Oscar 🌐 @Tweets_of_Oscar Twitter profile

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Oscar 🌐

2 years

"you will own nothing and be happy about it" is a beautiful and rare crossover between Buddhist enlightenment and neoliberal consumerism.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 months

> Wake up: It's dark > Commute to work: It's still dark > Lunch break: It's 3°C, windy and raining > Commute home: It's dark again Anyone who enjoys this is a masochist.

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Winter enjoyers our time is near

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"Winter enjoyers, our time is near" and it's just the most suicidal-urges-inducing video you've ever seen in your whole life.

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@d0bzee 👆guy who doesn't go outside

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Guy who moves to *Italy* because the UK is doing declinism

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7 months

Rishi's thought processes as PM: Do I like something? if yes: subsidise it if no: ban it

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

7 months

I love cricket, that’s no secret. So I’m pleased that today we can support even more young people to get into the game. We’re investing £35 million in grassroots cricket to help over 900,000 young people into playing cricket.

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4 months

Guy who thinks the reason children aren't brushing their teeth properly is because they can't afford a toothbrush and toothpaste

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@LibDems

4 months

Too many children are ending up in hospital with rotting teeth because they can't get the dental care they need. Good dental care starts young. So Liberal Democrats would scrap VAT on children's products to help families build good habits early.

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3 months

Noah Smith when the UK has a few riots per decade: Absolute shithole country. Worst in the world. Noah Smith when violent crime in America drops from 7 billion shootings per capita to 6 billion shootings per capita:

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

3 months

IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

4 months

If Starmer is half the man the Tories imagine him to be (tax-raiser, pylon-constructor, greenbelt-bulldozer), Britain will have the fastest growth rate in the world over the next decade.

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@YeahNahYourMum I'm British, I've had 40°C weather once in my entire life.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

11 months

> Had no water for 3 days > Had 2 plumbers ghost me > 3rd plumber comes, but says he needs new parts and will come back this morning > Doorbell rings > It's a local green party campaigner on a crusade against some new housing

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@oracles If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

Economic and social freedom is one hell of a drug

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

2 years

I don't want to be a melodramatic CCP-hater, because they really did do a lot to lift China out of poverty. But if they allowed Chinese people as much freedom as Korea, Taiwan, Japan, or even Singapore, there would be no question whether we were in the Asian Century.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

10 months

Saudi Arabia already did "YIMBYism next to cultural/historical objects" and it's cool as hell

bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️

@yhdistyminen

10 months

This may get me branded as a YIMBY developer shill and carceral urbanist, but I think there is a wide gap between "we should build student and homeless housing on a vacant lot next to California's flagship university" and "we should replace the Great Pyramid with condos"

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9 months

Remember when Theresa May proposed a reasonable method of funding social care and everyone decided it was shit because there was not enough subsidy to wealthy homeowners

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

22 days

We are approaching self parody levels of British housing discourse

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

22 days

Call for young to have legal right to live where they grew up

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

10 months

I have on occasion eaten a dominos large pizza by myself and then not eaten again for 24 hours like some kind of reptile

Ben Kew

@ben_kew

10 months

I generally support this kind of measure. The Domino Large pizza amounts to over 2,500 calories. The food companies need to be reined in.

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

4 months

Looolll he literally lives in a newbuild estate Parody-level ladderpulling on display here

Stephen Ferguson

@borofergie

4 months

Don't say I didn't warn you. During the election campaign, I repeatedly said that "East West Rail is a plan to unlock rural land for housing development" (and, as a consequence, was called a NIMBY).

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

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If Ozempic solves America's biggest flaw (they're fat) there's basically no point in any other country existing

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

10 months

@AnonymousLeftie What's wrong with it? It's stylish, has natural earthy tones, and nice highlights of green and gold. No other building of it's scale in the middle east looks so good - it's nothing like the glassy towers of Dubai or Riyadh.

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Oscar 🌐

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11 months

@InvisibleMapper "who these homes are for" If we don't build homes for rich people, which homes do you think they'll buy instead? They certainly won't stop existing or stop being rich. They'll simply outbid normal people for normal homes. See also: used car prices when new car production slowed

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8 months

@StatisticUrban Does this count?

