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Monsieur Cartman, c’est moi

Washington, DC Katılım Ocak 2011
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Paul Lay
Paul Lay@_paullay·
I hope the engraver remembers the asterisk.
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Bill
Bill@CageFooName·
Twitter is so incredible in that someone can start an argument and the weirdly turn-based-over-time nature means they can present an argument that self defeats over a few tweets and then simply just ignore it completely
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cypherpress@cypherpress·
@pipterino You’re getting a taste for “these tweets are protected”, aren’t you?
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cypherpress@cypherpress·
@HoraceSpellman9 @echetus Crowley is a bell weather for bores. People interested in him always turn out to be unremediable bellends. This is the hill ect ect.
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Tom Whipple
Tom Whipple@whippletom·
In the fateful 1998 Reading School interhouse elocution competition, a team was disqualified because their poetry reading was Bob Dylan and he was "not a poet". I cannot tell you how delightful it was to email the head 18 years later, after a committee in Stockholm disagreed.
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad

I love this story

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John McDonnell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇮🇱
John McDonnell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇮🇱@mcdonnelljp·
In keeping with my gloomy mood (having a tooth out today, which doesn't help) let us consider the Chicken of Despair. The chicken genome is a third the size of the human, but has a similar number of genes. Surprisingly, the genetics of chicken plumage and colouration are far simpler vs human hair and skin colour - perhaps a dozen or so versus ~170 odd. This is an Ayam Cemani, a very old breed which has a mutation that results in everything - including its flesh - being black, black, don't put me in the cupboard and feed me pins Mother etc.
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Wodehouse Tweets
Wodehouse Tweets@inimitablepgw·
A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled this man by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.
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cypherpress@cypherpress·
@BellersTweets I was the back barman at the Turf in Oxford aged 16 1/4. Being 6 foot 5 helped I guess.
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Bella 𓃭@BellersTweets·
Just occurred to me that when I was a waitress at a restaurant which served alcohol I literally never, not once, asked to see anyone's ID
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cypherpress@cypherpress·
@BertDalziel @DavidPGCSE 1941. No one died. 1942. No one died. 1943. No one died. 1944. No one died. 1945. No one died. 1946…
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Arbuthnotting
Arbuthnotting@arbuthnotting·
A devilishly handsome author, no? "The corporation should be making programmes that are better than people think they want, more cultured than they feel they desire..Without excellence and without ambition, the BBC isn’t an essential public service but state-backed banality."
The Spectator@spectator

The BBC has described itself as being set to enter ‘managed decline’. The government is currently reviewing the broadcaster’s charter, and yesterday the BBC issued a response to its green paper saying that if the status quo remains, public service broadcasting will die. ‘Huge changes in the media market, audience behaviours, and an outdated funding model’, have apparently caused the BBC’s licence fee income to drop by a quarter. ✍️ Druin Burch Article | spectator.com/article/the-bb…

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cypherpress@cypherpress·
@HenryGJeffreys Neither unless noting a source*. If it’s not clear in the text, make the text clear. * I make an exception for this page from Barney D’Aurevilly (which also serves to prove the rule)
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Benjamin Lewis
Benjamin Lewis@tc1415·
We need an international lawyer trolley problem: the trolley bus is currently on the track that will run over five people. But the international lawyer, standing next to the lever, could divert it to a second track. And on the second track there are no people, but there is a big sign saying it's against international law for trolley buses to use that track. Does Lord Hermer pull the lever?
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