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@KaptainKrunch97 Haha, my boss thought I was miffed at him and I said 'my job is to give you different ideas and perspectives and I don't care what you do with them, otherwise you might as well have a nodding monkey in this role' - I didn't know it was an actual thing!

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@KirstieMAllsopp Easy mistake, nearly did the same.

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@NoContextBrits A characterless eastern European we called 'the blank cheque'

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@MikeDiplockre Kids wanted a bigger TV so I moved the sofa 4 foot closer to the one we have.

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@BBCNewsnight @KirstyWark The 'means well but untethered from reality' engine pumps another tonne of caustic pollutant into the social atmosphere.

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@AaronBastani Chesterton’s fence etc, and this has been his position for a while.

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@_MentalMama_ @americnhumanist You need to read Popper, not memes about what someone thinks Popper said...

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@RichardHanania I always wash it really carefully to remove any germs and then slam it in the oven for an hour and a half at 200°C. Then with my contaminated hands I chop some veg, get ill and wish I'd washed that damn chicken harder.

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@cremieuxrecueil ‘The most common human stupidity is forgetting what you’re trying to achieve’

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@SwipeWright 'I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.'

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@micsolana "In 2021, I expanded from focusing on activism to pursue my decade-long fascination with cryptocurrencies."

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@wanyeburkett Pretence fatigue.

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@pollymackenzie "And don’t give me some shtick about efficiency and cutting costs" says the 'Social Purpose Officer', strangely.

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@SwipeWright It seems a fundamentally self-contradictory ideology to go with both 'gender is a patriarchal social construct' and 'if you don't fit that construct, you probably need to change sex'.

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@VivetVeritate @RichardHanania Always, always, always tell them you're Irish.

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@MilitaryBanter "Don’t be a poppy spotter, making it sort of socially compulsory for them to be worn just devalues it." - Chef's kiss.

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@DuncanStott 'The UK currently produces about 60% of its domestic food consumption by economic value, part of which is exported. This means just under half of the actual food on plates is produced in the UK, including the majority of grains, meat, dairy, and eggs.'

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@tobyordoxford Aren't something like 97% of stars unreachable [therefore unaffectable] even at light/causality speed from now, as expansion aggregates to superluminal 'speed' for galaxies outwith the local system.

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@thecoastguy It's probably one of those things that I actually would protest against, for the first time ever in my life, and I'm 55yrs ancient. Children with hand grenades.

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@mattyglesias 'When you con a con man you have to be three steps ahead while appearing to be two steps behind' I'm not sure he's a 4D chess master, but there is something in it maybe.

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@GlennKesslerWP --> Timeline: How a load of journos were suckered into dismissing the obvious in the greatest story of the 21st century

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@MaajidNawaz Thanks Maajid, a shared revulsion of unnecessary death may inch us closer to an easier relationship and eventually a more human enlightenment. Having lived half my life in Arab countries I sincerely hope so, I have friends on both sides of this fence. Strong leadership from Sisi

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@ArthurAssendune @Danjsalt Own goal.

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@SteveStuWill Or as heard recently; 'The brain is a mechanism that converts glucose into mistakes' :D

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@EricRWeinstein Talking to my 20yr son about it, thinking it would be interesting; he looked and blinked and said he'd been watching it for a year. I hand over my badge.

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@uksciencechief @IPCC_CH 30 years this has rumbled on and I'm yet to see any joined-up, detailed, 1/2/3/4th layer solution / thinking on any of it. I feel as if our CC plans are about as well thought through as our pandemic one...which as you know, was technically speaking, 'shite'.

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@RoryStewartUK 'Not left, not right, but forward!' [Yang's old motto]

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@VeteranIrish An Eastern European guy with no personality: ‘The blank cheque’

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@spectator Plain and simple response to an institution that solves problems by only making them worse, great stuff.

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@afneil This was so easy. 1. evac civvies 2. evac army 3. declare war over. NOT 1. declare war over 2. evac army 3. Oh

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@TimothyDSnyder Graphic for MENA> Good job Tunisia, Libya and Somalia are robust states not already on the brink...

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@AdamMGrant "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell.

