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🏗️ Works in Progress issue 14 is out now! 🧬 With articles on:
• How "commune votes" ended Russian serfdom
• What it's like to be in a human challenge trial
• The demise of cut-and-cover tunnels
• How Tel Aviv densified beautifully
And more!
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Good question
@allisonpearson
! What did they do in China and Wuhan that has allowed them to get back to normal?
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So what *did* they do in China,
@allisonpearson
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Lockdowns, school closures, travel bans, mass testing, contact tracing, and masks.
The sort of thing you opposed every step of the way this year. Thanks a lot.
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Well, they *didn't* try to infect their teenage children at university, like you said we should.
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They didn't treat Covid like a lie, and *didn't* listen to people like you who said they were "pretending" that it was a lethal pandemic.
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They didn't cancel lockdowns as people like you said *we* should.
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A “welcome to Perth” sign painted on a building rooftop is scaring passengers landing at Sydney airport
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They didn't tell people that you were more likely to kill your granny by not seeing her than by seeing her, like you did.
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They didn't worry about people being "demeaned" by wearing a face mask, like you said you would be when you wrote that you were refusing to wear one.
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They didn't let people decide to ignore the rules because they didn't like them, as you did in June when you said quarantines for travellers and distancing in pubs were too much, because "Covid19 now exists almost exclusively in hospitals and care homes".
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They didn't listen to people who thought unemployment "outweighs any risk posed by the virus", like you said in April.
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Recently learned that in Minions canon the Minions are biologically hardwired to serve whoever the most evil person on earth is, so the plot has them locked in a cave between 1812 and 1968 to avoid the issue of them serving Hitler.
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Journalists: More regulation for Facebook
Journalists: More regulation for finance
Journalists: More regulation for sugary food
Journalists: More regulation for advertising
Corbyn: More regulation for journalists
Journalists: So this is how democracy dies
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If you’re at the London fireworks and managed to get a recording on your phone, please make sure to share it. Would love to take a look.
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What problem do these things solve? Why do normal locks seem to be fine everywhere else except for on trains?
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Unbelievable – a hard border, imposed by the EU, *one month* into the treaty, after it spent four years insisting that was unthinkable, to stop the UK getting vaccines it paid for, because of the Commission's shite handling of procurement. They have lost the plot.
Brexit: EU introduces controls on vaccines to NI - this is quite something ....
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I love how the rankings are
- fashion company
- weight loss company
- company making the most important and technically sophisticated industrial machines on the planet, utterly vital to the existence of modern technology
- make-up company
- handbag company
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Four people murdered in four days in London.
Meanwhile, after a national manhunt, police finally catch the people who set fire to a model of a building.
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I chop my finger off. The doctor offers me my options - reattachment, causterising the wound, letting it get infected. I'm furious. These are all worse than if I'd never cut my finger off in the first place.
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Last year the UK had the highest number of fatal dog attacks in 40 years, the vast majority caused by a single breed, the American Bully XL. Ban it and terminate with extreme prejudice.
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What's so incredible about the Covid mRNA vaccines – apart from how well they worked – is how fast they were developed.
This was the timeline for the Moderna vaccine:
Jan 11, 2020: Chinese authorities share Covid's genetic sequence.
Jan 13: Moderna finalizes the sequence for…
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Exclusive:
Foreign students will be banned from bringing family members to UK unless they study 'high value' courses under govt plans
They will only be allowed to bring dependents for certain courses ie science & if they're studying for more than a year
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Hi, it's me, a British journalist. I'm crying about my phone hacking-friend getting sacked, while I trawl a minor public figure's Twitter feed for bad tweets they did in 2012. Don't forget to give me some money by buying a paper.
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This Cambridge housing plan sounds so good. A new quarter for the city, with a gentle density, agreeablist design code, hundreds of thousands of new homes and lots of new lab space. Incredibly good news for UK science & tech.
Remarkably anti-cheems!
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I’m very proud and excited to have become a father today. Our new son is a delight - it’s been so lovely to meet and start to get to know him today. He and Flo are both doing great.
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Sounds like that mandatory bee brick regulation in Brighton wasn’t such a good idea after all. Oops!
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If police think interfering with your protest will lead to violence, they'll leave you alone. If police think they can interfere without violence, they'll stop you. That's not a good rule to have.
