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Laura Kate

@cakeylaura

4 months

I realise I’m likely in the minority here, but I’ve always found wind turbines pretty innocuous on a landscape. You certainly wouldn’t want them everywhere, but they’re not ugly, and sometimes can even be rather attractive in the right place.

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4 years

Labour and the Conservatives have been drawn more or less level in the polls for some time now, and Labour seem incapable of pulling firmly ahead - despite the government's endless buggering up of things. Why? I've got a theory, and I'm going to use my father as the example...

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@cakeylaura

4 years

"Us v Them" hatred is a hell of a drug. And right now the Tories have both those weapons well in hand and aren't shy about using them. Labour have a mountain to climb.

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4 years

I don't know what the answer is. I guess in a very long winded way I'm just making the point that thinking people will abandon the Tories for Labour because they're personally suffering because of Tory incompetence is naive. Patriotism is a hell of a drug.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

Kim Darroch tried to tell the British government the truth about what Trump was in 2019 - as was his duty. And for that he had his confidential communications leaked, and was unceremoniously sacked after years as a capable, highly regarded diplomat.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

'Them' being everyone who doesn't think like him. And that perception isn't Labour's fault. Labour shouldn't pander to prejudice. That he thinks like this is the fault of the Daily Mail, and social media - which he is increasingly addicted to.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

Because he's afraid of change. And the world is changing fast. Suddenly he's being accused of racism for the same jokes he used to tell loudly and unchallenged down the pub (accurately btw, he is racist, although of course he doesn't think so).

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@cakeylaura

4 years

Again I stress, I don't think this is particularly Labour's fault. Corbynism undoubtedly made it *worse*, but the perception was already there. I don't want to see Labour shaft minority groups to win round assholes like my dad. Does anyone?

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@cakeylaura

4 years

In the Tories - who have left him high and dry when he most needed help - he sees the people who will shut 'them' up. Who play with ease on his angry white-van-man brand of patriotism, where it's not about loving your country so much as it's about wanting it to crush all others.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@MrLloydSpandex @AprilPreston_ I like the implication your mum is planning to take out Putin.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

Suddenly women don't laugh at him calling them 'wench' anymore. In fact they get angry about it. He's forced to see gay people on his television, and he doesn't like that either. He's getting old, and he's really not a fan of that, and who to blame but the young?

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4 years

And that's the essential heart of it. To him, the Tories love Britain and want it to thrive. They will put Europe in its place, will play Rule Britannia, will give him something to be proud of. Labour? Labour will just accelerate Britain's decline into namby pamby wokeism.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

In Labour he doesn't see a party who will help him through his unemployment. Who will ensure he always has a roof over his head. Who will see to it he doesn't have to wait months for an important hospital appointment. Instead sees a party who are for 'them'.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

My father has voted Labour in the past. He's a working class man from a working class family. He lives in a council house. He's worked all his life, but lost his job after Covid hit, and was furious to discover he couldn't get a damn thing from Universal Credit.

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4 years

He's got some significant health issues and so does his partner. They both rely on the NHS. He's very worried about climate change. In every respect he ought to be a slam dunk Labour voter. But instead he thinks Boris Johnson is great and voted Tory at the last election. Why?

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@lanadelslayee They keep on telling us we've got to look after ourselves, because boys will be boys and we can't expect *them* to change. But when we create a system to do just that, we're hurting the boys feelings. So our options are a) get assaulted or b) never leave the house.

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@HawksmoorMCR As someone who works in hospitality, bless you for being understanding and not flying off the handle at the poor lad/lass.

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5 years

@markzohar @ABC He looks like the Penguin and the Riddler had a baby.

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5 years

@SamHopperton @HawksmoorMCR Perhaps it is. But as it’s marketing that gives us a little chuckle and encourages kindness to employees, I’ll take it.

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@cakeylaura

6 years

@Daily_Express I don’t remember the right wing press riding Kate this hard. I wonder what the difference could be. It’s a *~mystery~*.

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6 years

@Zakiyyah6 @Zigmanfreud @CastawayCay1201 They say ‘I back him because he’s a Christian and protecting Christian values’, because they can’t bring themselves to admit the truth. They back him because he’s a racist, and because he’s protecting racist values. That’s what they really like about him.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@kirkpate “I actually did it myself yaaaaahhh” No kidding. Who would have guessed.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

@kumailn And they'll blame the BLM protests instead of all the Karens and their angry gun toting husbands who were shirking lockdown well before that.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

@marinamaral2 I do not know what to do with the information that the Tsar was ripped.

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@aprilnotinpari @KennieJD I used to know a guy like that. Always going on about how gross it was to get old, like it wasn't ever going to happen to him. He's prematurely balding now which feels like some real karma.

