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Just took 93yr old Mum to vote, she's registered blind. In a very loud voice she said "Which box to perpetuate the neoliberal consensus?". The returning officer said "All of them. This false illusion of choice is simply to manufacture consent". A cheer went up from waiting voters


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is chess doubles a big thing now?


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cops defending coal mine get stuck in mud #Luetzerath


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Cilla Black’s cover of All Night Long on her 1983 Christmas show is something you can never forget…


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it’s a bold plan cotton

KennethDredd's tweet image. it’s a bold plan cotton

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Can't stop laughing at how true this is.

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the failed login paradox: when you’re told your password is wrong and then when you go to reset it it tells you that you cannot use that password because it’s the same one you used before resetting it


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So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun. It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.


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The last thing I did before starting work today was put the Imperial March over King Charles' entrance to Westminster Hall and OH MY GOD. SOUND UP.


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"On the head my son!"


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When a rare soul collector takes over from a serato DJ

Start as you mean to go on.



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All lefthanders feeling sympathy with Prince William as he has to sign proclamations in public. Without smudging the ink.#Proclamation #lefthanders


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The problem with people who say “with me, what you see is what you get” is that I’m usually seeing a cunt.


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1, Riffing a bit on Ganz's fine piece & thread, I'd argue that you can't understand the current post-liberal right without understanding its debt to the so-called "conservative revolution" in 1920 Germany.

A lot of people have asked my why I didn't engage with Thiel's writing on Strauss or his syllabi where he assigned Schmitt and Heidegger etc. I did make reference to Thiel's essay "The Straussian Moment" in the piece, namely his presentation of Islam as a civilization enemy,



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weird flex of god to forge a cosmos that is virtually infinite and 99% oblivion, then festoon it with myriad unique oases of brain-breaking beauty and spectacular light, each so far away from each other that their gaps can never be bridged


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The first full-color image from #JWST observations released to the public: galaxies and gravitational lensing contained within the space of “a grain of sand held at arm’s length." Presented by @POTUS @JoeBiden on July 11, 2022 from the @WhiteHouse #UnfoldTheUniverse #NASA

JPMajor's tweet image. The first full-color image from #JWST observations released to the public: galaxies and gravitational lensing contained within the space of “a grain of sand held at arm’s length."
Presented by @POTUS @JoeBiden on July 11, 2022 from the @WhiteHouse
#UnfoldTheUniverse #NASA

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It is somewhat ironic, is it not, that Tory MPs achieved the workplace change they needed by withdrawing their labour.


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