Mon Jul 5 2021 1:37p.m. British Summer Time GMT+1

so the UK government actually passed a bill that allows for cops and informants to get immunity to literally any crime

it was given royal assent in March and it's fucked up.

also the list of relevant authorities allowed to authorize legal crime by cops and snitches is really funny:

Police forces etc - Any police force. - The National Crime Agency. - The Serious Fraud Office. The intelligence services - Any of the intelligence services. The armed forces - Any of Her Majesty’s forces. Revenue and Customs - Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Government departments - The Department of Health and Social Care. - The Home Office. - The Ministry of Justice. Other bodies - The Competition and Markets Authority. - The Environment Agency. - The Financial Conduct Authority. - The Food Standards Agency. - The Gambling Commission.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/4/section/4/enacted

love to be legally murdered by a Food Standards Agency informant.

there was an amendment to say that it was still illegal for cops to rape, kill and torture

and that amendment was: rejected

the other police bill is in the house of commons for its third reading today (the one that makes protest (or being a gypsy) illegal). i read the 139 pages of tabled amendments early this morning when i couldn't sleep. some of them are pretty good. one of them makes it illegal to buy a dog with cash.

there's an amendment to specify explicitly that protest is legal, but it doesn't really go far enough because it allows public bodies to intervene to "prevent disorder", which.. protest is disorder

but there's another amendment to actually remove the whole Public Order section (that's the section about protest), which would be great!

and some amendments that say if a council is kicking travelers out they have to first offer them a caravan site

there's another amendment that says the whole "protest is illegal" section can't come into effect until after a general election has been held, and then both houses of parliament have to ratify it

labour wants the chance to campaign with "vote for us if you don't want protest to be illegal" which is very funny

anyway, let's learn español

Sun Jul 4 2021 3:03p.m. British Summer Time GMT+1

Sunday, 4th July 2021

Happy 4th of July!! 🇺🇸👑🇺🇸 ⛔🇬🇧⛔ 🛸💦🌏
when we were in North Harrow, we visited a Pound Land and bought Dark Crystal on DVD
- we watched it finally on Wednesday, but the English track didn't work (completely silent), so we watched it in German with English subtitles
- the bad birds screaming "ICH BIN DER IMPERATOR" was quite powerful
Rummy died
- the BBC closed their obituary with a quote from someone comparing him to the Cheshire cat. "It was a grin of supreme self-satisfaction and behind the grin might be nothing at all"
- remember when donny rummy did a speech announcing major cutbacks to the pentagon budget on Sept 10 2001
there's a badly produced but important podcast about the spycops inquiry here: https://www.spycops.info/ -- recommended listening
- there's not much news coverage on the infiltration of left wing groups by cops
  - some times they took positions of power within the organization
  - some times they entered into long relationships with women and in a few cases got em pregnant
  - most of the cops have been allowed to remain anonymous
  - there was a chance for journalists to see some of them give testimony on live video, and the only paper that turned up was the Morning Star
  - the event is not being recorded. journalists are allowed to request an audio stream, but most people can only access the court transcript
  - anyway, all of this is legal now
    - under this bill the police can legally commit crimes as long as it is "in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom", or national security, or preventing a crime or disorder
      - lmao
the ocean went on fire
the man who prosecuted Oscar Wilde also started the fucking UVF
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽ it's coming home ⚽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Tue Jun 29 2021 4:38p.m. British Summer Time GMT+1

https://open.spotify.com/album/6iT800oB654vg6wUoKQHXV

🛸 I WANT TO LEAVE 🛸 is out on Spotify

Sun Jun 27 2021 4:21p.m. British Summer Time GMT+1

Sunday, June 27th 2021

we went to heffalump and weasel for abe's vaccine on Tuesday
- i had a too-sweet salad from pret and worked on 🛸**I WANT TO LEAVE** 🛸
on thursday afternoon i released 🛸**I WANT TO LEAVE** 🛸
- it hasn't reached stores yet but you can pre-save it on spotify here
- i haven't posted it here yet the way i did with unidentified, but i will.
- it's good, i think. looking forward to it
on thursday night i went to the park with some nice new people and drank calimocho and kalimotxo blonde until 2am
- it was nice, they were nice, it was good
saturday was trans pride. i stayed in bed and whittled cotton buds
gpg seems to be crumbling before our very eyes
- sks-keyservers.net is down and deprecated
- keys.gnupg.net just pointed at that, so it's gone too now
- debian are no longer using gpg for signing packages
- what's going on?
the pentagon's UAP (u.f.o.) report came out on Friday.
- they timed it to go along with the release of 🛸**I WANT TO LEAVE** 🛸
- turns out the pentagon needs more money
- the reporting on it embarrasses itself acting as if the pentagon's "confusion" can be taken at face value
i made a cooked breakfast this afternoon

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Sat Jun 26 2021 12:21p.m. British Summer Time GMT+1

i love it when hedgehogs can see peanuts