Seóirse Duffy
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Critics: 'Oddity from the 1950s' 'One of life's great magnetic personalities' 'The biggest eccentric in Westminster' 'Iconic brand' 'Intimidatingly self-aware'
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British libs finding out that some people want the death penalty for an ill-formed malcontent teenager who murdered three children and stabbed several others
Surely a sitting MP cannot post an image of a noose? Tell me it’s against the rules. Please.
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Thinking about the big London firm that used to do CV-blind hiring to improve diversity and then quietly dropped it when it led year after year to almost exclusively Oxbridge students getting their grad scheme placements at double the rate previously 💀.
In 2021/2022, Dartmouth went test-optional. The results were really bad for poor kids. When disadvantaged students with high (> 1420) SATs submitted scores to Dartmouth, 10.2% got in. When they didn't submit, 2.9% got in. Submitting tests more than tripled admissions odds
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In 2066, England will have navigated 1000 years without invasion. In Bavaria, Ludwig I built the Walhalla as a Hall of Fame of great Germans to celebrate 2000 years of heritage; could you imagine something similar in this country? A pantheon of 1000 years of great Britons?
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This article alleges that 50,000 social homes in London are believed to be involved in some form of social housing fraud. Why are my taxes funding this 😭
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That I have to go through airport-style security just to look at a fucking Rothko of all things because of people like this is enough to determine that whatever sentence Ms Holland is serving is not enough to make up for the permanent ruination of public spaces she causes.
Anna Holland is a current political prisoner in the UK. Anna was sentenced to 20 months after throwing soup at protective glass in front of a Van Gogh painting. No damage to the painting occurred, but judge Hehir seemed to base the sentencing on theoretical damage. 1/3
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Perhaps I've misunderstood this but the Southport attacker was a teenager who was radicalised and accessed terrorist material online before going on to plan and commit an attack. What exactly is the new threat here, what about this is new? Have I woken up in 2005?.
"The blunt truth here is that this case is a sign, Britain now faces a new threat, terrorism has changed," Keir Starmer says. "If the law needs to change to recognise this new and dangerous threat, then we will change it," the PM adds. Follow live:
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Has any Government ever been so desperate to give away land to a country that doesn't want it? And to what end?.
NEW: UK govt has offered to frontload a tranche of payments to Mauritius in a bid to finalise Chagos islands deal, acc to people familiar with talks. Proposal is seen as compromise between Mauritians' demand for more cash, and UK refusal to increase overall cost of 99-year lease.
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@WTMAtkinson An entire wing of suffragettes who have to later be taken down when their quotes on eugenics resurface.
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Some applicants, by the nature of demand exceeding supply, will always have an advantage depending on what you're measuring for. Your choices are to determine whether that advantage should be raw ralent, social skills, or background; each has merits and demerits. Any scheme that.
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In around a century we will mark almost 1500 year since Wales was first unified, and between 2066 and then will be 1250 years since the first King of Scotland. And what will we plan to celebrate, if at all? A civilisation wealthy with knowledge but poor of how to spend it.
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@carto_graph Not quite - to promote diversity of background, the CV is scanned externally and they redact anything identifying, except businesses. So university, school, names, etc. It doesn't redact other text, so you can usually work out a lot about who a person is anyway, but also means.
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@roseveniceallan I'm not sure how well read you are on this topic - based on your first tweet, obviously not very much - but there are a number of charities and organisations that work within the community to do exactly this?.
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@maxtempers At what point do we collectively agree to just say "oh well, anyway;" to a figure that is clearly obviously just made up 😭.
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@roseveniceallan You can scroll through the calendar, Venice, sign up for the newsletter which includes information about events, and so forth. The four links preceding also include information. You can google "NHS chemsex" to find the raft of information the NHS provides *to everyone* on the.
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Pedants saying "but 1688!" like it is in anyway comparable to 1066. The point is that 1066 marks the transition from "King of the English" to "King of England", and is somewhat of a foundational moment for the English state. Let us mark it at least.
