Alexander Furlong

Vid of the century

Has anyone considered translating the classics of English literature into symbolic logic? It'd make them a lot clearer and less ambiguous.

British farmers (read: landowners) threatening mass suicide over a 20% inheritance tax on their cow concentration camps is just too on the nose

A majority of only 500 is humiliating, especially for a shadow cabinet member with a national profile. It pains me to say this, but Wes Streeting must do the decent thing and resign.

The sad reality is that if the Greens hadn't stood, then much of their 1,700 protest vote would have gone to Leanne. I implored @ZackPolanski to stand down his candidate. But he put party before principle. Awful.

KEIR STARMER HEARS THE MUSIC

@arprek Great, thanks a lot!

"A people poisoned by the adulation of royalty can never attain social freedom. The mind accustomed to political kings can easily be reconciled to social kings — capitalist kings of the workshop, the mill, the railway, the ships, and the docks." –James Connolly, Irish socialist

Meia dúzia de brasileiros: "aff pesado vamos respeitar esse momento de dor" A TV aberta argentina: twitter.com/sindicatodedom…

@littmath @BarbaraFantechi @arun_bassoon @ProfKinyon @anton_hilado Ooh this is interesting. Obligatory V. I. Arnold quote:

Les 500, on les a! Donc ce que l’on répétait depuis le début de la campagne est désormais assuré: on sera là! On va donc poursuivre et amplifier une campagne anticapitaliste, écologiste, antiraciste, féministe, internationaliste. N’hésitez pas à nous rejoindre! #PoutouVaEnÊtre

Doug Scott, founder of @CommActionNepal , my dear friend of fifty years, with whom I shared some of the greatest adventures of my life, passed away peacefully at his home in Cumbria with his family around him after a brief but intense mortal illness this morning, 7 December.

On this day in 1974, at 1.45pm - between Pebble Mill at One and Music Time - we met the most important, the most beautiful, the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole world, for the very first time. Happy Birthday Bagpuss! 🥳🎉

Happy New Year . . . well maybe not if you are a fox . . . Please RT

Not a screensaver, just another view from the Lodge. #alaska #alaskasummer #visitalaska

@MercyForAnimals There is no means of determining intelligence, especially by human standards...

#Fact: Pigs are the 5th most intelligent animal in the world.

@Craig_McMorris @LonghornSaloon @RedBullCanada Thankfully it’s on YouTube for those of us who live in shred-free areas. Quite good, it must be said.

Whistler! If you’re in town tomorrow night come hang with the cast and crew! @LonghornSaloon @RedBullCanada

SIDE-HIT MADNESS ⚡️MARKUS OLIMSTAD

I found it tough to choose my desert Island climbs for @UKClimbing. bit.ly/2OEZwh3

@susie_dent On the topic of water, to quench a thirst is to satisfy a thirst. Are there any other words to this effect, like one for longing per se?

Watery origins of the day: 'river' and 'rival' are from the same Latin root - a rival was originally someone who competed for precious water from the same stream. Rivers run through 'derive' (draw water from) and 'arrive' (come to shore) too.