conradlongmore.bsky.social
IT Security, Fraud and Phishing. Progressive politics. Weird cars.
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Fourth box of liberty
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Bastards
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Don't need to hack it, just create a fake site and run a Google ad for "whatever council bin collections". Or would that be taking it too far?
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Although seriously, many MPs have second jobs as government ministers. Quite shocking.
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Our entire country is built on fossil fuels, profits from slavery, subjugation of other countries and exploitation of workers. I thought the NHS was based on socialist principles, but perhaps it runs on diesel?
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Mountainhead II
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Always annoying that the BBC didn't finish the trilogy.
I read John Christopher's (Sam Youd's) "The Death of Grass" once and that's a book that's haunted me ever since.
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I used to be a councillor (*not* a Faragista). It's extremely daunting for someone new to the role, in my case I could rely on veterans from my own party. Reform doesn't have many of those. By the end of your term you might have learned something, but actually kudos for his honesty.
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What do you mean this box is too small?
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Let's see who gets this reference...
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On a list of rogue middle-eastern nations with a nuclear weapons program starting with the letter "I", Iran doesn't even make the first entry.
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Weird thing is, if you give up and spray the bastards with fly killer they FLY STRAIGHT OUT OF THE WINDOW.
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"Today Sooz will be road testing the MG Maestro Turbo"
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I think if you are around my age, you'll be familiar with these nightmarish posters..
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How close is Israel to having a nuclear bomb?
Oh yeah, about minus 59 years.
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Remember the creepy "My Friend Cayla"? It was heavily advertised and my daughter wanted one *so* badly. It was total crap, just a front end to Siri (and barely functional on Android). She was heartbroken. Ended up being banned in Germany.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...
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Armageddon is a real place
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Meg...
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Ah yes.
"Live. Laugh. Love" - Aristotle.
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The Nazis loved to recruit people like this, give them a military rank and a nice uniform..
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Trying to get good candidates for any council election is hard, due to the work involved but all "serious" parties try to field a full slate of candidates which inevitably includes some people who do not want to be elected and do not expect to be elected. Can be a high-risk approach.
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Beats me where the money could be going
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Murder pubs though
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Call me nuts but I'm beginning to suspect that all these people who tried to assassinate Trump are actually time travellers.
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Is this what Canadians look like?
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I was about to ask if that's MS-13 tatooed on her knuckles?
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That young woman has some courage. All it would take is some trigger-happy member of the IDF and that could have turned very bad indeed.
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Mind blown.
In all honesty, sometimes I've stuck with things just to see how they end and have been mighty relieved when they do.
US TV in particular stretches an idea over far too many episodes, when in the UK it would be lucky to manage six.
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I went to Jersey a couple of years ago, they could hear the sounds of the invasion, see smoke and aircraft flying overhead even though the beaches were far away on the other side of the Cotentin Penisula. They assumed that liberation would come for them soon, but sadly they were wrong.
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It was more than just the Brits, Americans and Canadians. All those countries that the Nazis thought they had defeated turned up for revenge too...
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Because it's a continuation of the wartime allies, run in the interest of the big 5 allies (US, UK, France, Soviet Union and Republic of China originally). It was never set up as a global partnership of equals.
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True though.
Schools tend to teach how Britain was instrumental in dismantling the slave trade while conveniently ignoring that fact that we were largely responsible for setting it up. Like setting fire to something then throwing a bucket of water on it and expecting praise.
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Did you get confused between "Jim" and "Gym"?
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Speaking as a former local government employee - the money was crap, the pension was marginally less crap considering the low wages staff were on. Local government is one of the most highly unionised workforces in the UK though, I don't think this will end well for those councils.
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I still have a stack of A-Zs, decades out of date. Just in case, you know.
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..if they accidentally used the default, it was the (mostly women) who managed the printer who had to collect the fanfold picture of a naked Brigitte Bardot and put it in the van. Eventually there were *complaints*...
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About 1000 years ago when I was a student, the default printer was a hike to the other side of campus, so the printouts came round once a day on a van. However, students (mostly young men) discovered softcore ASCII pornography and would try to print it out on the big line printer..
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"I filled it to the brim with Diesel but it still doesn't start.."