Ben Sixsmith
@BDSixsmith
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Anglo writer in Poland. Online Editor and podcast critic for @TheCriticMag. Subscribe to THE ZONE.
Joined October 2014
I can’t explain my own reasoning here but the girl who hangs out in libraries and cute cafès is almost certainly more left-wing than the girl who goes clubbing.
Men, your dream girl isn't on dating apps or at a nightclub, she's:. ~ At church .~ At the farmer's market.~ In the library.~ In a bookstore .~ Sipping a whole milk latte in a cute cafe.~ Baking sweet treats for loved ones.~ Spending time in nature
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Being unable to see the correlation between "wife is busy" and "baby is easy" is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on this app.
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At this point being happily married must feel like having had the morning off from your job at the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd says the future of dating is having your AI date other people's AI and recommend the best matches for you to meet
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It’s not our problem that you guys accept one day off a year and two if you’re giving birth.
Your european colleagues when you try following up with them on a critical project due two weeks ago.
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Every time Banksy is on the TL I remember Brooker's best column.
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Before young women took the birth control pill they were attracted to rugged, macho physical specimens like The Beatles.
There’s a whole male celebrity phenotype that’s basically popular because so many women are on the Pill. David Tennant, Timothée Chalamet, most of K-pop etc
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I’ve never heard a bigger lie than this.
"It's a real weakness to want to be liked, a real weakness, and I do not have that.". -Elon Musk
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*Watching explicit Chinese propaganda* I'm getting the sense that China is strong.
Watch this clip and tell me how the West, which includes Australia, can possibly defeat China in a war?. The Chinese will crush us like a bug. Those who tell us the West can win are the same people who claimed that Ukraine was winning against Russia i.e. completely delusional.
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It's time to reject the world of pampered jobs in bogus industries that these women have come to represent and embrace the cold hard realism of *checks this guy's bio* podcasting about nutrition science.
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If there’s one thing white people really hate, it’s explaining in detail where their grandparents are from.
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It's important to appreciate that this sort of person really is so dumb that they think inheriting £6 million in assets means that you have access to £6 million.
This man will inherit £6m which he will have to pay just £0.6m Inheritance Tax on, over 10 years. He thinks he should inherit £6m for free, and so should all his children and so on forever. Because he is special, he's a farmer.
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*In Africa* Damn, there sure are a lot of black people here.
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I know it's a tired subject but the real tragedy of Harry and Meghan is that they ran away to be Hollywood celebrities and it must have slowly sunk in that there was nothing at all exceptional about them.
Love is in the details. ✨ With Love, Meghan, a new series, premieres January 15.
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There’s a certain irony to the fact that Arthur Miller wrote a play about how the American Dream was an illusion and then, as a balding nerd, married perhaps the hottest woman of all time.
a thread of how marilyn monroe actually looked in real life, in honor of her 98th birthday
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It's astonishing how much of European politics revolves around politicians feeling annoyed that people are rude to them online.
NOW - Spain's leftist PM Pedro Sánchez wants to "end anonymity" of all users on social media.
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She’s wearing a Nirvana shirt while failing to recognise "Teen Spirit" precisely so as to go viral among irate Gen Xers and millennials. Sometimes the kids aren’t dumb.
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RIP but it’s a shame that he denied an entire generation home ownership single-handedly.
'Godfather' of avocado toast chef Bill Granger dies, aged 54
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It's beyond a joke that this is the second time Starmer has called "Adolescence" a documentary. He either isn't entirely sure of what the series *is* or he's completely lost his grip on the difference between fact and fiction.
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Brutal revenge for Corden and Oliver.
BREAKING: Ellen DeGeneres moves to Great Britain and says she is “never coming back” after Trump’s election win.
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All due respect, but if you believe that this is real you should probably plug your ears to stop your brain leaking out.
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Just finished my 8,000 word review of "The Joker". Can't wait to see the film.
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Something incredibly Johnsonian about how he goes to put the dog down, gets as far as his waist and then just drops it onto the ground.
Two days until you can read UNLEASHED. Out Thursday. 10.10.24. Pre-order your copy here:
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It kind of sucks Pierce Brosnan's wife that her husband finding her attractive is treated as some kind of Gandhiesque moral accomplishment.