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3 years

@ChadNotChud Both are morally neutral imo, you don't owe anyone your attraction, regardless of immutable or changeable characteristics.

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3 months

Green party councillor accuses people who live in single-bed apartments of having absolutely no chance of shagging

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

1 year

Leftists discover that stupid tax policies actually DO have distortionary impacts and that liberals aren't JUST trying to shill for shareholders and CEOs

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

1 year

@maxdubler @BuildToReWild TVs no longer exist cause they stopped producing them in the 90s when the prices fell 😔😔😔

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

Holy shit. The NIMBYs in the UK literally went and bought the land to have it do practically nothing

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

@EKEBIKES This is not really true, AC is generally better than living in northern, colder regions - especially because AC is done with hyper-efficient heat pumps, whereas heating is mainly done with gas boilers.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

8 months

The "younger generations" in question:

David Sturrock

@David_Sturrock

8 months

The great wealth transfer is coming. Trillions in wealth will be passed on to younger generations in the coming decades. Who will benefit? I updated some of our @TheIFS for @Robert_Booth and @guardian .

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

9 months

@RomanianLiberal >hammer and sickle in username >wants to abolish hammers and sickles

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

8 months

An interaction with a Green Candidate at my door last night: GC: Have you heard the good news? Me: What? GC: We saved the park! Me: That's bad news. We are in a housing crisis. *closing the door* GC: *sarcastically* Oh you think more housing will help the housing crisis?

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

8 months

Bloody shameful

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

4 months

British Journalists will suggest anything except legalising air conditioning

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4 months

?!??

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

9 months

If this were in Britain, politicians would still be haggling and consulting with 63 year olds who think the burnt ruins are an integral community space and essential to the neighborhood character

Duncan Robinson

@duncanrobinson

9 months

Against the odds, Notre Dame cathedral will reopen this year Rebuilding with 13th century techniques means “no machinery noise, just the sound of the axe”

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Oscar 🌐

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2 months

@PvmaFPS Yeah, the vid is from London and I'm in the UK

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

5 months

"you can't solve the housing shortage without social homes" except when we used to literally just do that.

Melissa York

@melyork

5 months

It's pretty obvious to most people that you can't start solving a housing shortage without social homes, but as you can see below, we're largely relying on private developers to do this where local authorities used to make a heavier contribution to house building

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

1 year

President Biden

@POTUS

1 year

No one should have to leave their hometown to find opportunity. Investing in America means investing in all of America.

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6 months

Wow this "Northern Ireland" place must have such a healthy politics! Just look at how politically engaged they are compared to pathetic disengaged England!!!

Jack Shaw

@JackTShaw

6 months

Turnout in local electiona since 1980, from The Economist:

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1 year

This is an underratedly huge problem

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6 months

@NotPotBol Guy who is a communist not for ideological reasons or anything but simply because they like red

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@PhinHarper By this metric, your house is unsold and unoccupied too (unless you left the lights on whilst you're out)

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10 months

Also: The pyramids of Giza

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3 months

@Noahpinion Yes lmao, the US is still an extremely violent society and the UK is relatively average by developed country standards.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

Only people younger than 50 ever have to have "difficult decisions" forced onto them Pensioners meanwhile get their social care, healthcare, state pensions,bus passes, TV licences, winter fuel allowances, and more untouched during the biggest fall of living standards on record

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

11 months

South Cambridgeshire after a few years of Radical Starmerism god willing

Antony Carpen

@ACarpenDigital

11 months

"Build some houses in Tory seats!" @RMCunliffe of @NewStatesman on #PoliticsLive Noting around Cambridge the higher-than-average levels of house building have made Tory fortresses into marginal seats and councils in recent times.

