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@daniel_barker

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You, a bright red coward: swimming away from the giant extinct squid boys Me, a calm, bright red heroic genius: standing gallantly on the seabed amongst the giant extinct squid boys
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I find it odd how the Bible is super relevant if you have to bake a cake for some gays but not if desperate people need your help.
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So sad, he can make a car that blows up and a rocket that blows up but still can't write a tweet that blows up.
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This window is doing TERRIBLY
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-What do we want? -No more Nazis! -When do we want it? -Honestly like 70 years ago I mean it was a whole thing.
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Hope your day's going as well as this lad's.
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I'm not ready for another referendum.
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OK fine I'll concede that sometimes it is important to listen to Nazis and try to understand them.
@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
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A group of codebreakers who helped to defeat Hitler were reunited at Bletchley Park yesterday
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Women are like buses - several thousand tech bros are convinced they can be replaced with robots despite never having been on one.
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I think this is still the greatest deleted tweet of the year.
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If you think Gillette's ad is part of a massive corporate plot to subjugate men through social engineering you might want to try using Occam's razor instead.
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"you've helped make twitter what it is today" is an absolutely fucking brutal accusation
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Fully amazes me that people still use "eventually you run out of other people's money" as a critique of socialism when the global financial crisis in 2008 literally happened because banks ran out of other people's money.
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Sorry but all children do this.
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These days you can't even call an election with dignity, because of soak.
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Please stop commissioning articles from confused old men who are terrified they may have to stop masturbating at their desk in the office.
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OK well that's a picture of the Natural History Museum, so
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One of my absolute favourite birds is the Inca Tern. Look at their AMAZING MOUSTACHES.
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Yeah that's literally what headphones do you fucking bellend. http://t.co/jjJAvz6qmY
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Well played, Wikipedia. Well played.
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David Hyde Pierce as Niles is maybe the greatest bit of sitcom casting ever.
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Just heard some idiot say you can't do BDSM on your own and honestly I had to restrain myself.
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-So why did you get into politics? -I wanted to help people. Not lone children fleeing wars though, mostly businessmen I was at school with
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There's a lot of talk about the British Empire this week and I want to keep reminding people that Operation Legacy was a thing and it worked
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hey girl, are you compensation following an accident at work because TV keeps trying to convince me I’m entitled to you
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Your password must contain a ferrous metal, an embarrassing sexual memory, at least one Norse god and the seeds of its own destruction.
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this is actually one of the most insulting things you can do to a Swiss man
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My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and they're like....thank you comrade, my aim will be true.
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I don't know Sonia but I'm very much hoping it'll be "a small but determined band of woodland creatures."
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when the national cat anthem comes on
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Abi and Owen look like they were having a nice chat until I interrupted and said something awful.
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I bet it's mouse prison.
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No one is above the law. Except astronauts obviously. Up there, doing their space crimes. What can we do.
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try not to worry, Mr Dog http://t.co/kwuuFGzHKf
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From the 1950s to the early 70s the British government systematically destroyed the documentation detailing the worst crimes of the empire.
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-What's Archie short for? -Because he's a baby.
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God inventing pelicans: cross a handbag with a goose and make it deadly. Stop crying and fucking do it.
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Therapist: and what do we do when we feel like this? Me: create fictional interlocutors who affirm what we already wish to believe and then tweet the resulting dialogue? Therapist: yes, good, you are very smart and also attractive
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Absolutely in awe of a) this story about a guy in the fifties testing the human limits of endurance of G force by crashing a sled at 600 miles an hour and b) the choice of pull quote in this write-up.
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This is the most emotional journey a gif has taken me on in a while.
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Me: where does all my money GO? My bank statement: on these things which you purchased Me: NEVERTHELESS
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This is from Ian Cobain's excellent book The History Thieves.
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Borderline pawnagraphic.
@SBNation
SB Nation
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The World Chess Championships just released their new logo and THIS is what they came up with 🙈🙈🙈
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@TabitaSurge *interrogating a baby* do you intend to hold eggs or not
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Absolutely banging joke from the 900s here.
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Fucking hell Jude
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I love the idea that bi people are "greedy" as if straight people are just very restrained. Another WHOLE gender? At this hour? I couldn't POSSIBLY
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I love how much this picture looks like it's from a dream.
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Time to check in with all the Head of NFT lads who definitely exist.
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I wish I was a little bit older, I wish I was a boulder, I wish I could reside at the bottom of a hill having rolled there
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This is EXACTLY how you get accidental Minotaurs.
@Newsweek
Newsweek
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Massive semen explosion after blaze hits bull artificial insemination facility, firefighters forced to dodge "projectiles"
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Baby hippos are so small. It is. An outrage.
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A limerick is seldom essential, And this one is inconsequential, Just the standard five lines, And some dubious rhymes, And it’s pointlessly self-referential.
