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@ediemmill
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1 year
my daughter is mortally terrified of nearly all dogs and one thing that it’s taught me is that most owners are far more bothered about persuading you their dog is safe to be around than actually ensuring it is
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6 years
some girl at our open mic is doing an breathy acoustic cover of all star by smashmouth and i can’t tell if she’s extremely online or not online at all
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3 years
my new hobby is rubbernecking on fights about what people do to their houses on fb interiors groups. one woman has moved into a barn conversion and is asking about ripping out the beautiful flagstone floor and someone has replied “maybe you should have bought a house you liked”
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7 years
just saw 2 toddlers, previously unknown to each other, bump their ice creams together and say 'cheers!' so there is still good in the world
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2 months
ok well this is completely untethered from reality and the standard usage of language so now what
@guardiannews
Guardian news
2 months
Israel-Gaza war live: Netanyahu says ceasefire deal must allow Israel to keep fighting until objectives met
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3 years
nov 27, 2021. michael owen has discovered a portal to the abyss,
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Michael Owen
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Looks like I won’t be going anywhere for a while.
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4 years
conversation i just heard in wilko: him: do you reckon you’ll need ID? her: why would i need ID to buy a cactus? him (incredulous): cos it’s spiky man
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@ediemmill
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7 years
Hi, I am 25 years old and have been out on the streets for your party every night, show some fucking gratitude you mummified pricks
@PickardJE
Jim Pickard 🐋
7 years
Senior Labour figure: "I am gobsmacked. Everyone is." Another senior Labour figure: "Seriously what the fuck is happening?"
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2 years
i also love their fake “getting into tory conference” outfits
@TobyonTV
Toby Earle 🇺🇦 Threads tobyontv
2 years
THEY BOUGHT MORE THAN ONE SIGN
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4 years
incredible that this tweet is now out of date because sitting on a bench is no longer allowed
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SBF
4 years
January 2020 vs December 2020
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2 years
this thread is hilarious, “we’ve spent decades making sure institutions are controlled by financial interests alone and this one has gone rogue, help!”
@mattbilinsky
Matt Bilinsky
2 years
A billionaire bought one of America’s biggest newspapers. Then he put his 28-year old daughter with deep ties to socialist organizations in charge You may have seen the articles, but it’s actually worse than reported… And the consequences could affect every resident of LA🧵👇
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2 years
is that good
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@ediemmill
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5 years
the way americans pronounce the name ‘craig’: heinous
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@ediemmill
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5 years
twenty one minutes. what a city
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5 years
the notre dame fire is awful but i’m sorry i was watching a periscope stream of it and someone commented ‘respect from a sheffield wednesday fan’ so now i’m in bits
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@ediemmill
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3 years
feels like the rate at which quality of life in the UK is getting worse has speeded up quite a lot huh
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@ediemmill
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3 years
absolutely do not have the capacity for everyone getting horny over tonty blair
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
3 years
Andrew Scott is reportedly in talks to portray Prime Minister Tony Blair in the sixth & final season of Netflix's 'The Crown' The final season will cover Tony Blair's disaccord with The Queen over her handling of Princess Diana's death.  ()
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5 years
i’m going to stop wallowing but what probably hurts the most is hearing people on the news repeatedly blame ‘jeremy corbyn’s supporters’. all we wanted was a better society, it’s agony to be told to ‘take responsibility’ for wanting that and for fighting for it
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3 years
it should never be illegal to protest, it should never be illegal to mourn
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3 years
i’m at the estate agents, i’m at the lounge, i’m at the wine bar, i’m at the combination estate agents lounge wine bar
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@Bass_Buny
bnuybunbunybununynuuybynubybunybun
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Thank you corporation very cool
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3 years
lads opposite me on the train are on like a culture/drinking day out and talking about the museum they ended up in last time lad one: who was that fella we saw anyway? lad two: what, rembrandt? lad one: aye. shite.
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4 years
uhhhhh good morning jedward?
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3 years
so depressed by the response to this, hundreds of replies and QTs calling them thick as pigshit when the reality is that there’s been a labour council and MP there for decades which clearly hasn’t succeeded in making people feel like they give a shit
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Nick Jones 💙🇺🇦
3 years
This is a genuinely astonishing clip.
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2 months
this is 1 minute and 54 seconds of two people talking about how, when you think about it, chief among the real victims of the genocide in gaza is the former MP for bristol central
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
2 months
"The party's got a problem." Former Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire, who lost her Bristol seat to the Greens, exclusively tells @cathynewman that her party's "lack of a strong narrative" around Gaza during the election "had consequences".
