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“Could you give me a quick hand with this?”

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Last day for our current special offer: any 3 Longbarrow hardbacks for £32. Offer includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite, Chris Jones, and more longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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BREAKING: Portal to hell discovered in London.

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“Could you give me a quick hand with this?”

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Support for the Far Right is highest in countries with the least immigration. (Via The Economist)

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Fewer than 50 tickets left for ‘Attention All Shipping’ show at the Atkinson in Southport on 18 March, pals. If not the hottest ticket in town, certainly one you’ll have to blow on before handling. www.theatkinson.co.uk/events/atten...

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you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no... little enough we can do but I signed this in lingering hope

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It’s not a shouting match if only one side is shouting.

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Welcome sign Kremlin, MT

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This is a President who skipped a World War One commemoration because it was raining talking to one who has stood in front of a fresh mass grave of his own people.

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Check out your pal and his fancy new hoodie.

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Looking forward to this!

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Special offer from Longbarrow Press: any 3 hardbacks for £32. Includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite, 'The Footing' anthology, and more longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Just taken delivery of these beautiful bastards. A tour programme! Me! A simple peasant boy from south-east London!

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AI is profiting from human creativity – isn’t it time creators got their fair share? A fair deal for creators isn’t just about making things right, it is essential for the future of creativity and AI. Find out more: societyofauthors.org #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans

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The word you’re looking for is “stolen”, not ‘given away’

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Feeling kinda silly that I never tried to take over America. It looks so easy.

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Who needs a miraculously complex database of all human knowledge when you can just push this Confident Wrongness Button?

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Now on sale - Attention All Shipping at Swindon Arts Centre on May 21st. I know! Blimey. trafalgartickets.com/swindon-arts...

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Musk's life is like Citizen Kane if you replace "Rosebud" with "The Ability To Tell A Single Joke"

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Can The Times please make up its mind on what it thinks the correct spelling of Alan Cumming’s name is.

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Welcome to affirmative action for white male mediocrity, which has a long, long history but is all ramped up and shouty and sulky right now.

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I know Friday night is not a great time - but if you see this post please #share even if you can't afford to donate. This poor family have been targeted by racists & it sickens me that this is happening in #Dublin & #Ireland #SpeirGorm

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I live in a classic Blue Labour constituency and can confidently say it's never really about immigration. It's scarcity of resources, people struggling, and a zero sum mentality. This rhetoric and mythmaking about immigrants getting favourable treatment is the foundation of it.

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Movies you've watched more than six times, using gifs only.

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This is a painting called Easy Peelers by Irish artist Conor Walton.

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Proper mad king stuff how Trump is essentially taking a hammer to the international order all while saying the maddest shit imaginable, and other world leaders are like “Trump is absolutely correct to raise this issue”

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Well this is excellent book post. @faberbooks.bsky.social

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Still as fresh as the day it was recorded.

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Newsletter going out shortly. Subscribe if you fancy it. Free, like. open.substack.com/pub/charliec...

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Dreamed last night I was in a sitcom in which Eric Sykes was starring as a randy vicar.

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My latest for the BBC: To mark 20 years of The Apprentice, a ‘long read’, with archive clips galore, on the BBC’s portrayal of the workplace. From the heroic steelworkers of the 1930s to high-finance drama Industry. Via Dinnerladies, Clocking Off, The Office, W1A - and Graeber’s ‘bullshit jobs’

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🇺🇦Zelenskyy pleads with Europeans to finally put aside the petty nationalism and unite to put themselves in charge of their own future. "Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."

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Manuscript #17: A solid adventure novel—we sent it to an editor who might be interested. Two days later, he sent it back, having noticed the first syllable of each chapter spelled out: "And what Jonathan Franzen thinks can suck my balls."

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‘Brief Encounter’ on the big screen. Magnificent. “Look at me Banburys, all over the floor.” Giant, big screen Banburys all over the giant, big screen floor.

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The outside of the US Department of Justice vs. the inside of the White House.

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I love finding artwork in charity shops and adding ghosts to it. #buysecondhand #preloved #charityshops #irishwitch #spookysoul #ghostpaintings

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Corporations want control over your digital books, ending the concept of ownership www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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