He's got a 'thriller' out, of course (I can't read thrillers as I find them so boring).
He's got a 'thriller' out, of course (I can't read thrillers as I find them so boring).
Who is Robert Peston, and why should I be interested in his political animal confessions?
Supposed to be one of the A list political journalists in the UK but always been a bit weird.
There was a time when the broadsheet newspapers in this country had a modicum of decorum. And then there's now.
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Dunno where to put this but I just saw it on Twitter:
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Fuck's sake.
Big turnout for the refugee solidarity march yesterday.
Ahhh, masked up protests / 'solidarity marches' to ease the boredom of lockdowns. Good memories.
No lockdown in Brisbane currently. I would have preferred if this mob and the anti vax/freedom mob had both booked their protests for the the Saturday for my amusement.
Last edited by Queenslander; 22-08-2021 at 09:39 PM.
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/...-johnny-welly/
The towns legit shook by this fella finally passing. RIP Johnny Wellies.
I'm a twit
We're definitely a proper country though.
Looking forward to Roy Chubby Brown gagging for British Business in Namibia.
He already has his own range of [Australian] wines [Botham that is, I've no idea about Brown] so he's probably just 'going in to bat' for them.
Julio Geordio to be dispatched to Latin America ASAP.
You got Tony and we get Botham what tidy bit of business for us.
From the FT:
OnlyFans’ founder Tim Stokely has blamed “unfair” treatment by banks for forcing him to ban pornography on the platform, a decision that caused an outcry from the site’s users and sowed doubt over its future.
“The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is banks,” Stokely, who is also the company’s chief executive, told the Financial Times.
Since it banned explicit content last week, the UK company has faced criticism for abandoning the adult performers who helped attract its roughly 130m users as well as scepticism as to whether it can prosper under new rules that ban sex acts, though permit nudity.
Stokely said the change came in response to an increased level of obstacles from banks, which would “cite reputational risk and refuse our business”.
“We pay over one million creators over $300m every month, and making sure that these funds get to creators involves using the banking sector,” he said, singling out Bank of New York Mellon as having “flagged and rejected” every wire connected to the company, “making it difficult to pay our creators”.
BNY Mellon’s role, in this case, was as an intermediary bank, helping with transfers between OnlyFans’ bank and the bank accounts of its creators.
Stokely also said UK-based Metro Bank had in 2019 closed OnlyFans’ corporate account with short notice, and highlighted how many sex workers, including OnlyFans creators, were struggling to access basic financial services.
“JPMorgan Chase is particularly aggressive in closing accounts of sex workers or . . . any business that supports sex workers,” he said.
BNY Mellon, Metro Bank and JPMorgan all declined to comment. OnlyFans declined to name its current banking partners, citing a desire to improve relations.
Opposition to the porn industry has taken on new life in recent years, with a string of high-profile media investigations into the prevalence of child pornography and other non-consensual footage on so-called tube sites.
OnlyFans has not been immune to scrutiny, despite operating a business model where both viewers and creators are verified and content stays behind a paywall.
Stokely claimed OnlyFans had been unfairly targeted by media reports into “incidents of illegal content” that failed to mention how porn-free social media platforms grapple with similar issues. “Banks read the same media as everyone else,” he said.
Some financial groups, such as Mastercard, have responded to growing wariness of the porn industry with more stringent rules for “specialty merchants” due to take effect on October 1, the same date as OnlyFans’ policy change comes into effect. This prompted speculation that Mastercard was driving the platform’s new policy, something that Stokely disputed.
“We’re already fully compliant with the new Mastercard rules, so that had no bearing on the decision,” he said.
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OnlyFans’ move has prompted questions as to how it will manage to enforce the ban. Stokely said the company was hiring almost 200 new moderators to a team of nearly 1,000 staff members who are “involved in some part of our multi-step moderation process”.
The new rules have also delayed the company’s plan for a share sale, as majority owner Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American entrepreneur behind porn site MyFreeCams, is looking to offload part of his stake.