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New post by me:
The UK is much poorer than it ought to be – the US is nearly 40% more productive than we are.
To get richer, we need to start thinking like a developing country and focus on getting the basics, like housing and energy, right.
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*Pennsylvania after publishing in-person vote counts*
Yes, yes, well done, Republicans. Well done, Republicans. HOWEVER
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If you're a liberal, left or right, please don't call yourself a "centrist". Call yourself a liberal.
You're not compromising between extremes, you're an individualist and an egalitarian. Those are the values that built our civilization. Own them.
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The Sri Lankan President has fired his Prime Minister and this is what the PM's party's website looks like now.
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Bizarre experience on this transatlantic flight I'm on. I reclined my seat to sleep and the grown man behind me started violently shaking and kicking my seat, and refused to stop until a flight attendant told him to. Then his wife loudly declared that I was a sociopath.
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So the first time “BBC Verify” could have been really useful, the BBC immediately jumped to conclusions based on Hamas statements, including sending out a worldwide push notification blaming Israel to tens of millions of people? And these now seem wrong? Do I have that right?
BBC reporter: "The Israeli military.. have said they are investigating, but its hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli air strike, or several air strikes"
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Nice one. Now that a teenage girl has said it, we might see greens start to change their minds.
“Greenpeace is stuck in the past fighting clean, carbon-free nuclear energy while the world is literally burning. We need to be using all the tools available to address climate change and nuclear is one of them. I’m tired of having to fight my fellow environmentalists about this…
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Next time you have a pint after 11pm, remember that it's Tessa Jowell you have to thank for it.
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Rip-off Britain: my friend won a pub quiz at Ten Bells in Shoreditch in May. Prize: a £50 voucher for drinks.
Showed up this evening and they refused to honour it, right up to the manager. Absolutely shocking - they’ve lost a customer for life in me and I hope many others.
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I have written the case for Hong Kong 2.0 - a new city for Hong Kongers and Brits alike, here in the British Isles.
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The parenthood pay gap.
No wonder birth rates are collapsing.
We can't free-ride on women anymore, argues
@pastasnack_e
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If we want to support mothers and parents to have children, so that society as a whole can benefit, we need to start thinking of parenting as a public good - and pay up.
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The only reason the UK wouldn't set up a charter city for ALL Hong Kongers, on some empty piece of land on the coast somewhere, is that it seems weird and unprecedented. There is no good argument against it. If it took off it would turn the UK into a powerhouse 👍🇬🇧
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New by me in today’s Sunday Times:
Britain is being overtaken by Poland, Slovenia and South Korea, and left in the dust by America.
If we want to grow again we need to let people build houses, energy supply, roads and railways.
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This is an interesting way to describe two people who live in Cambridge.
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Buying household appliances these days is a bizarre experience. You have to spot the ones that talk a lot about how good they are for the environment, and make sure not to buy those.
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These things are great IMO. People will piss on the street whether you give them a place to do it or not. Realism about human nature beats idealism every time.
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A higher pressure shower gets people feeling clean faster. Turns out low pressure showers don't conserve water after all, so there's another attempt to reduce demand that backfired. Funny that the reaction to this thread has been so hostile when that's the big takeaway from it.
Showers use lots of water. Quite possibly more than anything else in your home.
We've done some new research on how to address this, and it's a win-win for sustainability!
Grab your favourite loofah and read on for details...🧵1/15
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If you'd listened to random people on Twitter instead of the UK govt's experts, you would have started working from home, avoiding large public gatherings and wearing a mask long before the govt eventually advised everyone to do it. Nice results for the armchair epidemiologists.
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It's been weird seeing the same people who've spent the last four years arguing for the hardest Brexit possible now saying we should end the lockdown for economic reasons even if it means hundreds of thousands of extra deaths.
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Weird communist meme that Stalin and Mao are exceptions that liberals dwell on to make communism look bad. If only they'd be fair and look at Mengistu, Kim il-Sung, Ceaușescu, Pol Pot, Castro or Honecker!
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🦠 ANTI-VIRUS: THE COVID-19 FAQ 🦠
Tackling the worst Covid Sceptic myths and detailing the track records of prominent Covid Sceptics.
Made by me,
@NeilDotObrien
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@salonium
,
@StuartJRitchie
,
@Birdyword
,
@MrRBourne
and others.
Please read and RT!
