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https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1253308893712842754 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/ Free Academic Books For All Your Lockdown Needs Here Jaeluni Asjil posted:Load of free non-fiction books from Springer: everything from computer touching / physics / maths / business / theatre / social justice etc etc. April saw the whole country in lockdown, with more than nine million workers expected to be furloughed under the job retention scheme, Debenhams goes into administration again, Oasis and Warehouse close, Boris Johnson goes into and out of intensive care, then into and out of his house in the country. The UK death toll from the virus becomes the second highest in Europe at 26,097. Michael Gove concedes that Boris Johnson missed five COBRA meetings in the early stages of the viral outbreak, and that the UK shipped protective equipment to China in February. Current UK COVID-19 Plan: A 100 year old war veteran walks laps of his yard to fund the NHS. National Living Wage went up 6.2% if you're still in work though. Easter Status: Cancelled VE Day Status: Singing Vera Lynn from the doorstep to pot and pan percussion Whitsun Status: Cancelled due to possibility of very large coronaviruses disguising themselves as a god   Lingg was one of eight anarchists tried for murder in the aftermath of the Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago in 1886. The bombing took place during a rally for the eight-hour day on May 1, and came to be known thereafter as May Day, the International Workers Day. Despite an almost complete lack of evidence, Lingg and four others were convicted and sentenced to death. On the eve of his execution, he took a small bomb that had been smuggled into his jail cell, and killed himself by igniting it in his mouth. In Other News  Sir Keir Starmer, MP for Windsoacke-over-Trigpoint, is elected as the leader of the Labour Party. MPs take part in the first virtual Prime Minister's Questions, via videoconferencing service Zoom. John Horton Conway exits the Game of Life due to a fast replicator. Liz Truss comes out with a bunch of medically illiterate TERF bullshit. Downing Street concedes Covid-19 testing targets will be missed. Other news still cancelled due to Coronavirus.  May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.  Boris Johnson leaves hospital and becomes a father again. Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) World Whisky Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Culture Freedom 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" mehall posted:Fresh new podcast on the state of Labour factionalism from your thread comrades over at Podcasting is Praxis, plus also Jack off of Reel Politik - Hocktide 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. Hunter No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age - Jane McAlevey Libertarian Communism Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Cafι Malatesta The Method of Freedom Malatesta In Praise of Idleness Russell Political Ideals Russell Declaration Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History Domenico Losurdo God and the State Bakunin The Conquest of Bread Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution Rosa Luxemburg Violence Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital Karl Marx and Goons International Workers' Day (thanks feedmegin) quote:I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land. 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Guavanaut posted:On the eve of his execution, he took a small bomb that had been smuggled into his jail cell, and killed himself by igniting it in his mouth. I have to say, that doesn't do a huge amount for his "I wasn't involved in the bombing" claim. It is pretty metal though 
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In lieu of HOPE IS A LIE, the KFC in Fratton near me can't decide whether it's open for drive-thru, delivery or both, while the whole surrounding area is currently under an anti-social dispersal order. I love this city
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Ms Adequate posted:I have to say, that doesn't do a huge amount for his "I wasn't involved in the bombing" claim.
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Guavanaut posted:Given the state of the trial (and the state of hanging in the US at the time, which had not yet implemented drop tables), it could just be an admission of really not wanting to be hanged. Oh no I fully support his statement that "gently caress you, I'll die on my own terms."
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crispix posted:I honestly had no idea April was ending this week :/ I've been back at work all week and I'm only vaguely aware it's Friday tomorrow
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Just checking that everyone knows this coming Monday (4th May) is NOT a bank holiday, the bank holiday is on Friday 8th May. (This change was made too late for most paper diaries printed last year).
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All my larp friends reminded me that right this second I should be in a forest eating Domino's and getting drunk, so I'm going to do that tomorrow instead and be a little bit sad.
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I have decided to communicate entirely through the medium of precision bombing, in addition to my new job as foreign secretary I tell you it's making typing this post far more time consuming than before.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:All my larp friends reminded me that right this second I should be in a forest eating Domino's and getting drunk, so I'm going to do that tomorrow instead and be a little bit sad. I could tell its the start of larp season despite A. Giving up the LT and B. Losing all track of time, simply because the weather changed from glorious sunshine to pissing rain. Glad I got at least one event in this year (the weekend before lockdown started), but holy hell it sucks being stuck in reality when reality is this horrid. My wife commented earlier that hiding in the shed when the heavens opened with her in the garden kind of scratched the itch for her.
