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OwlFancier posted:CERN could definitely get funding if they open a restaurant that serves food synthesised entirely on site from subatomic particles. As a CERN restaurant regular I can tell you that they already do. Unfortunately they only use bosons that carry no flavour. Anyone here in UCU? It looks like we're in for a fun ride this year.
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jacksbrat posted:Yep really excited to have to do it all again at my stupid lib university where nobody wants to go on strike because "I only agree with two of the five demands so I won't strike at all" or "I don't like conflict" or "I make enough money so it's wrong to strike about pensions" or "I don't like not working" or "the leadership's messaging is too extreme". Honestly these people are still convinced that data and education change things despite living through the past decade. Solidarity. I'm in a fairly similar boat in that my department is 80% people with similar excuses, but the 20% that do picket are great people to be out there with. It's proper poo poo to have to start and end* the pandemic with industrial action but them's the breaks and the pension offer on the table is awful. e: ^^^ yeah, and it's a real poo poo tactic to keep making the unions reballot until the threshold drops to nothing. I don't see that happening tbh but each time it gets harder to convince people. StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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I do wonder if that's why UUK were happy to accept the USS position here, gambling that everyone is desperately wanting a return to some kind of regular schedule instead of further uncertainty.
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I do like how Defra's header is 'Geronimo the TB-positive alpaca – Initial post-mortem results' just really getting it out there that no, the alpaca did actually have TB don't listen to the tweets 
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ideally, animals should not be killed. But it seems fair that you should only be allowed kill an animal if you can do so with your bare hands Or TB
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sebzilla posted:Unite will be voting against David Evans as Labour Gen Sec after a unanimous vote in their exec committee. Came here to post that https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1435625146312691719 It's pretty funny that the spin from the centre was 'the new head of unite has said they'll leave labour alone, this is a win, actually' https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1430169790790963217
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Jakabite posted:Will try go into more detail on that tomorrow if anyone wants. Please do- I don't know much about the various 'lefty' factions in lab these days but using 'against the witch hunt' as a name sounded dodgy to begin with. That's one of the things I reckon that gets the melts riled up- the genuine, good faith lefties have had a lot of success by just being progressive and offering a positive vision rather than amplifying the talking points the right want to attack on.
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That's some quality shade: https://twitter.com/RuairiWood/status/1435559036171194369
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This is really incredible. The 'evidence' they provide in support of the investigation is... someone blocking terfs, doing a good thing, and telling a lab cllr to do better?
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I'm in the same boat, lead-pipe wise. It's copper from the basement onwards but in the basement it's just rammed into a lead pipe that disappears off into a wall out to the main. It looks like a right bastard to get replaced which is presumably why the previous occupants didn't get it done, and united utilities look a bit poo poo on how they'll handle it according to their website. No info on sending someone out to test it, and they're really explicit they'll only cover the connection from the main to the property line. Thanks for the info though- I've ordered one of those test kits to see how much lead is actually coming out of the taps.
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https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1436388387884306443 Who do we know in lab that likes to hit the bottle and go on late nite twitter sessions?
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This is a great montage off that woke bane tweet: https://twitter.com/jeevanrai/status/1436689696520867840
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nurmie posted:i'm not sure what "woke bane" refers to, but now i can't stop imagining a half-Keir Starmer, half-Bane from Dark Knight Rises hybrid creature, an amalgamation of flesh, steel and wet eggs That account is a rereg of someone who went by the handle 'Woke bane' and whose bio was simply 'Bane, but woke'. Guavanaut posted:Someone's doing fireworks. There's always one for every occasion. Are you in the North of Manchester Guav? Someone was going all out near Pendlebury right now.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/AbiWilks/status/1437391201964105738?s=19 That whole thread is just incredible. Two actually decent journos dunking on him and he still doesn't get it. The last tweet is 
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keep punching joe posted:That QC is a previously unidentified TBEU account surely? Nope, he's disturbingly real. context: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vilified-qc-bellfield-case-just-doing-his-job-2303212.html
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This gove thing is interesting timing... I wonder if Johnson's backers reckon Gove is a threat again given the unpopularity in the party over bojo's tax hikes and are doing a hatchet job to get ahead of a challenge?
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Bobstar posted:Somebody was mumbling him as a replacement for Patel, because she failed to bounce the boats back to France, Takeshi's Castle style, leaving the occupants going "dohhhhhh" and shaking their fists on French beaches. Interesting. From where I'm standing Patel is doing a 'great' job of being absolutely horrendous to immigrants. I didn't get the feeling tories were braying for her to be replaced. I can't imagine Gove in that post.
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Manchester is great. It is definitely cheaper than Dublin by a long shot. That QC continues to have an extremely normal one: https://twitter.com/JeffSamuels16/status/1437494527305072643
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a pipe smoking dog posted:The most entertaining barrister since the freemen of the land guy who said he was a lord and went into court wearing a load of medals. I dunno, was that one before or after windmill-qc-that-cricket-bat-murdered-a-fox-while-wearing-a-kimono? It seems like they're all as bonkers as old copies of punch would have you believe. lol, I forgot it was on boxing day and all: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/26/prominent-lawyer-jolyon-maugham-tweets-about-clubbing-a-fox-to-death e: issuing a correction to get ahead of the pending slander allegation. Happy to correct the record that it was a baseball bat. StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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  urghm urghpen the pod bay doors, jeremy
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Sep 21, 2021 22:58
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amazing. I'm on one of those energy flipping companies that checks your tarrif and automatically switches you. Couple of days ago they tried switching me from green to avro. avro went tits up so they kept me on green. now green has gone tits up. To top it off, the tarrif flipping company has also gone bust lol. Free market efficiency in action.
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Julio Cruz posted:surely if Streeting is running then Jessflaps will do the same That hustings will be absolutely grim
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Crankit posted:I haven't listened yet, but Jeremy Corbyn is on the Alexei Sayle podcast It's lovely so far, two old lefties just having a chat. It's really unusual to hear JC in friendly converstaion rather than just being shouted at.
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frytechnician posted:This is one of the worst idea I've ever seen. Literally looks like something from Brass Eye. The govt demanded more great british content on the telly. This is a pretty solid response imo.
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