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@cakeylaura

5 years

There's no getting away from it, Germany are handling this crisis exactly the way you would expect Germany to deal with a crisis. With supreme efficiency, and a firm eye on the science. And it's working.

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5 years

So far, Germany's fatality rate for coronavirus — 0.5% —is the lowest in the world, by a long shot. Experts say that's because they're testing early and often. One virologist estimates the country has been testing about 120,000 people a week

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@RobFaus916 @LEBassett Nobody does service trolling like the French. They are masters of the art.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

@kimscorcher @beetlefella101 "New Star Trek is too PC!" Oh yes. Unlike old Star Trek. Which did a racism-is-destructive-poison story in the sixties, a transgender oppression story in the early nineties, and followed that up with the complex ethics of violent resistance.

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2 years

@brennanyoung @yoghurt35189292 @spignal I live in the countryside, and even then the visibility of the night's sky is so poor that with a bright moon you can only see a handful of stars. Even on good night it's only a fraction of what it ought to be. You just need to be living within a few dozen miles of a large town.

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@elbirdilara @R2RN2 I haven’t read the books, and when I found out that Sansa and Cersei do not get raped in them I was honestly gobsmacked. Who ADDS IN rape? What kind of people think a story is made more compelling with added superfluous rape?

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@KTsDivaMom @radleybalko Jesus Christ, that story. That's evil, right there.

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@vodaciouz @chribbzz And like, I swear to god, there is nothing in my viewing history that could possibly make the algorithm think I want to watch this. I watch history and food videos. They’re pushing this crap on me out of nowhere.

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@jameelajamil Funny as well how they’re a lot less bothered about the cancer curing potential of school kids gunned down with assault rifles, or the kids locked up in concentration camps at the border.

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@punished_cait And I swear 90% of the criticism of that video hasn’t been directed at him personally. It’s been at a system that requires people to pay thousands for essential medical care, and the burgeoning trend of recipients of charity being forced to participate in content to get help.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@ClaireBerlinski You know those multi-generational, bone and sinew deep hatreds that shape international politics for centuries? Feels like we’re watching one form in real time.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@manyweare @what_eats_owls @adult_witch 100%. "She couldn't beat up all those men! She's too weak! It's so unrealistic!" *studio makes the heroine buff - or at the very least not VS model skinny* "SHE LOOKS LIKE A MAN. It's so unrealistic!"

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2 years

@amaximus167 @MichaelaOkla @SheRatesDogs My dad left my mum after meeting up with his first girlfriend again and starting an affair with her. Jokes on him though because he's absolutely miserable with her now.

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@cakeylaura

6 years

@iainmartin1 @andrewhunterm Maybe *we* should have considered being a bit friendlier to the major trading bloc right on our doorstep. The courtesy thing works both ways. And we set the tone pretty early on with comparisons to the Nazis and the Soviet Union.

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@LightDreamUltra @beetlefella101 What did they think the machine was, a microwave?

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@cakeylaura

4 years

@paulr2514 I don’t think I could more clearly have stated that I don’t think Labour should pander to the prejudices of my father and those like him.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@Coolness941 @R2LineCinema In one simple move she made it so people were laughing with her and not at her. She was in on the joke. I always remember this as a prime example of how not taking yourself too seriously can save you from embarrassment. She came out of it looking chill and funny.

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3 years

@amy_nusbaum Bloody hell. You know who has jealousy issues when a younger sibling comes along? MOST CHILDREN. You don’t f**king rehome them! I wouldn’t treat my *dog* like this. Monstrous behaviour.

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1 year

@FM1_3316 They put K-MAG on the poster and not a world champion?!

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@cakeylaura

4 years

@talign @inkydojikko You wouldn't let her leave her desk for a meagre half an hour to get lunch. To *eat*. No way you didn't know that was wrong at the time.

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6 years

@SPlatizky @kumailn And the same people who complain about Star Trek being full of SJWs these days, like Star Trek hasn’t been up to its eyeballs in social justice since the 60s.

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5 years

@ashleylynch Ah yes, the famously apolitical Watchmen, from the man who wrote the even more apolitical V For Vendetta, in which the main character apolitically blows up the Houses of Parliament.

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@cakeylaura

7 years

@khoker @PadraigBelton Wow. Could you also clarify for me the meaning of the word ‘pedant’?

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@formularacers_ The trouble is, what he’s talking about here isn’t “if you’ve had a race for a 100 years but it’s not a good race, you’re out.” He’s saying “if you’ve had a race for a 100 years but you can’t afford a massive multi-million dollar extra bung to the FIA, you’re out.”

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@JennyENicholson I used to work in this cafe that bought all its cake and desserts in, but we were instructed to tell anybody who asked that it was all made by the owner, who absolutely loved basking in her totally undeserved reputation as an amazing baker.

