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'Austerity' was the word we used in the Coalition years, but it became unpopular so we just stopped calling it that, job done 👍

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‘National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest’ is really rather fabulous. Go see it if you haven’t already.

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The 18th model is a bit of a cheat - I painted the model last year but never finished the base, which I've just done now to finish it off. I don't really think of a model as finished until the base is painted.

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The 18th model is a bit of a cheat - I painted the model last year but never finished the base, which I've just done now to finish it off. I don't really think of a model as finished until the base is painted.

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The 17th model I've painted this year is this Necromunda robot-dog, testing out a couple of the new John Blanche AP paints.

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The thing about literally all "concerns about immigration" is that they fall into one of two categories. 90% of them reference things that are made up and don't happen. 10% reference things that do happen but are fine. None of them are based in reality

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Really important and moving account of state failure in this weekend's @financialtimes.com that is free to read for all here:

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The older I get, the more I appreciate the concept of "IQ." Whenever someone seriously mentions the importance of IQ, I know I can shut my brain off because nothing they say is worth thinking about. It's so convenient!

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Crazy that they had a Chicken Hut back then! Limerick has always been ahead of its time

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This seems to some events in London run by a private company funded by a local charity and supported by a single MP. I can't find anything with a reliable source that links it to the NHS - I think the company are just trying to make themselves sounds more official than they actually are?

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I don't know how many times I'm gonna have to yell that politico is not an honest actor before people get it

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This guy I painted is green.

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The first WD I ever read was August 1999 in the school Library, a couple months later I bought November 1999 with the free mini on the front which hooked me for life. I'm surprised they didn't do put a mini on the front more often.

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I'm obsessed with #TimeTeam: I know all the beardy, real ale dad preconceptions you have of it, but I'd genuinely call it the best TV series of the last 30 years. Watch this minute and a half from 26m 26s. 'Have you ever taken the lid off a sarcophagus before, Phil?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBXn...

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See you f∆ckers that put fake AI created trailers for films up on You Tube, I'm going to hunt you down and stuff your computer so far down your throat you'll be tasting silicone chips for all eternity.

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Yoko Ono is 92 today. She is also a great artist whose dignity and compassion in the face of more than half a century of unearned disdain, much of it unequivocally racist and/or misogynistic in character, is genuinely astonishing.

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In short: one does not negotiate with terrorists

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Countries cannot "shitpost." The president cannot "shitpost." Government officials with legal authority cannot "shitpost." This "tee hee hee we're doing a transgression" mindset needs to die

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Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

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The transphobes who thought they were cunning by exposing Neil Gaiman never thought for a second that his fanbase were actually SINCERE in being anti-rape. For them, rape is just something you accuse people of to "cancel" them (sometimes lethally, in the classic cases of lynching Black men)

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I probably should expand on why it seems objectively impossible. Here's the thing. Whether you like it or not, Greg (54) from down the pub and his niece Amanda (26) do not fucking agree on immigration or trans rights or the environment on a basic, primal level.

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not a fan of this whole thing where people treat any numbers on a chart as if it were fake and data meaningless, arguments and policy should be taken facts into account, it's bad when the right does it over climate change or COVID etc and it's bad when we do it

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I think part of what I loved about “Better Man”, the Robbie Williams biopic, is that it’s a film about a guy who wants to be the biggest, most important, most serious artist on the planet, and instead of the movie going “… and he was!”, he realises that what he really wants to do is “cabaret.”

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We are governed by the morally deranged.

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Says everything about how this site has deteriorated in the last few months that there are replies to this excited for the series rather than just people saying "fuck Lithgow, he's dead to me now" as is right and proper.

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Jesus fuck man does data matter or doesn't it? Do we want a world based on facts or a world subject the petty complaints of strangers? For the love of God get over yourselves. You should be rejoicing at the hard evidence that austerity doesn't work.

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Hey could maybe we not do this? This is why the left says centrist liberals are smug assholes.

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Testing out some of the golds and washes trying to salvage this WiP Dante model - my Reikland Fleshshade did that thing where it develops white sediment in the recesses and I've basically had to repaint the gold as a result. The new AP golds aren't bad at all - picture is before and after a glaze.

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