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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@twinklebutt.bsky.social

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Left-leaning (but not loonie left) pragmatist, realist, atheist cis-male gay. Vocal trans supporter. Insta-blocks bigots and never argues with idiots for more than a few messages - so if your thread goes quiet, I've muted it for that reason. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧

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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · Jul 14

I oppose certain societal injustices, however people anticipating that because of that I will help reinforce their precious sense of victimhood are in for a very sharp shock.

That's emotional empathy. I don't do emotional empathy.

Here's why - Harper's Handy Guide to Empathy:

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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 18m

Contact the sim telecom company quoting the emei number which is usually on a sticker under the battery or inside the battery cover. They'll be able to take it from there.

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 21m

Agree completely. I stopped doing Brighton a few years back and even hubby said that he wasn't going to do it next year.

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 24m

Sounds like Talk UK believed his "hacked" excuse about as much as the rest of us did.

Good riddance. I imagine the florid gammon incels who watched him will be apoplectic.

Good.

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 33m

Amateurs...

It always ends up this way when organisers get too big for their boots and Pride starts to be a professional music festival with some gays stuck on the end.

Hopefully the bars will do their own thing next year and it'll be all the better for it.

Thoughts, @jasonreiduk.bsky.social ?

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 1h

On the subject of ‘cultural purity’

I’m not interested in it.
The idea is an abomination.
I’m amazed a politician has even raised it without ending their career.
If you‘re even curious about the idea there is a very strong chance your a Nazi.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2h

This month I announced that London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide for the first time ever.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than predicted.

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says

The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 6h

Put VAT on newspapers. They already hate you, the country might as well raise some money from it.

Also, put National Insurance on private pension payouts taken before state pension age. If people can afford to retire early they can afford to pay NI on their income.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 11h

Sounds like an Epstein strapline.

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 12h

"You should have stayed in your 20s when you knew everything about everything."

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 19d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 12h

Lil' George does know he doesn't have a uterus, doesn't he?

Perhaps he means to get a cat or something...

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 19h

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 20h

Always had a love for Tilda Swinton! 💚

Tilda Swinton went to 43 funerals in one vear at height of Aids crisis

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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 22h

Drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future.

(Does it matter that I'm already old and 90% of the way there?)

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting that you categorise child rape as "a mistake".

papadeegee.bsky.social @papadeegee.bsky.social · 23h

This is a rabid witch hunt typical of the self righteous talking heads on social media and the Press. No one makes any mention of Prince Andrews many years of service to the country. Even if he made mistakes years ago and understandably tried to cover it up, what must he do to satisfy the wolf pack?

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 23h

If AI has been using the output of journalists to train itself, then that does go some considerable way towards explaining why AI gets stuff so catastrophically wrong so often.

It's that old rule, "crap in, crap out".

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 23h

I do love American English. It's such a funny language.

Apparently in American English, "gathered" is a synonym for "edited".

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 1d

Manchester's having fun!

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 1d

Is a vacuum "culturally coherent" now?

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Very strange that he was "hacked" at exactly the same time that he was active on Twitter.

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Don't be so sure that glass ceiling is shattered.

In my 30 years working in the head office of ICI, the global chemical company, the biggest builders of glass ceilings were women who had already gone through it.

They eliminate any competition with devastating ruthlessness. Far more than men did.

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 1d

Her life, her decision. Nobody else gets a say.

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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 1d

City AM, being slightly to the right of Genghis Khan and totally in the pocket of city billionaires has "alarmed" as its default state when any taxation is discussed.

Fortunately it, and its circulation of twenty eight, can safely be ignored.

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"Israeli football club full of violent racist thugs sulks because their violent racist thugs have been banned from exporting their violent racist thuggery. Victim card being played very unconvincingly just days after their latest riot. But... but... but antisemitism... holocaust... etc."

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 1d

One week in, and 9 chapters of a (likely) 32 already written. The sequel to Baby's Breath is going like gangbusters. Got into that zone where the scenes just fall out of me, like I'm watching them happen.

Hopefully out sometime around Christmas.

#BookSky
#BabysBreath

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