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Laurence

@chongo88

live and work in Middle East

انضم Şubat 2008
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barney@barneyxbt·
just a reminder that 95% of the worlds history is unknown due to the burning of the library of alexandria.. guess who burned it
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Graham Linehan
Graham Linehan@Glinner·
By the way recently I tried to switch over to Apple Music because someone told me the sound quality was better than Spotify. And while I'm not a big stereonerd I do prefer to hear the music the way the artist wants it to be heard. So I switched over only to discover the UI is STILL a complete fucking mess. We used to joke about how it was Steve Jobs' revenge on music and maybe it was, but now he's out of the picture, maybe someone could fix it? Why are we still buying Apple products if they're not improving basic services like that? I'm sure even Jobs would finally agree with the basic wisdom of that.
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Laurence@chongo88·
@BBCNews Please tell Jeremy Bowen not to speculate. His job is the news not opinion. FACTS!
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
Prem Sikka@premnsikka

Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water have nearly 200 criminal convictions between them. On 6 August 2024, Ofwat fined them £47m and £17m for sewage dumping. Fines not paid, will not be paid. Firms claim to have invested. No penalty for abusing laws leftfootforward.org/2026/01/public…

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Laurence
Laurence@chongo88·
#margate #dreamland Stage 1. Close roller coaster. Stage 2. Declare whole park no longer viable Stage 3. Announce dramatic and vibrant redevelopment for Margate. Just a thought?
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Laurence@chongo88·
@JeremyVineShow As usual, BBC getting it wrong about Brooklyn Beckham story and dissing mothers aka women (real ones)
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
Melanie Phillips delivers a chilling diagnosis of the West's intellectual crisis: Ideology has replaced knowledge, and reason itself is under siege. Key points from her 4:37 clip: - Modern orthodoxies (multiculturalism, lifestyle equivalence, etc.) are treated as absolute moral goods. - Challenge them → you're not just wrong; you're evil, standing against human/planetary betterment. - Dissent must be silenced: no platform, no debate, no hearing. - Evidence contradicting the ideology is dismissed as lies or "not facts." - Universities—once crucibles of reason—are now engines destroying it, while claiming moral superiority. - Result: Civil discourse dies. Replaced by insult weaponized to shut people down. This isn't just about politics—it's the erosion of objective truth, evidence-based reasoning, and the ability to disagree without demonization. We're witnessing the destruction of reason itself. 4:37 clip laying bare how ideology has become inimical to rationality 👇 When ideology trumps evidence and disagreement becomes "evil," what survives of open society? Where do you see this dynamic strongest right now—in academia, media, politics, or everyday life?
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Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland@rorysutherland·
My job is to take the immortal ideas of @nntaleb and translate them into trivial references to consumer capitalism. His first point here explains why every single fucking baked item in the shops is now made with fucking sourdough. nntaleb.medium.com/the-world-in-w…
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Laurence@chongo88·
#bbcnews Is that Putin at the end of the table?
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Laurence@chongo88·
@Goldfishwars Is it even true? It’s just what Amanda said, no?
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Sibley The Best
Sibley The Best@Goldfishwars·
Sorry. Why has no one asked why this woman had FBI training to go on a tv show? Unhinged behaviour. #TraitorsUK
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Laurence@chongo88·
#traitorsuk well Harriet’s well angry and unpleasant
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