Tipsified Pumgirdles.
England, United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
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On my gravestone, please put:
She took umbrage with the use of βimpactβ as a verb, but had no effect.
Why do Americans say βsolve forβ instead of βsolveβ? Whatβs with the random pre(post?)position?
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No economist has ever explained the trap of being poor better than Terry Pratchett's boots theory.
A wealthy man buys a $200 pair of boots that lasts ten years.
A poor man can only afford $40 boots that leak after six months, so he spends $800 over the same ten years and still has wet feet.
Poverty isn't just a lack of money.
It's a continuous subscription fee for not having capital up front.
Letter from my grandfather to his parents, 10 September 2016:
βYou probably read in the papers of the recent fighting? I was in that! The first time I've been "over the top". Our Artillery gave the Hun Hell for more than a week.β
He was 21. #Remembrance
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In Memoriam - the Gas Light and Coke Company War Memorial Lamp
This war memorialβs eternal light is maintained by our friends, the London Lamplighters, the service and repair engineers who maintain the capitalβs remaining 1,500 historic gas lamps. π§΅tinyurl.com/cmpmxze6
βItβs a story with more rough edges than the oldest of cricket bats.β
As the @BBCNews βsandpapergateβ story concludes on @BBCRadio4 I canβt help wondering if journalists are now using AI prompts to write their scripts.
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In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. βBooks cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column β¦ Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, βNow at last you can read all the classics.β β¦ School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?β
In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated βsummariesβ of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
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Feeling proud now of this unique British cultural export
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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing β after they've exhausted all other options." β Winston Churchill
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I need everyone to pause and acknowledge Zelensky in all of this.
Ukraine has been chipping away at bot farms...and they timed it perfectly so Trump and Elon and co wouldn't have time to "fix" the damage done to their false social media support
The drop-off in bots was immediate and exposed things exactly when it was most important
A hero in every sense, that guy.
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I think we owe Zelenskyy a huge debt in bombing Russia data centers.
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Russia is a terrorist state.
Putin is a genocidal war criminal.
Trump is complicit.
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Iβm fed up with certain politicians saying we need to βrespectβ the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum.
A decision by a narrow majority 10yrs ago that turned out to be a disaster does not have to be respected.
If a democracy cannot change its mind it ceases to be a democracy.
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After the referendum, the BBC chief Lord Hall ordered the BBC to treat Brexit as a done deal, a decision which all but wholly excluded Remainer opinion from the BBC for over 2 years, thus grossly biasing the debate. It was a grotesque abuse of democracy.
radiotimes.com/tv/current-afβ¦
Brexit was won by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. This was just one of them.
#BBB Brexit Betrays Britain β at Brighton, England
I remember discovering a male colleague was on Β£16k more than me for the same role. I recall another man telling me pay inequality wasnβt a big deal as it was βonly a little less a year.β #equalpay #genderpaygap @DWPgovuk
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We need to reclaim November from the commercial Christmas-pushers. Here's some suggestions.
1st: All Saints
2nd: All Souls
5th: Bonfire Night
11th: Remembrance
Post Remembrance: Martinmas
Last Sunday before Advent: Stir up Sunday
30th: St Andrew's Day
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This was the biggest case of wholesale fraud ever committed in the UK. And not one single person has been held to account.
Revealed: More than 30 senior Tories named in new Covid PPE βVIP laneβ records democracyforsale.substack.coβ¦
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Remember in Schindler's List when the Nazi commander uses a sniper rifle to shoot prisoners in the Concentration Camp.
This is a video of Israel using machine guns from a tank to shoot prisoners in a Concentration Camp.
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Iβd like to mention Mrs Thatcher warning about man-made climate change being a threat as big as nuclear war, not because Iβm a fan of Mrs Thatcher, I canβt stand her, but I think itβs important that people on the right understand that climate change is not a left-wing conspiracy even though the fossil fuel propaganda says exactly that