Interesting Links for 12-11-2021
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- Government appoints ex-Tory advisor married to Tory MP to help pick media regulator
- (tags:uk government corruption Conservatives regulation media )
- Soldiers should not be heroes
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- The Gradual Extinction of Softness by Pol Pot
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- Nottingham College are embarrassing themselves with completely pointless security theatre
- (tags:security_theatre UK academia OhForFucksSake knife )
- Remembrance Day: 8 examples of the most unusual merchandise and memorabilia from over the years
- (tags:war history wtf viaClare )
- A metal guitarist thought Doomscroll would be a great name for a band. Video game developer Id Software had other ideas.
- (tags:Doom OhForFucksSake intellectual_property games music )
- UK an enabler of corruption, Nigerian anti-sleaze tsar tells Boris Johnson in stinging rebuke
- (tags:UK corruption Nigeria )
- Scotland to ban most single-use plastic from June 2022
- (tags:plastic environment Scotland )
- LGBTQ Employees Are Quitting the BBC Because They Say Itâs Transphobic
- (tags:LGBT BBC bigotry transgender )
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Date: 2021-11-12 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-12 03:15 pm (UTC)Section 43, and 46-53.
But, basically, from pharmacies. And restaurants will be allowed to supply them on demand.
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Date: 2021-11-12 04:48 pm (UTC)Almost everything you buy in a pharmacy is more expensive than if you bought it elsewhere. If you deal with pharmacies by phone and get prescriptions delivered will they be able to deliver straws? How does a disabled person prove their entitlement to single use straws? GPs generally charge £80 for that sort of letter and good luck to anyone with a crappy GP who doesn't believe anything you say. I'm fed up of this and exhausted from fighting for what I need to survive.
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Date: 2021-11-12 04:52 pm (UTC)straws."
I agree that it's liable to be more expensive. Which is a shame.
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Date: 2021-11-12 09:13 pm (UTC)2. Jim Wright is not wrong here.
3. There are people who are planting these nightmares in the soil of the nations of the settler-made nations of what I was taught to call the Americas. From Whitehorse to Santiago...
5. What the actual HELL???
8. I keep thinking of unintended consequences, and as for disabled people who do need such straws, I am increasingly paranoid about the intended consequences, too.
9. Johnson's appointments to BBC, OFCOM, etc. are downright toxic, and these are the consequences raining down on viewers, listeners, readers and employees alike. And I notice that Russell T. Davies has gone public with his opposition to anti-trans doctrine and policies. This, right as he's resuming creative control over Doctor Who...where the lead character is now established this past half-decade as a trans person by way of Time Lord regeneration.