Karl Sharro
@KarlreMarks
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Architect, satirist and extremely bad cartoonist. Director of the Institute of Internet Diagrams. Warning: may contain dad jokes. #YNWA
London
Joined March 2009
So Um Kalthoum walks into a bar. Walks into a bar. Walks into a bar. Walks into a baaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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First time the USA leaves a Middle Eastern country so quickly.
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Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted.
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The British are finally experiencing what's it like to have the British rule your country.
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It's great that the British are discovering how difficult it is to get rid of British rule.
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Why is the Middle East unstable despite decades of bombing it into stability.
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It's historical Catholics versus historical Protestants now
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My ambitious plan to free the boat is to push a huge cotton swab up the canal
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Under communism you buy everything from a single state outlet, whereas under fully-mature capitalism you buy everything from Amazon.
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The US should invade itself to bring democracy to the US.
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Afghanistan has a moral responsibility to invade the US to protect women.
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My favourite bit on Twitter is when you have to reverse-engineer the jokes to figure out what the news is.
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Twitter is like a very long novel that you read for years. You follow the characters as they change jobs, have kids, argue with airlines. Then the Nazis show up.
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One of the mysteries still out there is why the West colonised half of the world for spices and they still don't know how to use them.
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Yeah baffling
Bernie Sanders very impressed by the chandeliers in the Moscow subway stations and by the Soviet “palaces of culture.” (Really.).
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Migrants learn the new language, expats don't.
Dear @BBCNews . Why are British in Spain expats but Spaniards in UK are migrants?.
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The most disappointing thing about the UK election is there wasn't even a hint of Russian interference. It's like we don't matter at all.
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I love how these kinds of posts imply that the natural habitat of the American soldier is Baghdad or Kabul.
I spotted these National Guard troops at a normal Washington street corner not even near the Capitol. So many streets have been closed. It reminds me of the war zones I saw in Baghdad or Mosul or Falluja. So sad.
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Our bold proposal to reshape Western Europe for a more stable and peaceful future. (Inspired by what Europe did elsewhere.)
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If another country arrested that many students and professors in one day, the US would be deeply concerned.
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Leopold ll is now Leopold ＝.
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Speaking as someone from the Middle East I can't think of anything more American.
I can't think of anything more un-American than armed men storming our capitals.
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Saddam used to do that.
Trump is inviting his Cabinet members to go around the table praising him.
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It took 176 years but The Economist finally gets it.
Have billionaires accumulated their wealth illegitimately?
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This is a major turning point in history, Lebanese taxi drivers are now asking Western journalists the questions.
5 cab drivers in Beirut have asked me how Trump became president. When the Lebanese are amazed by a politician's incompetence, time to panic.
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We would like to pull down our statues in Lebanon too but they're still alive.
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Looking back at the last four years, Trump basically imported the US's foreign policy to the US.
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The red dots represent men shouting out unrequested advice to the rescue crew
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They should call hurricanes names like Mohammed or Fatima, would make it much harder for them to enter the US.
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Next up: African artists record a charity single for Europe.
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If colonialism wasn't so bad and it helped countries develop, I propose that India should colonise Britain for a couple of centuries to help it out.
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Computer, give me a graphic illustration of neo-colonialist Western arrogance.
A British tourist has been caught on video berating and then attempting to bite a chicken seller in Morocco for keeping his hens in a cage
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Centuries of colonialism: 'Get over it, it was character-building'.A few decades of immigration: 'You're ruining our culture and destroying our societies!'.
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We're a couple of weeks away from the UK asking India for economic aid.
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Middle East peace plans are my favourite genre of Western fiction.
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When the French team lift the world cup they should be accompanied by the referees that helped them win it.
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Israel has given Palestinians a choice: accept the humiliation of life in an open air prison or we shoot you. Go on, make that choice.
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What I would give to be an African official stamping 'no visa' on a European person's passport now.
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I designed a building based on journalistic and political clichés.
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They had to stop when the British Museum was full.
apparently there are only 22 countries in the entire world that the British have never invaded .
