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@BenedictTown

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Winner of The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence

London, England
Joined May 2011
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@BenedictTown
Benedict Townsend πŸ€
2 months
Caesar Salad stuns in birthday photo
@PopBase
Pop Base
2 months
Caesar Salad turns 100.
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6 months
Pete Davidson has been spotted stepping out with The Unknown from the Glasgow Willy Wonka experience
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7 months
Wordle, NYT connections, daily mini crossword… modern people yearn for the riddles of the sphinx
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
7 years
As a proud Londoner I would invite you to absolutely go fuck yourself for attempting to capitalise on our tragedy for your shitty policies
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
9 months
Do you want kids to read books or not who gives a damn what the name of the shelf is
@laz_radic
Lazar Radic
9 months
The end of the world.
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6 months
[Halloween 2024] Them: what the hell are you dressed as Me: I’m The Unknown, the AI created character from the Glasgow Willy Wonka event that went viral seven months ago
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
1 year
Breaking Bad only became genuinely popular near the end of its run of multiple seasons. That’s literally impossible for a show to do now
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
1 year
β€˜Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ has been canceled at Paramount+ and will reportedly be removed from the streaming service in the coming days.
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8 months
The real heroes are the people with 15 subscribers making YouTube videos about how to fix insanely specific technical issues, that are like 1 minute long with no padding. Thank you Keith you helped me fix my boiler
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
5 years
16 year old: what if we improved the planet somewhat Grown adults: I must attack this child
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
5 months
Mike’s FILTHY DIRTY fries with LOADED sauce and CHEEKY sriracha with a NAUGHTY unusable wooden spork 😜
@axelk
Alex Micu
5 months
When you see this container at a food market you know you're gonna be paying Β£12 for chips with cheese on them
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9 months
It’s so funny that it sounded like the most made-up excuse in history and it’s actually turned out to be true. What a legend, she has my vote
@superTV247
sα΄œα΄˜α΄‡Κ€ α΄›α΄ 
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The BBC have released the full video clip of their presenter β€˜giving the middle finger’ to prove that she was just counting.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
9 months
[guy with incredibly unclear politics] It’s Christmas EVE not Christmas STEVE
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2 months
NEW: President Biden refers to β€˜members’ of Tame Impala in latest gaffe
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
9 months
Apple’s next ad campaign is just this playing on a loop
@PopCrave
Pop Crave
9 months
Anya Taylor-Joy attempting a selfie on fan’s Android.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
8 months
Forget hiding your feelings, in 2024 you need to be awooga-maxing, you need to be saying hamana-hamana-hamana, you need to be making your eyes roll like a slot machine and land on hearts, you need to be holding up a small wooden sign that says Yowza
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
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Brits talking about the UK: πŸ˜”πŸ˜‘β˜”οΈπŸ‘Ώ Brits talking about UK plug sockets (best in the world): πŸ€©πŸ«‘πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ”₯πŸ‘
@nykyt0sha
Nikita πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…
5 months
can we please just pick one and all agree to use it?
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
4 months
Probably the best community note of all time
@LepantoInst
Lepanto Institute
10 months
@Emma506131772 Really? The pope is a dictator who has the authority to exercise unlimited power without due process?
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
3 months
Suzanne Collins rocks. keeps to herself, pops up every so often to drop a new book. the books are good and have genuine things to say, she isn't transphobic, etc
@AP
The Associated Press
3 months
EXCLUSIVE: A new β€˜Hunger Games’ novel is coming. β€˜Sunrise on the Reaping’ begins 24 years before Suzanne Collins' original book.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
9 months
Dude is the king of random, completely unenforceable laws
@PolitlcsUK
Politics UK
9 months
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak is considering banning the use of social media by under-16s [ @business ]
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
7 months
People already calling the Suffragette Line the Suffy G line and… that is it, isn’t it. That’s what we’re all gonna call it.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
8 months
After my wife and I visited LA for the time I fired up GTA V and showed her all the places we had visited
@girrlpuppy
becca β˜†
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my boyfriend is visiting LA for the first time
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
8 months
Claudia: so… who have you voted for? They flip their boards over: - Charlotte - charlote - Charrlote - sharlot - cheurlΓΌt - sharlont #thetraitors
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
7 months
It’s happening
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@SkyNews
Sky News
7 months
BREAKING: A monkey is on the loose after escaping Highlands zoo πŸ’
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
9 months
Fascinated by the person who clicks β€˜I don’t have a TV licence’ on BBC iPlayer and then presumably just closes the app
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@BenedictTown
Benedict Townsend πŸ€
2 months
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ❌ It was times βœ…
@ycsm1n
yasmin
2 months
why use many word when few word do trick?