Stokely rejected reports that wariness from investors had sparked the move.
“We didn’t make this policy change to make it easier to find investors,’‘ said Stokely, arguing his family and Radvinsky would not bring in owners that were not comfortable with adult performers. Stokely said he would “absolutely” welcome porn back were the banking environment to change.
“This decision was made to safeguard their funds and subscriptions from increasingly unfair actions by banks and media companies — we obviously do not want to lose our most loyal creators,” Stokely said.
Can't wait to get out of this house. Heard some bumping and there was a guy going at my door with this:
Do you genuinely believe the gist of an article that contains a line in it like this?
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He's doing damage control but the alternative is frozen accounts which takes them out of business.
'No, the banks are worse than the pornographer.'
Showing absolutely zero concern for someone breaking into my house and continuing on arguing over financial regulation of pornographers is why TTH will always be TTH.
I'll be honest, I took it to be a joke about Kiko's argument with Yev that had flown over my head. Apologies, hope you're OK and RIP.
Jussie Phonnett here getting robbed by someone who leaves his floating crowbar behind.
Fuck your wooden door
We know you're not dead. What more would we need to know?
Posts about his own house in the NEWS thread like he's a big deal then demands attention when nobody agrees.
Should be a warning for off topic really.
U k bby
I love how even the news fella, rather than thinking "What is my career?", has the tinge of outrage in his voice.
Perth is likely to get the AFL.
Melolbourne.
When he asks the guy what are you gonna do now, and he says 'Well, there's an ice cream shop round the corner, so I'll probably go there', and the newsman says 'You have to work it out all by yourself!'.
I mean, he's not exactly Descartes laying the foundation of the deductive scientific method, is he?
I'd love to know how many hours of "... I just got a coke mate" they had to film before they came up with this.
End of Days where there is nothing worth saving that.
I did wonder this.
"Okay, that's great, lovely stuff, but could you instead of not caring start flinging your shit about like a chimp shouting 'ME WANNA SHAKE-SHAKE'? It'll make a much better story."
They probably took great care to mention that Brexit was to blame before asking them.
There's no doubt similar footage from Nigel Farages Kent on the cutting room floor, where everyone they asked goes full Al Murray.
"Milkshakes, eh, never liked 'em. Load of Yank rubbish and now we find out the milks from a load of French cows!? Well no thank you! I'll have a bottle of London Pride."
"London Pride? But Fuller's are owned by a Japane-"
"SHUT UP TRAITOR"
What an absolute fucking tit.Elden recreated the image multiple times over the years and had the word “Nevermind” tattooed on his chest
Someone tweeted about an album a while back, and I still can't understand how this is allowed. (NSFW)
The cover was a photo by Bob Seidemann of a topless 11 year old girl, Mariora Goschen,[4] holding a silver painted model of an aircraft
Houses of the Holy has kids arses on it, which seemed to have traumatised one of them over the years. The olden days were pretty wild really.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58331722
I can only assume the banking PARTNERS have caved....
It wouldn't be surprising if that announcement started a bidding war from the banks.
If OF can promise local banking services to their creators then this could be a masterstroke, assuming its actually a big issue for sex workers.
None of it's an issue, banks are quite clearly not the bastion of moral fortitude that they'd like to portray. I mean, it's utterly lol that anyone would think otherwise.
I can't really understand what the point of the decision was in the first place. It will instantly die without porn and a new one will pop up.
Tell us more about a sector you don't work in.
I'd be amazed if there weren't already less successful versions that people couldn't move over to.
No one should be allowed to give an opinion on a field they do not work in. Can we make it a rule, @mods?
No opinions at all.
Only links to BBC news articles, Steam sales and tier 1 transfer rumours.
Bring that rule in immediately about only posting about a sector you work in. Me and Pepe can just exchange 20,000 posts on combustion engines, and the rest of you have to sit there watching us.
Me and Shinners can exchange hot takes on the benefit system.
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