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#ModernMonetaryTheory is an economic lens for understanding how money works. It starts from the commonsense assertion that national governments are money-issuers, and the rest of us are money users, and that money works differently when you are in charge of creating it. 1/

It's been a decade since Hide & Seek released its absolutely brilliant "Boardgame Remix Kit": rules for new games using tokens and boards from Monopoly, Clue, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble sets. 1/

@arecular We ate partial to moutarde pickles as seen on this blog which is about crisps: cheeseburgercrisps.blogspot.com/2014/08/brets-…

Last October I ate possibly the finest crisps I've ever eaten from a supermarket in Spain; garlic, olive oil and parsley. Tonight France has matched this, and the local supermarket has given us crisps with "Jura" cheese which, if you read the small print, is God given COMTÉ

Also some of us live in the middle. Ta

Twin Peaks wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/189422732…

🗓 ON THIS DAY // 3 YEARS AGO ⚔️ Chris Wilder took charge of his first competitive game at the helm of Sheffield United as we lost 0-1 away to @OfficialBWFC. #sufc #twitterblades #UTB 🔴⚪️⚔️

40 years ago today, @joydivision's Unknown Pleasures was released. Its cover featured signals from the first pulsar CP1919. To mark the anniversary, we made this observation of the pulsar earlier today

All the balls are the same color — and that color is *brown*!

What the tweet didn't say is that the proceeds go to @ExtinctionR. Well played, @radiohead, bloody well played.

Happy birthday, Maurice Sendak. One of my very favourite anecdotes about fan mail right here:

On This Date: Ferris Bueller skipped school and went to a Cubs game ... among other things 😎

Scum and villainy gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/185113443…

Current status

@arecular At the end of the day sport was the winner

Google gives me the best updates #sport

The kids are on strike. And they are joyful and shouty and serious and thank fuck for them #climatechange

@clarered He Ioves it - thanks so much

@mr_yall OMG - am so glad he likes it. and also sorry. xxxx

And grey and red and red and yellow and green and grey and blue and blue... ⁦all thanks to @clarered⁩