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Writer - I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING (2024) HOURGLASS (2022) @LittleBrownUK VOTIVE (2020) AGENT: @C_Conville @CWAgencyUk
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🚨 🚨 OUT TODAY 🚨🚨
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is now available at all bookshops ( link below )
It’s a book about friendship and despair and redemption, about the way places shape people and the way people shape places in turn.
👁️🌊🌆📉⚡️
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A 26 yr old sits on the floor of their £1Kpcm rented room,in a house they share with 7 other debt ridden graduates,waiting for an app to allocate them 15 minutes of minimum wage work,wondering why it’s tshirt weather when the Christmas tree is up…
“…teachers made me socialist”
🏫Those under 26 are increasingly under the sway of cultural socialism, and not tackling it is producing a strongly Left-wing generation
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Jesus, seeing the
#Lula
celebrations today has been so moving.
Makes me realise how long it has been since we’ve seen something (anything) hopeful, and how much it is utterly necessary in order to ward off despair.
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Dominic Calvert Lewin is so far ahead of the game, just the best dressed footballer by a million miles.
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@jasebyjason
Exactly! There’s an issue with how inflation is reported.
It’s cumulative. So even it drops to 3% from 12% all that means is that the current crazy prices are going to get even higher, just slightly slower.
Whereas it’s presented as though falling inflation =falling prices
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Just overheard an amazing exchange in a Peckham bookshop.
Man to browsing woman - you should buy that, it’s really good, a friend of mine wrote it.
Browsing woman to man - OK
Man to browsing woman - actually, I wrote it.
Browsing woman to man - OK
*puts book back on shelf*
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George Osborne is actually called Gideon
Suella Braverman is actually called Sue-Ellen
Boris Johnson is actually called Alexander
Grant Shapps became “Michael Green”
Tories have a weird relationship to names.
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Not 100% on this, but I *think* publishers actually DO publish Jane Austen today?
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Turn of the millennium advertising was pretty weird, eh?
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🧵 This morning I was accessing a local Council service, full of vulnerable people, that was hijacked by a commissioner looking for “user-centred feedback” ahead of a new round of procurement and contracting.
It unfolded in a way that was profoundly depressing … 1/n
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Wrote about property 🏡landlords 👿and books 📚 for
@GuardianBooks
Featuring - Holly Pester
@jessicacandrews
@guyware
@SusannahDickey
@michaelmagee__
@FrancescaReece
@EllaFrears
@JoyceCarolOates
… and more.
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This remains the most embarrassing scene in all of cinema.
Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath, shouting Chaucer at some cows, in a vaguely Scottish accent.
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***SOME PERSONAL NEWS ETC ***
My first novel will be coming out early next year, via
@4thEstateBooks
@HarperCollinsUK
“ a novel about love, labour and loss “
🎉🎉
Cc:
@C_Conville
@CWAgencyUK
@mattclacher
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Man next to me on the train is monitoring its speed with his phone and keeps catching my eye and tutting every time it drops below 125mph.
Not quite sure what to do with my face.
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The rise of MANOSPHERE influencers is a really neat (and depressing) example of capitalism internalising the idea of rebellion and exit and selling it back as something that ultimately just perpetuates the existing orthodoxy.
Lads! Leave the matrix!
How?
Buy an expensive car!
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🚨 Something new is coming soon (ish ) …
The book I have always wanted to write, a testament to the people and the places I love ✊💔
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God, that smell when it first rains after a day of heat!
There should be a word for it, would really help with poetry etc
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Time. Time. Tiiiiiiime
If you want more diverse art then support unions, support the struggle for a 4 day week, support the fight for a UBI or UBS
You need time outside of wage labour to make things
The answer is structural, not another access scheme
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Really pleased HOURGLASS is the
@GuardianBooks
Book of the Day
“a book about someone learning to be alive;learning to love-if that’s not too big a word-oneself, and through that,the world… Goddard has written something like the universal love story”
💔
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This, on the housing crisis and landlordism is much needed 👏 to
@daisylafarge
@ambermedland
@michaelmagee__
If you want genuine diversity in the arts, the answer isn’t another prize or scheme, it’s squarely material:
Housing, wages, solidarity, time.
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My heart wasn’t really big enough to cope with
#NaePasaran
... an incredible documentary about solidarity, bravery, moral clarity and hope.
It’s on iPlayer for a bit:
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5 years today 💚
#Grenfell
was an act of social murder which should have changed everything about how we run our country.