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@JCov1 @anne_theriault You need all the extra screen space to try and spot if there’s some bit of bastardry they’re trying to hide from you. Like international shipping is a bazillion dollars or you can only fly on the night of the full moon.

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@cakeylaura

8 years

Glad when Scotland voted 'No' in first indyref. Now I think they'd be mad not to vote Yes. Why should we drag them down with us? #indyref2

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@SharthouseFlick @thelindsayellis Yeah, I got a feeling that's because when he says 'American' he means 'English speaking white people'.

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5 years

@beetlefella101 @NotLikeFreddy @BootlegGirl At least with Harry Potter you can enjoy the core seven books and ignore everything else. They tell a complete, finished story. But even the early, good seasons of GoT are soured by knowing what a god awful ending the story they’re telling gets.

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@cakeylaura

6 years

Today we burn Guy Fawkes in effigy for a crime he didn’t actually manage to pull off 400 years ago. Just in case anyone in the upper echelons of politics were deluding themselves that the British people are a forgiving bunch who move on quickly.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@oneunderscore__ I knew even before I clicked which party he belonged to.

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@BeeMaeBee0 @shaun_vids It’s incredible how often, for self proclaimed radical feminists, their rhetoric circles back around to the sort of stuff you generally see from the incel crowd. Just straight up women-belong-barefoot-pregnant-and-in-the-kitchen nonsense.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@JimMFelton That would be the Lady Colin Campbell who clung onto her title after divorcing the husband it came with, expressedly against his wishes

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@amandapalmer @ben_bt Could you please step off using feminism as a way to justify your ego? Ta thanks.

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4 years

@nooktastical @nycsouthpaw I imagine it was *because* of all this that he did it. He wanted to make a vicious, petty point: that he thought the cop who killed George Floyd did nothing wrong, and he would do the same when he liked and as he liked.

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@ReallyPinkHouse @itvnews @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @PaulBrandITV Welcome to 2019.

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@cakeylaura

2 years

@NicT10 @lidaomaruis @L8diesIsPimps2 Did she lure her friend back that way just so she could watch her get jump scared too? What a legend. 😂

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6 years

@maxine_woolley @BBCNewsnight The village where I work is full of older people worried about rampant immigration and being invaded by foreigners. As far as I know there is exactly one mixed race woman in the entire community, and I believe she was born and raised within a twenty mile radius.

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3 years

@oneunderscore__ My god, it really is crazy. He's not right in the head. He shouldn't be allowed around any children.

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@TeeKaay10 LOL CORNWALL. I mean Birmingham isn’t a bloody no go zone either, but I am howling at the idea Cornwall is a hotbed of fundamentalist extremism. Arguing with Devon about when to slap cream on a scone is about the worst of it. You don’t know the first thing about the UK do you?

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@cakeylaura

5 years

@tomhfh Just a quick FYI, the Great Gatsby is actually all about the way the selfish rich never face any consequences for their bad behaviour. So yes, pretty apt for Boris.

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5 years

@MStoneHennessee @ToddWalker__ @elmercc Even worse when it comes from people who consider themselves progressive, but who revert right back to the same old trash when it’s convenient.

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1 year

@DaleVince @JustStop_Oil I gotta say, you’re handling this so much better than many would. You never give them the gotcha soundbite they’re after. You never get riled or lose your temper. It’s shrewd awareness of how the media operates and we need more of it.

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@cakeylaura

3 years

@rmay_lovezone27 @therimaahmed @twlldun The place I work once got a 1 star review on TripAdvisor because we couldn’t seat the guy because we were full and he hadn’t made a reservation. 1 star for being too popular.

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4 years

@dmcf64 @thelindsayellis YES. I am getting increasingly aggravated by the constant insinuations that the criticisms of her are based in misogyny. I am a hardcore feminist, but feminism is NOT about women being magically immune from valid criticism. It's also not a shield to hide behind when it suits you.

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4 years

@motelamanda @caitlinmoran @rachsyme When I was a teenager and they were at the peak of their fame, I definitely made fun of both of them. All my friends did too. And Paris Hilton for that sex tape - something we'd recognise as abusive revenge porn now. I feel quite ashamed of it. I would never say those things now.

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3 years

@colleen162 @biggestjoel Bless Germany for its absolutely dogged refusal to bend to American retail practices. They drove Walmart out of their own country over it, now they’re bringing the miracle of letting your employees sit the hell down to the USA.

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2 years

@JimMFelton What makes this absolute gold is that you can tell Piers is convinced he's got a real gotcha moment lined up here. He really believes the picture of a puppet from the sixties is a smoking gun.

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5 years

@HBO_UK I’ve been trying to forget it ever happened thanks.

