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Anglo writer in Poland. Online Editor and podcast critic for @TheCriticMag . Subscribe to THE ZONE.

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5 months
Every time Banksy is on the TL I remember Brooker's best column.
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If there’s one thing white people really hate, it’s explaining in detail where their grandparents are from.
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6 years
Health YouTube is another world.
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2 years
*In Africa* Damn, there sure are a lot of black people here.
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1 year
She’s wearing a Nirvana shirt while failing to recognise "Teen Spirit" precisely so as to go viral among irate Gen Xers and millennials. Sometimes the kids aren’t dumb.
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We’re old
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RIP but it’s a shame that he denied an entire generation home ownership single-handedly.
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BBC News (World)
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'Godfather' of avocado toast chef Bill Granger dies, aged 54
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2 years
All due respect, but if you believe that this is real you should probably plug your ears to stop your brain leaking out.
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5 years
Just finished my 8,000 word review of "The Joker". Can't wait to see the film.
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1 year
It kind of sucks Pierce Brosnan's wife that her husband finding her attractive is treated as some kind of Gandhiesque moral accomplishment.
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5 months
Amazing that their instinct to maul kids runs so deep that they'll even attack them at the moment of conception.
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BBC News (UK)
5 months
Bully XL to be destroyed after attacking owner while he was having sex
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3 years
Gina Corano's absurd claim that conservatives are being persecuted have left us with no choice but to drive her out of the industry.
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10 months
Marquis de Sade: I enjoy rape. Literary critics: Wow, what acute sociological satire... Sade: I want to rape people. Critics: Such a devastating attack on religious and bourgeois hypocrisy. Sade: In fact, I *am* a rapist. Critics: *Sustained thunderous applause*
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2 months
Can we all put our politics aside for one moment and appreciate the glorious insanity of what happens at 1.19.
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60 Minutes goes to Sweden to make a heart warming special about diversity, but see a different situation, then this happens.
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11 months
People calling this "frightening" and "chilling" rather than hilarious aren’t going to make it.
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11 months
Entertainer Jonny Buchardt at Karneval Köln in 1973 awakens the muscle memory of the Nazi regime. Really shows how deeply ingrained it all was.
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3 years
A lot of modern wrangling about identity is the result of people struggling to cope with the fact that they are not especially interesting.
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4 months
It must be a sad moment when a third worldist realises that a multipolar world isn't just everybody ganging up on America and Israel.
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Have to defend Truss here. I’m not a superstitious man but if the Queen — who had ruled for *70 years* — died in my *first week as PM* I would absolutely think "why me" and so would you.
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Also, 🔥Liz Truss’s autobiography extracts have just dropped … and it’s clear it’s going to be an absolute banger In this tiny extract the Queen dies - and Truss is moved to ask “Why me?”
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4 months
British gingers are a fascinatingly divided race. The women are strikingly beautiful and the men have inexplicably converted to Islam.
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3 years
Hi, I'm Sacha Baron Cohen, I built a career in edgy comedy that blurred the line between truth and fiction and I'm here to tell you we have to clamp down on edgy comedy and things that blur the line between truth and fiction.
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7 months
I’ve deleted this tweet. I responded too quickly and in a moment of heightened emotion. 1/3
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9 months
The people who would find Nazi symbolism in the price of cheese think a song about killing people shouldn’t be taken literally.
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3 years
*As I evict someone* Why don't you just build your own house? Also, you're banned from my friends' construction company, home improvement retailer, and bank.
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4 years
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3 years
I don't believe in any made-up religious nonsense. I believe in cold scientific facts, like universal human rights and the equality of man.
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4 years
I'm by no means an uncritical capitalist but "your system in the middle of a pandemic is what our system looks like normally" is not the devastating own this guy thinks it is.
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2 years
Great to be at Davos, checking out the schedule.
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2 years
Bear in mind that every single person who RT'd this thinks that executing serial murderers and rapists is downright barbaric.
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6 years
Elon Musk: Woohoo! Look at me! I read Douglas Adams and date indie rock stars. I'm the unpredictable eccentric of tech! John McAfee:
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John McAfee
6 years
Whale fucking. No joke. Each year, on Feb 1st, in the Molokai Channel, a few men compete in the world's only whale fucking contest. Humpback whales are easy to fuck- for a second or less. World record: 31 seconds. I competed once. Almost got my ribs crushed. Stick with Ostriches.
