In the news

Hopefully there will be a bit of reporting on other news here now. Any news will do, as long as it's not about this thanks

A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault over Stockholm brawl

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/14/aap-rocky-rakim-mayers-found-guilty-of-assault-over-stockholm-brawl

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/8/14/20802774/june-smart-oven-remote-preheat-update-user-error

who's baking pies at 11:30 pm?

People who want fresh hot pie in the morning?

how long does it take to bake a pie? unless you mean at 12:10 in the morning.

People who want fresh cold pie in the morning?

who's baking pies at 11:30 pm?

Stabbing outside the Home Office. Reports saying the man arrested was carrying a large knife, CS spray and a ferret...

Did he not see the chicken box from Morley?

Evidently not. Maybe they'll ban ferrets next week.

The secluded mansion in Manchester-by-the-Sea where Ghislaine Maxwell
recently lived, according to a nearby property manager.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-death-ghislaine-maxwell-allegedly-living-mansion-new-england-beach-town/

Looks just like Salford.

Salford Quays...

More Epstein madness

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/jeffrey-epsteins-bodyguard-igor-zinoviev-on-his-old-boss.html

Holy shit. He seems properly spooked.

Someone flying a drone around Epstein’s island:

https://youtu.be/PzwznyWNbRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsgC36gUFI

That looks just like Streisand's house.

Want a demonstration of how quickly disaster capitalism can destroy the Nordic social model? Donald Trump reportedly wants to purchase Greenland from Denmark

pretty sure the righty whitey freeze peach fucknuts will be out to condemn this any moment now... aaaany moment now...

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1162747484894105600

Yes, definitely echoes of unpleasant right-wingery in this. One thing I'm sure they don't like about him is that he actually has quite a lot of courage in the face of adversity, and it's a bit of a classic how they then try to break that with their limited means. This could have ended much worse by the sound of it. Hope it never happens again.

Guardian write-up:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/17/guardian-columnist-owen-jones-attack-pub-london

Full on cunts, I'd like to think that if someone tried that round here they'd get their arses handed to them, but I'm not so sure at the moment. I'm very much pacifist but stuff like this just can't be allowed to start happening and needs stamping out quite literally as soon as there's a sniff of it.

You can't spell pacifist without etc...

A British cyclist has set the motor-paced speed world record after covering a distance of 174.34 miles (280.57 kilometres) per hour.

Well done Neil Campbell.

He deserves capital letters.
Neil Campbell.