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The more I think about this the more amazed I am that it happened. The BBC's flagship news show now features a monologue of the host's opinions the start. Whether you agree with it or not this is obviously not impartial.
Newsnight is now starting with a monologue telling you what you are supposed to think. We’re being forced to pay for a left-wing version of Fox News.
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It’s going to be weird to mentally adjust to a pint not being around a fiver for the rest of my life. Is this what inflation does to you as you age - create a permanent sense of being overcharged compared to what you learned to expect when you were a young adult?
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This is messed up. These Just Stop Oil people should be in jail, and members of the public should have the right to clear a highway that's being obstructed by other people. I don't really understand what's going on here – why hasn't the govt changed the law to fix this?
🚨 | NEW: A builder loses it with Just Stop Oil protestors and begins throwing them out of the road before he is jumped on and ARRESTED by the police
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Nobody - literally nobody - remembers which is the motte and which is the bailey. Everyone has to Google it every time. Drop the fancy stuff and switch to the plain and clear “town and castle”.
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The full interview is even worse than the short clip being shared.
They talk about incels, microaggressions and abuse of MPs, but say the convicted sex offender being given asylum here isn’t relevant to the discussion. Astounding.
@BellRibeiroAddy
claims that the asylum status of the acid attacker "is not the issue" and instead lays the blame at the door of "incel culture".
These people truly believe that there is a pathway from microaggressions to dousing people in acid. I'm dumbfounded.
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I think the BBC has done catastrophic damage to itself and possibly even prospects for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine in the past 24 hours.
- Describing Hamas claims as coming from "officials";
- Speculating falsely that only an IDF missile could have caused the blast;…
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Denise Coates is a legend. Earning more than every FTSE 100 CEO *put together* – she should be taught as a role model for youngsters who think being an influencer on Tiktok is the "coolest" thing they can aspire to.
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If, as Jenrick claims, he went to drop off medicine and food to his self-isolating parents, and left it outside without going in, this is an absolutely disgraceful bit of "journalism".
Exclusive: Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick travelled to visit his parents at the weekend despite repeatedly urging the public to stay at home during the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. by
@JoshHalliday
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This is Ivor Cummins.
He became known this year for his videos assuring people that no second wave was coming because everyone was immune to Covid already.
He says he's a sceptic, and that you shouldn't trust the official sources. You should trust him.
Ivor Cummins, September:
"So around 80% are already de facto immune through cross-immunity, T-cells, prior coronaviruses. Around 1 in 5 people will be less immune, they're the ones it has to go through... Then the virus stumbles over immune people."
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I have written about Rishi Sunak's calamitous Covid track record, which might be about to get even worse.
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This is beyond parody – apparently Allison Pearson is on the "Media/PR Advisory Council" of Toby Young's Free Speech Union.
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@OxfordDiplomat
Hi Dr Cassidy. This appears – quite clearly, to my eyes – to be a copy of Julius Evola's notorious "Revolt Against the Modern World". Can you please explain why you own such a book, and why you would post a photo of it to Twitter?
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Pictured: Neoliberalism wearing the hide of its defeated enemy (2017).
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Ozempic is deeply threatening to people who use poor health, pollution, climate change, etc, as pretexts for anti-capitalism. That’s why the Guardian et al hate it.
It’s proof that science and technology are the most effective ways of solving humanity’s problems, not revolution.
a bit tired of finger-wagging "weight-loss drugs are bad mmmkay" articles. If you don't want to take them, don't! But they're helping loads of people get healthier. It's not "society" that says being slim is usually healthy, it's your cardiovascular system
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This is incredible! Extremely information-dense post about one of Britain's biggest problems.
Electrification of 76 miles of railway between Leeds and Manchester was supposed to cost £289m and finish in 2019. It will instead cost £11 BILLION and hasn't been done yet. WTF!
Is Britain getting a bad deal?
@Ben_A_Hopkinson
and I looked at 242 infrastructure projects across 14 different countries.
Our conclusion? It costs more to build new tram systems, railways, and roads in Britain than almost anywhere else in the world. 🧵
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Under new DEFRA plans, imports of unpasteurised cheese from Europe (gorgonzola, camembert) will need to be signed off one-by-one by veterinarians before they're shipped, because "biosecurity".
It's really quite impressive how stupid Brexit has been, way beyond my expectations.