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2 years
Alright guys, I've been browsing the TL for the last 37 minutes and here's what Vladimir Putin is thinking right now. 1/580
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7 months
What's great about this is how Owen starts off with the cocksure ease of a middle-aged professional broadcaster about to own a random student and then gradually retreats into baffled consternation as he faces an actual argument.
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Chris Rose
7 months
Whether you agree with the young conservative or not, it’s entertaining to see him articulately embarrass Owen Jones, who clearly was trying to trip him up with this line of questioning for his next outage video compilation.
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3 years
The irony is that this is 100% the kind of person who thinks petitioning to get Andy Ngo books banned is fighting Nazism.
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3 years
Fewer people are getting married and having kids than at any time in documented history. An insane amount of blue tick posts are shadow boxing with a non-existent hegemonic narrative.
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4 months
Absolutely the best tweet of the year. I still half believe that this woman's whole career was an excuse to post it.
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4 years
No one who talks like this reads books.
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5 years
God bless him, but Ian McEwan has clearly never read any science fiction.
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2 months
The test for whether you’re right-wing is whether you think it should be legal to enter the residence and drive him out with a crowbar.
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2 months
Squatter takes over Queens couple’s $2M retirement dream home: ‘Our system is broken’
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3 years
So many blue ticks have two modes: intense spitefulness and intense self-pity.
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1 year
Every now and then a character pops up in American life that you have to believe the screenwriters have been cooking up for years but left on the back burner for when their other storylines got stale.
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2 years
We're all going to feel pretty silly when Vladimir Putin watches that blonde woman's poem and is so moved that he calls off the war and resigns.
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4 years
I'm learning about a dangerous subculture of self-entitled, resentful people called "incels".
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2 years
Won't someone PLEASE think of the women who get pregnant by an affair and their husband has had a vasectomy.
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3 years
I bring this back every year.
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9 months
"Needless to say".
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2 years
I don't think IQ tests — on which I score very highly — mean anything — despite scoring extremely highly on them.
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3 years
My mother, Anne, passed away this morning. She was a beautiful person, who strove to do good every day she was alive and who enriched every life she touched.
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Ben Sixsmith
2 years
It's high time the media got around to featuring liberal women. For too long has their still, quiet voice gone unheard.
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2 years
It's interesting how blasé we are about the fact that so many of our leading cultural icons are terribly ill.
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1 year
It's incredibly Guardian to write a whole article about "attempts to portray him...as violent" and not get around to mentioning that he had a warrant out for his arrest after allegedly hitting an old woman. You don't have to excuse his death to be honest.
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3 years
This isn't even a slippery slope. It's a cliff.
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3 years
Someone in their nineties can't really help how they look. Those of us who are in our thirties, on the other hand...
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6 months
No, it’s because she’s the mum.
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Ben Sixsmith
5 years
According to Lebanese festive traditions, Nassim St Nicholas Taleb visits your house at midnight, eats the bowl of squid ink pasta that you left for him and leaves free weights and copies of Montaigne's Essays for your children.
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3 years
God bless that 59%.
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Ben Sixsmith
2 years
Because both adverts are solely for the benefit of women.
@zacharywillhite
Zach Posting His L’s
2 years
Someone explain why the woman in this ad is not as skinny as the guy is?
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3 months
This man is 51 years old.
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1 month
Someone is about to have the performance review of a lifetime.
@BNONews
BNO News
1 month
BREAKING: Ship collides with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse
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2 years
Wow, what a film that was.
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2 years
Sinn Féin MPs are forever posting teary-eyed tributes to fallen soldiers but then you Google their names and find out that they died tripping over their own bag of homemade explosives and eviscerated a passing pensioner and a 23-year-old mum.
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2 years
It's always fun to see the argument from lived experience extended to things that people didn’t even experience.
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5 years
These poor kids. These poor, poor kids.
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3 years
Rick, you animal.
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7 months
Tears in my eyes. This bloke is amazing.
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2 months
Leftist anons have no sense of opsec because they’ve never internalised the idea that their professional life might be at risk from their opinions.
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Chaya Raichik
2 months
Does anyone know who this psycho telling me to k*ll myself is?