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3 years
when i was 21 i had anorexia, the guardian
@guardian
The Guardian
3 years
People who ‘can’t fit into jeans they wore aged 21’ risk developing diabetes
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4 years
girls love talking about “cancel culture” but you never hear about chancel culture, the part of a church near the altar, reserved for the clergy and choir, and typically separated from the nave by steps or a screen
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4 years
sorry, they’ve leaked the news to a journalist who’s locked out of her own account? this country is a joke
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5 years
just had my first go of being yelled at by an old person for using my phone instead of interacting with my baby, who is asleep
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4 years
genuinely think the installation of “clapping” as a pancea for things we’ve collectively decided not to deal with properly is one of the worst developments in the british psyche for decades
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
4 years
Nationwide ‘Clap for Carers’ to mark 72nd anniversary of the NHS - @AyshahTull reports
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@ediemmill
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3 years
terfs all act like being a woman is a centuries old curse that’s been placed upon them by a malignant goblin
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3 years
i think when you scratch the surface this stuff is very political actually, there are so many people who are desperate to have a home they can make their own in even the smallest way, while ppl who can afford them are so lacking in reverence for craftsmanship they just ruin them
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3 years
all pairs of sisters are like this and you know exactly which one you are
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1 year
presumably because it reflects on them (i wouldn’t be out and about with a dangerous/ill disciplined dog!) rather than actually relating to other people in your community and how people experience public space etc
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4 years
british people talking shut about britain: this is the worst country on earth and i wish it would fall into a volcano british people when americans talk shit about britain: stop that. stop it. i will swim across the atlantic to kill you myself
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4 years
if i were a newspaper struggling to stay afloat in a volatile market i would simply stop paying columnists to write the same article repeatedly
@guardian
The Guardian
4 years
Making a demon of JK Rowling is a wretched sport, born of misogyny and resentment | Catherine Bennett
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3 years
SCREAM
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5 years
give coleen rooney a netflix series where she solves social media mysteries, do it now
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Coleen Rooney
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This has been a burden in my life for a few years now and finally I have got to the bottom of it......
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3 years
greatest news story of the twenty first century so far
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3 years
well we’re doing this again for some reason
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3 years
you can really tell the difference between how hard people have struggled to get some level of security by how they relate to their surroundings i think. rich people just love waste
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5 years
@aedison “i love you as much as i love anything in this world but please for the love of god don’t bite the baby”
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5 years
knocked on one old fella today, very old & frail, wanted to vote but said there was no way he could manage it. when we offered to give him a lift to the polling station he wavered for a second then looked quite resolved & excited and said he’d only ever voted labour so yes please
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@JacobB12277686 i know you’re just trying to be smart but sincerely, do you think that it wouldn’t occur to me to try and make her more comfortable through safe exposure? that’s a world away from what i’m talking about
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4 years
tom just asked me if abba exists within the universe of mamma mia and now i feel like i’ve had an edible
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4 years
are there any circumstances in which you can image laura kuenssberg experiencing any professional consequences? serious question
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3 years
he’s really into this baby! bit cringe imo
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4 years
not to come over all karen but you’d think a global pandemic would be enough to stop men from spitting in the street
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3 years
the labour party sending a staffer down b&q because they keep running out of rakes to step on
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5 years
our precious little goblin iggy was born at 5.21 am by emergency c-section because he already lives for the drama. his full name is ira thomas whyman and we love him more than we thought possible 💖
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4 years
pick a font, i’m begging you
@UKLabour
The Labour Party
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Labour is fighting to protect: 💷 Holiday pay ⏰ The 48 hour working week 🛌 The right to rest breaks at work The Government's response to that is to consider longer working hours and less pay.
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6 years
hello i’m still furious that bernie sanders voted for FOSTA-SESTA, support your candidate but hold them to account
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5 years
boomers who get to live in one place for decades will never know the stress of ordering something online and having to check repeatedly in case you ordered it to an address that’s like four house moves old
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5 years
i sympathise with XR, i really do, i understand the panic they feel about climate catastrophe and their willingness to make it an issue that can’t be ignored. but lads, we WANT people to use public transport?
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5 years
it is absolutely a net positive that fascists can’t go out in the streets spreading their propaganda without getting covered in milkshakes
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5 years
my jess phillips anecdote is that she used to drink in the pub i worked in in birmingham and one of her mates kicked off at me, a bartender on minimum wage, for the fact the pub had a £5 card minimum, so that’s the company she keeps i guess
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5 years
morning, reading that the greggs in chingford where faiza shaheen used to work keeps selling out of vegan sausage rolls because there are so many young activists there to help her unseat IDS was the boost i needed
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2 years
imagine having to do this announcement on facebook
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7 years
Radical centrism is a helluva drug friends
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1 year
a culture of responsibility that placed the burden on owners to ensure safety, rather than on non-owners to chill out, wouldn’t leave as much room for ownership of dangerous breeds. even if it’s inexplicably legal to own them i cannot understand why it’s socially sanctioned!
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i am 99.999999% sure i’ve stumbled across an opportunity to own the hearse that did donuts on the pitch at the gateshead vs dunston match last month
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4 years
8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for having every single aspect of our leisure time judged by weirdos on the internet
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7 years
I know, I hate the US government too
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5 years
please look at this photo where my baby looks like he is telling an anecdote at after work pints
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5 years
has there ever been a generation that has dealt so badly with being left behind culturally? have some dignity
@theemptypage_
MT PAGE™
5 years
it appears ben elton has written a satire about identity politics...