Instead, the rot gets deeper.
“ To whom it may concern …”
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The Airborne Toxic Event taking place minutes from where White Noise was filmed isn’t just a case of life imitating art.
It’s another example of an entirely predictable outcome of a profit at any cost system in which the voices of workers and unions are treated as an annoyance.
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Just a small selection of what is pretty much wall-to-wall coverage of the world’s largest 4 day week trial, starting today across the U.K.
A huge amount of effort from so many people have made this possible.
Congrats to
@Autonomy_UK
@4Day_Week
and all involved.
✊⏰
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Hang on,
Am I right in thinking that the Society of Authors have a debut novel award for the under 35s and another for the over 40s?
Hilariously specific slight on the much maligned 36-39 year old novelist cohort.
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Speaking to people in Kensington tonight ahead of
#GE2109
- as ever, a mixed bag...
But more than once residents have been in tears describing the incredible work
@emmadentcoad
has done in the aftermath of
#Grenfell
Supporting a proud, heartbroken community seeking justice.❤️✊
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Incredibly pleased that Hourglass had been long-listed for this year’s Desmond Elliott Prize!
👀👇❤️⌛️💔✊🍺
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** Proof copies of my first novel, HOURGLASS have arrived **
Out in hardback in the spring.
Thanks to: Anna Kelly
@HachetteBooks
@littlebrown
@CWAgencyUK
@C_Conville
@zoejhood
and also to
@lemnsissay
@fairfairisles
@LukeKennard
@grbellamacina
for saying such nice things 💔✊
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I feel like an idiot for not knowing this pleasing fact until now, but Cathedrals in the Middle Ages were LIVELY.
Wells cathedral - now and then.
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Pleased to see the new Yeezys embrace the previously underexplored aesthetic legacy of the Ginsters Cornish Pasty
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Elegantly put by
@leninology
“ Britain, a poor country with some very rich people, is becoming a hostile environment, both cruel and dysfunctional, for the majority of people in it.”
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I read all of these books, and I too became a retired jockey / model for the Asda George Peaky Blinders range.
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Rewatching WAYS OF SEEING (1972) and am struck all over again by the power of this section.
The sheer intellectual and sensory directness of broadcasting silence in this way.
For a whole minute.
Obvious to say, but it’s utterly impossible to imagine it today.
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I see we are playing the “literature will be better/more diverse if we beg for extra scraps from the Arts Council” game … AGAIN
The actual answer is structural
Time outside of wage labour
Want more diverse art?
Support unions, the 4 day week, rent control, fight for UBI/UBS
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🚨AN OFFER🚨
I’ve done a few readings recently where people have told me they couldn’t afford to buy a book
It’s quite heartbreaking
Times are really tough
It’s a tiny thing, but if you want a copy of my book, and you’re short, an open offer:
DM me and I’ll send you one 🍞🌹
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Oh god 💔
Not sure there has ever been such a chasm between the beauty and urgency of a person’s voice and the stubborn ignorance of a culture’s violent refusal to properly hear it.
RIP
#SineadOConnor
✊
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Keats and Yeats being pronounced so differently is a conspiracy to embarrass teenagers who are just getting into poetry.
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It’s a shame that in making this an internet 🚩 joke and byword for a certain type of bad writing/bad person/ bad taste … we’ve mostly buried the fact that it is also a beautiful, equivocal, and tender portrait of addiction and recovery.
Not sure the LOLs were worth it, tbh.
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If you’re “struggling to sympathise” with striking workers because “you earn less than they do”
…then congratulations, you’ve internalised the individualist, race-to-the-bottom logic that got us in to this mess in the first place
Drop it. Show solidarity. Their win is our win.
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A day of news - incredibly pleased with this news about my second novel: I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING
👁 🌊 🏚📉 ⚡️
.
@LittleBrownUK
signs I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, a 'moving novel about friendship' by
@keirangoddard1
, whose debut Hourglass has been longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize
(£)
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Really pleased to have been awarded
@Soc_of_Authors
K Blundell Trust grant for my second novel, I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING.
👁 🌊 🏙📉≈ ⚡️
#SoAGrants
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📚🚨The response to this was incredibly generous, so in return I’ve overcome my hatred of admin and typed out all of the answers as a few of you asked.
I’ve also added a couple of my favourites at the end.
❤️🙏
🚨 📚 QUESTION
Interpreted as broadly as you like, what is the best memoir you’ve ever read?
