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What terrible VT are they gonna have at the coronation? I would guess Ted Lasso zoom call with William "is Charles avaliable to play rightback over the endline"
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In honour of the latest round of Vice layoffs, here's the time employees were thanked for reaching 2 million subscribers by a naked Shane Smith (this is still on Vice Youtube)
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people trying to draw conclusions about the state of media but vice was a unique case of a solid business (profitable production house + advertising agency alongside the journalism) run by a megalomaniac moron who thought he was richard branson on dmt
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I first met Shane in 2011 in a Japanese restaurant on Russia’s Chinese border. He was a week late to a shoot I had meticulously produced on N. Korean slave labor. He spend the whole meal talking about gold watches he owned. Who’d of thunk Vice would fail? nytimes.com/2023/05/01/bus
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every time these Debate Me Bros actually get a platform to talk, the only evidence they can muster is a fake anecdote attributed to no one about something that happened in school or college mayb
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How is this real life? How are two grown adult men having a real conversation about the biggest threat to humanity being the "woke mind virus"?
Elon Musk starts rambling about how there's more to George Washington than slave ownership and Bill Maher goes "POC did slavery too"
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In honour of the latest round of Vice layoffs, here's the time employees were thanked for reaching 2 million subscribers by a naked Shane Smith (this is still on Vice Youtube)
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Carlson this week was showing footage of black teenagers in Chicago saying "this is why we used to shoot looters" - his show was a cauldron of violence and hate till the end. Terrifying to think what he could do next
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every news channel currently discussing Tucker, except for Fox News which is discussing transgender athletes
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just put on Fox News and they're still running trails for Tucker Carlson's show tonight so this was definitely a very recent decision
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Melting the onstage ice rink with minutes to go? Spinal Tap could never
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compare to him doing it at glastonbury 9 months ago - everyone vibing, doing their first bumps of the evening, just a bit of
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coachella really is the deadest vibe in the west - look at Burna doing Ye for this gormless statues
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heinously ugly and designed by a failure, i can think of nothing that’s as bad at doing its one job
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me, still high on mushrooms, discovering new york’s public urination laws for the first time
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Write a story in the style of Sally Rooney about a woman trying to return a pair of trousers to Matches dot com
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I put comments on because I thought it would be cool for other people to share their stories but it's literally just 300 blokes who all work in IT saying "serves you right for not making a back-up"
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I spoke to US vets of the Iraq war about how it affected them and their families. Twenty years on, many of them feel forgotten. I hope you'll take the time to read their stories:
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I spoke to a linguist, a politician, a Head of Vibe at a tech company, a reiki practitioner, and a quantum physicist about what “vibes” means.
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On the @theJeremyVine show today we’re discussing topiary, or hedge shaping.
Our guests are a man who has a bush like a naked woman - and is plagued by drunk people interfering with it for comedy photos - and a topiarist whose name is Tim Bushe.
This is not a parody tweet.
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I lived through the first woke war, back then we called it the great war because we thought it would never happen again
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the argument in this piece seems to be: "he shouldn't have tweeted not because he's wrong or because he's breaking the rules but because we shouldn't anger the tories too much or they might punish us vindictively"
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I agree with Gary Lineker on refugees. But he should delete his tweet, for the sake of the BBC | Roger Bolton dlvr.it/SkcZfx
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surely it’s more like trying to get the violin players into the “see inside our cabin” slot in the Titanic onboard magazine
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Working in music PR right now is like being one of the violin players when the Titanic was going down
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surveillance capitalism but make it banter from the Prem's US account, who are giving away branded "mouse movers" so you can watch the match while going undetected by remote employee monitoring software
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Working hard or hardly working during #ARSMCI today?
Take a break during those workday matchdays with a PLinUSA mouse mover! 
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you lot fatally misunderstand the hedonistic melancholia that has characterised Rihanna's post 2011 career and it shows
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Not saying I could be immediately replaced by a ChatGPT but I do always look at the corner of the screen to see what day it is rather than remembering what day it was yesterday
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his blackbird spyplane incoming
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King Charles III ‘to break from tradition’ with coronation outfit choice independent.co.uk/life-style/roy
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NEW: Seneca Scott, the Coretta Scott King relative who blasted “The Embrace,” and its Boston creators tell me they’re willing to meet and find common ground.
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the way the adverts on the tube always reference that they are on the tube: next stop, pain relief
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blah blah blahing with these smart people on Today In Focus
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What do you most look forward to seeing, hearing, reading and watching in 2023?
Tell me what’s good! And join @MsEllenEJones @alexneedham74 and @samwolfson on sharing your hot culture picks for this year
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A footballing legend but most of all what a man. Genuinely a lovely person I was honoured to meet. Remember, everything you see now in football, Pele did it first! RIP.
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