Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian Twitter profile

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Marie Le Conte

3 months

hello! I've updated my portfolio, finally - you can find it over on and you can email me to offer me some work on marie.s.leconte @gmail .com

Hi!

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

how does he do it, how does Macron make every picture with a foreign leader look at least faintly romantic and/or erotic, what an odd superpower to have

Tim Baker

@TimJ_B

2 months

Great picture of Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron meeting today. Macron says it's a great opportunity to 'reset' the two countries' relationship. Pic: @jacobkingphoto

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 months

"it's not stupid if it works", cf.

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6 months

does anyone have any useful sentences that will change my life immediately upon being read?

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

12 days

this is how I feel in every single work meeting I attend

Benjamin Fontaine

@BenjFontaine

12 days

J'étais complètement passé à côté des ces photos du 23 juillet de la phryge à l'ambassade de France au Brésil. Je n'arrive pas à choisir ma préférée...

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 months

sometimes you do your food shopping for the week and every meal feels like a little treat from your past self, sometimes you do your food shopping for the week and every meal feels like it was planned by a malevolent buffoon, hellbent on crushing your morale

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

Two auto-replying bots have now been stuck in a loop with each other for several hours and the resulting thread reads like most of my internal monologue:

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 months

truly the best split screen you'll ever see

BFMTV

@BFMTV

3 months

Résultats législatives: explosion de joie au rassemblement de La France insoumise après l'annonce des premières projections

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@youngvulgarian

27 days

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

27 days

Brat summer officially over, declares Charli XCX

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

rarely not thinking about the tweet that said that if you were a time traveller you'd probably have to avoid going back to WW1 purely because it'd be really hard to never refer to it as "world war one"

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

7 years

I tried to come up with a funny tweet to go with this headline but I think it's actually a work of art by itself

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 months

would say I'm probably months away from very seriously considering investing in a brick phone and an mp3 player and throwing my smartphone into the Thames

Tyler Stalman

@stalman

4 months

This Siri demo is probably the most useful AI use case I’ve seen

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 years

as a sort of serious thought: as someone who grew up online it really sucks that social media is now the place where you're meant to project your most professional self, when for most of my life it was the place you specifically went to to get weird

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

genuinely, truly a delight to watch foreigners realise in real time that contemporary French culture is largely just mental and often quite comically tasteless

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

11 months

truly infuriating story, this - every quote from the council is "yes this has actually been great for us on basically every measure" and every government quote is "ha ha ha, better things aren't possible :)"

BBC East

@BBCLookEast

11 months

Government says four-day working weeks should 'cease immediately'

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

imagine waking up from like, not even that long a coma, just from a couple of weeks in a coma, and seeing this

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 months

absolutely huge ADHD moment just now, went to take a train and sat on the platform, pleasantly listening to some music and lost in thought, and I guess I just....forgot why I was there? train came and went and I just........didn't board, exceptional

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

Couldn't care less about the wedding but good LORD Cara Delevingne:

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

tired: liberté, égalité, fraternité inspired: Lady Gaga, a threesome and some Minions

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

every single picture of a Phryge mascot or plushie has had the aura of someone gently having a panic attack and dissociating in a public situation and I for one feel a great sense of kinship with it

Anton Struve

@AntonStruve

2 months

Un regard qui vous transperce en plein cœur 😂 #Phryge #Paris2024

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

god I'm so happy Instagram is still not working, I hope it stays down, finally the hot people will have to come here and learn to be funny to get attention like the rest of us

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 years

an MP was murdered in the street in broad daylight in 2016

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 years

AT THE CRAB MUSEUM AND THEIR MERCH IS THE BEST MERCH I'VE EVER SEEN I'M IN HYSTERICS

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 years

I'm sorry but the idea of Boris being stuck as PM of a messy minority government with the rest of the Commons not allowing him to have an election would be, to use a professional phrase, really fucking funny

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

7 months

happy International Women's Day to the Bene Gesserit

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

8 months

"realistically how funny can a song choice be", I thought before turning the sound on, stupidly

lucy ford 🍊

@lucyj_ford

8 months

you’ll never guess the song choice

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

what a deeply stressful account

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 years

oddly angry at Boris spending the entire summer on holiday, everyone told him to leave No10 earlier in the summer and he fought tooth and nail to cling on, won, and is now not doing anything with it, obnoxious and undignified til the very last moment

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

There's a French man trying to explain the tu/vous thing to someone at the table next to me in the café and I just had to interrupt to show them this, which I'm delighted to say actually helped:

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

13 days

"turns out we don't lock up a lot of paedos because there are far too many paedos out there to possibly keep them all prison" is really one of those big "what the everliving fuck is wrong with men" moments, isn't it

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 years

I realise I sound like a broken record but can I just state, again, how mental it is that the papers are focusing on trans people being some sort of gigantic threat to us all (?) when Britain is largely falling apart as a country

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

"WHAT DO WE WANT? NO! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NO!"