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1 year
obviously there’s some slippage here between “some people have dogs that aren’t very well trained” and “a particular breed of killing machine is legal in the UK for some reason” but i think these things exist on a spectrum and it’s worth thinking about them like that
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3 years
everyone lay off gal gadot, i don’t think they even teach acting in the IDF
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3 years
i’ve got a little bear
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1 year
@tiredicunurse this is obviously very different from the situation i’m describing
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6 years
“lord sugar has challenged the apprentices to launch a new political party”
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3 years
easily the cruellest thing about pregnancy is being taunted with the best hair and skin of your life directly before you have to give up sleep for a year
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6 years
I wrote this about why transphobic feminists are so overwhelmingly British
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6 years
there’s a strong argument to be made that the discovery of those Keep Calm posters was the worst thing to happen to the British psyche in several generations
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4 years
me: cares for the baby every second of every day, stays up all night when he fails to sleep, feeds him, clothes him, tends to his every need the baby: dada
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3 years
iggy decided he was hungry at the soft play so he picked up my wallet, took out my debit card, and marched over to the till to order. then he got stuck because he can’t talk
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4 years
are you going to....fuck santa?
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Keir Starmer
4 years
Christmas Eve is always special. But just maybe Santa needs more than the carrots, milk & biscuits on offer from our kids!
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@DPJHodges you’re right that if the situation was entirely different it would be perceived differently
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3 months
'Humanity has a choice: Either we decide that our children can all be killed whenever a superior force alleges that “terrorists” are among us, or we decide that under no circumstances will we allow these superior forces to lay waste to our world any longer.'
@Raminho
Rami Ayari
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Wow, this statement from the @LemkinInstitute is extremely strong: "We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the #USA , #Germany , and the #UK . They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are
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3 years
my parents have had this on the kitchen door for at least a decade and i honestly think i would be devastated if they fixed it at this point
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5 years
centrists are genuinely more outraged at being asked to acknowledge their complicity in racist violence than they are at the violence itself
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5 years
‘it doesn’t matter who you support, you hate to see a cathedral burn down. just no place for it in the modern game’
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4 years
ok i’ll take this one: is it because of the life-threatening illness going around
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betty is deep in her "why???" phase and i just heard tom having to pause a bedtime story to go "i don't know betty, that's the narrative convention, that's just how stories are made. it's literature betty."
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4 years
i will possibly never get over the four seasons total landscaping thing as long as i live
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@UKLabour
The Labour Party
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What’s an extra £1.09 an hour really worth? If you work 35 hours a week it’s another £38. Which means more food on the table, new school shoes for the kids, or being able to pay that electricity bill.
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resolved to make my very small and crappy tyneside backyard as nice as possible this summer so that we can use it and iggy can play in it ✨
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5 years
it should be obvious by now that what’s happening in the UK is not an aberration but part of a global political crisis and there will only be more stuff like this as we slide towards climate collapse
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look at this graph!! millennials actually spend less than everyone else when you account for housing, which we get rinsed for! print that you crusty bitches
@travelling_wolf
Who the hell is Wolfie?
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Millenials spending in line with other age groups on food and stuff shock
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2 years
the independent website at this point is a postmodern art piece about the ubiquity of advertising. there is no other explanation
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10 months
The comment about it causing distress “in Muslim communities” sits really poorly I think, as if the only people horrified by a tacit endorsement of war crimes are a specific contingent who need to be appeased
@ITVNewsPolitics
ITV News Politics
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'I was saying Israel had the right to self-defence... I was not saying Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines' @Keir_Starmer speaks after sparking fury among Muslim Labour members in an interview about the Gaza crisis with @LBC
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6 years
if corbyn’s press office released a statement urging caution w regard to blowing up the moon, 50 labour backbench MPs & the entire british press would be like ‘for too long, the moon has persisted with impunity, we have a duty to explore lunar destruction as a matter of urgency’
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i’ll never forget my son’s first christmas, the whole family together, the baby rolling around his grandparents’ living room playing with his presents, my partner turning to me and saying “windmill jolyon has beaten a fox to death with a baseball bat”
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2 years
tom has accused me of ‘putting on airs’ and ‘wanting to live like the pope’ because i suggested the sheets should be properly dry before we put them on the bed
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can you imagine being in charge of the style guide at the new yorker? like a sort of typographical king canute
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5 years
would be good if centrists on my tl didn’t bother with their smug jokes given that people are actually gonna die
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5 years
planting 2 billion trees is ambitious but do you know what’s also ambitious? taking no action and hoping we all survive a fucking extinction event
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3 years
how is this journalism
@bbclaurak
Laura Kuenssberg
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Nadine Dorries, best selling author and govt minister, confirmed as Secretary of State for Culture
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i genuinely hope grace lavery takes linehan for every penny he has
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