renamed Her Majesty's Data Decrees or something? Yeah, it's still UK law.
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Jun 11, 2021 14:18
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/HackneyNorthLab/status/1403267424972066816 I met her the other week. Very proud!
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Jun 11, 2021 17:56
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1) The English football team takes the knee for BLM. 2) The right-wing declares the English team Marxist. 3) The English public support the English team. 4) The English public therefore support Marxism. 5) Socialism.
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Jun 13, 2021 15:46
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Can I just ask in an extremely Seinfeld voice (and presumably therefore have someone explain as George Costanza) what's the deal with the Unite candidates? Basically Beckett went big in the media, which is a bit weird since this is essentially an internal Unite matter. But this has led a lot of people on Twitter to believe that he is the only left candidate and that anyone else is a Starmer stooge. A lot of this is because the Skwawkbox guy is on the Beckett campaign. Turner won the most nominations and has the backing of Unite’s left faction, and is a not unreasonable choice for a left candidate. If the left cannot get behind a single candidate though, whichever one of the three it is, Coyne will almost certainly win and the left will lose Unite which would be an absolute disaster.
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Jun 13, 2021 16:58
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It is incredible that after Hartleypool the consensus among pretty much everyone was that Labour lost because it didn’t have any policies, and we’re now however long it’s been, with another by-election in a few weeks, and they still don’t have any policies.
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Jun 15, 2021 13:02
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https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1404836467654987779 So much for the UK left.
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Jun 15, 2021 18:20
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Jun 16, 2021 00:01
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Jun 16, 2021 00:34
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WhatEvil posted:Big cat food recall. Let your cat-owning friends know: You shouldn’t really own big cats anyway. Did Tiger King teach us nothing?
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Jun 17, 2021 01:37
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Gorn Myson posted:https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1405690225263775748?s=20 To be fair I’d chalk it up to strategic voting in this case.
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Jun 18, 2021 03:38
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mfcrocker posted:There is absolutely no loving way that 6,500 of Labour's 7,000 voters decided to go hard on tactical voting in the course of the last 18 months. I’d not even heard about this by-election until a few days ago, I suspect that Labour (probably rightly) considered it unwinnable and focused on Batley and Spen instead. Presumably the Lib Dems went all-in, so I imagine it was clear to everyone in the town that only the Lib Dems could beat the Tories. It hardly requires manipulation of arcane voting systems.
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Jun 18, 2021 04:13
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TheRat posted:Too bad. That Turner character has said some extremely questionable poo poo fairly recently. No idea why people like Owen Jones are blind drunk on him. No one thinks Steve Turner is the second coming of Christ, but he won the most nominations, and he also won the backing of Unite’s internal Left faction. He has plenty of decent left-wing credentials, and was the pretty obvious option for a left unity candidate once Coyne got on the ballot. Thank loving god Beckett has stood down.
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Jun 18, 2021 12:27
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Spangly A posted:I clicked the account, he's a fabian This is internal democracy. People really aren’t considering how absolutely apocalyptic it would be for the UK left if Coyne wins.
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Jun 18, 2021 13:02
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Necrothatcher posted:how much more apocalyptic can things really get from here? Losing the support of the UK’s biggest union? Very.
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Jun 18, 2021 13:14
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Miftan posted:The real issue is that the Unite GS election is FPTP because of course it is. FPTP regularly destroys democratic engagement. If it has a decent voting system then you could have all 3 left candidates and actually have internal democracy instead of people having to step down. Frankly, anybody that gets elected (especially in elections like this where it's not 600+ seats at once) and doesn't immediately change the system away from FPTP is not for internal democracy. These sorts of internal 'nobody was running against them' or people dropping out is how the people at the top fix elections. Yeah, obviously they shouldn’t have FPTP, and I’m not sure why this wasn’t changed in the past. But it’s not changing for this election.
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