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powerful wizerd@powerfulwizerdOct 26
I’ve asked this before but is there any historical event that is like the Opposite of 9/11. Like something so good that happened that it changed the world forever
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I know this is an unpopular opinion around here, but globally there has never been a better time to be alive than right now. That’s the result of hundreds, thousands of reverse-9/11 events.
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In 2001, 25% of the world lived in extreme poverty - now it’s 10%.
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Can anyone imagine what a museum curated by Tommy Robinson and Stephen Kerr would have in it? Old copies of Loaded Magazine, ash trays from McDonalds and Kappa trackies with poppers up the sides? As a foreigner I'm sure it'd not have me in it anyway
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
@TRobinsonNewEraOct 25
DEI officers at Glasgow Museum are removing 3000 years of Ancient Egyptian history because the mummies didn’t "give consent" 3000 years ago. Absolutely retarded.
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Went up a hill. It was lovely.
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After over a decade, we have a cat again - this is Pepper, and she’s lovely…
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“Go away, you’re ruining my mojo.”
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“This box has been provided for your convenience, and to stop you climbing into the Airfix box.”
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A cigarette in his left hand, his right on the trigger, his gaze lost in contemplation. A French riot policeman.
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Stupid, small things that matter. This disused phone box operated happily as an informal beach toy library on the Falmouth sea front for years until someone decided it had to be removed for “health and safety”. 1/2
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It’s obviously a bald bloke looking over his shoulder, but if this leads to a national ban on Corporate Memphis then I’m all for it.
IslamophobiaUK
@uk_islamophobiaOct 26
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
That is an illustration of a balding man looking over his shoulder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter…
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James Heale
@JAHealeOct 25
Best anecdote in Carol Thatcher's book about her father is when Sir Denis boarded a train at Paddington in which the only empty compartment was reserved for Rosewood Psychiatric Hospital. Denis travelled alone and in comfort as far as Reading when "all these chaps piled in", accompanied by a male nurse, who counted them before the train moved off. 'One, two, three, four ... who are you?" "I'm the Prime Minister's husband." "Six, seven, eight, nine..."
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If there’s anyone on Earth who should be able to recognise obvious satire…
John Cleese
@JohnCleeseOct 24
Sounds more like an apology for British comedy
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The interesting thing is it’s perfectly fine to object to this on “dignity” grounds, but that’s not what the museum code of conduct talks about, and it’s hard to see the dividing line between mummies and other artefacts.
The National
@ScotNationalOct 25
As the row over the display of Egyptian mummies rages on, perhaps the real absurdity is not that we’ve begun to question public display of the dead, but that we ever imagined their silence gave us the right to do what we pleased with them, Andrew Tickell writes ✍️
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The EU fee was about £12.6bn a year, whereas the estimated Brexit loss of output is now roughly £170bn–£230bn a year, with an associated loss of tax revenue of roughly £65bn–£85bn a year. That makes the fee equivalent to only about 5–7% of the estimated annual GDP loss. #BrexSHIT
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Did nobody stay at holiday homes before Airbnb? It was probably less common, but still happened a lot - we did Landmark Trust holidays as a kid, we’ve been staying on a Arran every year for decades, etc. Tidying up before you leave is completely normal in those places, but I guess if you’ve only stayed in hotels it seems a big ask.
Edward Hardy@EdwardTHardyOct 25
After you stay at a hotel, do you strip the bed & wash the sheets? After you eat in a restaurant, do you wash the plates and cutlery? If you book an Airbnb property, you’re a customer, not a house guest This new policy is long overdue to get Airbnb hosts under control
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I'm just going to point out that there are two people at the start of this hike.
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It is an oft-noted effect that people seem to get more conservative as they age, but the corollary is that people who were very liberal try to fight against this as they age, and stay relevant by climbing onto new cultural bandwagons.
Alanis Morissette
@AlanisOct 23
rest 🙏🏻 ✨✨ with trans voices in london ❤️❤️🥹 thank you for your channelings and moving your wild and hair-up-on-arms magic with me. i love you 🫶🫶🏳️‍⚧️ alanismorissette.lnk.to/rest…
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I know I do this, I worry that for various reasons my own Overton Window has shifted right - I think it probably hasn’t, but it’s something to think about.
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We’re consulting on proposals to make Maryhill Road, Bilsland Drive, North Canal Bank Street, Shields Road and Maxwell Road safer and more accessible for active travel. Attend the Southside drop-in event or have your say on all routes via surveys 👇 glasgow.gov.uk/15840
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scar@7scar123Oct 22
Ukraine is the easiest and best litmus test to see if a leftist has any principles other than "uhh west bad"
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Just back from staying in an Airbnb and when we left we emptied the dishwasher, stripped the beds and took the bins out. What mugs. (Honestly, the people moaning about having to do this are a. slobs, and b. didn’t grow up staying in Landmark Trust properties.)
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