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Forensic corpus linguist | @_FACTOR_LU director | @_enclair podcaster-at-large | supervillain

Lancaster, England
Joined January 2011
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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We offer the world’s only MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS). FLiSS is based on-campus at @LancasterUni . In it you'll learn about forensic text analysis (FL) and speech science (FSS) in multiple investigative and intelligence contexts: 1/
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The old gods are rising again.
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near enough
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please i need a better linguist to explain this
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10 months
thinking we should give Mary Earps an additional OBE just for services to making fragile right-wing misogynists cry right into their brexit binkies
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8 months
got a critical one for the forensic linguists
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what's the appropriate way to announce that you've been promoted to full professor on here can someone be like the chatgpt of this hellsite and tell me the ceremonial rites of passage
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if you want to verbalise a new year's resolution so emphatically that you've already achieved it, this is your cue "and henceforth claire no longer chose the annual burden of heavy promises for the betterment of herself, but instead chose the cake. and it was good."
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7 months
but what did you CALL this? local feral linguist demands answers
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finding it interesting how we're not really hearing about harris we hear about trump and biden and obama and bush and pence and vance but we don't hear about harris we hear about kamala
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so this just happened
@LAEL_LU
Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni
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We are delighted to have been ranked the third best Linguistics department in the world according to the QS World University Rankings! @TopUnis @LancasterUni
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Plenty of people have never heard of forensic linguistics or forensic speech science, and that might make it easy to think that we don't need these fields of expertise. Here are five quick examples to change your mind. Spirits, spies, spoofs, spellings - we have it all...
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9 months
call me a nerd but i cannot put into words how much i love our flyer designs tell me you wouldn't enjoy a forensic linguistics thriller with these front covers
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i feel like if i can't find a way to ram this into forensic linguistics class somehow then quite frankly someone should just take my phd off me
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Every time a league table comes out, as academics, we struggle about what to do with the results, no matter whether they're good or bad Why? Well, league tables are far from perfect. Doesn't matter the league. Doesn't matter the table. It has problems. Guaranteed 1/13
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8 months
if this isn't a genre of semantics you're into it's probably time to unfollow me
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4 months
it's only 0855 but honestly this level of argument is dangerously persuasive
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1 year
Well, I came back. But it took something pretty significant. What if I said... we have news.
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Dr Claire Hardaker
3 months
i think it's time we normalise congratulating people for quitting ending things when it's a bad situation walking out when the only person profiting from your efforts is someone else it can take more strength to stop than to stick at it and we don't acknowledge that enough
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7 months
Last thing I should add: aside from having the best students, we also have the best countryside, the best castle, the best ducks, the best city, the best forensic linguistics, the best jokes, and the best Greggs I'm not even sorry 13/13
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To the ordinary person, it might not be easy to understand why forensic text analyses (forensic linguistics; FL) and forensic analyses of voices (forensic speech science; FSS) are usually treated as entirely separate fields. And honestly? We feel the same. A 🧵: 1/13
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alright, people help me at the pub last night i may have said that there are plenty of examples of "forensic linguistics" in fiction, film, TV, etc. i already have this one from Criminal Minds, but tell me any others you can remember and i'll go find them i need to win this
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7 months
greedy squirrel pragmatics
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i don't often want something tattooed right across my body at first sight but this is a very strong contender
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3 months
so many ways to parse this
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7 months
impeccable
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can't decide which forensic linguistics lecture to open with this maybe just all of them
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wait i got one
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Dr Claire Hardaker
8 months
Alright, I'm doing a little bit of talent scouting for people are naturally good at detecting deception. If you think you know your Ritz from your robot and your fraud from your Four Seasons, have a crack at this fake reviews quiz...