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

@rwlesq @jdcmedlock For most people, a smartphone is more essential today than a boat, but boats are much older. I don't think age is a good metric for determining how much of a luxury something is.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

????!!!?? Literally the same day

Tom Harwood

@tomhfh

2 years

"This is another regulation hitting people in the use of their own property." @Jacob_Rees_Mogg slams govt plans to force people to seek planning permission from the state to rent out their own property. It's going to make life even harder for renters.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

9 months

To financially nudge unproductive people to sell their extremely expensive houses in prime locations is the worst sin imaginable in British politics

Mason Boycott-Owen

@Masonboyowen

9 months

🏠New: Government will not reform council tax Response to Levelling Up Committee is pretty clear on changing unfair bands: ⛔️ Too expensive to do ⛔️ Likely to hit pensioners

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

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@SorLh44 @YeahNahYourMum OP was a video in London, and most of my followers are British

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@MasterofSiege If they had comparable wages and spoke English I would in a heartbeat. I'd move to Singapore for that reason if they'd give me a visa.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

9 months

I've never seen a more British thing in my life. James Bond and Queen Elizabeth at the London 2012 Olympics are practically French in comparison.

Paul Smith

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A planning application for a food bank has been refused because it would have a negative visual impact and might disturb the neighbours.

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@AnonymousLeftie It looks good

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8 months

@fdondi1 Declining with warm weather and €2 pizzas >>> declining with rain and £5 soggy chips

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1 year

To be honest, I don't see a single reason why we should give a fuck what 1.3% of the future population will think. Have they considered asking the 98.7% their thoughts and publishing them on a BBC article?

BBC East

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East West Rail: Could a new rail link 'tear apart' a village?

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I hate the anti-migration left

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1 year

Britney needs to release "Build Houses Bitch" asap

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2 years

Bring back this discourse @Conservatives @UKLabour 😪

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10 months

Stonehenge sucks because it's in the middle of fucking nowhere and is only accessible by an always-congested single-carriageway road which also acts as the main arterial between London and the South West.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

The Guardian explaining supply & demand for oil // The Guardian explaining supply & demand for housing

The Guardian

@guardian

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Why are oil prices rising?

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

8 months

@spargles Most mainlanders pick an English name with a similar vibe when they talk with foreigners or migrate too. Unlike HKers who usually have the name from birth, mainlanders are usually bestowed an English name by their English teacher which is a really funny concept to me.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

6 months

> Labour council leader > Backing the blockers, not the builders Many such cases!

Simon Hogg

@CllrSimonHogg

9 months

Thank you to the many residents who’ve been in touch about the idea to build a 38-storey tower near Battersea Bridge. Here’s my personal view 🧵

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Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

1 year

So many european "liberals" seem to be suggesting deportation for foreigners who don't confirm to consensus national values is sensible policy American attitudes to free speech and migrants are so much better than European ones

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

7 months

Why do we give the environmental energy the power to do this but not to unilaterally force the government to put spades in the ground to build a new reservoir?

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1 year

Thought this was about Britain and got excited 😭😭😭

James Newbury MP

@newbury3186

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LABOR TO BULLDOZE SUBURBS. Labor has confirmed their plan for the mass development of ONE MILLION new homes in Melbourne suburbs. To do that Labor intends to block neighbours from opposing inappropriate development and give Daniel Andrews and Labor total planning control.

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@dainserk Energy demand in hotter areas is lower because AC is really efficient (and also coincides pretty closely with peak solar production). AC allows migration to less energy intensive regions so imo it's a net positive for the environment.

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

Holy shit they're literally using the "affordable housing only!" line applied to water

Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

California regulator just rejected a proposal for a desalination plant that would have provided 50 million gallons of drinking water per day. They said the water would be “too expensive for low-income consumers.” Genius logic during a drought… 🤦

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Brits leaving the UK and seeing housing that isn't 100 years old

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@feedthedrummer Can't wait until that tiny blip in the 65-69 category becomes the focus of all political mainstream housing discourse

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I literally can't comprehend how their brains work. What the fuck.

