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B2B marketing strategist. Love books, bikes, cheese, and cinemas. Former projectionist. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator. Probably have a crush on you

London, England
Joined March 2009
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@DerBren
Irene
2 months
how we read your tweets
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1 year
ever wonder what the rest of Michelangelo's David looks like
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I still can’t believe my boyfriend is in so much debt that we can’t get married but I’ve taken things into my own hands now and nicked the money from my boss, if only it wasn’t raining so much, I’m so tired, oh look there’s a motel
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3 months
I practise this religiously, every day.
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1 year
ok this blew up and that genuinely feels weird and I have nothing to plug except go support your local arthouse cinema
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7 months
There will be blood tests
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3 months
@CheapeDouglas curious hobby, taxidermy.
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2 months
loving this mockup of an “academic book” in a bbc show
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1 year
@Swaefastide I think they called it too modern at the time
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3 months
New Paul Auster just dropped
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okay margaret have a magical day
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if i was rich i'd pay 2 private detectives to follow each other around all day
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1 year
@tejuabiolaart easy mistake to make
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@DerBren
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4 months
No idea what to say after leaving a cinema with your mates? Afraid of sounding banal? No worries I’ve got you covered with these 3 comments that work every time: 🧵
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@DerBren
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10 months
my mum has locked herself in a church and won’t come out until you all like my tweets
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1 year
me rn
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4 months
3. “It’s almost like [insert city/landscape the film was set in] was a character in its own right”
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@DerBren
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25 days
if one more strategist suggests The Art of War as essential reading, I’m gonna scream. Oh yes, Dave? When did you last move swift as the wind and closely-formed as the wood? I did not exactly see you attack like the fire and be still as the mountain in that meeting today
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4 months
1. “I really didn’t appreciate the colour grading, too much cyan in the blacks“
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2. “A real departure for [minor actor nobody recognises] from their usual character. good on them for not being typecast”
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3 months
Burrito, love of my tongue, death of my heart. My sin, my soul. Bur-ri-to: the smack of the lips turns to a trill then steps up the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Bur. Ri. To.
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@DerBren
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5 years
@thricedotted thanks for explaining! I’ve been using Rev and as it’s cheap I assumed it was all voice recognition tech with some light-touch human editing. I’d be happy to send my transcriptions your way directly if that means you get paid a decent rate (i’m only an occasional user though)
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@DerBren
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2 years
fair.
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13 days
like this tweet and I’ll tell you which Hitchcock character you are
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6 months
why do I keep shitting the bed
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20 days
what I meant when I said “here for you”
@CheapeDouglas
Douglas Cheape
21 days
Highland bankers.
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13 days
I got Slovenia in the office sweepstakes. GO….Slovenian team!
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8 months
somewhere back there is a very very scared little cat hiding from my scary flat. everyone say Hi [but quietly]
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4 months
bonus comment (for advanced users): “A minor [insert director’s name] if you ask me”
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@DerBren
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9 months
Lorem ipsum, and I can’t stress this enough, dolor sit amet
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8 months
ooh-ooh here she comes she’s a
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@DerBren
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10 months
@mualphaxi maybe the reason you’re so upset is that in the first year, one doesn’t get much further than “polytropon”
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3 months
Night of the Hunter. 🙂‍↕️
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8 months
I was gonna try homelessness today but then I quite fancied white water rafting
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@DerBren
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6 months
when they do those 30 under 30 lists what nobody mentions is how many of them had mice secretly tidying their workspaces overnight
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@DerBren
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5 months
roses are red Dylan’s homesick blues was subterranean
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@DerBren
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1 year
@FernRiddell People can be held accountable without a public witch-hunt or tons of social media speculation before anyone knows any facts though. And if you’re suggesting the MH crisis isn’t real…then I just hope you never go through bad MH without it being taken seriously
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@DerBren
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17 days
with private likes how do I show people I fancy them???
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@DerBren
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6 months
It’s my birthday! I’m going to spend it in the Sauna with this month’s Sight and Sound, then at the Nürnberg Christmas market for Glühwein. It’s all about staying warm
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@DerBren
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10 months
update: i’m going for an interview
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10 months
I applied for a badly paid dream job in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. If I get it, romance is guaranteed to ensue, right? right?
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2 months
@crapolatombola counterpoint: people do weird stuff when life is too much and that’s her way to communicate and connect, also she’s young and this is probably the hardest thing she or anyone ever has to do deal with so give her a break
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9 months
cannot stop laughing at this magazine being sold in German supermarkets
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@DerBren
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5 years
There’s nothing like a well-placed quotation mark to inspire trust.
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3 months
someone did this to me, where do I sue
@thewordsionary
words 🌊
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@DerBren
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6 months
“By the false azure in the windowpane…”
@Julesk23
Jules M #ALF #AnimalsMatter
7 months
Completely irresponsible waxwing birds 🐦🐦🐦 tend to eat fermented fruit and then lie drunk on the sidewalks. Wise passers-by collect them and put them in a safe place until they sober up.
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7 months
sometimes she sleeps behind me on the sofa and makes a point of touching my back while she sleeps 🥰
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1 month
@giulio_mattioli “but they didn’t mean you” is not the flex he thinks it is
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@DerBren
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8 months
omg look what just arrived! who’s coming over this weekend with snacks?
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1 year
Susan Sontag was not just a superb critic but also such a concise and persuasive writer
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5 months
I won!!!!
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5 months
today they offered 30 days. I emailed no. will they… - bow before my negotiation skills -flat-out refuse - terminate my contract stay tuned to find out
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@DerBren
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1 year
a bleak day for compare the market’s PR department
@WildlifeMag
BBC Wildlife
1 year
The meerkat was unmasked in a scientific study as the most homicidal of over 1,000 mammals.
