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I was brought up to the sound of the synthesiser, I learned to dance to the beat of electronic drums
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People who abstained from voting to decriminalise abortion: -Wes Streeting (health secretary) -Bridget Phillipson (women and equalities minister) -Rosie Duffield (top feminist and woman defender)

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lmk when AI can make a computer that will shut up when my dad yells at it to shut up

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And now cheers, the weather

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Now it's only the racists that stand between us and America blowing up the world

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has anyone written a literary critique of the alt texts on the James Webb space telescope images?

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The only thing preventing Jess from working is Keir Starmer.

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Fucken Americans can't even assassinate their own president, how they gonna get an Ayatollah?

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No doubt in my mind Kamala would have done the same thing but painted this all as a question of “freedom” “democracy” and “dignity”

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ICE arresting the NYPD is introducing deep quantum uncertainty into the Cool Zone

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Christ there's nothing a Labour Government loves more than a middle eastern war

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american watching british panel shows: it’s just funnier. and more human. they know how to laugh at themselves brit watching british panel shows: he’s a terf. everyone here went to cambridge, he’s married to the producer. he should be in jail for tax evasion. the wrong guy on 8 out of 10 cats died

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Anyone fancy a walk around Secret Bloomsbury with my ex-colleague the great Ross MacFarlane? See www.sohemiansociety.com/opening-page for details...

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Never wanted to litter my writing with semicolons more than after reading this homophobic bullshit from Vonnegut; what a prick.

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Now make it legal to push Americans and people from the Home Counties out of your way

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Steven Johnson using generative AI is no big deal because Steven Johnson isn't a historian, he's a (very bad) pop culture journalist. Fred Turner using it is a little bit more depressing. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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My kids think that doing anything at a normal pace is 'speedrunning' it

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We need to ask questions about what it is about the culture of MPs of this particular ethnicity that makes them continually be arrested for sexual assault

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archivists: we have no help maintaining the overwhelming pile of digital projects that were funded by one-time grants and have extensive recurring resource costs, this is a huge problem for literally every discipline venture capitalists: would you like a sexy robot Amelia Bedelia that doesn't work

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If tech people want to do something useful for historians, one problem that I actually have is that all the links to a less-than-10-year-old digitization project are fucking broken. Maybe get on the whole "making digital humanities last more than the time it takes to write a book" thing.

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Putting Tabby McTat at #14 here is a fucking travesty www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Happy Bloomsday to all who celebrate

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This is… horrible?

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It is absolutely central to my sense of personal identity that I grew up in 'London, N9' and not 'Enfield, Middx".

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Someone in the PRC gotta be looking at that military parade and just starting to fancy their chances for an invasion.

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Fuck every single reactionary that's led us into this position. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/15/trans-australian-uk-britain-tolerance

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In the UK too

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The family didn't apply nearly enough pressure

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Gonna write an entire Dan Brown-style mystery novel about the origin of the 'Wilmot' melody

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🎶 clean clean clean the fucking kitchen 🎶 make make make the bastard shine

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Time to post this again youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg?...

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Gonna start a new minimalist techno band, call it the Bryn Jonestown Massacre

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

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Me looking at this & thinking somehow they left a letter out of Rosalind Franklin's name

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New Cosey album is a banger

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fellow hayfever sufferers, I have an improvement on the pirinase nasal spray. It's called piri-pirinase, and after 50k scovilles up each nostril, you won't be worrying about pollen any more.

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You: "rethinking net zero" Me:

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Saw Michael Jackson in Hamley's once

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Madness. What will stop this rogue state? Israeli claims this is a pre-emptive strike are propagandistic nonsense: it is inescapably a crime of aggression, a core crime of international law, once called "the supreme international crime".

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You can all have your own opinions about Roger Waters' politics, but personally I still haven't forgiven him for referring to brave Irish nationalist volunteers as 'maniacs' on The Final Cut.

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good afternoon, Exeter

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