It’s clap for carers
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
I'm a carer and can't hear any fucking clapping!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
Anyone know if there’s anything special happening? Anyone having a birthday?
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
oh they don't mean benefits scum on carer's allowance of course!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
My nephew is having a birthday.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
it's the anniversary of Operation Weserübung !
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
it's IDS's birthday
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
oh dear, bad luck wins .. if you hung on a couple of more weeks you'd be a taurean like me and bizarro!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
taurean gulag enthusiast cru UNITE
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
need gulags more than ever now and it's fun annoying the fuck out of some of our melt-adjacent ilx friends from across the atlantic!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
Remember this guy...
https://i2.wp.com/goodblacknews.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/media_http3bpblogspot_zkpgx-scaled500.png
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
I can actually vaguely remember him from small b/w tv memories of the early eighties.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
You had a Blacque & Whyte TV?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
geminis unite
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
✌🏻♊️
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
Keir Starmer backs Mirror's campaign to give NHS coronavirus heroes a medalhttps://t.co/mFfnJNOBb9 pic.twitter.com/41poeH2Ghy— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) April 9, 2020
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
I see the Real Opposition is holding Tottenham Hotspur to account more than they are the Tories https://t.co/Bln9XAkx62— Clause IV concern (@Mwdsly) April 9, 2020
― roxymuzak otm (gyac), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
The British government defended its early handling of the coronavirus epidemic after a Reuters investigation found its scientific advisers were too slow to communicate their growing concerns about the outbreak to the public and ministers.Prime Minister Boris Johnson initially approved a much more modest response to the outbreak than other major European countries, who took more stringent measures, though he later approved an effective shutdown of the United Kingdom.Reuters reported this week that the scientific committees that advised Johnson did not study in detail, until mid-March, the option of the kind of stringent lockdown adopted early on in China, where the disease arose in December.As they watched China impose its lockdown, the British scientists assumed that such drastic actions would never be acceptable in a democracy like the United Kingdom, the Reuters investigation found.But Patrick Vallance, the government's top scientific adviser, said that modelling was carried out quickly enough to effectively inform Britain's reaction to the pandemic."It's not correct that we didn't model it until March. We modelled it throughout February," Vallance said at a news conference in Downing Street. "We modelled all of the interventions you have now seen."Asked by Reuters why members of the modelling committee said that they had not carried out detailed modelling for a lockdown until March, Vallance said: "I know what happened, and I've just told you what happened, and the modelling came in from a variety of different sources."
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
Just realised it's a Bank Holiday tomorrow lol
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
how am i to deposit all these government handout cheques now
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
finding that Reuters report pretty suspect
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 April 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/covid-19-hundreds-of-uk-care-home-deaths-not-added-to-official-toll
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
I walk past a local care home every day and see the staff strolling away. Who probably haven't got adequate PPE on site and are going back into the mix. There doesn't seem to be a govt strategy to protect these vulnerable people. It's just a bloodbath that is unfolding, and let's keep clapping though.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
More wages:
Also, the new Nightingale hospital is hiring for support staff which is advertised at £9.21 an hour which is below London living wage at a £1.54 difference— edna (@ednamohamed_) April 9, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
don't worry I'm sure Kier will be pressing them hard on that!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
Maybe it's just me but the days are rushing by - which is obviously a good thing! Though it's probably an illusion caused by the fact I never know what day of the week it is anymore.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
£9.21 an hour to go into a building with an almost certain risk of infection.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
Give these selfless heroes a round of applause!
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
I’m told my presence here is missed. I just read A Place is Greater Safety and it’s got some really interesting anecdotes about how one might go about establishing a republic that y’all might want to try out.
― silby, Friday, 10 April 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/YHOUncF2Cg pic.twitter.com/OsUDdQnG7h— Captalist Gravedigger (@Ecoclown) April 9, 2020
lol this creepy tool once made a pathetic program about Churchill's shitty Sunday painter daubings and now he's threatening to use his own "celebrity" to bring art to the people!
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 07:20 (three years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/JauntyUltimateAnaconda-size_restricted.gif
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 07:35 (three years ago) link
the handwriting alone says all it needs to say https://t.co/H6wofKGFuf— joe (@cillanoir) April 10, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 07:36 (three years ago) link
ALL ESSENTIAL WORKERS MUST - HAVE A UNIFORM- WEAR IT AT ALL TIMESfuckin’ richard scarry-ass thinking
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 07:38 (three years ago) link
Bags ferry on the vagabond uniform with a cob of corn pipe!
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 07:40 (three years ago) link
Only in my damaged memory was there a Richard Scarry dolie vagabond character but it's a good idea imo
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
ah for fucks sake the fucking hands are fucking back pic.twitter.com/Zjgyw1CATz— CAPS LOCKDOWN (@newliquidvessel) April 9, 2020
should have seen the rolled up sleeves full-kit blairite wanker coming.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 08:12 (three years ago) link
God bless us all at this holy time of year.
FUCKING HELL pic.twitter.com/pLXjiIKTuE— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) April 9, 2020
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 April 2020 08:46 (three years ago) link
lool ..beautiful!
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 08:49 (three years ago) link
good reference thread
Black Rose condemns with the full strength of its voice the appointment of Jess Phillips to the role of Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, believing her to be a direct threat to the safety of trans, non-binary and sex worker comrades. This move is deeply concerning.— Black Rose (@BlackRoseLabour) April 9, 2020
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
now we are finally seeing a plurality of sex offenders in the shadow cabinet he could have found a position for John Woodcock.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
struggling with a mildly resurgent anxiety since lockdown, feel a bit paranoid and anxious about going to the shop, good to see the pigs doing their bit to help
Officers visited Tesco Barhill this morning as part of their patrols around supermarkets and green spaces this weekend. Good to see everyone was abiding by social distancing measures and the non essential aisles were empty. #1732 pic.twitter.com/yE8tkNXSkF— Cambridge Police (@CambridgeCops) April 10, 2020
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
wouldn't want to get stopped and questioned for being in a non-essential aisle in Aldi
― a slobbering sombrero moment (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 April 2020 08:57 (three years ago) link
They seem to have been doubling up on the copper choppers recently as well. hovering about menacingly, reminding you they are always watching you. No doubt they've got plenty of pig drones as well now. I can understand the need to enforce a lock down but some of these wankers are thick as fuck violent sociopaths and they enjoy their job way too much.
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSwiucP4_NhyiEWw7G-k2WdDOdnKOQzBOapso2A8x6eHHUNXTEG&usqp=CAU
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 April 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
no days are Good anymore!
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
What exactly is a 'non essential aisle'?
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 April 2020 09:08 (three years ago) link
that's taking policing to psychopath levels of control, wtf are they to say what is non essential?
― calzino, Friday, 10 April 2020 09:11 (three years ago) link
so it's legal for supermarkets to sell non-essential items, but you can be be done for attempting to buy them? literally days until someone gets busted for kerb crawling for chocolate hobnobs
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 10 April 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link