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THINGS WE DID DO Built This City Shot The Sheriff THINGS WE DIDN'T DO Start The Fire Shoot The Deputy THINGS WE WANT TO DO Break Free Hold Your Hand THINGS WE WILL DO Rock You Survive Anything For Love THINGS WE WON'T DO That —anon
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8 months
cancel the authorship analysts. we're good. they swore it
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for those of us mere mortals lacking a sandi toksvig calibre of delivery, if you go live with any of these during christmas i am BEGGING you to please report back when you're at a safe distance
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Dr Claire Hardaker
9 months
We're running a free webinar mini-series with four taster lectures all about lies, spoofing, terrorism and more. These are hosted by academics teaching the programme, and if you join live you'll have the chance to ask them questions:
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Dr Claire Hardaker
8 months
I'm doing the first talk in this free series in just over a week: Ep1: Web of words: can we use linguistics to catch liars? Description: Do "lie detectors" (polygraphs) really work? Are there better methods of deception detection? Can we catch liars through their words? 1/2
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Dr Claire Hardaker
9 months
We're running a free webinar mini-series with four taster lectures all about lies, spoofing, terrorism and more. These are hosted by academics teaching the programme, and if you join live you'll have the chance to ask them questions:
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5 months
siri clear my schedule i have a big case incoming
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3 months
i don't know who needs to hear this today, but...
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Dr Claire Hardaker
1 year
Do you like data? Lots of data? Lots of historical data? What about lots of historical data where we find Victorians had nearly all the same fears about vaccines that people do now? The Quo VaDis @vaccine_project team and I wrote a thing about it:
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1 year
The thing... It's happening. I mean it was always happening but this morning it just cleared a thing and then there's one more thing and then we can start talking about a little bit of it. I don't know if it's harder to know and have to keep quiet or to not know anything.
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can confirm the scientific accuracy of this on all levels
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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"why are you on twitter" literally all my best class examples come from here why would i be anywhere else
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just realised that "WhatsApp" is a play on "What's Up" now wondering if we can sociolinguistically map the world for everyone else who also didn't realise that humour me that it's an accent thing and not an intelligence thing
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topical semantics
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decisions were made...
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"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free." —Assata Shakur
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Rishi Sunak
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You don’t have to go to university to succeed in life.
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It's going to take a few weeks, and there are a few parts to it, but I think it'll be worth the wait.
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Dr Claire Hardaker
10 months
@LAEL_LU is a world-leading research-led dept with swiftly growing specialisms in forensic linguistics and forensic speech science. Our group includes @GeorgeBrownLing , @justinjhlo , @DrLaurenDevine , and @DrClaireH as well as lots of Masters and PhD students. A 🧵 of what we do:
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@AliTaka90 oh my god wait the boyfriend belongs to the *brother*… not to the sender… how am i still alive
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Dr Claire Hardaker
7 months
I know I go on about how awesome linguistics is, but, have you ever actually met a linguist? Seriously You might be thinking, “I’d love to do an MSc in Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science but… I’ve never met a linguist before and you just never know…” 1/7
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Dr Claire Hardaker
8 months
when you suddenly realise that some GenAI models have already started to develop something of an idiolect…
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Dr Claire Hardaker
6 months
this is how you start a whole generation of origin stories in one go christ alive somebody get those kids out of there
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Dr Claire Hardaker
2 years
@IPDraughts it's probably more urgent if you've only got a semicolon tbf
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Dr Claire Hardaker
9 months
Last month we mentioned some of the qualities, skills, and qualifications you need to become a forensic linguist and/or a forensic speech scientist. But if you did our MSc in Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science, what might you actually learn about in class? Guess what...