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quote:ITV has announced that studio shows like Britain's Got Talent and The Masked Singer are to return, possibly without a live audience. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52492139 Return to 'normal' in 3, 2, 1...
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:All my larp friends reminded me that right this second I should be in a forest eating Domino's and getting drunk, so I'm going to do that tomorrow instead and be a little bit sad. where the hell do you go where the local Domino's will deliver to a forest
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Julio Cruz posted:where the hell do you go where the local Domino's will deliver to a forest Unsure if its the venue hes referring to, but Huntley Wood is a forest/lake/former quarry purpose converted to a larp site and is well served by local takeaways.
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Guavanaut posted:Given the state of the trial (and the state of hanging in the US at the time, which had not yet implemented drop tables), it could just be an admission of really not wanting to be hanged. All the convicted Haymarket bombers who were hanged strangled on the rope. For a nation that loves killing people so much, Americans really are poo poo at it.
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Jedit posted:All the convicted Haymarket bombers who were hanged strangled on the rope. For a nation that loves killing people so much, Americans really are poo poo at it. The strangling was by design, thank you. If you think we hate the poor look at what we do to poor criminals.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/nhs-will-have-first-dibs-on-vaccine-being-tried-at-oxford-j6jjjqjm9 I don't quite understand what this article means by "first dibs?" Can't they get other companies outside the UK to produce it? Are they seriously saying that they would withhold the vaccine from the rest of the world just so the NHS can get it first? Are they really going to manufacture the vaccine in one country and then ship it back to the UK and expect that country to be fine with it? What the hell? Why not just give it to all the pharmaceutical companies and let them use their own resources to produce it so we can maximize production?
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Chuka Umana posted:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/nhs-will-have-first-dibs-on-vaccine-being-tried-at-oxford-j6jjjqjm9 We've got trade deals to negotiate.
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blunt posted:We've got trade deals to negotiate. When I started thinking about it I realized this is going to be the way BoJo restores the British empire. You have to declare subservience to Britain or no coronavirus vaccine
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Ah, the AWL. There's a lot of weird poo poo about them but my favourite is their extreme Islamophobia, going so far as to publish articles about 'Muslims in caves sharpening their knives'. I once passed one of their meetings with a friend by chance so we moseyed in. There were quite a few of them all facing forwards listening to a speech. A few of them glared at us while we browsed their pamphlets. A fun experience. Anyway, the AWL are Bad.
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Jedit posted:All the convicted Haymarket bombers who were hanged strangled on the rope. For a nation that loves killing people so much, Americans really are poo poo at it. Nah the cruelty is the point. I remember a documentary I watched a few years ago - think it was Portillo whomst was presenting - and after finding a potential means of execution involving some gas or other widely believed to be painless if it was used for such a purpose, took the idea to some top pro-execution oval office in Texas or somewhere. Said oval office was almost visibly shaking with rage at the prospect of a less cruel, more reliably painless means of execution. All the talk about wanting to do it 'properly' and how it is a grim necessity or what have you went directly out of the window as soon as an actual alternative was presented. That talk lasts as long as is required to try and avoid the cruel and unusual punishment clause, and not a micron further. Genuinely surprised there isn't a huge pro-torture movement in the US. (Well, the Republicans exist, but you know what I mean  )
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I have now had three separate emails from labour telling me they are sad I'm gone so can I get taken off that clp list cause it makes me sadMs Adequate posted:Genuinely surprised there isn't a huge pro-torture movement in the US. (Well, the Republicans exist, but you know what I mean There was, around the first few years of the almighty war on terror there was a lot of effort put into assuring americans (and the wider world) that torturing the poo poo out of people worked and was a-ok especially if jack bauer was doing it to someone very stereotypically middle eastern with a clock counting down somewhere because they are running out of time Then as soon as it was clear that consequences don't exist in a hypernormalised world those fond of torture stopped bothering to fund and run an unnecessary pr campaign as they could just do it quietly and be ignored
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UKMT Solidarity Fund Monthly Update - May 2020 April saw the expected big drop-off in donations after the initial surge in March, but goons are still being generous and the fund is still looking healthy! We've made three payouts to folks in need this month, with a fourth currently processing which should go out today and will be included in next month's stats.  Obviously nobody was thinking "global pandemic and economic shutdown" when this fund was first conceived of, but it sure is coming in handy. Thanks so much, goons.  Constitution | Record of Activity Donate: Paypal - https://paypal.me/ukmtsolidarity Bank Transfer - PM IrvingWashington (aka Bill Drummond on Discord) for account details Apply: Application Form Email Us PM: AceClown, Fargle (discord only), Maugrim, Oscar Diggs or Rarity. Maugrim fucked around with this message at 10:01 on May 3, 2020 |
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Just having a click through the Podcasts as you do when there's a new thread and the OP is the first post you see (and you are adding podcasts to your catcher that you will never listen to). Agitpod link is dead. Reasons to be Cheerful link is dead. Revolutionary Despatches hasn't had a new episode for >1 yr.
