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Roaring Marmot
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Holding forth on the things that gladden my heart...or really rip my nightie.
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Guess who was responsible for the bad teleprompter and bad escalator?
A collection of sources confirming that Trump's own team screwed up the UN's escalator and teleprompter: The New Republic headline for opinion column by Malcolm Ferguson: Turns Out Trump's Own Team Messed Up UN Escalator and Teleprompter. Tweet by Farnoush Amiri: 'A UN official said the UN understands that someone from the president’s party who ran ahead of him inadvertently triggered the stop mechanism on the escalator. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the White House was operating the teleprompter for Trump.' CSPAN tweet: CLIP: "Bad escalator" President Trump referred to during his address to the U.N. General Assembly. #UNGA80. Tweet by Dan Cluchey: @dancluchey: 'There's no scenario — none — where WH staff isn't overseeing the prompter. Physical scrolling is typically handled by military personnel from the Comms Agency who train for years. A WH staffer always runs the show. As a former WH speechwriter, this is my only area of expertise.'
September 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Begged and pleaded to be allowed to buy this, and was so freaked out by the werewolf artwork that I wouldn't even keep it under the bed.
Cover art for Usborne's Supernatural Guide: Vampires, Werewolves & Demons — a red-eyed Dracula in close up. Slicked-back hair, with the look of a '80s TV presenter or soap star about him. His right hand is raised and clawed, his left is holding his red-lined black cape at his throat. Wide, yellow-orange, cloudy sky behind him, tussocky grass behind him. (This image was not the one that scarred me for life, though. That was the punk werewolf with bloodied teeth.)
May 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Poet Michael Rosen's response to Keir Starmer's channelling of Enoch Powell.
A poem by Michael Rosen, responding to Keir Starmer's claim that mass migration risked Britain becoming an 'island of strangers'. The poem reads: I lay in bed hardly able to breathe but there were people to sedate me, pump air into me calm me down when I thrashed around hold my hand and reassure me play me songs my family sent in turn me over to help my lungs shave me, wash me, feed me check my medication perform the tracheostomy people on this ‘island of strangers’ from China, Jamaica, Brazil, Ireland India, USA, Nigeria and Greece. I sat on the edge of my bed and four people came with a frame and supported me or took me to a gym where they taught me how to walk between parallel bars or kick a balloon sat me in a wheel chair taught me how to use the exercise bike how to walk with a stick how to walk without a stick people on this ‘island of strangers’ from China, Jamaica, Brazil, Ireland India, USA, Nigeria and Greece. If ever you’re in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had.
May 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Yep.
Tweet from Bob Miller, March 17 2020, that reads 'Just heard from a former workmate in Wellington that Simon Bridges aired in a meeting whether the UK response of letting coronavirus run its course could be an option for NZ. He said ppl gasped when it happened.'
December 4, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Somewhere out there is the star who made this...
December 2, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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From the poolroom of shame:
December 11, 2023 at 11:15 PM
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Never forget that hankering to follow the slime trail.
The inquiry into the Conservative government's COVID response is currently taking place; meanwhile, Christopher Luxon casually declares to Mike Hosking that National doesn't have a plan for COVID.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
October 3, 2023 at 8:37 PM