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stranded in the British Isles. producer/engineer/dad of .

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    Jan 6

    for UK followers: this charity helps acquire and redistribute used books to schools around the UK, and specifically try to get books by authors of similar backgrounds to the kids who are going to read them. Every £200 donated gets 40 books to a school

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  2. 27 minutes ago

    i dunno if this is the worst 'related items' i've ever seen or the best

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  3. Jan 8

    John is discussing New York but this is also true of London (the occultists use perverted curves here though)

    every new development in this city seems like it was designed by a cadre of occultists with specific angles and symbols to trigger the end of the world
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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 7

    a story in three parts:

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    Jan 7

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned reading through the writings of academics that champion bigotry with the thinnest veneer of scholarship, it’s that nothing they produce would pass an intro class, much less survive peer review, their heads are soft and they skate by on prestige

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  6. Jan 8

    it's hard to not want to lose your mind when they spend £37 billion on an app that doesn't work and then tell NHS staff to fuck themselves on a 1.1% raise when inflation is 5x that. But for the time being we can get tests on demand here, and that's just not the case back home

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  7. Jan 8

    people in the UK have been surprised at how much more outcry there is in the US to delay school openings or remain on remote learning during this wave, and i feel like this is a good example of how the US is presently handling it

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    Jan 8

    it is striking how much the British media is just a few hundred people obsessing about The Trolls

    Drawing moral binaries might work in fantasy fiction, but in the real world condemning everything someone has ever done because you don’t like one of their views isn’t just worrying, it’s childish. Me on JK Rowling and goblins, for
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  9. Jan 7

    woke jury acquitted me statue defacers, proper ruddy shambles

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  10. Jan 7

    as is always saying: it's by and large a low stakes country without the highs and lows of America, and obviously America is way more violent in every sense of the word. but in terms of just general brain-melt stupidity, Britain is number one babey

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  11. Jan 7

    this is the stupidest country on earth

    It seems 'The People' are woke and so unelected judges ('enemies of the people') may have to overrule them.
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  12. Jan 7

    of course deep down I would love to buy the most high-end version of the new MacBook pro, but 1. we use Windows for all of our setup and it's easier 2. lol I'm still burned from buying a brand new one in 2016 and the speaker immediately went haywire 3. it would cost 2x my budget

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  13. Jan 7

    if you were looking to buy a Windows laptop in the next say 3 months and you didn't want a gaming laptop, what would you choose? I just want to get something that I can edit / record multitrack audio on, but the RGB lights and badass decals are just not for me, sorry

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  14. Jan 6

    on my way to another challenging racist hot yoga session in Spain with this lady who's hollering about Londonistan again

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  15. Jan 6

    i don't mean this as a sort of FBPE hoisted-by-your-own-petard kind of thing, it's just very very funny

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  16. Jan 6

    was just reminded of LBC having that caller on who howled about Great Replacement Theory and 'indigenous Britons' to Keir Starmer, and then a cursory search revealed her to be a well known bikram yoga instructor living in Benidorm who is extremely racist. full points, no notes

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  17. Jan 6

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  18. Jan 6

    let us now praise the fact that British people by and large fucking hate Tony Blair and it makes Blair nerds lose their minds

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    Jan 5

    great advice for a country full of people who will lose their home if they have to go to the hospital once

    Depressed in midlife? Try skateboarding, study suggests
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  20. Jan 5

    this would make commutes in Brooklyn and Queens so much easier for so many people. genuinely stunned to see even the most tentative of steps forward

    Interboro Express Map
    Today announced her transformational vision for Brooklyn and Queens. The Interborough Express, running along 14mi of existing freight tracks, would stretch from Bay Ridge to Jackson Hts and could connect up to 17 subway lines + , serving ~1M riders daily.
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