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Forgotten history meets comedy in this storytelling podcast hosted by singer-songwriter and journalist Kaine Francesco.

Joined January 2022
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There’s a VERY good reason asylum seekers get circus tickets and Amazon parcels. But the Mail on Sunday was never going to tell you that. Here’s the crucial detail they left out: 🧵
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Alexander: “I’ve done conflict resolution for 10 years” Alexander: “We could flip coins??” Literally everyone else: #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK
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Claudia: “traitors” Linda: #TheTraitors
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- puts on a fake Welsh accent to be more trustworthy - nobody buys it - gets votes at the roundtable anyway - everyone else votes out the actual Welsh person - has to keep doing the accent Beautiful piece of television #TheTraitors
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absolutely obsessed with her pretending to be welsh for literally no real reason… proper television is back #TheTraitors
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1. Why is the hashtag #FreeSenegal, first popularized in 2021, trending once again in 🇸🇳  Senegal? A thread. Picture: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images
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While the nation weeps ….. Mother made this…… #TheTraitorsUK 🌹 🍷
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The cult of Paul
Paul is the kind of evil I do not enjoy. Harry is the kind of evil I do enjoy. #TheTraitors
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We lost a generation of LGBTQ+ people to HIV/Aids crisis. We lost a generation of LGBTQ+ people to Section 28 I’ll be damned if we’re losing another generation to this anti-trans moral panic. Let us live. theguardian.com/society/2023…
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A combo of playing at @GreenManFest then watching Heartstopper made me all soppy 🥹 A little song I started writing - what do you think? @Heartstopper_TV @netflix – at Merton, London
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Dresden, Germany — a beautiful and historic city. Not exactly. Everything you see here has been built in the last 25 years...
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This painting has no brush strokes — it is made from over 2,000,000 individual dots of colour. And though this may look like nothing more than a sunny afternoon in Paris, it has a much darker hidden meaning...
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Do you ever feel that older cities are just more interesting than new ones? Well, it isn't just because they're old. It's because of something called "vernacular architecture"...
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HOW TO WEAR A SPORT COAT WITH JEANS I see this sort of outfit all the time in the city, and it's pretty abysmal. So let's talk about better ways to wear sport coats with jeans 🧵
Yesterday was a great day in SC with 1,600 people turning out for our event with Governor DeSantis in Spartanburg! 🇺🇸
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Omg!!! My song Catching Fire has been used in the new @netflix show #Ultimatum #ultimatumfrance !!! 🥹 and we only found out because Finn was watching it! 😂😍 scene is at the end of episode 1 if you’re intrigued! @TheUltimatum @ultimatumfr @NetflixFR
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Here’s the video in which Vote Leave promised shorter A&E waiting times once we left the EU. Now, six and a half years after the referendum, the number of people waiting for more than four hours in A&E is the highest on record.
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Sometimes I race the toaster to do everyday tasks like make a cup of tea or go for a wee because when I win it brings a tiny bit of joy to my sad, pathetic, pointless existence
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Please retweet the shit out of this thread. Thank you.
$725 million is the settlement in America - but @facebook @meta was used to directly bombard c. 7 million with 1 billion Facebook ads grossly distorting the truth in the last weeks of #brexit by @Dominic2306 - he credits these ads as crucial see them here parliament.uk/globalassets/d…
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