Oh my fucking god 😭

  • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Despite the understandable scorn Playboy and Hefner have earned, there was a period of time where there were really interesting articles and good journalism being published next to the tits

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      3 days ago

      That was sort of the beauty of being independent and uncouth. They didn’t have to worry about offending major brands/sponsorships because they weren’t beholden to typical ad agencies to begin with.

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        3 days ago

        Thanks for the censor, it still jumpscared me but it was easier to recover ❤️

        Unfortunately, there’re a lot more UK rags owned by Murdoch than just that one :( and many others owned by other rightwing billionaires. It’s insane we have got to this point where our majority sources of our local news is mostly all foreign billionaire + politically captured

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          That’s one of the two names adopted by the people of Liverpool after The S*n’s repeated, outrageous lies about the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. The other is The Scum. I think the paper is essentially unavailable if you live in the city. Nobody will stock it.

          They’re famous for their Page 3 girls. They’d put naked women just inside the cover of their newspapers. They also ran campaigns counting down to the 16th birthdays of Charlotte Church and Emma Watson. The thing they seem to have forgotten is that it would still not be legal for the readers to sleep with these children, as neither is going to shag a 67 year old S*n reader consensually.