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Nothing irks me more than rush hour tubes. Gaping-mouthed idiots waddling at glacial paces, like cattle to slaughter, ignorant of personal space or moving down carriages/out of the doorways. Every man an island in the stink of his own corpulent space.
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Between Brighton & Bristol, why is there a positive correlation between living in an authority run by the Green Party and having shit bin collection policies?.
Bristol City Council could become the first local authority in England to collect black bin household waste every four weeks. Read more ⬇️.
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@LeftieStats Out of curiosity - presumably also abolish DWP & NHS with this too? Or how else are you presuming to pay for them.
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Ignoring the fact that daft fuckers like this make it harder and harder to access shared public spaces as a reusable of their work, if indeed we're past the 1.5°c safe limit, then surely what is the point of anything? If it's too late, what else is there to do live large?.
🚨 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL PAINT CHARLES DARWIN'S GRAVE. 🔥 This action follows the news on Friday that the world has smashed through the "safe" 1.5 degrees of warming limit agreed by world leaders. ☠️ 1.5 is dead. What will you do next?
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"Breaking: Millions Thought to be affected by 'Sextortiongate', as photographs of PornHub users stolen during data hack, with hackers asking victims to pay thousands to delete pictures" coming soon to a Wetherspoons near you.
🚨 NEW: Sites like OnlyFans and PornHub could soon require users to scan their face as part of Ofcom's plan to prevent children watching pornography. [@guardian].
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@roseveniceallan There is literally a community centre on the southbank that runs events, including social spaces, around addiction: It's almost, Venice, that by not being a.
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And remember: Scientology is a religion, lawfully, under the Equality Act 2010 and it is in contravention of the Act as a result to reject the advert on the basis of the beliefs or practices of Scientologists. 10/10, fantastic piece of legislation, no notes necessary.
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Again: with the passage of time, Southport is increasingly coming to look like a situation where the state is choosing legal fictions to try and appeal to rational behaviour over mob rule, which is in turn only feeding the mob as each fiction is revealed to be just that.
David Amess murder - 15th October 2021.Declared a potential terrorist act - 16th October 2021
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Many people who harp on about "they took this beautiful past from us!" irritate the living fuck out of me because they are often are the same ultra-individualists who wouldn't adjust their lives to accommodate this world. The worst, laziest form of cakeism.
This is what the globalists stole from you. Britain used to be safe and beautiful. We’re going to get it back.
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Ivor Caplin's commitment to being horny on main, and shamelessly thirst-posting twinks, in the face of a public charge for pedophilia should be studied in whatever gay laboratory we are able to fund.
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Lib Dems on Twitter slagging off Labour for doing a shit job with the economy and growth whilst backing a bill from their MP that would send our economy back to Ancient Greece has got to be one hell of a bit.
Exclusive: Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill. With @peterwalker99 .
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At this rate we might as well just abolish the fee and pay for it with regular taxation, as at least then we could drop the pretence that it needs to be "impartial" and actually properly curate some of the shite it produces.
🚨 NEW: The Government is considering making people who only use streaming services like Netflix and Disney pay the BBC licence fee. [@BloombergUK].
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You have to wonder whether Britain is now an economic Chernobyl event, tbqh. A system pushed to the limits by people trying to squeeze everything from a flawed system, now beyond the threshold where pressing the trigger or not, the outcome is still a catestrophic explosion.
💸 Downing Street is preparing billions of pounds worth of cuts to disability benefits in an attempt to calm markets over its economic plan, The Telegraph can reveal.
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Gutting: just electrocuted myself on a plug socket at the office and I didn't even get an erection.
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@sundersays @tomhfh @lucaajwatson Humour us: people are alleging this is the result of a cover up and that many never saw consequences for their actions. If this were true, they wouldn't show up in the data anyway, surely?.
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And remember: it was confirmed in the House of Commons only a few years ago that the immigration figures are *complete guesswork* based mostly on a single survey of people at airports. We cannot and do not know how many people are actually in the country and it causes havoc.