Particularly interested if the writing is good, and if the primary value is psychological or philosophical, rather than … I did a bunch of cool stuff in my life.
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👁️🌊🌆📉⚡️ … launched.
Thanks to all who came, and broke the venue.
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For many many working class areas, this will mean working until they are in the grave.
It is the effective removal of retirement, an act of brutal class violence.
UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
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I reviewed CHANGE by Édouard Louis for
@GuardianBooks
His best book, I think.
An utterly vital writer.
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The man has just passed, no need for such a horrible insult.
One of the truly great chancellors - Britain’s economy today owes so much to his foresight
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Weird how the orthodoxy is now the complete opposite of this
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Just got the proof pages back for my next novel, out early next year.
It’s about where and how I grew up, the pain of it, but also the joy and the chaos and the love of it.
These are the acknowledgments, but in a way, the whole book is an acknowledgement:
❤️✊
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“ The cow had also liked several tweets expressing solidarity with Palestine”
Cow threatened people before it was rammed by police, watchdog says
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Glad we’ve more or less moved past calling every book something like:
All the things I never said about the light we couldn’t see.
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I’ve always really loved the opening of Lady Chatterly’s Lover, but it hits particularly hard at the moment ...
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Re: publishers and writers “moaning” about aspects of publishing and its processes.
It’s pretty simple.
Both are workers.
Workers get to interrogate the conditions of their labour and agitate for improvements.
There’s not a special exclusion clause because books are involved.
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The algorithm isn’t unfair.
The algorithm has no agency.
It’s a set of instructions, designed by humans, in order to achieve a specific outcome.
It’s politics and ethics all the way down, don’t allow it to be abstracted into some sort of accidentally unjust computer glitch.
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📢PERSONAL NEWS ETC📢
Pleased to say I’ll soon be joining the newly established Alex Ferry Foundation
A unique organisation,funded by workers,directly accountable to an organised base & focused on;labour rights,organising,the future of work and community action
More info soon
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Quite blown away by this incredible review.
Thanks
@wordsofhelen
@IrishTimes
“ a love story for our times”
“If ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it”
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🚨🚨 Finished copies of
#HOURGLASS
have arrived 🚨🚨
Tried to make one of those heartwarming “unboxing” videos, but it all went a bit left and I ended up with this instead …
Pre-order:
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Today is the day. Really grateful for all of the support the book has gotten so far.
⌛ Hourglass is out today! Wishing a very happy publication day to
@keirangoddard1
.
#Hourglass
is a revolutionary love story. It turns time upside down and combs the intimate wreckage of heartbreak for something universal.
Get your copy now:
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*** PERSONAL NEWS ***
It’s been a bit of a poorly kept secret, but after 5 years, this will be my last week
@ACFoundations
Always bittersweet to leave a job (and people) you love, but I’m excited to be taking up a new role as Director at The Reboot The Future Foundation...
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To be clear.
I was NOT the man in this story.
That would not be overhearing, it would just be hearing.
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A microcosm of endemic tendencies.
Tendencies which have hollowed out social provision, created a set of brittle and fractured services and have served nobody but capital and its various handmaidens.
Who no doubt console themselves:
It’s what the people asked for, after all 🧵
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Little while yet, but really pleased to see this US cover for my next book.
🇺🇸 - feb 24
👁️ 🌊 🌆📉⚡️
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Doesn’t matter who’s iPod this is, you turn one of these on and it plays The Rat by The Walkmen.
Just found my old iPod. What late 00s songs would you expect to find on it?
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The final stanza of this “zany” Airbnb poem takes a really brave formal turn, boldly abandoning the relative formalism of stanzas one and two.
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Sad little heartbreak novel
'This book glows in the heart of the reader'
@maxjohnporter
'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken'
@holliepoetry
'Hourglass will stay with me for a long time'
@lemnsissay
#Hourglass
by
@keirangoddard1
Coming March 2022
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Whatever depressing mix of envy, pseudo-intellectual posturing or internet-brain causes people to be snide about Sally Rooney, should always be weighed against this much more important fact:
She’s reliably clear-eyed and staunch on the things that matter
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This is heartbreaking
Growing up, it was vanishingly rare to hear a Brummie accent on the television other than when it was being mocked
So it’s hard to express what it meant to generations of Midlands writers to hear Benjamin; uncompromising, irreverent, blazing with talent.