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2 months
@stefmowords mine is when boats beat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past, can’t stand it
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@DerBren
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5 years
Die großartige @FerdaAtaman , mit der ich einst Milchkaffees und Schinkennudeln servierte, hat ein Buch über die Wurzelobsession der Deutschen geschrieben, dass echt mal jeder lesen sollte. Kaufen!
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8 months
work selfie aka about to write yetmoreinterestingthingsonAI
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8 months
feeling fluey and absolutely not cute so will delete but look 😍
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5 months
I’m so tired all of a sudden
@GuardianBooks
Guardian Books
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‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries
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2 years
I've written a piece about psychoanalysis in film criticism and why it often doesn't work for me. It's also about how brilliant Barbara Stanwyck is in Stella Dallas.
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@DerBren
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4 months
the worst. one of the reasons in-house copywriter was such a stressful job pre-Covid. You’re expected not to mind the music played by the design department and join the jokes over at the pingpong table but still produce a 3000 word ebook on CRMs or ERPs by the end of the day
@clairestrickett
Claire
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My Roman Empire is the fact that open plan offices are proven to be absolutely terrible conditions for working... and yet nowhere I've ever worked seems to have questioned this approach. A clear route to competitive advantage for agencies, but apparently no takers
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@DerBren
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9 months
tadaaa
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9 months
I have plans
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3 months
it literally me
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2 months
what phrase gives you the ick? for me it’s “sounds like a plan”
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2 months
i’m struggling a bit rn. work is slow which is a slight worry, and I’m low energy. Which I find extra annoying because when I have work, I always look forward to having time to read and working on my own projects. now that I havea bit of time, I feel tired and brain-foggy
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5 months
Happy V day you losers
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10 months
I lost a friend last week, a talented musician and chess player and psychology prof and all-round nerd and purveyor of fun facts. Not posting for sympathy just to vent my anger at the unfairness of it all and verbally kick these bastard things in the shin
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3 months
I’m going out!
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1 year
Italian water with “decisive bubbles”. None of that non-committal faffing around of this country’s fizzy water
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3 months
It was so quiet you could hear it
@KirkdaleBooks
Kirkdale Bookshop
3 months
new Pnin just dropped
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3 months
where I’m calling from
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4 months
wtf Stoke Newington library
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3 months
off to Aldi just to feel something
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8 months
or don’t do any of these things, that’s cool too
@anothercohen
Alex Cohen 🤠
8 months
If you don’t have kids, you should: - Be hitting the gym 5 times per week - Have a strong social life - Be working on 3-4 interesting hobbies - Traveling as much as possible You have all the time, there is no excuse
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3 months
I have a financial advisor. I asked them for some help and they quoted me an absolutely outrageous fee. I used to have a financial advisor.
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10 months
As you can see, twitter, I’m having a terrible time
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4 years
@ItsAndyRyan @Cromerty Man, Woman, Camera, TV
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2 months
yeah so the reason this work will be delivered late is that I’m being sat on, hope that’s ok
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1 year
Looks like Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis star in it, with a surprise appearance by the Pink Panther
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11 months
This bedraggled Barbie has just seen Barbie and is going home to eat popcorn amd watch Cape Fear on iplayer
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8 months
cat is quickly gaining confidence. eg she didn’t like some of my decoration choices
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3 months
what I love about this place is you start thinking about a joke about Sophia Money Coutts but it’s fine if you can’t because you know it’ll be taken care of
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21 days
She’s everything, I’m just Der Bren
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11 months
That day, my job was beach
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4 months
I baked a sourdome
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4 months
These are psychopath cupboards
@KatieBrittforAL
Katie Britt
4 months
To the American people: Our future starts around kitchen tables just like this. With moms and dads just like you.
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4 months
had my hair done didn’t I
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7 months
sorry for the cat-bombing but how pretty is this little thing
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3 months
@JonnElledge as someone who works in marketing, I know that this is something non-marketers believe, but not something I’ve ever seen in practice. I’ve never seen a marketer go “let’s make an awful ad” or “let’s put in a typo to make it go viral”.
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9 months
@fliglman “It was the summer they executed the Hindenburgs”
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4 months
ladies and gentlemen, the internet:
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5 months
you can’t prove it isn’t
@swansonian
Swansonian
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@Herring1967 The Magdeburg Unicorn. It’s part of a woolly rhino but at the time they thought that was all of it.
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6 months
happy new year motherfuckers :)
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1 year
@salvatoreca27 an optimiser
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9 months
It’s my UK-versary. I’ve been here for 11 years. make of that what you will.
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1 year
Dear clients I can guarantee that no copy I ever wrote for one of you had this sort of reach
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1 year
ever wonder what the rest of Michelangelo's David looks like
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I applied for a badly paid dream job in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. If I get it, romance is guaranteed to ensue, right? right?
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9 months
@Sathnam he has eternal graduate scheme hire energy
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3 months
every time I’m about to make a terrible dad joke or dumb reply to a tweet and stop myself, I get a point. I have 1 point
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4 months
not sure 15 years on here is really worth celebrating but seeing things like the footage from the Navalny funeral shared widely, and having a bunch of reliable co-pisstakers in my pocket is pretty good I guess
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Is it ok if I say lads? as in off to Aldi lads? I really wanna say lads
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1 year
my love language is silently correcting your grammar
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@DerBren
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1 year
men on dating apps are always looking for “likeminded people” but don’t tell you what their mind is like
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