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My childhood teddy bear is named clacton, since that’s where my great aunt bought him for me. I was a very literal child.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Oh goddamnit
ffs
Right after we said ‘stop scratching the couch!’
one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible
I told him to sit while I got out of the gates without letting him out. He sat, somehow, sarcastically.
‘Get out of my chicken coop’
Somebody’s cosy.
Yeah it’s more that I’m not sure it happened.
I haven’t had a look yet!
TWENTY?!
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Certainly!
all roads lead to rome, all bluesky threads lead to this
Wondered why I never wore a particular pair of trousers. Put them on. Drove to Auckland. Got out of car. Trousers fell to ankles in mercifully empty car park. Ah. That would be why then.
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Yes!
He a-ways wins!
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Oh no
Dog came to say hi
‘Chris, stop paying attention to auschwitz and pay attention to the office
He’s in Poland! He doesn’t hate you
thanks for that ft
Which proves our way of dealing with them works!
Seeing a lot of critical responses from medievalists about this BBC 1066 thing. As an early modernist, just to say that I'm happy to confirm that medieval people were indeed covered in dirt all the time and did all sound like they were in the Wurzels.
I am very excited to see everyone posting about Tailor Swift. I too am into Well-Tailored safety net policies Swiftly implemented due to enhanced state capacity.
Found this video of me introducing the archives of the NHSN on our YouTube channel - if you can ignore my face and delivery, it's a decent introduction to some of what's cool in our collections: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnon...
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
Oh for the love of
Inshallah
update: they use the "YOU'RE GONNA GET NUKED" sirens as a call to all the volunteer firefighters to go to the fire station.
Lights flickered for a few minutes, then civil defence sirens went off. I presume - still being alive - that it’s a test. #nz #auckland
a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true.
Ty, ty!
Absolute drive by
:D
Ty!
Ty!
Ty! Yes!
You sure about this, Google?
No!
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BEN BRATTON MENTIONED
Replied 没问题 to an older Chinese woman thanking me in mandarin for holding the door and she jumped in terror :(
Yesssss
Oh right yes the courgette and river water incidents, tho sepsis and car crash weren’t my fault!
Grateful for being alive, I think
37 tomorrow. Fuck
Studies continue, should know in c70 years …60ish ….50ish
Oh delingpole back then emailed me to say how he could cure my m.e via breathing exercises
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"Comparison of the Papacy with the Kingdome of Fayries"
“Thus, wine, women, and song all figured in Hobbes's personal example of how to live in a "harmonicall" manner more hobbit than Hobbist.”
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Nyika found a book of Michael d Higgins’ poetry in a charity shop today. We live in New Zealand.
It's quite funny that fairly early in its history philosophy invented writing well (Plato) and reasoning well (Aristotle) and made it clear you can only do one; subsequently clarifying that we'll typically do neither.
"Tiny Sok" by Pants theartofpants.com/products/tin...
Ñēkah
When you struggle to find the equivalent of a word or phrase in another language, do you sometimes find yourself opening Wikipedia, searching for it then navigating to the "languages" section to get its title in the other language? Well, I do, and I got tired of it, hence: #linguistics #xl8 #xl9n
lmao
Yeah do not do this. Ffs.
Saw this film in Toulouse, where a cinema full of French people sang along
Oh her! Yeah awful person, terrible to work with, then wondered why she didn’t get any work offers
Oh look at Mrs optimist over here, assuming we’ll have historians in 2060
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*finally*
This country man
interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? me: er yeah they're called line breaks, they make it easier to read
Oh that’s intensely cool, I spent a month at McGill looking at the Burney letter and it was v fun
This brings back memories. I did a postdoc at McGill in the 1980s working on the Index Emblematicus series of books.There is an emblem by Paradin tattooed on my right ankle.
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Right, yes. It also rationalises throwing allies under the bus - if you think eg trans stuff is just a matter of alienation, something to be abolished under utopia, then you’re happy to side with social conservatives who’ll vote left economically to get to that point
