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Occasional editor and writer. Purveyor of half-baked opinions. Intermittently able to make my nieces laugh. (SnoozeInBrief on Twitter)
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No, he's only Ace Merrill.
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And when you leap from "Hmm, Englishness can't just be about birthplace and legal citizenship" to "Well, it must be a matter of race", you have forsaken common decency as well as common sense.
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Just two buddies who can both read, hanging out together and doing a bit of reading together because they both definitely can
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Just two buddies who can both read, hanging out together and doing a bit of reading together because they both definitely can
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(TBH I'm the kind of rootless deracinated global elitist who doesn't watch Gogglebox, but I think this is a nice illustration of the way that fellow feeling can be made from quite mundane materials)
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I remember the roughly 2006-14ish period when the business of writing boring, confused articles awkwardly talking around the question of defining "Englishness" was dominated by leftish would-be intellectuals. Nice that the right are getting to have a go now.
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I mean, I know there are No Good Options, but slashing the development budget just as USAID is being emuskulated does seem a particularly bad option
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I mean, it can't be easy being the world's most ostentatiously obnoxious awkward weirdo, maybe this is just a legit way to meet people bsky.app/profile/tomf...
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My "We can no longer hide behind vapid statements" T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the T-shirt
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This is just indeterminately angry gibberish that bears no relation to anything that's going on in the real world bsky.app/profile/poli...
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Never tried to type Zaporizhzhia before, quite an exciting experience. Reckon it could be the new Khrushchev.