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Tom Phillips

@flashboy

Not here. Mostly at Bluesky: https://t.co/Mu8RrmJSnU | 🧵 https://t.co/hf3q6fMpVl | My books! https://t.co/FGNKFAHxGT

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Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips@flashboy·
If you want to find me on other websites or social networks, I’ve listed the ones I’m currently on here (and will update if new ones come along): tom-phillips.com/contact/
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Andrew Harrison
Andrew Harrison@Nndroid·
This is one of the most entertaining pod conversations I’ve had in ages, as @flashboy walks me through the history of politicians believing batshit things. Listen.
The Bunker@bunker_pod

Are MPs becoming more susceptible to conspiracy theories? In today's Bunker, @flashboy talks to @Nndroid about why politicians are increasingly falling for dark fantasies about plots and secret control ➡️listen.podmasters.uk/BNKR_240319_Co…

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Tom Phillips@flashboy·
apropos of nothing, got a bunch of invite codes for the 🟦sky place, it's quite nice right now. DM if we kind of vaguely know each other here and you want a lil lifeboat
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Sam Wetherell
Sam Wetherell@samwetherell·
@flashboy Have you read this? Its great on Stewart Brand and pre-history of the internet how the physical Whole Earth Catalogue, full of scraps and weird juxtapositions was the inspiration for the kind of network they wanted to create. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
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Sam Wetherell@samwetherell·
Came across this in the archive. Its from the early 1980s. Can anyone guess what "company" this is referring to?
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Tom Phillips@flashboy·
@samwetherell I am a huge fan of pre-internet (and indeed pre-boomer) memes, especially the ones that have successfully transitioned online. They are so weirdly resilient!
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Sam Wetherell@samwetherell·
@flashboy Fascinating - it does seem like the material equivalent of one of those boomer facebook memes. I have no idea how it found its way into this archive.
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Tom Phillips@flashboy·
@samwetherell But early 80s is a lot earlier than any other examples I know of. (Makes sense though - the UK versions on FB today still say 635 MPs, which was last the case in the 1979 election...)
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Tom Phillips@flashboy·
@samwetherell Ah, shame. It's a folklist that's being going round for decades - the numbers usually stay the same even as it gets applied to different places (US Congress, Canada, India,etc) The language - "bad cheques" - suggests a US origin, I think?
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Tom Phillips@flashboy·
@matosman also 99 Luftballons, and about 34% of all metal tracks
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Tom Phillips@flashboy·
@matosman Shamen, Destination Eschaton Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction Muse, most Muse songs
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Mat Osman@matosman·
Twitterers. Songs about the end of the world, please. (Already got REM, SFA and Skeeter Davis)
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jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky
People pointing out problems with the system of fines - they'd have to be huge to be truly punitive as they get away with stuff most of the time; they might be passed onto leaseholders; etc. I wonder if the solution is: don't fine the company. Fine the bosses or board.
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Tom Phillips@flashboy·
think I'm going to be on @LBC just after 11 talking about conspiracy theories, if anybody wants to hear me talking about conspiracy theories
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