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
7 months
Steven Bartlett, moments before blowing up a Rebel base on Endor
@shitbritishpics
Great British Getty Images
7 months
Steven Bartlett attends the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards 2022 at The Royal Festival Hall (2022)
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
2 months
The impact this reply had. β€˜Likely place for X to be’ is now burned into my lexicon
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
1 year
Not saying this extremely random Grease prequel would have been the next big thing but why even make it if you’re gonna scorch it from the earth in five minutes
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@BenedictTown
Benedict Townsend πŸ€
4 months
Rizzle Kicks returning is the herald of something… a turning point in Britain… perhaps now we can begin to heal
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
5 months
They need more budget to send random pairs of celebrities to Italy
@andrewmcb
Andrew McBride
5 months
The BBC have cancelled Motherland The BBC can f*** right off
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
8 months
I fear we may be over-mining the precious natural resource that is Murder On The Dance floor
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
1 year
Genuinely how can rail fares be going up. In what universe is that even possible? How much more up can they go??
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
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Rail fares are going up but you can still find ways to make journeys cheaper.
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4 months
Interesting patterns of things that worked perfectly fine before they were turned into money-squeezing exercises suddenly falling apart and needing even more money to survive (see: water, rail, education…. everything?)
@PolitlcsUK
Politics UK
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🚨 NEW: Ex-Ministers have warned UK Universities will go bust without raising tuition fees or funding [ @Guardian ]
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
9 months
The fact we got a Bond film in 2006 and 2008 but NOT 2007, the only year with β€œ007” in it for a hundred years…. That doesn’t sit right with me
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2 months
@hansmollman yeah but to make out like it never happened and that they were nothing???
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3 years
Robert Pattinson is Batman and Kristen Stewart is up for an Oscar. Christopher Nolan was right:
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
5 months
New York Times: we want people all over the world to play our games :) Also NYT: today’s Connections category is US State Capital’s mascots’ wives
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5 years
@jamescharles Let's do it baby I know the law
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
7 months
Tina Fey: a downside to fame is that you can’t give authentic opinions, even as joke, because people online will jump down your throat and feign outrage People online: we are outraged and seek to jump down Tina Fey’s throat
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
8 months
A Simpsons joke that makes me laugh out loud every time I see it
@simpsons_DG
Simpsons Daily Glavins
8 months
"Oh, this is the worst party ever." "I don't know. Remember that New Year's Eve at Lenny's? He didn't even have a clock."
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
4 months
β€œI will earn your trust” says Rishi Sunak, a mere two years into being Prime Minister
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4 years
netflix crime documentaries these days are like
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
8 months
What do you mean β€˜save money’ this is a SERVICE. Not everything has to maximise profit at any cost
@guardiannews
Guardian news
8 months
Royal Mail could save Β£650m by switching to three-day-a week service, says Ofcom
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
8 months
Finally, some Hustleposting
@graceyldn
Grace
8 months
Planted the idea of getting a Nando’s in my dad’s head earlier today so he’s now suggested it and said he’ll pay cos he wants it
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9 months
In a world of carnage, I like that Timpsons are there, just quietly doing the right thing
@JamesTCobbler
James Timpson
9 months
Off to meet and hopefully recruit some prisoners today at HMP Stoke Heath.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
4 years
happy birthday and a thousand apologies to Dan Howell
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
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Back in the day smelling toast only meant one thing, but now it doesn’t. Because of stroke.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
7 years
Name a more iconic Dua, I’ll wait.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
4 years
why did my umbrella just tell me to β€˜stan Jimin’
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
1 year
I was having dinner with Dua Lipa and she just checked her phone and said SHIT SHIT I FORGOT and ran out of the restaurant anyone know what that’s about
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
2 years
@Scholf_A_Loaf when things are great
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
3 years
Eurovision is a magical event when all the nations of Europe put aside their differences and join together to make one English man feel terrible #Eurovision
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
5 years
Me: who should I get on the show? Not Dan Howell we can’t get him. Everyone: DAN HOWELL Me:
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
1 year
You’re laughing? You’re aboard the toxic gossip train chugging down the tracks of misinformation and you’re laughing?
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19/05/21
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8 months
[guy with incredibly unclear politics] It’s New Years EVE not New Years STEVE
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Paris 2024: we will slowly reveal boats that show- London 2012: ONE HUNDRED MARY POPPINS
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
2 years
Season 5 is just gonna be Asa Butterfield playing all the characters in prosthetics, Eddie Murphy style
@OneTakeNews
One Take 🎬
2 years
Emma Mackey confirms she won’t return for a fifth season of β€˜SEX EDUCATION’. "I've said goodbye to Maeve." (via )
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4 months
would make sense that’s she’s smaller than the notes, as she’s a penny
@PennyMordaunt
Penny Mordaunt
4 months
Met with @bankofengland today to view the first banknotes with HM The King’s portrait. The new notes will be introduced gradually to replace those that are worn.
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@ImBillRay I’m losing my mind that people think this is real. They make joke videos! I follow them! This is a joke! It’s obviously a joke!
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9 months
Other movies: spend millions on de-ageing technology to make an actor look younger. Result: Demented Horrors. Oppenheimer: ruffle up Cillian Murphy’s hair a bit to make him look younger. Result: Totally Works.
