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I think this is what comes of a vulgar reading of polls and focus groups. Sorry, I don't care what the data says, I don't believe that *increasing income tax every year* (which is what the threshold freeze does) is more popular than openly doing it twice in two fiscal events!

South Korea gender divide update 😲 Young men lean right by 50 points (74% conservative vs 24% centre-left) Young women lean left by 22 points (58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

On the off chance anyone here can get to Liverpool this evening and wants to see Bruce Springsteen I have a free ticket. Happy to have random friends or family take it as well, just don’t want it to go to waste

weeee my Lady Gaga essay is online! newhumanist.org.uk/articles/642... [free to read]

just clocked that tomorrow isn't in fact Friday, which feels like a needlessly aggressive realisation at 9.30am

got purple second in Connections today and oooof what a way to start the day, friends, what a way to start the day

inshallah we can make it happen before 2062, never give up on your dreams everyone

Someone really needs to get on to investigating how much effort has gone into influencing police and CPS thinking about the importance of investigating every pregnancy loss in "catch a terrorist" level surveillance depth. And who put that effort together?

had a lovely evening with my friend, his five year old and his two year old and spiritually it was a bit like hanging out with your normal mate, his mate who's downed four strong coffees in a row and his other mate who's been on the lash for twelve hours

due to the ol' attention deficit disorder I frequently forget about the existence of headphones for months at a time then find some again in the flat and let me tell you: actually quite nice to listen to music when out and about, more people should be talking about this

"wait stop moving I'm trying to read the punchline"

[on a first date] and what do you do? oh, er, I'm an artist ah that's amazing! what do you specialise in? paper? canvas? er

dutchman dead for 200 years mortified that this is how he’s remembered

realise no-one asked for an update on this but since four (4) caffeinated beverages failed to do the trick, I've now washed my hair and am keeping it wet, on top of my head, in the vague hope that the unpleasantness of it being there may remind my brain that it's alive

I love to push a button and receive a pellet. A delicious treat for me? Might as well push it again. If it gives me a small electric shock once in a while, well, that's just the cost of doing business

on a related note - has an astute fashion writer done a piece on House of CB yet? because I would like to read that piece

the bandage dress being back is *for sure* a recession indicator

Me describing to my wife who is coming to "my little dinner party get together" that has, in frasier like fashion, escalated out of control:

Galaxy brain: Lift the two child cap, but the third child onwards has to join the army, like you're impoverished regency gentry.

woke up an hour and a half before my alarm for some godforsaken reason then spent an hour and a half trying and failing to fall back asleep, meaning that I'm knackered and didn't even get the extra time to put to good use, so do give me a wide berth today as I am feeling Cranky

Me walking out of the bus on MTV’s Next

reminds me of when Hollande was president and kept his private mobile phone but, allegedly, "only for women and journalists", which actually felt quite elegant

Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time

Happy Pride to these two

"ohhhh nooooo why does the press keep writing about these weird far-right cranks", say posters who then proceed to spend the rest of the day linking to and discussing the piece about the far-right crank

a thing underlying a lot of discourse is a lot of people traumtized themselves watching snuff films and want that pain to mean something and like...i'm sorry but it doesnt. watching kids burned alive is horrible. it will fuck you up and also do nothing for anyone

a very happy Pride Month to the lovely Gen Z lesbian who happily told me about her six months anniversary with her girlfriend while cutting me arguably the worst bob I've had in years 🌈

Everything you need to know about the British voting public