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@lexfridman @joerogan Could've been worse...

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@ChelseaCes @afneil @suzanne_moore @jk_rowling

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@Birdyword It seems that very intelligent people sometimes have great difficulty in conceptualising game theory ideas, even when the game is noughts and crosses. It's why I suggest watching the Sopranos is better than a degree in sociology.

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@NoContextBrits 'Ah, the '97 Stella, a good year, fine nose'

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@bellingcat @Support Very weird, accessible via link yesterday and not today - someone is tinkering with something maybe, hopefully to remedy.

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@RoryStewartUK @Dannythefink If only politicians had been sober and competent people providing pragmatic structural support for the population. The decay of the political class.

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@esrtweet Mens mental health gets helped in allotments and riverbanks, rugby pitches and snooker halls. Good friends put things into perspective, take the piss and take your mind off things. Therapy isn’t ‘bad’, but blokes don’t like being vulnerable, mostly anyway.

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@eyeslasho 2028 nomination cleansing.

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@thinkdefence Anti-tank/ship/bunker rifle with anti-dinghy attachment.

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@Peston @MattHancock ‘Thanks’ rather than ‘about time’ would be a nicer response...

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@haynesdeborah @SkyNews There’s no national plan for anything.

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@FUDdaily 'Perfect is the enemy of good'

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@BBCNewsnight @BBCNews @BBCBlindGazza Great reporting - bang on @BlindGazza

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@ijbailey The other way of looking at it is that speech repression works, only 3% of the hardcore speak up...

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@MilitaryBanter US just gone with 6.8mm super whizzy with 'can't miss' optics. UK digs around the stores, finds some old barrels and a MIG welder and voila!

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@edcumming Ha - love it - I'll be up in Algiers in a few weeks but I imagine the situation is a bit complex now with an innocent purchaser and the insurance now being the 'injured party' if you've claimed etc. El Harrach isn't a good place to get into a lively dispute either, really.

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@StevenEdginton Net immigration 2023 UK: 672,000 New homes built 2023 England: 210,320 Earnings/Mortgage ratio 1990: 3 / 3 1/2x Earnings/Mortgage ratio 2023: between 7x and 12x

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@ExploreCosmos_ We are perched atop a Jenga pile of layered and interdependent technical complexities - such an event would be a finger flick at the bottom of that pile.

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@christogrozev @EliotHiggins In other ecospheres:

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When we say Kyiv is winning the information war, far too often we only mean information spaces we inhabit. Pulling apart the most obvious RU info op to date (as we did using semantic modelling), very clear it is targeting BRICS, Africa, Asia. Not the West really at all.

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@tomhfh Tom - speak to people with dusty boots to understand things better.

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@BernoulliDefect Learn to cook

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@RichardHanania 'Elites looking in mirror'

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@mr_james_c @lulumeservey I think 'Biden' was tweeting during the live debate, I thought then that was a mistake, it sort of rubs your nose in it that there are two parallel Bidens and, in fact, a lot of what you see isn't authentic.

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@GBNEWS This was so easy. 1. evac civvies 2. evac army 3. declare war over. NOT 1. declare war over 2. evac army 3. Oh

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@sueperkins A record year for results, using a methodology approved by everyone concerned with free re-sits and an appeals process for those who feel they were unfairly marked down from optimistic previous assessments.

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@TrungTPhan Kubrick for 2001:

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@wallaceme @MichelleDewbs @tomhfh @thecoastguy How odd to see IKEA in the news twice in a day...

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@whippletom Well selected Tom [no snark!] - under all this [and probably brought to the fore by the 'Hidden Women' reference] there're probably a few very capable young women and men who carried a lot of water at critical junctures. I hope they are recognised when the ashes are cold.

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@vocalginger @allcurledup Did you thank them for rescuing you from reality?

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@ChrisWillx 11 in the non and 4 in the fiction already read, a few other good ones there. One from each category back at you: Blindsight/Echopraxia - Watts - sci-fi, deep. Surfing Uncertainty - Clark - Neurosc./predictive processing. Soldier Against the Odds - Large - old school.

