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Dominic Cummings is the UK prime minister's appointed advisor whose duties included establishing the quarantine rules he spectacularly violated AFTER he believed he had been exposed to coronavirus.

pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pan…

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The scandal - #cumgate - is NOT trending on Twitter, despite its dominance of UK politics and the real possibility that it could take down the current government.

Why not? Because Twitter's porn-filters block the word "cum" from trending topics.

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

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People who try to type Cumgate-related hashtags get autocomplete suggestions like "#cummnings, #dominiccummigs and #sackcummimgs". These suggestions have been chose often enough that THEY have started to trend.

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It's an example of the well-known "Scunthorpe" problem, which references a time when chatroom filters would block mentions of the English town because it contains a four-letter epithet.

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I don't think every cloud has a silver lining, but I DO think that when life gives you SARS, you need to make sarsaparilla (h/t @AccordionGuy).

Is it possible that there's SOME bright side to ::gestures vaguely:: all this?

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How's this: the uprisings and the brutal police retaliation has sent unprecedented floods of people to register to vote, with record funds and volunteer turnout for Democrat-linked causes.

cnbc.com/2020/06/05/geo…

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There've been surges of young, racialized voters - the kinds of voters who back real progressives in downticket races, which is where all the action is (the White House is important, but so is the Mayor, the county commissioners, and your state reps).

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There's a terrible paradox at work in the mass unemployment created by the pandemic. We know that there is more than enough work for every human alive today and for the next 2-300 years, addressing the climate emergency.

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That was true before the pandemic. What's changed is that tens of millions of workers in the USA and hundreds of millions worldwide have lost their jobs, and there is no demand from the private sector for their labor.

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Our system relies on markets to create jobs, on the grounds that this is the most efficient way to employ people.

Today, millions of people face long-term unemployment (with the physical and mental-health tolls that come with it).

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