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 In mid-December last year the National Lottery announced a £500,000 grant to the trans youth charity Mermaids. However, almost immediately the grant was put under review due to a campaign spearheaded by professional poo poo Graham Linehan. Linehan posted to the terfymams forum Mumsnet on December 16th, urging On December 17th, the Big Lottery Fund released a statement saying they would review the grant. On January 14th, 2019, Goon YouTuber Hbomberguy uploaded a video announcing a livestream speedrun of Donkey Kong 64 to 101% completion in aid of Mermaids, stating Linehan's Mumsnet campaign as inspiration. The stream started on January 18th and ran for over 57 hours, attracting such notable persons as Jim Sterling, Lindsay Ellis, Grant Kirkhope, Eric Taxxon, John Romero, Chelsea Manning, Dr Chuck Tingle, and Democratic House representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Overall over $340,000 has been raised for Mermaids, payable as a lump sum without condition. #ThanksGraham  (also the Guardian did a terrible summary of it because lol they terfs) Assata Shakur posted:Love is contraband in Hell, Utilities Poll  Last months poll results came in, with almost half of participants paying for their gas and/or electricity via Standing Order or the bourgeois Direct Debit. Wall for all of us. Next most popular was powering your home via a certain forums poster, followed by some form of prepaid meter at just over 10% for all. Fortunately nobody is living in one of those godforsaken units with prepaid water. Following from that, almost neck and neck, is utilities being included as part of a tenancy/cohab/basement dwelling. Or powered by boiling hot takes. And we have a handful of posters or lurkers who have succeeded at getting off-grid or have coal delivered. Or are allowed to scavange coal from their local pit, I think that's still a thing. In The News  • A Vegan sausage roll causes some fake beef between Piers Morgan and Greggs. • The NHS phases out fax machines. • Hitachi announces the suspension of work on the £20bn Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant in Wales. • There's a spate of van hijackings and carbombs in Derry. • The House of Commons rejects Theresa May's deal on the UK's withdrawal from the European Union by 432 votes to 202, one of the largest defeats in history. • She then goes on to survive a vote of no confidence and announce a Plan B, which is the same as Plan A. • Wait no, there's now 10 new plans including Kit Malthouse's Dahir Insaat insanity. • Some amendments got voted on. Grieve failed. Cooper failed. Reeves failed. Spelman passed (but has no legislative force). Brady passed (but the EU rejected it in advance). • North Wales police have announced a de facto decriminalization of cannabis, in a change led by anti-prohibition Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones. • Bruce Schneier has torn into GCHQ's bad plan to allow ghost users to snoop on chats. And apparently it's Trivial to detect anyway, lol.  Candlemas Day UKMT January 2019 - I think it might be satire but it's impossible to tell/What a loving mess All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Blessing the Salmon(d) Nets Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread BYOB: UKMT Pancake Races 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 UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this.  Dawn of February 1st. 56 days remain. 
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Also after discussing it with CB and amongst ourselves, we’ve decided we won’t punish people just for mentioning pissflaps anymore as long as it doesn’t cause an extended derail. What constitutes “an extended derail” is up to interpretation. 
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That list makes a great point, I forgot to mention that money is basically useless in Antarctica. Anarchist paradise, man 
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February is the shittest month and I protest this attempt to legitimise it.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:February is the shittest month and I protest this attempt to legitimise it. It's the month of love, op. Also it's short so it shepherds us more swiftly towards death (Brexit)
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So are you guys crashing out of the EU or what? It kinda seems that way from Trumpland.
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Gathering Storm and Wargroove are out this month so at least I have two different ways of simulating a post-Brexit world now
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Aurubin posted:So are you guys crashing out of the EU or what? It kinda seems that way from Trumpland. Yeah we hosed.
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quote:According to some sources, the attack occurred because Beloguzov was giving away the endings of books that Savitsky checked out at the station's library.
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The Deleter posted:Bothered by beavers Now now, he doesn't mind as long as you've had it since birth
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What the gently caress.
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I'm sick again. So February can go gently caress itself.
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Max But you mustn't touch, his name sounds good in your ear But when you say it, you mustn't fear 'Cause his name can be said by anyone. --- A veritable bounty of good things you have in the OP, Guavanaut.
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The Deleter posted:Gathering Storm and Wargroove are out this month so at least I have two different ways of simulating a post-Brexit world now If Brexit causes dog generals to pop up then it will all be worth it.
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fuctifino, how's that Edinburgh lady doing with her PIP application? Has she requested a mandatory reconsideration?
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Is that woman holding Max Gammon up so he doesn't keel over? Seems like he's desperately clinging onto life until Brexit Day - maybe if A50 gets extended he won't make it 
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Bardeh posted:Is that woman holding Max Gammon up so he doesn't keel over? Seems like he's desperately clinging onto life until Brexit Day - maybe if A50 gets extended he won't make it If A50 gets extended all the gammons slowly fade from existence like Marty McFly
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Anyone from Streatham know the demographics of the local CLP? Some absolute weapon has been 'I do think it great you’re cheering the potential deselection of a black candidate by a bunch of middle class white people'  at me
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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1091232454613049344?s=19 A solitary gardner, you say?
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https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1091249138728140800 gently caress Jacob Rees Mogg. E: to be clear, I need someone else to gently caress him. I dont want to, he's probably into really weird poo poo
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A solitary gardner, you say? My dad technically runs his own business doing gardening for folk rich enough to both have a decent sized garden and not be arsed to cut the grass and weed the flowerbeds themselves, maybe he should get in touch to be a businessman for Remain. Never mind that he doesn't actually employ anyone else full-time (& the people he does employ get above market rates, he's a good egg my da), he must be accorded the same attention as James Dyson & Tim Wetherspoons.
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gently caress sake ken https://twitter.com/PolhomeEditor/status/1091263777507631104
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Feb 1, 2019 10:51
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At least he's not talking about Hitler?
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he might've been a sunderland manager but peter reid seems alright https://twitter.com/reid6peter/status/1091003817204871168
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I can't believe any Labour MP will believe a promise for extra spending would actually happen in exchange for a vote. They've got no leverage over the Tories once the vote passes, assuming May even stays on beyond the absolutely minimum time period and would piss off the Labour party massively. If anyone flips it's because they want to flip.
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Spuckuk posted:Anyone from Streatham know the demographics of the local CLP? We are super diverse. The meeting last night was a mix of all sorts, with the most vocal being BAME. The people wanting to keep the delegates system were, for the most part, white.
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Feb 1, 2019 10:58
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Jeremy Hardy has died.
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Jose posted:I'm kind of tempted to apply for this job that I have no relevant experience for mostly because its the only antarctic job I am qualified for https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/stores-operative-cambridge-2/#jobskills Just a note on this from the previous thread - this would be in Cambridge and not in Antarctica.
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chestnut santabag posted:Just a note on this from the previous thread - this would be in Cambridge and not in Antarctica. lol poo poo all the jobs around it were based in antarctica so i spaced on that
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Reality continues to unravel in the wake of Bowie's death
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Aww poo poo An ace guy. That’s a real loving shame. Too young Cerv fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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I did get a chuckle out ofquote:Pointless star Richard Osman was among those to mark his passing
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notaspy posted:We are super diverse. Cheers!
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Jose posted:gently caress sake ken Was it live? You feel there must always be a sweating producer in the production room ready to cut the feed when he’s on. Last full month before Brexit! And it’s not even a long one!
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