The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #908

Reform fielding 323 candidates, now is their big chance - LGC Plus

BBC results - BBC

Turnout of around 33% in Swindon - Swindon Borough Council

Mayoral election results - Election Maps UK - Twitter

West Midlands Mayor - Wikipedia

Conservatives lost West Midlands to Labour - The Guardian

London mayoral result - BBC

Voter turnout was 40% for London - BBC

Not a big win for Labour tho - The Times

Poorest people least likely to vote - The Guardian

Nigel Farage has given the strongest signal yet that he **won’t** contest the next general election - Ben Riely-Smith - Twitter

UK’s £18tn slavery debt is an underestimation, UN judge says - BBC

Slavery stole Africans’ ideas as well as their bodies: reparations should reflect this - UCL

Wheeled Transport in Pre-Colonial West Africa - JSTOR

Imperial Measurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Western Colonialism - Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)

"At the height of the transatlantic slave trade, estimates suggest that the slave trade accounted for only around 0.5% of our GDP." - Cambridge.org

King of Dahomey (modern Benin) - Wikipedia

Kunta Kinte Captured, Sold Into Slavery - Roots (1977) - YouTube - Roots (1977)

Equal justice initiative - Equal Justice Initiative

When the slave trade was at its height during the 18th century, the export of slaves was averaging 45,000 a year. - Britannica

About half these slaves were unfortunates in their own societies - Britannica

Abolition - Josh Ferme - Twitter 

How the Government only finished paying off the UK's slavery debt in 2015 - The Telegraph

50 million people worldwide in modern slavery - International Labour Organization (ILO)

African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in ‘Slave Markets’ in Libya - ReliefWeb

May have noticed some salt over the weekend - serothel - Twitter

Sony decided from a certain date you had to have a Playstation network account to play on PC - SteamDB - Twitter

Helldivers community is pretty unified by the theme and mechanics of the game - TheLegalMindset - Twitter

Sony updating their FAQ so that you had to have PSN account - PirateSoftware - Twitter

Player Count had stabilised - Source: SteamDB

You had to submit Government ID and a facial scan - GiveMeBanHammer - Twitter

CEO says this was a Sony requirement that was dropped and now brought back - HelldiversAlert - Twitter

Sony ruined their own community for what? - 7ravi_ - Twitter

Started offering refunds - Grummz - Twitter

Suddenly Sony backs out - PlayStation - Twitter

Still banning many nations though - PirateSoftware - Twitter

CEO trying to laugh at the situation - Pilestedt - Twitter

Anon on 4chan had some thoughts - Source: 4chan (via Discord)

Well, maybe - LookAtMyMeat1 - Twitter

She/her trans flag LGBT flag mod - Grummz - Twitter

Talking about Super Earth being the bad guys - Helldiversmedia - Twitter

Another mod Misty claimed the PSN change was to allow her to ban people more effectively - Grummz - Twitter

The mod team hate Grummz for complaining - Grummz - Twitter

Very different to how wokeism was being dealt with before - Source: Steam Community

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