Me (Nick) and my mates, always looking for toys to sell at Transformers Conventions and sending our profits to the good folk at Mary's Meals
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Hi all!
@tfnationltd hosted 3 events in 2024 and Toy-Fu was at all 3. We continued to sell off a large collection bought in 2023, which kept our costs down.
After covering costs, we raised £1407 for @MarysMeals in April, an unprecedented £35,006 in August, and £1990 in November
Since the November Mini-con in Reading ran during @MarysMeals ' "Double The Love" aid match campaign, that last £1,990.50 (someone found 50p on the floor and gave it to me) was aid matched to £3,981.
This brought our 2024 total donation to £40,394.
Oh. Okay. Cool. Then he just needs to buy Barr's Soft Drinks and From Software and he will officially own everything I care about.
Didn't he say he was going to end global poverty? He asked for a cost breakdown, got one from experts, and then went and bought this place instead.
Due to no small amount of divine intervention/Network Rail scheduling stenanks, I have made my train and am on my way to Reading.
You'd better put seatbelts on your eyeballs, TFN Mini-con attendees!
Innit.
ALT A paste-up poster reading AUNT DRACULA THE BITCH IS BACK INNIT It features a picture of the black-and-white Universal Studios Frankenstein's Monster with a pink lipstick kiss over his moth. There is another kiss atop the D in DRACULA.
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The extremely un-humble origins of Felony Contempt of Business Model
At the GP for my covid & flu vaccines. Signs up on the door and walls saying "YOU MUST WEAR A FACE COVERING WHILST ON THESE PREMISES".
There's about a dozen people here. 8 patients & 4 staff in a sealed office. Just me in a mask.
I don't know how we're ever getting past this.
"Here are some things that should not need stating. Scientists and those who champion them should never close ranks against empirical challenge and criticism."
This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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I watched this randomly on Netflix. Aside from an over-horny first episode, I found it pretty fun!
Basically- boy is mad for UFOs. Girl is mad for ghosts. Each finds out the other's obsession is real firsthand, and now they're on the run from aliens and their spectral allies.
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In lighter news, STV snuck this out last night!
Many thanks to @GeshGav and Repugnus at TRDQ for hosting the segment, and especially to Gav for representing Toy-Fu on the national stage once again!
youtube.com/watch?v=uLljarmC…
@MarysMeals also featured us on their blog!
marysmeals.org.uk/news/fans-…
ALT Some of the Toy-Fu team at TFN 2024, in our natural habitat (surrounded by plastic robots)
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They're doing the "scooter rental" thing with wheelchairs in NHS hospitals, and charging patients £2 an hour to sit in them.
Who the FUCK okayed this?
@doctorow reminding us that a door is always a door- anyone with the right key can walk right in.
State-backed Chinese hackers penetrated AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and others and for months, spied on individuals, firms and public officials, and did it without exploiting any code. No, they just used the back door the FBI requires of every carrier:
wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u…
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ALT A stainless steel, riveted cubic vault. On one face is a giant vault door surmounted by the FBI logo. On the other face is a rusty screen door with the words NO ENTRY on it; through the screen we see a Chinese flag. Image: Kris Duda, modified https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahorcado/5433669707/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
🧵by a wise bird.
I don't blame the majority of people for acting as if covid-19 suddenly blinked out of existence 2 years ago.
The people responsible for public health said 👍👍🥂 and who were we to argue? Some day I hope we all learn exactly why they decided to do that.
I've been wrestling with this since I read it earlier today and have been giving myself a bit of an interrogation about it.
teapawt.net/LateStagePlanet/status…