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@HebrideanHecate Rather embarrassingly they have put these cultures on a pedestal.

@HebrideanHecate I had to read 'slave market' twice. There is an economic system around selling people there. In 2024.

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I expect there are some legal protections they are abusing here.

Company responsible for staggering leak files for bankruptcy cybernews.com/news/national-pu

@nigelharpur @kibcol1049 My brother in law worked in a rehearsal and equipment studio as a backline tech. He said much the same thing.

@nigelharpur @kibcol1049 The music biz can be weird. A lot of dysfunctional people in it and i can see how someone no-nonsense would rub everyone up the wrong way, but at the same time, mean is mean.

@nigelharpur @kibcol1049 I was told she is Democratic. She treats everyone terribly.

@kibcol1049 I had a family member in the music biz. I have heard many, many things about Sharon Osbourne, none of them good.

@Mitsu Also the morning they arrived I set off my heart monitor due to going into tachycardia due to all the sugar, haha

@Mitsu When I was in hospital for a week my sister sent me a whole box full of UK chocolate and treats. The nurses would come in the middle of the night and plunder my chocolate hob nobs.

@hlesesne Ha, the solution is to go and fuck yourselves.

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I first saw him on the BBC Horizon documentary back in 1991; the first time western film crews had been permitted on the site. This was already quite late in the cleanup; the shelter was complete, the fuel was found, and they were into the data gathering and reclaiming phase.

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Finally got around to reading Alexander Borovei's book about his exceptionally long duty at Chernobyl, from the opening hours of disaster to the relative normality a decade later.

@aral They will have extremely prohibitive rules of engagement. they are likely supposed to remove themselves from any confrontation.

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A herd of large, cattle-like tauros will be released into the Highlands as part of a rewilding project. The long-horned bovids have been specially bred in the Netherlands and are intended to replicate the ecological role of the aurochs, an extinct and extremely heavy herbivore that is the wild ancestor of cattle.

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