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@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
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Karl Sharro
10 years
So Um Kalthoum walks into a bar. Walks into a bar. Walks into a bar. Walks into a baaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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1 year
First time the USA leaves a Middle Eastern country so quickly
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11 months
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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4 years
The turning point of history has arrived
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4 years
The British are finally experiencing what's it like to have the British rule your country
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2 years
It's great that the British are discovering how difficult it is to get rid of British rule
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2 years
Britain is now hot enough for Britain to colonise
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4 years
Ottoman Zoom call
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3 years
My ambitious plan to free the boat is to push a huge cotton swab up the canal
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7 years
Under communism you buy everything from a single state outlet, whereas under fully-mature capitalism you buy everything from Amazon.
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4 years
The US should invade itself to bring democracy to the US
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3 years
This photo looks like chess
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2 years
Afghanistan has a moral responsibility to invade the US to protect women
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Karl Sharro
6 years
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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6 years
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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Karl Sharro
6 years
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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Karl Sharro
4 years
Yeah baffling
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@BillKristol
Bill Kristol
4 years
Bernie Sanders very impressed by the chandeliers in the Moscow subway stations and by the Soviet “palaces of culture.” (Really.)
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Karl Sharro
5 years
Migrants learn the new language, expats don't
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Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺
5 years
Dear @BBCNews Why are British in Spain expats but Spaniards in UK are migrants?
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Karl Sharro
7 years
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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Karl Sharro
3 years
I love how these kinds of posts imply that the natural habitat of the American soldier is Baghdad or Kabul
@wolfblitzer
Wolf Blitzer
3 years
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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Karl Sharro
6 years
There's no way she can get this free kick in.
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7 years
Our bold proposal to reshape Western Europe for a more stable and peaceful future. (Inspired by what Europe did elsewhere.)
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Karl Sharro
4 years
Leopold ll is now Leopold =
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atv.be
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Leopold II voorgoed van zijn sokkel #atvnieuws #LeopoldII #Ekeren
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Karl Sharro
4 years
Speaking as someone from the Middle East I can't think of anything more American
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Fred Wellman
4 years
I can't think of anything more un-American than armed men storming our capitals.
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Karl Sharro
7 years
Saddam used to do that.
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John Harwood
7 years
Trump is inviting his Cabinet members to go around the table praising him
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Karl Sharro
4 years
It took 176 years but The Economist finally gets it
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The Economist
4 years
Have billionaires accumulated their wealth illegitimately?
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Karl Sharro
4 years
We would like to pull down our statues in Lebanon too but they're still alive
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Karl Sharro
7 years
This is a major turning point in history, Lebanese taxi drivers are now asking Western journalists the questions.
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Sulome
7 years
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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Karl Sharro
3 years
Looking back at the last four years, Trump basically imported the US's foreign policy to the US
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Karl Sharro
3 years
The red dots represent men shouting out unrequested advice to the rescue crew
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Karl Sharro
7 years
They should call hurricanes names like Mohammed or Fatima, would make it much harder for them to enter the US.
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Karl Sharro
4 years
Next up: African artists record a charity single for Europe
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6 years
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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Karl Sharro
2 years
This is basically Iraq from 2003 - 2021
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Karl Sharro
4 years
There are many Shias too
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4 years
The turning point of history goes on
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Karl Sharro
4 years
We're still trying to recover from the pact you imposed a century ago
@aleeharissi
Mohamad Ali Harisi
4 years
Macron to #Beirut residents: I will propose a new political pact for #Lebanon this afternoon!! #france
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Karl Sharro
5 years
Computer, give me a graphic illustration of neo-colonialist Western arrogance
@MiddleEastEye
Middle East Eye
5 years
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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4 years
Even with imaginary maps they can't treat Africa well
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Karl Sharro
6 years
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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1 year
We're a couple of weeks away from the UK asking India for economic aid
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4 years
Middle East peace plans are my favourite genre of Western fiction
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1 year
When the French team lift the world cup they should be accompanied by the referees that helped them win it.
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Karl Sharro
6 years
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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4 years
What I would give to be an African official stamping 'no visa' on a European person's passport now
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Karl Sharro
8 years
I designed a building based on journalistic and political clichés.