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Kill each other or I will kill you.
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I imagine Twitter like a massive factory where they assemble us all in the morning and go 'alright folks, today's topic is carrots, get angry about carrots.' And then we all set to work diligently, destroying the reputation of carrots with zeal.
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If you want to feel really old, today is the 'future' in Back to the Future (right to the minute) http://t.co/RNyGlY5BmM.
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The US exported so much democracy to the Middle East, it ran out of it.
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These flags are like the semifinal between Christianity and Islam
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As a Middle Eastern person when I go to a European museum I feel like when your visit friends and see the book that you lent them years ago.
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You want the simple one-sentence explanation for what caused ISIS?
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Some Arabic phrases, Inshallah: God willing.Hamdillah: Thank God.Nutellah: Thank God for chocolate.
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The collapse of the government in the UK shows that this country is not capable of ruling itself. I think it's time it's put under a Nigerian or Iraqi mandate until it learns to govern itself.
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The most unpredictable thing about the Middle East is the US.
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Let's acknowledge that this is the year of Egyptian digger operators.
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Eurocentric history makes you believe that we in the rest of the world were just sitting around for thousands of years waiting to be discovered.
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The angels are being dispatched from Africa and Latin America but they didn't get visas.
Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump's reelection.
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I never ask but this is the last straw. Please help if you can, I have retweeted some links to donate to help Lebanon. There are thousands of people who are affected by the explosion and its aftermath and no resources at all. Your solidarity makes a difference.
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The CIA accusing the Mossad of organising anti regime protests in Israel is the news story that I have waited all my life for.
Leaked Pentagon documents contained an assertion that the leadership of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, had encouraged citizens and its staff to participate in anti-government protests. Senior Israeli defense officials denied that claim.
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This looks like an 80s sitcom about a clueless white family trying to blag their way in India after losing their luggage and credit cards.
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Rami Malek has been confirmed as the next Bond villain. He plays an Egyptian government employee who tells Bond to come back Tuesday, we're closed today.
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This all reminds me how after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 we banned everything British and American, put them under sanctions and confiscated all the wealth of their oligarchs.
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And then God created the Middle East and said 'let there be breaking news and analysis'.
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2011: yay, social media can disrupt the political order .2017: shit, social media can disrupt the political order.
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I seem to have started a fight between the English and the Scottish over this, which seems quite appropriate.
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An organic, leaderless protest movement with no clear ideology has emerged in France. I've been waiting for this since 2011. Let me explain the French Spring to you.
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A thread on the historic roots of why it's difficult for the UK and the EU to agree a deal. European culture is notoriously averse to compromise, largely because of the legacy of the warring tribes that historically dominated this region of the world.
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I don't want to confuse you with technical language about the Brexit vote but basically nobody knows what the fuck happens now.
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Man City have Jesus and Liverpool have Mohammed. This feels like a major showdown. #LIVMCI.
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Reminder that those are the same people running our economies.
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This is the biggest US fuck up in the Middle East since the last several hundred fuck ups.
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When I visit a British home I always take one of their artefacts away with me because I figured that's what they do.
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Because the Spanish players are conditioned to pass the ball around, when taking a penalty their instinct is to pass the ball to the keeper.
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We feel that our statues are no longer safe in London and demand their instant repatriation
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This is first time ever that anybody's been upset that the British are leaving .
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Trump to Putin on the phone tomorrow: 'Would, of course I meant would'.
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With the streets abandoned in the UK the dinosaurs have returned
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"World's first", like designers were trying for years and they could only manage 359 degrees until these people figured it out.
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How many times can you see the same city destroyed during your lifetime? It's unfathomable.
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It's also 100% not a shawarma.
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There were clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli bullets.
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Give it up to this Lebanese protester, a Premier League club should sign him .
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You can't take a laptop on a flight to the US but the US is free to fly jets full of bombs into the Middle East. That's balance for you.
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I think I finally understood the difference between modernism and post-modernism
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