Minor but telling example of just how crap our migration/population data is. Have just seen that the final tally for the EU settlement scheme was 6.2m people applying for grants, and 5.7m getting them. The original ONS estimate for the relevant population was 3.4m.
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You have to wonder whether gently encouraging a tiktok trend of filming people being called out for playing loud music might be the start of a social tsunami against the poorly-socialised.
EXC: MOST of us think people who play loud music on their phones are rude — but we are too scared to tell them, a survey shows. 8 in 10 hate it when others blare out videos and tunes on transport or in public spaces. MPs urge action on noise nuisance .
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Without trying to sound all "the bankers the bonuses", can the Government not consider just putting all the XL bullies on an island with all the pedos? Sell the drone footage rights to the BBC?.
XL bully ban a 'huge burden' on policing, chiefs say
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@ashleycomms @yuanyi_z Seem to recall assisted dying lost a half dozen times before late last year - should they perhaps have given up?.
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X filtering topics using AI may want to be revisted because if you weren't familiar with either Dan Carden or Ivor Caplin you'd see this and come away with an extremely different story to what has actually happened
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@TonyDowson5 Makes it sound as though these things were a cocktail. "If we add a dash more white monoculture, we should start to see signs of underpaying women. Try not to add too much, or your solution may end up looking like it'll outlaw gay sex.".
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A lot of people neglect that Thatcher's economic miracle was largely predicated on North Sea oil in the meantime. We are seeing the consequences of an awful energy policy, a non-existent industrial strategy, and choking "feel good consensus" regulation regime come to conclusion.
Why is Britain going bankrupt and what might this mean? Let's take a look. 🇬🇧🏦💥. 🔴 First it is worth noting, Labour et al might calm the markets in the short-term but what markets are telling us is that there is a festering problem - even if this goes away in the coming weeks.
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Was discussing the Southport situation last night with friends when I observed that despite his father stopping him from carrying out a school massacre, he felt no need to alert the police. Until people pointed out that the police likely wouldn't have acted anyway 🥴.
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Seóirse Duffy cognitive function update: the very nice pair of earphones I lost in September, which I remembered absent mindedly, have now turned up in the cupboard under the sink. Am I losing my mind.
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Reminder that tax yields aren't universal: the more money an individual earns, the more tax efficient their PAYE is to the state. Someone on 1m pays a lot more tax than 10 people on £100,000, and so on.
A record number of millionaires have left Britain since Sir Keir Starmer came to power and there are growing concern that Labour’s tax plans are exiling international investors and damaging the economy
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Similar to the response to the death of Sir David Amess, this just comes across as a political class that can't or won't engage with the seemingly-obvious solution. Question is why? Is there some insurmountable obstacle the public can't see but only MPs can? Or something else?.
Starmer in Sun .“Time and again, as a child, the Southport murderer carried knives. Time and again, he showed clear intent to use them. And yet tragically, he was still able to order the murder weapon off of the internet without any checks or barriers. A two-click killer. This.
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Perfectly Functioning Country™️ latest: my other half has had to order a cheque book in the Year 2025 in order to pay to transfer his driving licence over to a British one, because the options were pay by cheque or postal order 🥴 fantastic.
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Another win for the "robust safeguards" camp on the Euthanasia Bill as the Committee's scope is hashed out in private, and thus can't go into reporting or Hansard. Anyone who supported the Bill in principle pending reform has been had for mugs.
News tonight that the sponsor of the Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide bill wants the Committee to sit in private tomorrow, not in public as planned, so the debate on when and how long the Committee sits and who to hear from is kept under wraps. Erodes public trust in Parliament.
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Car regulation is an area that largely demonstrates how the road to hell is gold-plated; cars are the size they are becoming of the legal safety requirements. Want smaller cars? Try telling people what safety features you'd remove. You're likely right, but try getting support.
