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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
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cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It's only going to get worst, Hold the Front Page - a trade website, exposed the 'Bournemouth Observer' as being launched using fake journalist profiles and questionable AI-created content, the Dorset police were unable to trace records that matched some of the fake reports published.
Some of the proper local/regional newspaper publishers are already using AI to generate content, although ATM that's checked by a human before being published, no doubt until another round of staff cut backs at some point in the future.
Publishers and Lucy Frazer talk AI after HTFP Bournemouth Observer exposé - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
Westminster talks to discuss use of robots in local news
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
This from a council that's not even run by the Greens anymore...
www.theargus.co.uk
Still, it should be entertaining when people start lighting candles inside their cardboard pumpkins.
Council says people should make cardboard 'pumpkins' for Halloween
The council has told people to make their own cardboard pumpkins as part of a new bid to cut back on waste this Halloween.
Still, it should be entertaining when people start lighting candles inside their cardboard pumpkins.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Could this being the dumbest question ever asked in a headline?
Is it safe to travel to Cyprus during the Israel-Gaza conflict?
FFS, it's about 170 miles from Israel by sea, so, err, yes!
They then helpfully answer their own dumb question with - 'Cyprus has not been affected by the conflict and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has not issued any advice against travelling to Cyprus.'
Is it safe to travel to Cyprus during the Israel-Gaza conflict?
FFS, it's about 170 miles from Israel by sea, so, err, yes!
They then helpfully answer their own dumb question with - 'Cyprus has not been affected by the conflict and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has not issued any advice against travelling to Cyprus.'
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
From Popbitch - 2 pages of the same picture
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
They do that sort of thing all the time, often running to 3 or even 4 pages, I guess to increase page views.
Also note the site is called 'Sussex World', but the URL for that points at the 'Sussex Express', when that is just one of about a dozen papers across East & West Sussex that are part of 'Sussex World', which just bugs me.
They are idiots.
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Sorry it is from overseas, but bloody funny
www.theguardian.com
Man who pretended to be mannequin in Warsaw shop window charged with theft
Polish police hold 22-year-old accused of stealing jewellery after posing as display dummy
JimW
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Would have thought the environmental impact and biodegradability of a vegetable would be less than a manufactured board.This from a council that's not even run by the Greens anymore...
Council says people should make cardboard 'pumpkins' for Halloween
The council has told people to make their own cardboard pumpkins as part of a new bid to cut back on waste this Halloween.
Still, it should be entertaining when people start lighting candles inside their cardboard pumpkins.
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Ah, but there again, food is meant to be eaten, not used as a worthless decoration.
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Also not strictly local news, although I suppose it is local to someone:
Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins
The parish priest said he would have acted differently had he known they were carved by children.
www.bbc.co.uk
PTK
Paul Kegan
I know that music of The Smashing Pumpkins is not to everyone's taste, but I don't think it was necessary for the priest to apologise for them.Also not strictly local news, although I suppose it is local to someone:
Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins
The parish priest said he would have acted differently had he known they were carved by children.www.bbc.co.uk
PTK
Paul Kegan
Paragliding has forever been tarnished.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
This from a council that's not even run by the Greens anymore...
Council says people should make cardboard 'pumpkins' for Halloween
The council has told people to make their own cardboard pumpkins as part of a new bid to cut back on waste this Halloween.
Still, it should be entertaining when people start lighting candles inside their cardboard pumpkins.
I've been increasingly thinking what a fucking waste pumpkin season is the older I get tbh. They aren't even good eating pumpkins and I can't actually buy ones that are. A good Hokkaido squash is great
Half the carving ones I was looking at in Sainsbury's the other day were rotten.
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Belgians race boats made of giant pumpkins
Thrills and spills as kayakers use pumpkin power in a competition near the city of Antwerp.
www.bbc.co.uk
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
There was nowt wrong with turnips we used to use - always used the innards that we carved out.
Halloween not the same without the stench of burnt turnip and candles in the air.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
And using your turnip as a big conker trying to smash other people's turnips.
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This is funny as, though perhaps not so much for the locals
www.mirror.co.uk
What a waste of oxygen...
'I bought a second home in stunning seaside village - but the locals hate me'
Londoner Rebecca Tidy bought a second home in St Mawes, Cornwall, during lockdown but claims locals have told her she is to blame for pushing house prices up
www.mirror.co.uk
What a waste of oxygen...
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I'm sure that was ska invita who told her to fuck off due to the stripesThis is funny as, though perhaps not so much for the locals
'I bought a second home in stunning seaside village - but the locals hate me'
Londoner Rebecca Tidy bought a second home in St Mawes, Cornwall, during lockdown but claims locals have told her she is to blame for pushing house prices up
What a waste of oxygen...
ska invita
back on the other side
Once again, the warning signs were all there.... It's like a wasp , it's nature's way of communicating threat ( no offence to wasps)
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Well, at least it wasn’t The Sun:
Liverpool police hunt for builders who buried time capsule
Bricklayers planted a newspaper proclaiming the UK's entry in the EEC while building a station in 1971.
www.bbc.co.uk
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
In an ideal world second homes and air b and b would be banned. No sympathy for the woman in the story.This is funny as, though perhaps not so much for the locals
'I bought a second home in stunning seaside village - but the locals hate me'
Londoner Rebecca Tidy bought a second home in St Mawes, Cornwall, during lockdown but claims locals have told her she is to blame for pushing house prices up
What a waste of oxygen...
I admire the Mirror’s way of using this non-story as a Trojan horse for actually pointing out how corrosive second home ownership is for Cornwall. Fair play to them.This is funny as, though perhaps not so much for the locals
'I bought a second home in stunning seaside village - but the locals hate me'
Londoner Rebecca Tidy bought a second home in St Mawes, Cornwall, during lockdown but claims locals have told her she is to blame for pushing house prices up
What a waste of oxygen...
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They don’t even need to write any subjective criticism into the story- just let the woman talk at them. Her lack of self-awareness is quite something.
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