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3 years
Some journalists will never admit to being *corrected*. Things are only *clarified*, as if they were mostly right, and the truth was so obscure they cannot take blame for being wrong.
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4 years
Saw a Polish lass on here talking about her "white privilege". Ah yes, that white privilege which has so often shielded Polish people from oppression.
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2 years
I know people say "you couldn’t make it up" about quite banal things but if I was writing a satire about Harry and Meghan I'd have no hope of dreaming up such a hilariously insane thing to say.
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1 year
You know what? I think I’ll just get old and die.
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3 years
A year on, this is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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4 years
Well,,,yes.
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1 year
The same proportion of Japanese murder victims are killed by Japanese people as Venezuelan victims are killed by Venezuelan people — so when you think about it, Caracas is just as safe as Tokyo
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2 years
Guys, I just went to a top restaurant in Kabul and I can now conclusively say that Afghanistan is doing great foodwise.
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2 years
Extremely knowledgeable and pedantic dudes with 457 followers are an essential feature of this app. They keep us honest. Cherish them.
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3 months
I feel like the freedom of information laws might not be the root problem here.
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3 months
I don’t get men who play video games. It’s addictive, you’re not improving yourself and you don’t accomplish anything. Anyways, time to post my 100,000th tweet.
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2 months
If you think this makes her look bad you’re an idiot. You can’t engage with a hypothetical in abstract terms if it’s literally true.
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Intelligence test: can they ENGAGE with a hypothetical?
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5 years
Broadly speaking, you know a progressive comedian because the applause is ten times louder than the laughter.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
5 years
2. "If Ted Bundy were alive today, he'd be on his third Netflix special. It would be his apology tour. And he'd be traveling around the country being like, 'When my friends and I realized it was wrong to kill women, we felt so bad about it." @JenaFriedman is so good
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My wife's English co-worker came in today so proud. He had some "Polish" snacks and jokingly asked my wife if she wanted some. They were Polish snacks. My wife is Silesian. So we kicked the crap out of that p**rd*l*ny gorol.
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8 months
Wow. This (very real) Reddit post says a lot about society.
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4 years
@sadydoyle "excuse me, miss, but I believe your eyes just used the n-word"
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@ted_again_ "Alright, Charlie, look as constipated as you can. That’s perfect."
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2 years
Wow, who on Earth *wouldn’t* love terrible Latin trap blaring in the middle of the day and people screaming for no particular reason?
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1 year
The problem with maths is that it churns out robotic data drones, unlike the humanities, which produce endlessly individual people who never have the same tastes and opinions.
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1 year
Big fan of the subset of online leftist chaps who think being called the wrong words is deeply traumatising but the invasion of your home and theft of your property is no big deal.
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2 years
Shocking to see this "great replacement" rhetoric in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal.
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8 months
From the latest Stephen King. Were people always this insufferably unsubtle? You'd think an experienced, bestselling novelist could cleverly allude to his politics rather than beating you over the head with them like a crowbar.
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5 years
We are alive today because people had children in the midst of war, disease, tyranny and famine.
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5 years
“The natural world is collapsing around us. I couldn’t bring a child into that” Blythe Pepino is the founder of BirthStrike, a group of women too scared to have children due to climate change #VictoriaLIVE
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Elon, you’re inventing brain-computer interfaces.
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2 years
Spat my drink.
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5 years
Typical, another man.
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Ragıp Soylu
5 years
New ISIS leader is declared as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi
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1 year
I’m noticing that white people hate happiness and train their kids to be cold inhuman monsters. I’m the anti-racist one by the way.
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Is it totally unfair to wonder if the skinny lad in the NWA cap went through this whole palaver so he could hold the lass's hand?
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Public health expert here. You might know me from my columns "Why Not Stay Two *Miles* Apart?" and "Yes, You Killed Your Granny" but I'm here to tell you why mass gatherings are actually good.
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Such a shame that the GOP turned an imam, of all people, against homosexuality.
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1 year
Extremely online people need to get out of their bubble and accept that the second largest Democrat donor ruining the finances of millions of people isn’t news in the real world.
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— I eat spicy food, do you? — No, I eat a lot of mild foods with my wife
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4 years
Absolutely. It was only the most consequential event of the Twentieth Century. Move on.
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