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Uber have now LOST their appeal on the ruling that they employ workers, not contractors.I said back in 2019 that refusing basic benefits was silicon valley bro culture at it's
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A LOT of left, right or religious extremist bullshit works by preying on your belief that you are a smart person."You know that thing you think should be simple to
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We talked about this a bit when @mthr_jo brought up Khan on here the other day.Meyer got that Kirk was best played as a swashbuckler who'd got old, and didn't
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One day Netflix will let me showrun a reboot of Columbo for them, starring Donald Glover.One day. I've written before about how Columbo, as both a show and a character,
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This is something oft overlooked in the popular myth of Waterloo.The battle turned on Wellington's ironclad faith that the already-beaten Prussians would still come and help. And Blucher's ironclad faith
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Sod Pepsi's navy.Let's talk about the point after WW2 where the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally' became a major European air power. I shitteth ye not. So,
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Saturday's @theipaper (h/t @glennmoore7) had a rather apt description of Theresa May."Cool line" you say. "Wonder who the general was?"Meet General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. The no-fucks-giving, putch-refusing, Hi
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Right. Friday history thread!Let's talk about how not once, but TWICE, in WW2 a 650 year old treaty between Britain and Portugal (that the rest of the world had mostly
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There's a weird tech bro version of the American dream. They idolise generally distasteful people like Jobs or musk and excuse their behaviour, because they believe that one day they
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So it's Christmas, and a bit of a weird one, so I want to tell you about a surprise Christmas present and the kindness of Twitter and total strangers on
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Right. So this gives me an opportunity to tell my favourite WW2 tea story. I came across it in a short, limited run book of first-hand accounts of tea in
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Thread time!Meet Mary Burchell, one of the most successful romance writers EVER. Over 110 Mills & Boons to her name.Got an image of her in your head now, right? Bin
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