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Northern. 50ish. #SAFC
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Boycott the World Cup

Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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TRUMP: I invented electricity. did it one day, turned on a lamp and a scientist gasped and said wow how did you do that and I said I just flicked a switch and he started crying and saying "sir you've just saved Africa from ebola"

BBC NEWS: a sober reflection on healthcare from the President
January 21, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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The thing about Carney is, and it sounds simplistic, but *he gets it*.
The rules-based international order as we've known it all our life is dead. We can't start to build anything new until we've collectively accepted that and he's the only mainstream politician who has.
Lots of positivity about Carney's speech at Davos. This is what happens when you have serious, qualified, individuals in charge. This needs to be a general awakening. There needs to be a concerted movement away from the Poilievres, Farages, Badenochs, & pretty much 95% of USA politicians
January 21, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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Every year this story is shared, every year the Roger Moore airport story is shared, you must ALWAYS share. Happy birthday Tom!
Tom Baker is 92 today
January 20, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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From Terry Pratchett's 'Guard's Guards' when the guild leaders have to accept the demands of the dragon:
January 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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honk honk, that's the sound of the geese
January 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Kemi, this is just a population density map
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".

It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".

The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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This keyboard is actually an entire computer. Just plug it into a monitor and you’re set.
January 7, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"
January 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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When will this government recognise an open door and just walk through it?
January 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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You don't ask if they'll still use it, you ask them *why* they're using a platform that they *know* generates ILLEGAL indecent images of children. You don't let them handwave it away with some vague shit about maybe reviewing it and then move on. Jesus fucking Christ our journalists suck ass.
Keir Starmer's spokesman asked if Government will still use X now it posts indecent images of children, replies "we always keep communication channels under review to reach public in most appropriate way possible”

"Operators are under obligation to act appropriately. We always hope they would do"
January 5, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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“And then they made me The Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, which was nice.”
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
December 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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This is really smart and true and, in its way, the source of what makes him terrifying. Not one shred of recognizable humanity.
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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12 US gallons = 80 pints. Also if UK milk was sold in US gallons at the same per/ml price as UK 4 pints, it would be over $4.00. Shut up America.
Who the fuck needs twelve gallons of milk a week? Is Cleopatra popping over to have a bath?
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Obviously correct, and really only FIFA could fail to see how much more sense this would make.
I reckon they should do the draw backwards. Start at Pot 4 and build up to the seeds.

#worldcupdraw
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Guy Fawkes signature before and after watching this World Cup Draw
December 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM