Sid Dipper

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Former low grade HMRC worker, now taking time for Tiffin. Blog ("Excellent" Captain Swing 2023) at https://exofficerx.blogspot.com/

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Brand new on Dirty Feed: the penultimate part of my End of an Era stock footage investigations. This time: PUNK! "And boys, I believe you like swearwords?" www.dirtyfeed.org/2024/07/dave...

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There’s also this from 2016:

Trump calls for removing Clinton’s Secret Service detail to ‘see what happens'www.politico.com Trump called on Clinton’s security detail to disarm so we can “see what happens to her."

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October 2020: Trump defends plot to murder Gov. Whitmer January 2021: Trump sends mob to kill his own VP and members of Congress November 2023: Trump cheers attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi March 2024: Trump posts video depicting abduction of Joe Biden

Part of me feels guilty for even thinking this, but part of me wants to go down the bookies and lay a bet on how long it'll be before Suella Braverman says, "Enoch Was Right!"

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GF Newman’s Law & Order is escaping from the archives onto the iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Four - Law and Order, A Detective's Talewww.bbc.co.uk A crime is viewed through the eyes of the detective investigating it.

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Are they sure they aren't confusing it with this breach that happened last year? I don't see any big news outlets covering this alleged breach. www.wired.com/story/twitte...

What Twitter’s 200 Million-User Email Leak Actually Meanswww.wired.com The exposure of hundreds of millions of email addresses puts pseudonymous users of the social network at risk.

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New MPs hit out at 'shambles' train services

New MPs hit out at 'shambles' train serviceswww.bbc.com Several newly-elected Labour MPs suffer disruption during journeys to take their seats in the Commons.

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Exmoor Beach clean recover pre-decimalisation plastic bag

Exmoor Beach clean recover pre-decimalisation plastic bag www.bbc.com A group of volunteers also found a traffic cone and fishing nets as part of the clean-up.

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“ In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.” #WorkLifeBalance www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research findswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: South Cambridgeshire experiment led to fewer refuse collectors quitting and faster planning decisions

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You wake up in hell. You have a choice; choose to watch football or choose to watch James Corden in a play. You are in hell.

Because what you *really* want when you choose to go the theatre on the night of a big England match, is to watch the football.

Next rung of hell; Watching James Corden watch football while in a play

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YES! I posted that Senshi pic on twitter the other day and got a hundred dismissive replies saying "I can't even get people to hire me for $10." I spent a good part of the day diving into the replies trying to explain that the best way to get people to value your work is by following your lead.

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Somehow missed that the ghastly Rod Liddle handed Middlesbrough South to Labour, via his vanity SDP run, as he garnered low 4 figures, but more than the Labour majority. (Reform didn’t stand, presumably approving of the frothing awfulness of Trussite Simon Clarke.)

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The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945. CHANGE IS POSSIBLE🌹

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Meanwhile, Policy Exchange reflect on their years of providing independent advice for successive conservative leaders…

#Sunak "I will step down as party leader – not immediately, but once the formal arrangements for selecting my successor are in place."

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Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.

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What we would have been doing in my childhood which I really urgently need someone to do now is to go through the Reform vote and correlate it with every single possible metric to explain to us what the demographics are that drive a constituency toward Reform.

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Election 2024: A new day has broken in the most beautiful of all possible worlds iandunt.substack.com/p/election-2...

Election 2024: A new day has broken in the most beautiful of all possible worldsiandunt.substack.com Bask in it. Savour it. We'll not see its like again.

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Top tier trolling from former Lib dem leader.

This exchange from Ray McCann about the under-resourcing of #HMRC and the joy of #tax is too good to confine to Twitter.

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They pass power & profits to big business (small locals have no chance) - in return for no cgt/business rates/ employer NI & “unlocked public land” they purport to create “quality jobs” in the 1000s. Uh huh. Tell me where. (Here, Plymouth Freeport has refused a resident’s FOI requests)

Love this quote from @colleendoran.bsky.social : "Back in the day, fan culture was complete social poison... The kind of people who call themselves nerds and geeks today are the kind of people who would bash in the heads of nerds and geeks back in 1976."

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The cost of art. colleendoran.substac...

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If you wonder why I keep doing the free monthly comics feedback thing at Books with Pictures, the answer is 1: I think that good teaching can make a big difference, & 2: I hate to think of broke students going thru what @colleendoran.bsky.social describes: colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

PORTLAND COMICS ARTISTS: Would you like feedback on your work from an experienced professional? I'll be at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social this Friday July 5th from 4-6 PM for First Friday Office Hours. We'll be outdoors at the tables next to the shop. How does this work? Details in the thread below.

The Cost of Artcolleendoran.substack.com I recently posted about the advantage I managed to squeak out of the international mortgage lending crises, and another lending crises that was yet another lucky near miss for me was... The education ...

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On most, absolutely (you can sometimes see far enough ahead to go more than 30/40mph - but on many windy bits, no way can you do 60 There’s a complicated explanation of why reducing it won’t work (not built up areas or something + driver psychology)

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One obvious point about the "Fiscal Rules" that the OBR are told to use, these rules were cooked up by George Osborne to implement austerity. There's nothing sacred about them. Most of the lazy journalism around the election assumes they're set in concrete & can't be changed. They're bound to be.

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Remember when a group of crypto bros bought a copy of 'Jodorowsky's Dune' for $3 million (around 100x more than it was worth) thinking they could turn it into NFTs and an animated series because they didn't understand what copyright is?

The Saga of the 'Dune' Crypto Bros And Their Very Pricey Mistake Is At Its Endwww.esquire.com In a dismal crypto climate, the group is looking to sell its 'Dune' bible and cash out its treasury. “Really wish this worked out better," the group co-founder said.

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Coal is dead in the UK. GB Railfreight made the final planned coal delivery by rail in the UK.The shipment was delivered to Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, as it prepares for closure on 30 September.

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Free Fire Zonediscontinuednotes.com I watched the new Netflix movie Trigger Warning, starring Jessica Alba. The action commences in the Middle East. Special Forces agents Parker and Spider are on a mission to lure out some enemy fighter...