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This piece implies that his family were fleeing the genocide, but they arrived in Britain eight years after the event. When are journalists going to ask why they were let in?.
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Gina Corano's absurd claim that conservatives are being persecuted have left us with no choice but to drive her out of the industry.
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Amazing that their instinct to maul kids runs so deep that they'll even attack them at the moment of conception.
Bully XL to be destroyed after attacking owner while he was having sex
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Two academics are sitting on a bench in Cambridge. One of them is reading an academic journal. The other is reading red pilled Twitter. "Why on Earth would you read that?" asks the former. "Well, when I read academic journals I seem marginal and insignificant. When I read red
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Say what you like about this but it takes a lot of courage to do it less than ten years after Christians murdered twelve satirists over blasphemy.
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Marquis de Sade: I enjoy rape. Literary critics: Wow, what acute sociological satire. Sade: I want to rape people. Critics: Such a devastating attack on religious and bourgeois hypocrisy. Sade: In fact, I *am* a rapist. Critics: *Sustained thunderous applause*.
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Can we all put our politics aside for one moment and appreciate the glorious insanity of what happens at 1.19.
60 Minutes goes to Sweden to make a heart warming special about diversity, but see a different situation, then this happens.
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I don’t make looks-based jokes, partly because it’s mean but also partly because I know I’m not Henry Cavill. That Cheong does so while looking like a microwaved frog is just bizarre.
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It turns out that Hitler defined a toilet as "a large bowl connected to a sewage system or septic tank", so now I’ve got nowhere to piss.
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If the most significant event in my life was an extramarital affair with Britain's least successful prime minister, I would simply not write an autobiography.
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People calling this "frightening" and "chilling" rather than hilarious aren’t going to make it.
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A lot of modern wrangling about identity is the result of people struggling to cope with the fact that they are not especially interesting.
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Have to defend Truss here. I’m not a superstitious man but if the Queen — who had ruled for *70 years* — died in my *first week as PM* I would absolutely think "why me" and so would you.
Also, 🔥Liz Truss’s autobiography extracts have just dropped … and it’s clear it’s going to be an absolute banger . In this tiny extract the Queen dies - and Truss is moved to ask “Why me?”
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It must be a sad moment when a third worldist realises that a multipolar world isn't just everybody ganging up on America and Israel.
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I’ve deleted this tweet. I responded too quickly and in a moment of heightened emotion. 1/3
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British gingers are a fascinatingly divided race. The women are strikingly beautiful and the men have inexplicably converted to Islam.
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I can't even comprehend the sheer courage that it takes to mock Jesus in 2024.
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Hi, I'm Sacha Baron Cohen, I built a career in edgy comedy that blurred the line between truth and fiction and I'm here to tell you we have to clamp down on edgy comedy and things that blur the line between truth and fiction.
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The people who would find Nazi symbolism in the price of cheese think a song about killing people shouldn’t be taken literally.
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A British schoolboy is shown the hit serial "Adolescence" (2025)
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*As I evict someone* Why don't you just build your own house? Also, you're banned from my friends' construction company, home improvement retailer, and bank.
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I don't believe in any made-up religious nonsense. I believe in cold scientific facts, like universal human rights and the equality of man.
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I'm by no means an uncritical capitalist but "your system in the middle of a pandemic is what our system looks like normally" is not the devastating own this guy thinks it is.
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I can tell you've done your research when you think a British PhD would have been funded by "federal funds".
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Bear in mind that every single person who RT'd this thinks that executing serial murderers and rapists is downright barbaric.
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Explaining to my wife that I’m following the OnlyFans model for her based political opinions.
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Elon Musk: Woohoo! Look at me! I read Douglas Adams and date indie rock stars. I'm the unpredictable eccentric of tech!.John McAfee:
Whale fucking. No joke. Each year, on Feb 1st, in the Molokai Channel, a few men compete in the world's only whale fucking contest. Humpback whales are easy to fuck- for a second or less. World record: 31 seconds. I competed once. Almost got my ribs crushed. Stick with Ostriches.
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Alright guys, I've been browsing the TL for the last 37 minutes and here's what Vladimir Putin is thinking right now. 1/580.