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Thank you to the excellent crew member at
@virginatlantic
who was firm with him and calmed the situation down. He and his wife said I was "running to teacher" by asking her to deal with the situation. Must be a very difficult job dealing with people like that - it is appreciated!
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Stick it in a Brit ISA and by the time you retire it could be worth as much as £12,000
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It is really insane that *one week ago*, Parliament was so intimidated by terrorist threats that it changed how MPs voted.
And now, instead of finding out how on earth that could happen and what to do about it, the media is counting how many times the PM has visited a mosque?
Conservative source points out tonight that Rishi Sunak has never visited a mosque during his time as Prime Minister.
All of his predecessors - Johnson, May, Cameron - visited mosques in their time. (Liz Truss did not, though her premiership was of course short).
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The Weights and Measures Act 1985 requiring unit prices (£/kg, £/100ml, etc) to be displayed for most groceries is one of the best laws on the books.
If you keep the height of your carton constant but shrink the depth and width of it almost imperceptibly, by just 3.8%, you can reduce the amount of juice in it by 15% and hope people won't notice
#shrinkflation
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Not every rule exists for a good reason. Sometimes people with credentials make bad decisions. Sometimes people without credentials can spot that. I think a lesson of 2020 is to not assume that there's a hidden wisdom to every stupid thing people in authority do.
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I think conservatives' concern is that lab grown meat will get "good enough" to justify a ban on real meat, but still won't be as good. This has happened many times - eg, with fluorescent bulbs, heat pumps, EVs, artificial sweeteners, eco hoovers.
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Very unfair and misleading transcript. The guy brings up finance himself and says he’s interested in it!
SUNAK: Do you work in business.
DEAN: No, I’m homeless. I’m a homeless person
SUNAK: Is banking or finance something you’d like to get into?
DEAN: I’d just like to get through Christmas
Excruciating!
@RishiSunak
goes for photo op in a homeless shelter
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This is a very important point. Building more homes of any kind reduces housing costs for everyone.
And, I’d add, building “luxury” homes increases the quality of the median home available, whereas insisting on “affordable” homes reduces it.
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It's been great to see so many of my friends lose weight over the past six months. Some look 5-10 years younger, and no doubt all of them are healthier now. Something big must have happened to their food environments earlier this year.
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I love spicy foods like red curry or ketchup, but the Popeye's spicy chicken burger is way too much. Every time I've had it, it's blown my mouth off and left me in discomfort for hours. I'm amazed that such a mass market product has the heat turned up to 11.
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Imagine taking out sixty grand of student debt for this
This should be required teaching across every school in America.
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Violently rapes 13 year old girl in a park → let off jail because Scotland believes that under-25 year olds' brains haven't developed enough to know not to rape
Breaches community order → judge 'minded simply to admonish and take no further action'
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Savings tip: if you buy a coffee a hundred times a year, and it costs £3 each time, by giving up your coffee habit you could save up to £300 a year.
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I'm obviously biased, but I hope the UK govt will consider offering vaccines to the Irish govt.
After a difficult few years it would be a generous gesture, and it would make it possible to create a Common Travel Area immunity zone between the two countries.
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This is a bad idea.
- More luggage = more fuel, which costs money and creates more emissions. That will mean higher ticket prices overall.
- Printing boarding passes in the airport requires more staff and creates longer queues. Charging for this makes people do it themselves…
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I've complained to the BBC. You might not like Grimes but journalists lying to damage someone's reputation like this is very dangerous.
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The entire "degrowth" movement seems to be premised on a misconception that economic growth is driven by resource extraction, rather than innovations that use fewer resources & less labour to produce more wellbeing – the thing the blurb says we should do.
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@murphy_simon
@JoshHalliday
He dropped off food and medicine outside and didn't go in. His parents are self-isolating. What the hell is wrong with you?
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Don’t want to be premature but so far having a baby is much less hard than I was told. Even including waking up repeatedly to change him, settle him, etc, I’ve averaged about six and a half hours a night since he was born on Saturday (see below). He’s also very cute and lovable!
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Unpopular opinion: if everyone was a little bit kinder to each other, and considered where the other person was coming from when they disagreed, the world would be a much better place for everyone.
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Imagine tactically voting for *Jeremy Corbyn* because you think it'll stop Brexit. My foot hurts, please amputate my leg.
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