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

if I were Tusk I would have started every statement in the past year with a big sip from a bottle of scotch and "listen up you cunts" so if anything I admire his restraint

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

entire timeline is French people going "yay I thought this was going to be terrible but how amazing is this! look at us!" and non-French people going "what the fuck"

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Marie Le Conte

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3 months

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 years

oh my god, oh my god, a man in the street just gave me the "cheer up love, it may never happen" treatment, IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, the brass neck, THE GALL

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

7 months

going to watch Dune Part: Two again and in hysterics at this display

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

there is no world in which you can predict what relationship problem this woman is complaining about

Sorcha Ní Nia

@Luiseach

1 year

STOP IT the NOISE I just made

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 months

attempted to say "Bicester" out loud yesterday, to some baffled Brits who then told me how to actually say it, and now I know how it's pronounced I'd like to take a moment to say: oh fuck off

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

what kills me is that her dad didn't want her to do sports because she was a girl, gender critical campaigners keep talking about this supposedly shared female experience we all have because we grew up as women and I mean what's more female than this, where does it all end

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

hello from Walthamstow, where I have just encountered a minor demon

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

This delightful and genuinely hilarious post about what it's like to listen to cricket on the radio for the first time has temporarily made everything okay:

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 years

wow the sun from the Teletubbies aged poorly

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

5 years

“The government needs to review, in the light of what we’re seeing today, whether or not all these construction workers are actually really essential.” Former Tory leader @MPIainDS says “we should delete some” construction workers from going to work #Newsnight | #Covid19

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Marie Le Conte

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4 years

there's something I've been half-thinking about for a year or so, and the universal experience of the lockdown has kind of brought it into sharper relief, so I'm going to have a stab at putting it into words:

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 months

would of course never dream of asking a journalist to reveal their sources but I think that in this case there's a strong public interest angle, seeing as this MP urgently needs to be wedgied

James Heale

@JAHeale

3 months

Tory MP on first day back at parliament: “It feels like we’re Slytherins in a Hogwarts full of Hufflepuffs”

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 years

every politician coming out in favour of banning anonymity on the internet should also give up the right to ever give an unattributed quote to the press, IMO

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7 years

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

nothing but love for the woman in this museum who, without missing a beat, responded to her baby's wails with "I know, I prefer his earlier stuff too"

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 years

I think it's the hand placement that really does it

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 years

@EmilyThornberry @bbceurovision Emily is France, one of your closest neighbours, the country of my forefathers, represented here with a single babybel?

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 years

EU: but how do we know the AstraZeneca jab is safe??? ᵁᴷ: ʷᵉ'ᵛᵉ ᵍᶦᵛᵉⁿ ᵐᶦˡˡᶦᵒⁿˢ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ, ᵃˡˡ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ˢᵒ ᶠᵃʳ EU: better halt everything, we need more data ᵁᴷ: ᵐᶦˡˡᶦᵒⁿˢ, ⁿᵒᵗ ᵃ ᵖʳᵒᵇˡᵉᵐ ᵗᵒ ʳᵉᵖᵒʳᵗ EU: just too risky ᵁᴷ: ᴹᴵᴸᴸᴵᴼᴺˢ

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 months

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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@samwetherell

3 months

Drink it in folks.

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3 years

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

not to go all righteous but it is an *outrage* that Boris Johnson was allowed to resign of his own accord and wasn't sacked months ago

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 months

doubt that Reform will actually get 13 seats but if they do it means they'll need a chief whip and truly: good luck to that man

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

lol the last train back to London this evening, aka the last chopper out of Saigon before the strike tomorrow, has just been cancelled

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 years

now the wallpaper lady has been brought back, which characters from previous seasons would you like to see on the show again? I'm voting Petronella Wyatt

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

god what a flawless playlist, Claude François? les Rita Mitsouko? Aya Nakamura? France Gall? Diam's? David Guetta? Daniel Balavoine? Véronique Sanson? Desireless? Mylène Farmer? Philippe Katerine? welcome to every millennial French house party post midnight

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

11 months

call me old fashioned but I do feel that occupying one of the great offices of state, and running one of the biggest departments in government, amounts to more than "stopping the boats"

Conservatives

@Conservatives

11 months

Huge move 💪 Congratulations @JamesCleverly 👏

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Marie Le Conte

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4 years

to be fair to Rishi, it's true that eating out can help mitigate a weak pound

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

realise this is potentially quite French of me but I don't like the idea of someone being told by the state that they will never be able to buy a pack of cigarettes

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 years

something just quite uniquely surreal about simultaneously following the proclamation of a new king and the retreat of a major army on European soil, like accidentally having got stuck in the wrong century

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 months

seen a few people saying that this means Macron was right to call the election/was a great mastermind and lads I could not disagree more! this only happened because the left rallied round and managed to build the Front Populaire in record time! don't thank the centrists for this!

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Marie Le Conte

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2 years

"they worked very long hours" girl Wine Time Fridays started at 4pm?