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@Matty_THFC123 At least cities have buildings to hide in imo

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This is how Kings College Chapel, Cambridge should look

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> Complaining about the lack of housing space > Developers want to add more housing space by adding an extra floor > Say it's "abhorrent" to do this Guess the party?💚🟩🟢🌲📗🍏🌳

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

2 years

British "people" will do ANYTHING to avoid having to put one brick on top of another 💀

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

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University explores if we can grow houses from fungus

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8 months

Historic preservation organisations when we do historic preservation whilst also building new things

Historic Buildings & Places

@hbap1924

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Please help us and object to this outrageous scheme to build a 42-storey tower over a Grade II building in #Birmingham . It would set a terrible precedent for listed buildings within the city. See the plans: 📷 : CGI image from Design & Access statement

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The most cursed part about having a shit rental market is that renting being shit makes people even more desperate to own, and pro-homeownership housing policies make life even worse for renters.

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@SpecialPuppy1 The last 2 Japanese people will decide to doom their country by watching anime instead of having babies, circa 5600AD

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OUR NATIONAL BROADCASTER IS IN THE POCKET OF BIG PENSIONER

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@tomhfh a) the campaign is against how it was implemented b) leave the poor pensioners alone

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1 year

Even the US's "far left" are based and deregulation-pilled I can't believe how fucking lucky that country is

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@RepAOC

1 year

US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!

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Excuse me? A *political party* can't discriminate against someone for their beliefs????

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1 year

Your regular reminder that 5 unrelated adults sharing 1 house is, for statistical purposes, "1 household". A total nothingburger of a statistic, commonly weaponised as a NIMBY talking point.

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She kept talking with a raised voice even after I had shut the door btw. Greens are fucking freaks.

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@libhawkish Not enough cool movies

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Food nationalists often argue that being dependent on the international market leaves us vulnerable to supply shocks (eg: Russia's invasion of Ukraine), but being dependent on just our own food market would be infinitely worse!!

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9 months

A "Cross-UK Cluster" between cities *this* poorly connected might be the most stupid anti-Cambridge-growth case I've ever seen

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A partnership between Cambridge and Manchester offers a way forward. Manchester can learn from Cambridge's experience developing a leading deep-tech innovation system, while offering Cambridge firms space to scale & grow, for max benefit to UK economy.

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@Pvelkovsky Why should anyone except massive history nerds care about an ottoman fort?

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Very Sensible Green policy 👍👍👍👍 thanks environmentalists - a huge win! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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Holy shit I love Jeremy Hunt now?!

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It's not quite able to know how many engines a plane should have but the vibes are immaculate

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8 months

This reads like sarcasm but no the Lib Dem London mayoral candidate is just insane

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11 months

NIMBYs are not rational self-interested economic actors that can be paid off to get things past them

BBC News (UK)

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Essex pylon corridor compensation plan 'insulting'

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@JaredTNelson Chinese people sometimes vicariously engage in politics via American politics I think

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@Antonio12I Fatherland Font needs to do some serious introspection after this devastating loss of support. The clung to power by the skin of their teeth but only a few votes away from electoral wipeout.

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The absolute state of leftwing YouTube fucking hell

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@Ben_Everitt Mate it's Milton Keynes - new housing is its entire raison d'etre

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2 years

@leahfrombklyn She's the author of the piece lol

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New >> Fake democracy meetings aren't going to save the climate.

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"the homes will be built either way" This mf never heard of Britain?

push the needle

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the homes will be built either way. if you care about trees then support urban density

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

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Update: still no plumber but I left their Green leaflet survey filled in expressing my unconditional support for the housing development and desire for it to be as tall as possible

Oscar 🌐

@Tweets_of_Oscar

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> Had no water for 3 days > Had 2 plumbers ghost me > 3rd plumber comes, but says he needs new parts and will come back this morning > Doorbell rings > It's a local green party campaigner on a crusade against some new housing

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8 months

@comingupconnor @Rotshasa We get taught about the Blitz in primary schools and then never again. It's implanted into our subconscious and only comes out when weird shit happens around us.

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3 months

@RobertRamcin Shoutouts to South Africa reclaiming its spot at #1 by declining slightly less badly than their competition

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10 months

They first tried to widen the road, backed down after NIMBY opposition and are now trying to build a tunnel, which is also facing massive opposition. This is a cursed land.