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This is clearly the result of *rolls dice* unemployment and *picks card* prejudice, as well as a lack of *opens fortune cookie* sports facilities.
Just watched people setting a bus on fire in Leeds on Tiktok live
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What's great about this is how Owen starts off with the cocksure ease of a middle-aged professional broadcaster about to own a random student and then gradually retreats into baffled consternation as he faces an actual argument.
Whether you agree with the young conservative or not, it’s entertaining to see him articulately embarrass Owen Jones, who clearly was trying to trip him up with this line of questioning for his next outage video compilation.
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The irony is that this is 100% the kind of person who thinks petitioning to get Andy Ngo books banned is fighting Nazism.
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Fewer people are getting married and having kids than at any time in documented history. An insane amount of blue tick posts are shadow boxing with a non-existent hegemonic narrative.
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Absolutely the best tweet of the year. I still half believe that this woman's whole career was an excuse to post it.
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This trailer is a work of art. It's like someone took the world's most boring Instagram account and set themselves the challenge of adapting it into a feature film. It's boring on such a vast scale that it becomes gripping. You can't believe it can get more mundane - but it does.
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God bless him, but Ian McEwan has clearly never read any science fiction.
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If the rumours I'm hearing are true then it’s going to be BIG news. I'm not going to tell you what I'm hearing. I just want you to know that I'm in a position to hear it.
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Europe can't depend on the US any more. We need to get serious. We need to get tough. We need op-eds. We need speeches. We need conferences. And we need them now.
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The test for whether you’re right-wing is whether you think it should be legal to enter the residence and drive him out with a crowbar.
Squatter takes over Queens couple’s $2M retirement dream home: ‘Our system is broken’
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A man expressed interest in a woman? At a social event? In real life? You’ve got to be kidding me. This I can’t believe.
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So many blue ticks have two modes: intense spitefulness and intense self-pity.
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Let he who has not done crack with prostitutes while mysteriously holding undeserved positions with dubious foreign companies cast the first stone.
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Every now and then a character pops up in American life that you have to believe the screenwriters have been cooking up for years but left on the back burner for when their other storylines got stale.
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We're all going to feel pretty silly when Vladimir Putin watches that blonde woman's poem and is so moved that he calls off the war and resigns.
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I'm learning about a dangerous subculture of self-entitled, resentful people called "incels".
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Won't someone PLEASE think of the women who get pregnant by an affair and their husband has had a vasectomy.
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My mother, Anne, passed away this morning. She was a beautiful person, who strove to do good every day she was alive and who enriched every life she touched.
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I don't think IQ tests — on which I score very highly — mean anything — despite scoring extremely highly on them.
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It's high time the media got around to featuring liberal women. For too long has their still, quiet voice gone unheard.
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These posts make it sound like these people are ascending to Heaven, which is very much in keeping with how they seem to view themselves.
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This might lose me some friends, but after a lot of thought and reflection I've decided to join Reform.
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It's incredibly Guardian to write a whole article about "attempts to portray him. as violent" and not get around to mentioning that he had a warrant out for his arrest after allegedly hitting an old woman. You don't have to excuse his death to be honest.
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It's interesting how blasé we are about the fact that so many of our leading cultural icons are terribly ill.
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Amazing. Right-wing disinformation about Joe Biden's health is so powerful that it has even reached the President.
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Well, well, well. It looks like we owe that allergy pen a big apology.
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According to Lebanese festive traditions, Nassim St Nicholas Taleb visits your house at midnight, eats the bowl of squid ink pasta that you left for him and leaves free weights and copies of Montaigne's Essays for your children.
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Someone in their nineties can't really help how they look. Those of us who are in our thirties, on the other hand.
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I think a lot of people have genuinely convinced themselves that male football players earn stacks of money because a man in a top hat determined that it would be so.
England footballer Lucy Bronze has told Sky News that 99.9% of female players couldn't afford to retire and live off their earnings. Read more ⬇️.
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Because both adverts are solely for the benefit of women.
Someone explain why the woman in this ad is not as skinny as the guy is?
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Someone is about to have the performance review of a lifetime.
BREAKING: Ship collides with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse
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This isn’t him, it’s some poor bloke who does TikToks about the Bible. I hope he can sue the pants off these engagement farming pricks.
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