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@astralmatrix

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I cannot understand how the Secret Service snipers on this rooftop just 430ft from the shooter did not notice him climbing into position on the roof.

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@PriyamvadaGopal @DouglasKMurray Ridiculous projection.

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@Aella_Girl 'I, Claudius' is worth a watch if you get interested.

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@cjsnowdon It's UBI for credentialed people.

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@AdmTonyRadakin_ @DefenceHQ @UKinUkraine @DefenceU We train them; they teach us.

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@phl43 @RealYeyoZa “I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” Montaigne.

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@PinchesLynne 'I was born into the wrong social construct!'

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@lexfridman

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@TansuYegen Isn't that Ken Wallis, the inventor of the gyrocopter?

That magnificent man in his flying machine

His life story has been a pure Boy's Own adventure – but can Wing Commander Ken Wallis, 94-year-old flying ace, beat another speed record?

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@inflammateomnia More suggestions:

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@GBNEWS If you do the maths & bone up on current nuclear options [and don't have shares in windfarms] then there is no real option except nuclear and it's not such a scary option either. [Gen IV Modular/Thorium Salt etc]

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@orpheaskk @pegobry Anyone read the paper and spot i. the bias potential and ii. potential good news that humans get rid of microplastics quickly? [Differences between who had microplastics in their blood and who didn't may have been due to plastic exposure just before the blood samples were taken]

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@naval @KyleOsborne_ "We're spoiled children with no idea how grateful we should be. Instead, we peck away at keyboards and each other like plump birds trapped in a gilded cage with the gas burner of imagined slight beneath us."

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@culturaltutor "The delicate die early, and I, as a survivor, among bleak winds and plumping rain, have been sometimes tempted to envy them their fate. For all who love shelter and the blessings of the sun, who hate dark weather and perpetual tilting against squalls, there could scarcely be

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@SteveStuWill It is what we are. A simian brain with Darwinian software wrapped in a film of civility in an alien landscape.

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@BDSixsmith Looks very good for a family meal, also useful if you have kids as they learn how ‘to peel a fish’ as mine called it. (Plus the will know food doesn’t appear in packets)

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@RoryStewartUK It's like telling your mum you can negotiate the price of sprouts with Sainsburys. Mum wants cheaper sprouts, you want her to love you, but all you've done is lie to your mum. This won't end well. And Sainsburys is closed...

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@darrellmaclaine 'A 21st C school pupil ma'am'

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@PaulEmbery Waiting for 'victim of crime week' - what you get up to in bed is nothing to do with policing.

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@ConceptualJames What a hill to die on.

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@lexfridman The spines - argh! Good spines:

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@datepsych 'I'm in the wrong social construct!'

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@RedfieldWilton The last remaining members of an uncontacted indigenous tribe near Norwich?

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@gavinesler I think that's slightly naïve in this context.

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@robinhanson Wasn’t this always the case; diversity advantage in high performing teams meant mixing mental model leanings; conceptual, relational, integrational, procedural etc rather than necessarily your gender, ethnicity, economic status etc.

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@Aella_Girl After spending 2/3rds a lifetime together I can say love has nothing to do with chocolates, hotness or trading up/down. Neither are you a hostage taker if they want to go, yet you would step in front of the bus in their place without hesitation, and wish they wouldn't do the

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@robkhenderson At the pub last night there were 3 young girl toddlers. One slipped and banged her head and started to cry. Almost immediately the other 2 started to cry as well; mimetics or empathy or attention competition, either way it was contagious.

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@davidfrum @TheAtlantic The great Journos were sucked into denial 'cuz Trump'.

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@RichardHanania It's awful, just as it was awful a few years ago. Same thing, same psychology & phenotype.

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@afneil 'The sleep of reason brings forth monsters'; people just believed, like a massive cult, swept from the US under the guise of 'kindness', and woe betide you if you spoke against it. Incredible.

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@MaajidNawaz Get elected: i. Be optimistic ii. Help normal people as much as you can. iii. Stay out of the way otherwise. iv. Don't call the vote base 'stupid', 'racist' etc. Don't they teach this in Oxbridge PPE....?

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@bbcquestiontime Luxury beliefs.

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