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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦

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Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · May 7

I like the contemporary room at the National Portrait Gallery, or as I call it, "The People who've Blocked Me on Twitter Gallery"

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 39m

From top of my head Paris is tight but not near London levels, generally much higher vacancy. The Netherlands (densest biggish country) is the closest to our low rate

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 41m

Top shirt that

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 45m

You want to get heretical, I'll cheerfully tell this guy why I think we don't have enough vacant properties

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1h

Why do u hate the homeless?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 3h

Agreed. So Much For The City is one of my all-timers, landed at just the right point in my life

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah but have you considered that 100 years of paying for the royals is 10 billion???

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17h

"I’m insulting YA slop cynically because the YA folks will drive engagement with this piece, and sincerely because it is truly remarkable how that genre has pushed out challenging works from many bookshelves."

Magnificent

open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 20h

I personally don't think we should lie to people who can't get a home about why they can't, so no I would not tell them it's because of vacant homes.

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 21h

Taps sign:
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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 12d

To be crystal clear, the "empty houses" canard exists only as a signal that the person (or party) making the argument is not to be taken seriously

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 21h

Le sigh. That's not an argument for us having too many empty homes. You simply believe it is because you refuse to think about the very real problem

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 21h

*tekel dammit

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 21h

Mene, mene, tekhel, upharsin

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 21h

No, the argument you are not making is why that number is too many

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 21h

Yes that's not actually an argument

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 23h

Or more bleakly the ROI on a £50 bag

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 23h

They're a bunch of perverts as you rightly suggest

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

Also: it's a good policy. Good policies make better country and may somehow end up leading to more votes, you never know

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

"Is this party part of the complex of things that suck the fun out of life, or not?" would also seem relevant. The stats on younger people and supposedly more puritanical behaviour are in fact all over the place and trying to hit that vibe would, I posit, be insane.

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to make it worse. This is the self reported fantasy of male UKIPers

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

(also some policies are just good policies)

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

Surely this is something which you don't care about if you don't care about drinking out, but if you do care about it, you like? Neutral/win

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

Do we think this is something that will annoy those voters? Like literally this is a "vibe" that they positively dislike?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

Why do you think that this particular capitalist country has fewer vacant dwellings than almost any other in the OECD and do you think this is relevant?

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely - when so much of your take comes from about 6 hours on Friday and Saturday the ability to add to that time could make a big difference.

Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 1d

I think you'll find that may lead to some people having something approximating a good time and we're not doing that

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