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S📍mon 🅿inkerton

@SimonPinkerton

Fiction and humour writer. In many awesome mags. Two books, both unwanted. Repped by (YOUR NAME HERE). Writing, reading, video games, no politics. Website below

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S📍mon 🅿inkerton@SimonPinkerton·
If I reach just one person with this tweet...that will be a good summary of the average amount of people I reach with my tweets
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Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·
My friend met a man at an important conference. He told me the man was the gloomiest, most depressed person he'd ever seen. At dinner, my friend asked the man about his career. He said, "I'm a history professor & writer specializing in the Habsburgs." My friend, who is keen on history, thought about it for a bit, then commented, "Well, that must be interesting." Gloomy Gus then said, "No. No Habsburg EVER did anything interesting." Then turned back to his dinner with a frown and said nothing else the rest of the meal.
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Alex Dale@typofoto·
“The essence of a thing is that it has no essence” is the core 21st century idea that is the basis of every other bad idea out there. It’s intellectual defeat taken to its logical conclusion.
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john sturgis@sturgios·
Affray in a manger
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Southend United FC@SUFCRootsHall·
⏸️ All square at the halfway mark.
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john sturgis@sturgios·
More Beatles meet royal banter gold :
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john sturgis@sturgios·
Fabulous banter from the Queen Mother on meeting the Beatles in 1963
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S📍mon 🅿inkerton@SimonPinkerton·
@CharlotteCGill "Are you able to imagine a flat, but a small one?" "No I can't even conceive of that." "Have we got the experience for you!"
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S📍mon 🅿inkerton@SimonPinkerton·
@FUDdaily She's a very successful headmistress, not Harry Potter. Seems very churlish to attack her for not curing all societal ills
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Pete North@FUDdaily·
I was going to let this slide but it'll annoy me if I don't address it. Birbalsingh says "We sing God save the King, Jerusalem and I vow to thee, once a week. Find me another school that does that! You should see what we do for Remembrance. We write a card yearly for the Queen’s/King’s birthday." -- These are performative rituals. This does not make for integration, not least because British kids don't even do any of this nonsense. Integration, insofar as it does happen these days, is when ethnic minority kids are exposed to real British culture - which they're not going to get from Birbalsingh's contrived curriculum - especially when her school is in London and majority BAME. They can only integrate by being exposed to ethnically British kids. As such, it is not an exercise in integration. It's little more than elite socialisation. It doesn't mean her kids will grow up with any better of idea of what makes Britain tick. Moreover, when she still allows her kids to wear hijabs and other ethnic garb, she cannot possibly tell us with a straight face that she's making a serious contribution to integration. It's essentially reinforcing separatism - making no demands of foreigners to compromise their ethnic/religious identity. The precise opposite of integration. But this isn't telling us anything new since Birbalsingh sees no problem with a Moslem separatist being on the board of Ofsted. At best, she is rearing a cohort of "citizens of nowhere" who will no doubt pass their exams with flying colours, and fit in sufficiently to work in law, politics and media, but only as part of a class of internationalist cosmopolitans incapable of relating to anyone without the exact same indoctrination. Regime clones basically. We're supposed to praise this as the new model for education but it's more of the same multiculturalism only it's wearing civic nationalism as a skinsuit. You have to be a complete moron to fall for it.
Katharine Birbalsingh@Miss_Snuffy

It isn’t a PR stunt. We have been doing this for years. My kids will know more British history than any kids their age anywhere! We sing God save the King, Jerusalem and I vow to thee, once a week. Find me another school that does that! You should see what we do for Remembrance. We write a card yearly for the Queen’s/King’s birthday. But you won’t know any of that because we have quietly been doing this for TEN years. So don’t insult me with your inaccurate slander. You know nothing about our school or me. Feel free to fantasise about deporting me in a helicopter but do not question my integrity again.

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Nick Dixon@NickDixon·
Gary Neville is watching this relieved that someone else is making a bid for worst person in the country. x.com/TheGriftReport…
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S📍mon 🅿inkerton@SimonPinkerton·
@pcgamer Hey guys, if we all make a 2nm chip each at home, we'll be back in this thing!
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PC Gamer@pcgamer·
'Much of the value creation in the semiconductor industry is occurring outside the EU' says EU member states, and they want a fresh plan to claw some chips back pcgamer.com/hardware/much-…
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Charlotte Gill@CharlotteCGill·
Meet Migrants' Rights Network "We are a diverse team majority led by migratised people and People of Colour, essentially first and second generation migrants but there are also numerous other intersecting identities" migrantsrights.org.uk/about/who-we-a…
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Charlotte Gill@CharlotteCGill·
Organisers want attendees to arrange themselves into blocs including “migrant and racial justice”, “workers and trade unions” and “climate justice”:
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Charlotte Gill@CharlotteCGill·
Another Far Left protest begins tomorrow - whose assembly point is Portland Place (the same place the “Stop Trump” protest met at last Wednesday). Zack Polanski (who spoke at the Stop Trump protest) is on tomorrow’s speaker line up, as well as wealth tax lobbyist Gary Stevenson:
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S📍mon 🅿inkerton@SimonPinkerton·
@Keir_Starmer Congratulations to the cast of Basic Instinct. I watched that interview bit with Sharon Stone many times, pausing it until the tape went all wonky. Its success is a reminder that sometimes women don't wear knickers, but they also might be murderers, so stay vigilant, voyeurs!
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Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer·
Congratulations to the cast and crew of Adolescence – an impressive sweep of wins at the Emmys. I met with the show's creators and campaigners earlier this year to talk about the issues Adolescence raised. Its success is a reminder that we need to keep conversations going.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer

The challenges raised by Adolescence aren't something we can simply legislate for — if I could pull a lever to solve it, I would. It's only by listening and learning from the experiences of young people and charities that we can tackle this. That's what I've been doing today.

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PC Gamer@pcgamer·
'It would have damaged us forever': After the calamitous cancellation of Football Manager 25, what does FM26 need to deliver? pcgamer.com/games/sports/i…
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