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Large Haddock Collider.

So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it’s beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn’t know or concerns technical material he doesn’t understand but another author on the paper does?"

Why would you cite a work you hadn’t read and/or don’t understand?

As it spreads through the population, the more likely it is to develop into a strain that the current vaccines are ineffective against. It wouldn’t just be the horse paste fuckers that this would effect.

Also it’d make it harder to reach herd immunity in the population and therefore place immunocompromised people in further risk.

You can’t individualism your way out of a pandemic, everyone who undermines attempts at stopping the spread puts everyone’s lives at risk.

What was that album title? 'If you accept this,your kids are next., ’

“If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next.” By the Manic Street Preachers.

• Hannah Spencer (Green Party): 14,980 votes
• Matt Goodwin (Reform UK): 10,578 votes
• Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party): 9,364 vote

Some blairite think tank is probably right now pitching some previously unheard of form of fascism to Kier Starmer in an attempt to claw some of those Reform voters over next time.

Equally Cursed and Blessed by Catatonia.

Headband of miner intellect:

• Forged by a dwarven artificer who lost too many colleagues due to their lax attitude around safety.

• Anyone wearing this headband becomes aware of the quality of air and props for whatever tunnel they’re currently in.

• Wearers possess an intrusive urge to find proper protective equipment before attempting a task.

Also it’s blunt as a butter knife because none of its past users wanted to try to sharpen something that is always on fire.

Immovable Rod:

• Not actually a magical rod.

• Actually just a bloke called Roderick, or Rodney, or something to that effect.

• Won’t move out of your way.

• Not even if you ask politely.

Everything being made in China is a bit of a hyperbole but…

stream of consciousness rant ahead

The rise of neoliberalism involved the deindustrialisation of the imperial core, partly as a way to cheapen costs by relying on a pool of labour with lower minimum wages and worse safety regulations, partly to kneecap labour unions that were forming an effective political bloc against neoliberal social policies, partly to obfuscate the environmental impact of consumerism by shunting all the environmentally hazardous part of the process of producing consumer goods abroad, and partly to complete the transition of imperial core economies entirely into extraction and finance.

At the time China which was liberalising under Dengist reforms and also cosying up to the west, was a perfect target as one of the places to offload industry.

Industrialising a country takes a lot of planning and is expensive, (especially in countries like the UK where most of the factories and former supply line infrastructure has been torn up and the land sold off, and what remains is too dilapidated to support a renewed heavy industry), so it’s unappealing to a capitalist hegemon that’s in favour of austerity and low government spending.

What’s the source of that last image? I’m really hoping that’s one of the examples from the 80s and not a recent one…

Yeah, that’s an 80’s one. Here it is in the Tory Party’s online archive.

I’m hoping this is just me dooming but having grown up in the dying days of section 28, I’m genuinely scared for this next generation of queer people.

Section 28 of the 1988 local government act (often just referred to colloquially as section 28), was a law that made it illegal to discuss queer identities in schools.

It was repealed in 2003, but the recent resurgence of homophobia in parliament is using a similar language around “protecting children” is identical to the shit Thatcher and her cronies were throwing around in the 80’s.

Yeah, and they’ve jumped the “protect our kids” wankery into overdrive as well.

Complete doomer mode: I think they’re also gonna re-establish section 28 soon.

It’s been this kind of shit hole surveillance state for a long time. Look at the snooper’s charter/investigatory powers act, for example.

Fuck yeah! My “Bigfoot is actually a big cellar spider and that’s why it’s always blurry in pictures” theory is gonna be broadcast to everyone’s grandmother!

During the state mandated mourning, a man was arrested for carrying a piece of blank paper because the police thought he might write a protest slogan on it later.

It turns out I’m wrong, they can get that fluffy.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but I think those photos might’ve been edited.

I’m not an ornithologist but, according to the RSPB, this is what they look like:

And here’s a picture of one during the summer when they’re less fluffed up:

Manpril sounds like an over-the-counter erectile dysfunction medicine that’s got a list of side effects taller than the bottle it comes in.

Has anyone staked his heart to make extra sure he won’t come back?