A maximum size for new cars would be an incredibly reasonable law that would hurt nobody and do a lot of good.
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Voting for whichever party in 2028 promises to outlaw the term "soft power" because I never want to hear it again, please dear god make it stop make it stop.
The UK’s culture, sports and creative industries drive our impact and reputation abroad. This week, I announced the creation of the UK Soft Power Council so that we can harness those assets to meet the global challenges we face.
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You're not Solzhenitsyn, you're an asocial narcissist who used soup as a medium for painting the depths of mundane protest in a way that the state agreed was criminal, albeit for the wrong reasons. Oh to be personally responsible for a demonstrable erosion in public trust.
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@AnyonebutConnor Perhaps, but "radicalised loners acting alone" isn't even remotely new. We've had multiple in the last decade alone, unless I'm mistaken. This just comes across as a PM who has either refused to open his eyes or genuinely has been unaware of this happening, and it's shocking.
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I wonder whether we'll see any protests or pink-haired teenagers throwing soup over paintings in protest at this climate-wrecking decision.
The UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria - will be immobilised and eventually disposed of in a geological disposal facility #nuclear
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Things like this make me conspiratorial because why on earth would the Government want rid of this? Why risk upsetting the Americans? Why race to get it done before the inauguration? The Mauritians don't want it under the current terms, so why force it on them?.
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I've been having the backlog of 35mm film I shot developed, including the reel that came with the camera when I bought it. Turns out it was partially expired, and so has produced this fascinating patina on my photographs of the car and going out for a walk
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"Now obviously Laura, my father was a tool maker and he taught me that parking fines should be settled within the 14 day notice period,". "I have to interrupt you Prime Minister - is that not coming on a bit strong? Do you worry that's not divisive?". "My father, a toolmaker,"
@AaronBastani Starmer is committed to public service and he’s certainly got some strong views on some things but he’s shown time and again that he’s willing to be very flexible. That is a good thing in politics.
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@sundersays @tomhfh @lucaajwatson I'm trying to understand why care homes, individual pedophiles, or the CofE perhaps being covered up may skew data on the ethnic backgrounds of rape gangs? Data cannot account for what it doesn't have; this data doesn't disprove a coverup of several rape gangs.
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@PhilOfLife_ Humans have been far busier than this in history with limited issue. The problem is that we weren't meant to be this aware of people outside of our immediate comprehension, we weren't meant to be this physically inactive, and we weren't meant to be without a faith structure.
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Me: I promise I won't get political at the pub.Three drinks later:
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@sundersays @tomhfh @lucaajwatson Like, the defence in this position is surely "rape gangs must be investigated but we most stop this becoming an anti-asian pogrom by practicing restraint as an inquiry goes on" rather than "the data [which may be incomplete] says white people are the real rape threat".
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Want the world in that film back? Give up your car. Wear suits 7 days a week. Plant flowers in your garden and repaint your house. Things decline because the masses have adopted means that require less obligation, and which are more comfortable, for them as individuals.
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The Universities will do this and then continue to tell us that we live in a meritocracy (which this patently demonstrates, we do not) and that that is good (which this patently demonstrates, this is not).
If @UniofOxford has decided to trash itself, it will deserve to crash down international league tables. But the dumbing down of education across the university sector is a disaster for the nation. The next gov’t should bring in a Royal Commission.
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@sundersays @tomhfh @lucaajwatson . Based on police data, which critics are arguing is flawed because it's been a cover-up. Meaning either a coverup must be disproved, or the data is incomplete. This data on it's own in the current context is worthless.
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@Nat_freespeech @FinnWhiteGPEW So out of curiosity - let's say I joined the Lib Dems despite being pro-Brexit, anti-PR, in favour of scrapping the Eqality Act etc: are you genuinely saying they should have to a) accept me and b) run me as a PCC?.
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From news, the BBC should back Britain internationally but criticise the Government domestically; and it should not reporting on trivial stories either. Fewer opinions, more matter-of-fact. From entertainment, the BBC should be celebrating the best of our culture; bringing the.