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Karl Sharro
4 years
They had to stop when the British Museum was full
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Jim Pickard 🐋
4 years
apparently there are only 22 countries in the entire world that the British have never invaded
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Karl Sharro
6 years
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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Karl Sharro
3 years
How it started How it's going
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Karl Sharro
1 year
This will never stop being funny
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Karl Sharro
9 years
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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1 year
These flags are like the semifinal between Christianity and Islam
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Karl Sharro
6 years
The US exported so much democracy to the Middle East, it ran out of it
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Karl Sharro
7 years
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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Karl Sharro
4 years
We have a new sect in Lebanon, the Macronites
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Karl Sharro
8 years
You want the simple one-sentence explanation for what caused ISIS?
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Karl Sharro
6 years
Some Arabic phrases, Inshallah: God willing Hamdillah: Thank God Nutellah: Thank God for chocolate
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Karl Sharro
2 years
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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Karl Sharro
3 years
Let's acknowledge that this is the year of Egyptian digger operators
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Error 404
3 years
🤬فقط في مصر 🤬
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Karl Sharro
4 years
The most unpredictable thing about the Middle East is the US.
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Karl Sharro
6 years
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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Karl Sharro
3 years
The angels are being dispatched from Africa and Latin America but they didn't get visas
@RightWingWatch
Right Wing Watch
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Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump's reelection.
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Karl Sharro
4 years
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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1 year
The CIA accusing the Mossad of organising anti regime protests in Israel is the news story that I have waited all my life for.
@nytimes
The New York Times
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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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1 year
Elon Musk is Liz Trussing Twitter
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Karl Sharro
6 years
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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Karl Sharro
5 years
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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Karl Sharro
2 years
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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Karl Sharro
6 years
2011: yay, social media can disrupt the political order 2017: shit, social media can disrupt the political order
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Karl Sharro
11 years
And then God created the Middle East and said 'let there be breaking news and analysis'.
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4 years
I seem to have started a fight between the English and the Scottish over this, which seems quite appropriate
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Karl Sharro
5 years
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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Karl Sharro
5 years
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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Karl Sharro
6 years
Man City have Jesus and Liverpool have Mohammed. This feels like a major showdown. #LIVMCI
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Karl Sharro
3 years
Will NATO invade Texas now to protect American women?
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4 years
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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6 years
Reminder that those are the same people running our economies.
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6 years
This is the biggest US fuck up in the Middle East since the last several hundred fuck ups.
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2 years
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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Karl Sharro
5 years
This is the best day of my life. Hahahaha
@clear_red
Claire Read
5 years
The Speaker of the House has just has expressed his concern to the Commons that they are not setting a good example for the group of Lebanese politicians who are visiting. #brexit #pmqs
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Karl Sharro
3 years
Mount Everest
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1 year
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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Karl Sharro
4 years
We feel that our statues are no longer safe in London and demand their instant repatriation
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3 years
Electoral map if the US was a cow
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4 years
This is first time ever that anybody's been upset that the British are leaving
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Karl Sharro
6 years
Trump to Putin on the phone tomorrow: 'Would, of course I meant would'
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4 years
With the streets abandoned in the UK the dinosaurs have returned
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Karl Sharro
5 years
"World's first", like designers were trying for years and they could only manage 359 degrees until these people figured it out.
@cnni
CNN International
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London to get 'world's first' infinity pool with 360-degree views
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2 years
Worst dabke ever
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Karl Sharro
4 years
How many times can you see the same city destroyed during your lifetime? It's unfathomable.
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Karl Sharro
5 years
It's also 100% not a shawarma
@nowthisimpact
NowThis Impact
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This shawarma is 100% vegetarian
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Karl Sharro
6 years
There were clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli bullets.
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Karl Sharro
4 years
Give it up to this Lebanese protester, a Premier League club should sign him
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Karl Sharro
7 years
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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Karl Sharro
6 years
I think I finally understood the difference between modernism and post-modernism
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Karl Sharro
5 years
Colonialism wasn't about looting resources and domination but about civilising people, that's why they called those places Ivory Coast, Gold Coast (Ghana), Rich Coast (Costa Rica), Silver (Argentina) and Slave Coast.
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Karl Sharro
3 years
This is seriously so tone deaf. A year of heroic efforts by frontline workers and scientists and so many others, taking a huge toll physically and emotionally, and they're passed for this.
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TIME
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY
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Karl Sharro
4 years
You have to love it when the people who brought you the Thirty Years' War, the Hundred Years' War and the two world wars go 'they've been fighting each other for centuries in the Middle East'.
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3 years
Ancient Egyptian person depicted trying to remove the cat filter
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The French work 35 hours week and play 5 minutes a game but somehow it's enough
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