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Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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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 · 2h

Sounds like an Epstein strapline.

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 2h

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

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 18d

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

Paul Harper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @twinklebutt.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 9h

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

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 13h

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 · 13h

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

papadeegee.bsky.social @papadeegee.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

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 · 19h

Manchester's having fun!

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

Is a vacuum "culturally coherent" now?

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

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

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

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 · 22h

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

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

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

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

Yay! Looking forward to it.

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

Can one person "storm"?

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

Today's reading:

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

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

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

Hubby's rewatching Desperate Housewives for the umpteenth time. It feels weird watching West Wing's Dolores Landingham and Debbie Fiderer sitting chatting to each other!

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

None. Do it. It's one of the perks of adulting.

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

Those two drag queens seem content with their handbags.

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

He carries a magnifying glass?