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Staring down the barrel of mass unemployment, can we keep emphasising what anyone with any direct experience of Job Centres knows?
They are not safety nets, they are cruel theatres of discipline, inflicted imminently on the unemployed and on all workers via threat of destitution
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Stating the obvious here, but solidarity for every single worker on
#strike
today.
The structural dynamics forcing this action are the same ones that are making your life harder, your future less viable.
They are on the frontline today, but the fight is all of ours.
✊❤️
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Just wondering
When you were growing up what did you used to call those tweets where people pretend to be interested in generational and regional naming variations in order to generate easy likes?
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… because like most ideologies, this type of neoliberal new public management speak is so ubiquitous as to be functionally invisible.
At this level of application it’s just an emergent “common sense”.
For the service users, it was presented as a gift, an improvement…
4/n
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The thing about Parler is that due to its monoculture everyone on it is miserable and understimulated because they have nobody to bully, hate,troll or argue with
It’s almost as if...the entire underlying dynamic of social media platforms exists to drive conflict, not exchange🙀
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It’s
#Bloomsday
… a good day to remember two important things.
1) Ulysses actually IS amazing; beautiful, funny, sexy, mind-altering.
2) Anybody who uses “pretentious” as an insult probably isn’t worth your time.
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My new book is *** OUT NOW ***
VOTIVE
A book about learning to love that you love the things that you love.
Available
@OffordRoadBooks
Bookshops
Amazon
Or my website
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
HOURGLASS is now out in paperback
A universal love story—Guardian
Beautiful, funny, profound—New Statesman
if ever a book could be read as a pilgrimage to discover what the heart finds sacred, this is it—Irish Times
Deeply sad but wickedly fun to read—LA Times
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In today’s episode of Reality Collapse we present:
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Taking a break from handling the £30bn in fines levied at his company for their role in the financial crash, Mr Dimon took the time to take a solidaristic knee in front of a GIANT BANK VAULT.
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For almost two decades, wages have lacked the dignity of wages.
Sunday TELEGRAPH: “Handouts lack the dignity of wages, says Starmer”
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Couldn't be happier about this. ORB are building a phenomenal list and I'll be proud to be part of it.
Thanks to
@mj_sprackland
and the team.
So, yes ... VOTIVE - new book, soon!
NEWSFLASH: Absolutely delighted to announce that we will publish Votive, the new collection by the splendid Keiran Goddard, in early 2019! Welcome to the family,
@keirangoddard1
🕯️
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Really sad news about
#HilaryMantel
Among her many achievements, I think this book gets a bit overlooked sometimes.
It’s utterly brilliant.
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@emeramchugh
@rcat92
It’s great, but it’s a fairly blatant lift from RubberBandits Guide to Reality,
Blindboy discusses it a bit here:
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Grateful for this really thoughtful review of 👁️🌊🌆📉⚡️in
@GuardianBooks
Particularly pleasing to see an engagement with the narrative structure of the book.
You know, because I’m a 🤓
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Was unwell last week and, in my fever, impulsively purchased these objectively stupid shoes.
Just got an email saying they can’t fulfil my order because my size is now out of stock.
THE RELIEF.
THE RELIIIEEEEFFF.
A true blessing from the Lord has been bestowed.
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@danieljmitchell
@naval
This analogy would be less ridiculous if
~ 50% of your GPA was inherited
~ the highest GPA was roughly 300x the average GPA
~ 26 students hoarded 50% of the world’s GPA
None of which is possible, because it’s a faulty and childish analogy.
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@georgeeaton
Sure there’s lots of compounding reasons, but there’s also a case that tying an entire cohort’s material interests into asset inflation whilst simultaneously stoking power asymmetry between labour/capital has proven to be one of the most durable electoral strategies of all time.
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OVERLY PHYSICAL BOOK BLURBS 🚫
I inhaled this book!
I devoured it!
Stuffed it right up my nose!
I can feel it in the back of my throat!
I mulched it up and then spat the pulpy remnants into the gaping mouth of a passer by like a mother bird feeding its baby!
(a must read)
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May 1994.
Three genuine geniuses on one front cover, the headline:
“Hips. Lips. Tits. Power.”
An all-time low.
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@jordanbpeterson
Using an average when the growth rate for top 1% has been 65x that of the bottom 50% over the time period in question is misleading to the point of being disingenuous
At current growth trajectory it would take 250 years for the bottom decile to reach global average of $11 a day.
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