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Hello yes this bird is quite round
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People are appalled that a clock is going to be stopped for repairs but is this horror logical?
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You know, when I made the decision to live alone in a small flat, I considered a lot of factors. Not all the factors of course. Not all of them.
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don't dress for the job you have, dress for the post-apocalyptic dystopia following the fall of capitalism you want to bring about
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The phrase "avoid it like the plague" has really taken a battering recently but "a prince among men" isn't holding up well either.
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I like my coffee like I like my women: integral to the functioning of all major organisations, not just a constant focus for my desire.
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Just feel he's living his best life.
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Why is Theresa May, who has deported people to be executed, not standing up to Trump on human rights? We just don't know.
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Imagine trying to yeet this lad into the river.
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Really hard to know whether to read the second word as a verb or a noun here.
@nypost
New York Post
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Shark advocates call for rebranding violent attacks as 'interactions'
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Acceptable desserts for men: -Gun Sorbet -Brofiteroles -Menringue -Truck Pie -Victor Sponge -Man Custard™
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Get someone who looks at you etc etc
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Everyone who is "just asking questions" has precisely three questions: -what are you going to do about this scenario I made up -what if we stop these people who I hate from having rights -am I the real victim here
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RIP ms paint you showed everyone that software does not need to be defined by its marital status
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Records of abuse, torture, rape and mass slaughter. Because they didn't want history to know what we did. Cobain again.
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Who looked at this little lad and thought: oh yes, the most distinctive feature, the white brow, just hard to see past that brow and its whiteness really
@CourtneyNoir
𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓉 ☁️☁️☁️
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the white-browed tit-warbler
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Apparently lots of us now believe the British Empire was wonderful. We're supposed to. People have worked hard to make us think that.
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If you rotate this tunnel at King's Cross through 90 degrees you get a very Mario Kart vibe.
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This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. This is how America works? Fucking HELL.
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imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever but occasionally the human face mouths “fuck this” and people tut disapprovingly
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Might start wearing a massive leather glove and occasionally looking at the sky so people think I own a falcon.
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Boris: I am the most embarrassing and inept political figure you will ever see in British politics. May: ho d my be r
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Capitalism's cataclysmic failure, unleashing huge disruption and suffering, happened because banks took too much risk in greedy pursuit of cash and then got screwed when a bunch of ordinary people couldn't pay them enough of it back fast enough.
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The best thing about twitter is you can just say "FUCK how is it still Tuesday" and loads of people will be like "RIGHT??" and the worst thing about twitter is loads of other people will then start earnestly explaining how linear time works and what days are.
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omg this is so irresponsible what if a predator reads it.
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When we continue to look away from the horrors of the empire we are complicit in the quiet sins of those men.
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Thousands of people over many years burned and dropped into the sea documents that showed the true barbarity of what Britain had done.
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Shall I compere thee to a summer's day? Thou art not meant to be here right now.
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Huge fan of this picture of Grealish where maybe he's deliberately showing off his rippling torso or maybe he's just been outwitted by a jumper.
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-Follow your dreams! You can be whatever you want to be! Just believe in yourself! -My parents are poor. -OK forget what I said then.
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Next time you want to write “didn’t happen” about someone’s tweet ask yourself: is the world really a drab, mundane place devoid of whimsy, surprise and joy or are you just a bellend.
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But yeah OK socialism is the monster under your bed that's going to somehow make everything worse than it is now.
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FORBIDDEN TYPOGRAPHY ‡ - the double-cross ᴥ - squidpostrophe ʔ - unanswerable question Ơ – fertilisation ʝ - extra jam ѽ – the bum lookout
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Actually Neil no one can be full of shit because the digestive tract only comprises a limited proportion of the body's total volume.
@neiltyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit.
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when you really wanted to get a dart for christmas and you get a dart for christmas
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It is my belief that the Queen is deliberately staying alive until The Crown catches up with her so she can watch herself on Netflix in real-time and stare directly at her own death.
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hey girl are you my online banking password because the satisfaction I feel in entering you correctly is tempered by a sickening foreboding
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I don't even have a daughter so I have absolutely no idea if assaulting women is bad or not.
@JebBush
Jeb Bush
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As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women.
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I met a child who identified as "it." I explained I would not respect this pronoun. They tagged me and declared I was now "it." Deeply shocking behaviour.
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When I feel anxious for no particular reason, I like to read twitter for a bit, which helps me to become anxious for specific reasons.
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Beyond that, it left countries gaining independence without records of their own history, of the subjugation that informed their new freedom
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GARETH SOUTHGATE IMMEDIATELY TALKING ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVEN'T BEEN INCLUDED AND HOW THEY MATTER. MY HEART
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OK let's give this a go then.
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A small narrative emerges on the Guardian's "Most Popular" article list.
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You: what's your favourite colour? Me, flirtatiously:
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Can Australians please be considerate and not tweet spoilers as most of us haven't seen 2016 yet.
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