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Dr Claire Hardaker
7 months
And we did So this one time I'm going to just let the result be the result and if anyone dislikes me celebrating my tiny Northern university winning against the biggest guns in the world, well, you keep talking, we'll keep working And winning And having fun 12/13
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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reasons to have "learn a new language" as a 2024 resolution: ❌ self-improvement ❌ cognitive exercise ❌ cultural sensitivity ❌ global citizenship ❌ world peace ✅ a comparative benchmark to finally fully appreciate how adorably batshit all language is on some level or other
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can a linguist with a black belt in diplomacy please send in a semantics primer that it's not "voluntary" if there are punishments of any kind for not doing it
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forensic speech science is about to get really interesting
@DmitryOpines
Dmitry Grozoubinski
5 months
Backstory: OpenAI asked Scarlett Johansson if she would voice its new virtual assistant because she voiced the AI in the movie "Her" She said no. They released a voice so similar her friends and family couldn't tell the difference... then Sam tweeted that. She lawyered up.
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i should have known Private Eye would be on it meanwhile, imagine being the whole Prime Minister and then tweeting as though someone else called the election on you
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Shout out to @LancasterGirls for being an incredibly enthusiastic audience yesterday. @serenpacman , @GeorgeBrownLing and I spoke to Y10 and Y11 about what linguistics is, and what it takes to be a forensic linguist or a forensic speech scientist - or both! 1/2
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6 months
happy first patio-door-open day of the year everyone
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4 months
my favourite super-niche genre of forensic linguistics is where the OCG takes on a work experience student but doesn't provide enough scaffolding for their first scam campaign
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Dr Claire Hardaker
10 months
Interested in doing our MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS) but not sure if it's for you? Maybe you're a current student and you're trying to plan a future? Maybe you've been out of education for a while and wonder what it would be like to go back? 1/2
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2 years
@RobDrummond linguists as boxes of chocolate
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11 months
1) authorship analysis 2) speaker comparison 3) deception detection 4) disputed meaning (especially for you, my forensic linguistics nerds)
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grice's maxim of criming
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bit of sunset in case you needed it
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did not think i would be mentally high-fiving the immortal spirit of a long-dead local journalist from 1900s North Carolina this morning, but here we are
@yesterdaysprint
Yesterday's Print
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The Wilmington Morning Star, North Carolina, December 9, 1915
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in case you think AI is only bad right now, when i feel sad i ask DALL-E to generate reading nooks in improbable place - in space, underwater, on mountains, in hell, in the clouds, etc. and honestly it is so therapeutic and wholesome i made the best ones into screensavers
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and people wonder what use linguistics is
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semantics up top stealing that traffic cone
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11 months
love that content like this will be training days for a bunch of AI models
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4 months
When that voicenote arrives from a loved one saying they've been arrested on holiday, they're in an awful prison, and they need money to get out... how do you know it's actually them? Once, our voice really was our password, but now we're in a new era of AI-assisted crime. 1/3
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how do people survive on the daily without something like this to get them through
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facework
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as someone who rarely knows how to pronounce names (including plenty of the big shots in my field) and therefore just avoids saying them, we need more commentary like this literally i'm a whole forensic linguist who directs a programme with speech science in it and idk either
@KarimPalant
Karim Palant
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So it’s ‘Kamala’, like Comma - la but you have to say Comma in an American accent so it sounds a bit like Camma-la to a Brit so we Brits all have to try to work out whether comma-la or camma-la sounds more like the US ‘Cawmalla’ or try putting on the accent.
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@CATBRAINCELL okay so i would pay actual monies for a whatsapp sticker pack of these?
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Dr Claire Hardaker
1 year
Here's the first little bit of the news I hinted at... Are you a linguist in cybersecurity? We're investing £19m to recruit up to 33 leading academics for our flagship Security & Protection Science initiative. Any questions, ask me or @GeorgeBrownLing .
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extrovert 6yo: SO TODAY WE LEARNED ABOUT INTERNET SAFETY AND IF YOU'RE ON A GAME AND AN ADVERT POPS UP ABOUT MURDER AND YOU'RE NOT INTO MURDER YOU SWITCH OFF YOUR COMPUTER AND TAKE IT TO YOUR MUM seems like a pretty solid recap to me
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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our hunt for the best human deception detector has had over 100 responses, but what's the state of play? some early stats: - avg score: 6.6/15 (44%) - highest score: 12/15 (80%) most of us are less likely than chance to spot fakes, but can you beat our three 80% scoring stars?