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Marie Le Conte

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6 years

WHY CAN'T YOU ALL JUST BLOCK PIERS MORGAN AND GO ON WITH YOUR LIVES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 years

me precisely three pints in showing everyone a tweet I did earlier that day

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

motherfucker that's just picky bits, you're culturally appropriating picky bits

The New York Times

@nytimes

1 year

Welcome to “girl dinner.” Women across TikTok are showing off their suppers — snack plates made by one person, for the consumption and enjoyment of one person. They're akin to an aesthetically pleasing Lunchable.

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

ah, travelling across south London 😌

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 month

[increasingly desperately]

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 years

[runs in, panting] guys, guys Jo Johnson has resigned to spend less time with his family

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 years

going to convince Gen Z that MySpace was pronounced like Versace

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

was walking through central London and realised I fancied an ice cream so went into an ice cream place and bought a small cone and it was six pounds don't have anything else to add really, just felt important to me, to discuss my six pound little cone of ice cream

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 years

do occasionally wonder how many Conservative MPs regret not putting their big boy pants on and voting through May's deal

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 years

yes Charles got tested because he's a royal, you lot have had royals for a while now, they get special perks because they're royals, I'm not sure how it's coming as a surprise now

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

7 years

Theresa was not impressed by Angela and Emmanuel's impromptu beatbox battle.

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 years

if anything I'd say the rules on the new localised lockdown are a bit too clear, next time Matt Hancock should slip the announcement in five chocolate bars across different newsagents in the town he wants to lock up

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 months

god I'm feeling patriotic, we're just so unapologetically weird

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

2 years

oooh, ooooh look at me I'm British, I'm British and I'm going to stay up to watch the mid-terms, I watched The West Wing you know, no I couldn't name most European prime ministers but that county? that county in Nevada? I could write essays about it, I could write books about tha

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Marie Le Conte

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7 months

briefly adding my voice to the "well obviously London isn't a 24 hour city" chorus by pointing out that I'm just finishing my dinner in a restaurant in basically zone 1 and they're actively cleaning the tables and preparing to close as I finish my main, at 9.01pm, wooo London!

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 months

it's so sunny and mild out today and seemingly no one in New York is up for a terrace drink at 5pm sharp, would have convinced at least four people to bunk off work early in London by now, a terrible city

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

1 year

see someone had a chic little dinner on the northern line this evening

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 years

hello I've seen a few people say that we should remove support bubbles to get infections down and I would like to say that maybe we should try everything else first, there's quite a lot of stuff we haven't even done yet, please don't throw the single dwellers under the bus, thx

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

5 months

*please* can we have the election now, what purpose would six more months of this even serve

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Marie Le Conte

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4 months

I just really want what I say to friends, family and colleagues to remain between me and my friends, family and colleagues, how is this becoming such a radical demand

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

4 years

"grandma, what was the early 21st century like?"

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 years

from the NHS website

Sajid Javid

@sajidjavid

3 years

Total denial of scientific fact. And he wants to run the NHS.

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Marie Le Conte

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6 years

please hurry up and run this country into the ground, I have 200 euro in cash and wish to buy property in London

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

3 years

my brother and I did not consult each other before getting dressed for our family Christmas dinner one word to describe us? I'd go with "festive"

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2 years

Nadhim Zahawi

the introverted hater

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Marie Le Conte

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3 years

not usually in the business of cloying, emotional stuff but I've basically been crying hysterically on and off for the past few hours I'm French and I've not been able to see a single person I'm related to for well over a year; I had tickets booked for the end of this month

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Marie Le Conte

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6 years

good morning, I am still very mad I'm being made to pay £65 to be able to keep the rights I was told I would always have when I moved to Britain and without which I probably wouldn't have moved to Britain

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1 year

what a spectacular intro

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4 months

joining the Liberal Democrats, slowly making my way up the ranks and eventually becoming leader, just so I can do a lot of fun activities for free

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Marie Le Conte

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2 years

well this is mistifying (via @isntdave )

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Marie Le Conte

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5 years

it remains maddening that it is 2019 and there is still no app/browser add-on that allows me to give like 50p to a publication to lift the paywall on one specific piece, please let me pay you in exchange for journalism I want to read

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2 years

don't like the angle on this at all, without sound it feels like I'm being held captive and my tormentor has come into the room to explain his evil plan in great detail

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

2 years

I’m so proud of this country and I can’t wait for 2023. Happy New Year! 🇬🇧

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Marie Le Conte

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6 years

oh, get fucked

Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧

@montie

6 years

For a lot of ppl on here, Justice Kavanaugh’s sin appears to be that he’s a white man

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6 years

a man in the street just wished me good luck because he thought I was wearing a hospital wristband and I didn't have the heart to tell him that it's even worse, it's for the Lib Dem Disco

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

10 months

mental thing to tweet, this

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

10 months

We are a reasonable country, but our patience has now run out. Our Parliament is sovereign, and it should be able to make decisions that cannot be undone in our courts. That’s what this emergency legislation delivers.

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