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4 years

@jamesrbuk We've most of us lived our entire lives under democracy, and I fear this idea has set in that the system can be bent, and twisted, and pushed right to the edge, but will never actually break. It's a frightening complacency, because of course it can break. Very easily.

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5 years

@mrjamesob I don’t know, I suspect they only wheeled her out to stop all the ‘where’s Priti?’ talk. Otherwise they’d have kept her well away.

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@cakeylaura

5 years

Accolade after accolade, and still the BBC keep on ignoring her. Except of course for when one of their leading political editors called her a ‘crazy cat lady’.

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Congratulations @CaroleCadwalla 🎖️Winner of the #HayFestival2019 Medal for Journalism

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4 years

@exitthelemming I mean doesn’t ALL medical intervention merely postpone death? We’re all going to kick the bucket one day. If you extend Allison’s mad attempt at logic, why bother treating anything. Why bother washing our hands at all? Bring back arsenic green. Bring back radium alarm clocks.

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5 years

The Telegraph wants to lecture Meghan Markle about unconscious bias, as they continue their campaign against the first mixed race member of the royal family, who they’ve taken against for some mysterious reason they can’t quite put their finger on.

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"I wonder whether Meghan was conscious of the bias she showed in choosing 15 ‘forces for change’ for the Vogue cover, all of whom were women, of which only five were white?" writes @CamillaTominey

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@terrelljstarr Sums the whole thing up really. An overconfident Russian presumes they can just casually snatch a Ukrainian’s property only to get shock of their life when the furious Ukrainian snatches it right back.

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2 years

@indyfromspace What I like about this is the idea some future civilisation that rises from the ashes of our own will discover some Pokémon cards and take them deadly seriously. “Look at this incredible electric rat from before the Event!”

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2 months

@ruskin147 As someone whose dog quite shamelessly has a favourite, and it’s not me, you have my empathy.

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@cakeylaura

4 years

@sharonwaxman @MoviesSilently He didn’t owe you a damn thing. You don’t get to lecture the victims of sexual assault about how they “should” have behaved. The hell is wrong with you?

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4 years

@p_ocallaghan 1) the salad is not named after Julius Caesar. Why the hell would it be? 2) that’s a statue of Emperor Augustus in the photograph.

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@Piano_Learner @zircon654 @goddersbloom @Justwilliams You know that actual real people losing their jobs after corporate dishonesty isn’t nearly as important as faux-outrage about whether or not the word Easter appears on an item of confectionery that is wholly unconnected with the actual biblical events.

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@Salabel2 @PageSix “Hunter thinks white people are being exterminated in a genocidal plot between BLM and the Jewish Illuminati but it’s *~so cute~* how he calls me his wifey!”

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7 years

@MichelleObama I miss you and your husband SOOOOOO much. And I’m not even American.

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4 years

@Johnnyrrfs @ajc Do they issue those sunglasses in some kind of White Supremacy for Beginners kit? You’ve all got em.

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6 years

@TheMiliverse @mrjamesob We came so close to avoiding this altogether. An entire country, done over by a bacon sandwich.

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4 years

@inShortSight @QueerlyAutistic Genuinely couldn’t believe it when they killed the Night King in one episode. Halfway through the bloody season. At the hand of a character with no narrative connection to the White Walkers. Seven seasons of build up for the dampest squib ever.

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3 years

There’s a lot of older comedians who are convincing themselves that it’s cancel culture that’s stagnated their careers and not… you know, the passage of time and the inevitable losing touch with modern tastes as the new generation takes over.

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5 years

It’s been quite shocking to realise exactly how many people there are in this country who don’t grasp that Ireland is a fully independent sovereign nation.

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"You don't go to Brussels but you go instead to Dublin. You literally do a deal with the Irish, whether you bribe them or threaten them, one way or the other, to get them in the position where they drop their opposition to the backstop" Alan Mendoza, HenryJackson Society #Brexit

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2 years

@whatsformula @formularacers_ Acting like his mouth went rogue and said it without consulting him.

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3 years

On Christmas Eve I lost one half of my favourite earrings. I’d been all over the place, so it could have been anywhere. I was gutted. Today, walking the dog, I found it again. Whoever took the time to pick it up and place it on a post, thank you so much. It’s really made my day.

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@jowrotethis You know generally I find K-pop stans to be a touch trying with their propensity to gif bomb absolutely everything. But between this and their flooding the anti-BLM hashtags with nothing but the aforementioned K-pop gifs, I'm warming to them big time.

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@marysuewriter He’s someone’s best friend and the only clue to his sexuality is that he is flamboyant and makes a passing remark about the heroine’s love interest being hot.

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4 years

@lizziedearden @OzKaterji They put a BABY onto a database because they pulled over the parents - who hadn’t even done anything wrong themselves?!

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