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"BUT WHO HAS BEEN MAULED ON PEDOBULLY ISLAND, CHRIS KAMARA?"."I don't know, Jeff"
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I rather enjoy the journey this video goes on, as Zack for some reason is trying to dissuade people from voting Reform ("they're not the answer!") after calling for more "pro migrant rhetoric" as though the average Lab>Ref switcher is changing parties for the economic policyc.
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@HarryDibbs_ Indeed there are! Ideally we'd have one in each home nation, committed to those who have gone before as a reminder of the achievements we have built together. I shan't hold my breath though.
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Cars are the best example. They're always more colourful in those videos, and yet colours haven't gone away - so why do we see fewer colourful cars now? Because as car ownership has increased it has reached the great tasteless masses who enjoy crushed velvet furniture, and who.
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@DavidEllison30 What exactly is your point here? That this building doesn't exist? That the people in it are made up? It was a celebration of the German peoples, the concept of which significantly predates the German Empire you fucking wally 😭.
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Sorry trads: the Based Rightwing Future Government™️ isn't going to issue an edict banning people wearing trainers in Government buildings. You must define your aesthetic, the merits of its adoption by the public. You must then adopt it, promote it, and shame others into it.
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@dandroid20XX Not really either? From my experience of hiring it tends to give an idea of character, and who the person applying likely is.
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Is it the sheer cost of officers, courts, prisons, Prevent etc needed to tackle this?. Is there some legal quagmire that would slow or prevent this? . Is there a social cost, that this problem is actually larger than realised and if people knew, cohesion would collapse?. Perhaps.
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Attribute the causes as you wish, but ultimately this is a case of a state that is just unwilling or unable to intervene where violent risk exists until it is actively happening. Is that because of lack of resources? Too many risks? No prison spaces, lax sentencing?.
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Markets pricing in worsening economic outlooks (see: Truss, now Reeves), forcing Governments to desperately do things that only worsen economic outlooks in a vain attempt to lower the temperature. How long until we hit meltdown.
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@MMBannerman I await my elevation to the peerage as Earl of Barking so to properly serve my party in all faucets, etc etc.
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@kymeriandawn The belief is that hiding universities prevents you from being able to favour oxbridge students ("oh, he went to magdelene, probably very capable"), but what they hadn't realised was that in systems where you could see university, interviewers naturally chose fewer oxbridge CVs.
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@roseveniceallan Well at least you managed not to tweet outdated racial terms this time but perhaps before making shit up on the internet you could put the bottle down.
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@Nanadollmaster @roseveniceallan Forgive me: are you complaining that drug support groups exist? Have you lost your mind?.
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You cannot plan any services around this data, because you don't know where people are. You can't accurately track behaviour, because people who don't exist show up in the data. And there's no incentive to find these people, because if they all suddenly appear so many "per.
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Framing it as "If by 2030 we haven't stopped burning FF, we'll enter mass extinction" I can get. But "It's too late to prevent mass extinction" just suggests that people may as well live to fullest before it goes to shit? What is the point of that messaging other than to depress?.
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@ashleycomms @yuanyi_z They voted by clear majority in past against it. I ask again, in those instances where it's the last time that counts, should AD advocates have given up.
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Photoshopped Sir Sadiq here looking like he's been caught in a picture he didn't want to be in 😭 why does he look like that.
I want to remind Londoners that our city is—and always will be—a place for everyone. We’ll continue to celebrate London as the diverse, open and welcoming city it is.
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By definition equality of outcome is not meritocratic. The principle is simple; either anyone should be able to succeed if capable, or everyone should be able to succeed at the same level: the latter is our chosen course and probably explains the miasma that grips this country's.
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@jess777j0 It's not just the extra curriculars - the academic environment at Oxbridge colleges, as I understand it, produces students who may be better at actually explaining what they've done professionally in better terms. Blind CVs accidently made it purely about the best CV, ignoring.
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