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Personal account of Tom Coates - currently building open and humane social media at - previously: Thington, BBC, Yahoo! Brickhouse, Time Out.

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2006

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    My long thread about being blocked and then unblocked by Trump, formatted a bit more nicely for the n00bs:

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    7 hours ago

    Americans spend more than $10,000 per person on health care, more than double the amount shelled out by people in Australia, Canada and the UK -- but those dollars don't translate into better health outcomes, according to a new study.

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  4. What I’m most surprised by is how many outfits I have in common with and

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  5. I really don’t care about sport and today is really all about sport. Not really sure what to do today instead. Tidy up and do some work?

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  6. As the stories start to emerge already that the EU is looking to negotiate a deal that is in the interests of *their member states* (shock), I direct the honorable members to my one month old thread of Brexit predictions.

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  7. At least one good joke has come out of it.

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  8. Every single small piece of fought over progress towards making the world a more united, safer, peaceful place is his mission to destroy.

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  9. Kind of puzzled that BBC’s Brexitcast is being cancelled. 90% of the negotiation and work and resolving of issues and dealing with Ireland and Scotland is still to come. Seems like it’s playing along with the “get brexit done” rhetoric. It’s not done.

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    Which union will be the next to lose a member state?

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  11. He likes Kipling, right? I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young?

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    Jan 31

    Hey and , we just made Big Ben bong for you😉. Sound on.

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    Already forward to the first post-Brexit exchanges. Leaver, 23:01- “oh look, the sky didn’t fall in!” Remainer, 23:02: “WE HAVEN’T PROPERLY LEFT YET. NOTHING HAS CHANGED.” And then repeat. All year.

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    Jan 31

    Republicans Now Say Trump Did What He Was Accused Of — They Just Don’t Care via

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    Jan 31

    A friend posted this on another social media platform, left overnight in her neighbourhood.

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  16. There’s a bunch of complexity around Bernie Sanders and his supporters, but honestly, if he were the nominee I’d support him in a moment. Same with all of them, really. There’s not a single one of them that wouldn’t be a huge step up from where we are.

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    Cipollone and Mulvaney were in a meeting in May where Trump directed Bolton to help with his pressure campaign to get dirt on Democrats from Ukraine, according to Bolton’s new book

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    Jan 31

    Just going to say thank you to all those who voted for for destroying my rights, that I’ve held for nearly 44 years; and destroying rights and economic opportunities for my nieces. Slow clap, well done. Remind me what we’ve gained, this time next year. 😥

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    Oof! Bank of England predicts sustainable growth rate so slow it would severely limit any rise in real living standards, leave public finances struggling to meet demand for better public services, and constrain "levelling up" regions via

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    Poll finds public still want UK to stay in EU days before scheduled Brexit departure date

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