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Dr Claire Hardaker
8 months
Alright, I'm doing a little bit of talent scouting for people are naturally good at detecting deception. If you think you know your Ritz from your robot and your fraud from your Four Seasons, have a crack at this fake reviews quiz...
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Dr Claire Hardaker
1 year
Back at work to defend myself from these groundless accusations of murder. The very idea that I would commit unpremeditated murder… @LAELSocietyLanc
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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the kids who will supposedly benefit from National Service were four when the Conservatives took power if those kids lack experience and opportunities, which Government shaped nearly their whole lives that way? luckily, at 18, they do also get another civic duty they can vote
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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about to give a plenary on forensic linguistics in the age of AI, but perhaps counter-intuitively, we start our story just after the second world war...
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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Last week we ran a free short webinar on whether we could use linguistics to detect deception, but that's just the beginning. There are other critical questions to answer, like: How safe is your bank's voice-based authentication system? Can AI-generated voices defeat them? 1/2
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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it doesn't have to be good forensic linguistics in fact, it will almost certainly be terrible - but that's kind of the point as long as it's some sort of fictional representation (novel, movie, screenplay, whatever) no matter how brief or extended, that's what i'm after
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@NoContextBrits and if it doesn't, there might be tirades
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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why did nobody ever tell me that chariots of fire does not feature any actual chariots or fire i feel like this fact should be broadcast better
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Dr Claire Hardaker
7 months
you know what concurrent meltdowns over Nike's flag and the Royal Family saga mean, right? look in the opposite direction if ever there were a politician or corporation with skeletons to sneak out of a closet and bury, this would be the perfect witching hour for it
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Dr Claire Hardaker
1 year
Please help me with this critical linguistics research: If I said "lattice" to you, what is your very first thought?
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Dr Claire Hardaker
11 months
take note, forensic linguists it's going well
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Dr Claire Hardaker
10 months
since prehistory, this december week has raised existential questions like, "when is it no longer okay to eat leftovers for breakfast at 16:30? if i went to work today would it still exist? is this even the timeline where we lost alan rickman?" i'll report back when i know more
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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Dr @issy_clarke1 is giving the next talk in our free series on Wednesday: Ep3: Who wrote this text? Forensic Authorship Analysis Description: Learn about authorship analysis, including a recent case of a terrorist suspect claiming responsibility for planting a bomb. 1/2
@DrClaireH
Dr Claire Hardaker
9 months
We're running a free webinar mini-series with four taster lectures all about lies, spoofing, terrorism and more. These are hosted by academics teaching the programme, and if you join live you'll have the chance to ask them questions:
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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so about that… first there was yoga. then there were goats. and then quite suddenly the threshold for things that qualified as edible plummeted
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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banking app: so there's this charge for... goat... yoga? is this a legit- me: it's payday put that shit through
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Dr Claire Hardaker
4 months
is "supermajority" just code now for "i don't like democracy"…?
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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holy pragmatics my dude…
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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@AliTaka90 are cards to multiple random people really a thing?? like i totally get "to my brother and brother-in-law" but… to a sibling and also to a partner??
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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growing up is discovering that you weren't the only person who could hear the super-high-pitched electrical whine of old TVs being switched on for a good ten seconds before the screen finally lit up
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Dr Claire Hardaker
4 months
twitter: WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE TRENDING TOPICS
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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or the conservatives drew it as a crayon tree? or Karrimor made it their logo? or Team GB styled it as a lion? or BMW stuck it in the Mini Cooper's brake lights? ... i mean, it's *almost* as though the pseudo-patriotic flag-clutching is just a cover for misogynistic bullshit
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Dr Claire Hardaker
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on a much more serious note, this one could even be a game-changer around abusive online behaviour if it proceeds far enough
@Variety
Variety
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J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newly crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif.
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