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
1 year
Wow this blew up 😳 stream Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies ladies one month ago when it still existed
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3 months
Seeing this tweet before the photos loaded was extremely confusing
@NiallHarbison
Niall Harbison
3 months
On the 22nd of September last year I found Cindy Crawford on the streets. She was morbidly obese and about to die. She weighed 46kg or just under 100lbs. Her transformation today is seriously hard to believe… (1/7) 🧡
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my 28 year old daughter Katniss saw these first frames of Katy Perry's new video and turned to me, tears in her eyes, and said "looks like another win for the witches, they'll have to try harder to burn us", and I, usually tough papa bear, couldn't help but shed a tear too
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[delivering tearful eulogy] he mothered… fearlessly. He served cunt, without remorse. It’s giving sweet prince, in his goodnight era
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5 years
I took just a DNA Test t u r n s o u t i'm 100% Erika Costell (I look at myself)
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3 years
I remember when I was a kid playing Rollercoaster Tycoon and me and brother discovered by accident that you could kill people on the coasters. We’d been playing it for years and never realised. A beautiful bonding moment. We killed thousands
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My wife did a Taylor Swift joke at our wedding last year and put it on TikTok and it went viral. This girl took the joke and did it at her own wedding, put the video on TikTok (without crediting) and Taylor saw it and liked it lol
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when I grow up I want to be a Lindt Master Chocolatier
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4 years
to pretend 1D don’t have bangers is, quite frankly, tomfoolery
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
4 years
πŸ‘ NORMALISE πŸ‘ THE πŸ‘ MOON πŸ‘ HITTING πŸ‘ YOUR πŸ‘ EYE πŸ‘ LIKE πŸ‘ A πŸ‘ BIG πŸ‘ PIZZA πŸ‘ PIE
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The camera shaking
@aljwhite
Alan White
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This is probably the greatest entrance in the history of home improvement television
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9 years
#HowToSpotAFeminist Look in a mirror, if you don't see one then you're stuck in the past buddy
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2 years
why were they not just doing this anyway
@BBCBreaking
BBC Breaking News
2 years
Police forces in England and Wales asked to vet all staff in wake of David Carrick rape case, to root out anyone who may be unfit to serve
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4 years
Vote for Biden. I don’t have a joke here, this isn’t a joke, nothing about this situation is funny, just vote for Biden.
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1 year
Can’t believe β€˜Colleen Ballinger ukulele apology video’ is a sentence that actually exists now
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9 months
guy who replaced an unelected prime minister, making him probably the most unelected prime minister we've ever had, has decided he has a mandate to upend democracy btwπŸ‘‡
@10DowningStreet
UK Prime Minister
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We are a reasonable country, but our patience has now run out. Our Parliament is sovereign, and it should be able to make decisions that cannot be undone in our courts. That’s what this emergency legislation delivers.
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1 year
Famous men can commit actual crimes and people will defend them Famous women will be mildly annoying one time and people will destroy them
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1 year
I don’t know how to explain it but I honestly think of these as entirely different people
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Benedict Townsend πŸ€
5 years
might fuck around and compare thee to a summer’s day
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5 months
Being able to do a second serve is like, one of the most famous things about tennis
@enews
E! News
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The only time we’ll allow multiple serves in tennis. 😏 #Zendaya #Challengers
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4 months
yeah I’ll probably go for the paperback
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My phone just autocorrected Tis to It’s - sorry I didn’t realise whimsy was illegal now
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1 year
WARNING TO TOURISTS: I took my family to the Tower of London today (we were very excited) and they told me the Crown Jewels β€˜weren’t there today’ (seems unlikely??)
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slapping The Secret History out of my kid’s hands because they got it from the Bad Shelf
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4 years
watching the votes roll in and still surprised, as always, that even a single person would vote for Donald Trump
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the true millennial / gen z divide is whether you trust a phone to handle a large task, because you fear it'll refresh and lose everything
@soulohlove
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booking flights on a phone is crazy. that is a laptop activity
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I still think this pose specifically is one of the funniest things anyone has ever done and I thank her for that
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me, when Spotify reveals that my top songs of the year are the same five songs I listen to on repeat at all times
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4 years
You can't have a Jeremy Corbyn, a Piers Morgan, and a Piers Corbyn, it's too much to keep track of
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4 years
people who hate maths watching sesame street
@salwangeorges
Salwan Georges
4 years
Election challengers shout β€œStop the count” as poll workers count absentee ballots in #Detroit , Michigan in the 2020 general election @washingtonpost #Election2020
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4 years
did a tweet about jimin a week ago and I don’t think my mentions will ever recover
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5 years
I guess I’m biased when it comes to protecting the environment because I live there
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3 years
every time :/
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2 years
@NotABigJerk When I first had American McDonalds I felt like I’d tasted raw uranium
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5 years
Fellas πŸ‘ Don't forget πŸ‘ to take a girl swimming on the first date πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ‘Œ With climate change rapidly increasing global flooding levels you need to know the survival skills of your potential life partner and whether further training is needed
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It happened. The dream. A 14 hour flight and I have two empty seats next to me.
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3 years
damn it turns out they made that jeff bezos guy from the bo burnham song into a real guy??
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