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Camrath posted:I could tell its the start of larp season despite A. Giving up the LT and B. Losing all track of time, simply because the weather changed from glorious sunshine to pissing rain. Few guys I went to school with have been involved with the Lorien Trust for what must be the guts of 20 years now, I think they are the main Norn Iron contingent.
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Ms Adequate posted:Nah the cruelty is the point. I remember a documentary I watched a few years ago - think it was Portillo whomst was presenting - and after finding a potential means of execution involving some gas or other widely believed to be painless if it was used for such a purpose, took the idea to some top pro-execution oval office in Texas or somewhere. I think it's only Washington state that bothered to go with measured drop hanging. Idaho and (at one point anyway) Utah let you pick firing squad, which seems fairly humane compared to all the rest. I'm surprised it isn't more popular given certain law departments' love of shooting people and the psychological positioning of the gun as a tool to turn injustice into justice. Portillo's method was dry nitrogen gas, which works very well, but you might die without knowing it, so justice does not happen. Also he got hanged in effigy in the documentary so it's worth watching. Anyway, speaking of extremely normal things happening in America, Maryland has called in the National Guard and state police to guard coronavirus tests and supplies, to stop them being seized by the federal government to be redistributed to states that DJT likes. Dead Goon posted:Just having a click through the Podcasts as you do when there's a new thread and the OP is the first post you see (and you are adding podcasts to your catcher that you will never listen to).
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My library sent me an email saying I have £14.48 to pay in fines when the library re-opens. I sent them an email back saying "lol no"
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Guavanaut posted:There was something of a movement towards progressive capital punishment in the late 19th century, as long as progressive meant 'set them on fire with electricity' or 'small room filled with the bad acid gases'. There is this one for Agitpod, but it looks like there hasn't been a new episode for >2 yrs and the Twitter account hasn't been posted on for that long too. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-is-distorted/political-ramblings-with-owen-jones-and-ellie-ohagan This must be the new link for RTBC: https://www.cheerfulpodcast.com/
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Thanks, updated.Dell_Zincht posted:£14.48 to pay in fines
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Camrath posted:Unsure if it’s the venue he’s referring to, but Huntley Wood is a forest/lake/former quarry purpose converted to a larp site and is well served by local takeaways. It was Paccar rather than Huntley, but yeah, larp sites are often just scout camps, which are generally close enough to civilisation for you to get deliveries. Although in our case we would do collection, as we would order an entire boot load of pizza.
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Guavanaut posted:Pictured: DesperateDan with more money and less self control. living the dream
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DesperateDan posted:I have now had three separate emails from labour telling me they are sad I'm gone so can I get taken off that clp list cause it makes me sad Yes, though if you notified Labour Membership they ought to have done that, but in any case notify your CLP secretary and chair and they'll take you off the local membership lists. Well they did for me anyway! didn't stop me getting some stuff from Welsh Labour under an OLD email address I originally used which I have politely asked them to remove). I only got one email from HQ saying they were sorry I was gone. I'm not going to start wittering on about GDPR to them because as a former branch secretary myself, I do understand how most CLP & branch level folk are just volunteers with varying skills - usually pretty poor, in the IT department. In my case, convincing another branch member who was going to pick up the secretary role temporarily til a new one was found that it was absolutely NOT ok for him to build his own database in a word document to email people from (and having assured me he wouldn't put all the addresses in the CC instead of the BCC field promptly did) and that, as one of so many people these days who only has a smart phone and no computer, he shouldn't be using the computer in the local library to do it. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 10:14 on May 1, 2020 |
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LONDON MAY DAY online rally goes LIVE at 11am: https://www.londonmayday.org/ quote:With the current situation we are celebrating May Day on-line this year. Leading speakers, messages from unions and organisations, music, poetry, film will be running from 11.00 on May 1st. There will be special guests and other surprises.
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