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So what you're saying is that we should invest in some spiked tyres?

Better get some studded tyres ordered then before the rush to buy.

(Edit: note to self - always read to end of thread before posting)

Last person sentenced to hang in UK’s estate gets compensation for his torture and fitting up, wonder how much coverage that’ll get in the Daily Fail?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/24/liam-holden-waterboarded-tortured-british-army-belfast-high-court-rules

wonder how much coverage that’ll get in the Daily Fail?

They appear to have published the PA article. Comments not open so no frothing. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11899293/Family-man-tortured-confessing-killed-soldier-awarded-350-000.html

10 people have tweeted the Guardian article, none the DM one so far.

The chance of it hitting earth vs passing between the earth and moon is much, much lower than the error factor between 40m vs 90m estimate.

Source: I've played Kerbal Space Program a lot...

Police officers who conducted a botched armed raid of rapper Afroman’s home last year have filed a lawsuit against him for invasion of privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/23/ohio-police-sue-rapper-afroman

America is a fucked country isn't it!?

Apart from it being a fucked up lawsuit, it seems a sure-fire way to make people watch the videos to see what the fuss is about.

One of those interested watchers was me

More evidence of American fuckery.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65071989

On Thursday, Florida's governor moved to expand a law that banned public schools from teaching sexual education and gender identity.

I imagine afroman will be offering a counter suit and only the solicitors will get rich.

Septics are mental.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65071989

They really are the Christian equivalent of the taliban

Wild

Isn’t this precisely an episode of the Simpsons?

This is art

https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1639719191254106112?t=j80k8IzNLg5HTysew59POA&s=19

This is why I love the French. Something happens they don’t like, they don’t moan or go on strike, they start burning things.

The fake sheikh has a rival. Nice work if you can get it.

https://twitter.com/angelarayner/status/1639738821242699777?s=61&t=B5PsHMFKGNZzt6Z5g-D2mg

^What an absolute shower of cunts.

US far right funding culture wars in Africa:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/africa-us-christian-right-50m/

The Christian Right, quite a heady mix.

It's not like European Christian groups haven't been doing the same thing for the last 100years.

In Saturday's guardian, I presume this is Pete Waterman still being a bit salty about @Velocio.

A chap who worked with us called David understood where the Internet was going.

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I have been trying to get hold of PeteWaterman recently but PWL and PWE appear to be a little dormant.