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@Sorrelish
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4 years
I am directly subtweeting every smug fucker who is doing ‘period maths’ to prove that there’s no need for free sanitary products. Firstly I’m so glad you all grew up in households where £3-5 wasn’t a lot of money. Genuinely. Everyone should grow up with that level of security.
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AI has ruined the proud tradition of crappy twitter photoshop. There’s no heart or charm in it.
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@BBCIainMac Reporting live from the scene!
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2 years
Mate HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY ARE ON BENEFITS IF YOURE JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET
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2 years
I’m so tired of grind culture. It should be perfectly possible to do a low intensity minimum wage job your whole life and be able to live simply but comfortably. Instead we are making minimum wage jobs more and more intense whilst allowing the cost of living to skyrocket.
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3 months
lol they made the mistake of asking people with actual lives
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Parkrun is facing a backlash over its decision to scrap all-time records after a row over transgender athletes taking female records. Sky's @mattuthompson has been speaking to runners in Clapham this morning to get their reaction 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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1 year
Good analysis of the problems that arise from adults having to share the same internet spaces with teens who are still working stuff out.
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2 months
Someone in one of my crafting groups felted these rabbits and I cannot get over the expression on their dogs face 😅
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4 years
This will make you 180 so fast you’ll leave your eyes behind like in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. 👀
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@deadlysiege @freckIdvampire @literally_joker It’s not just sound, having headphones on changes your proprioception. Idk if you’ve ever been skating but try it with headphones on vs. headphones off - most people (unless already very proficient skaters) will notice a big change in their balance and perception of other skaters
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2 years
How will ‘putting a jumper on’ stop pipes from freezing and bursting if we have a cold snap? How does that stop damp damaging your home, health and belongings? Heating is a home maintenance issue, not just a personal warmth one.
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2 years
TikTok has decided that having Lolita on your bookshelf or liking it as a novel is ‘suspect’ and omg I’m so tired. I know what will happen if I defend the right of people to like art where people do bad things: a bunch of 20 year olds will show up and call me a nonce.
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1 year
@zedonarrival I’m not really a wedding person but omg
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3 months
I’m an adult cis woman and even *I* feel less safe around anyone with that shit on them. At best they are likely to be deeply unpleasant and belligerent, at worst violent and deranged. You knew when you put that shirt on that is EXACTLY the response you were hoping for.
@IndiaWilloughby
India Willoughby
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Because “Adult Human Female” is the dogwhistle phrase of the movement that persecutes and ridicules trans people. A teenager has just been murdered. Do you realise who you are? What you represent?
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4 years
If you don’t understand that families in poverty work in pennies not pounds, you need to rethink your perception of poverty. It exists in this country. For me the trauma of poverty is more significant than any other in my life, even though for me it’s now over.
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4 months
Did you ever read a sentence where every part was worse than the part before?
@MckinleyUpdates
McKinley High Updates ミ☆
4 months
The Glee reboot, starring James Corden as Will Schuester, is due to begin filming early this year.
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4 years
I didn’t. I grew up in a household where everything was done in pence. My mum knew the price of a slice of bread, half an apple, a packet of own brand crisps. If you ever need 7p noodle recipes, I’m your girl. You can bet my mum knew the price of individual sanitary towels.
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4 years
There are families who can’t afford £3/5 a month for pads. I know that sounds mad if you’ve never been broke, but that’s the reality. And believe it or not, some families contain MULTIPLE women! There were three in mine-that’s £15/month or food for a week.
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Not having good sanitary protection is awful. You worry all the time that you are going to leak or flood. Menstrual flow isn’t a gentle seep, it comes in waves. Sometimes when you stand up, a massive flood can appear. If you’re using cheap products, it goes right through.
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@SamQari One of my best friends is Pakistani and I stg when I stay at hers she doesn’t just feed me SHE MAKES ME A PACKED LUNCH FOR MY JOURNEY HOME THE NEXT DAY.
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4 years
When some bullies opened my bag and threw my sanitary towels into the road, my mum made me go back to look for them. We didn’t have the money to buy more. Losing them meant I simply wouldn’t have them that month and would have to use toilet paper that disintegrates and leaks.
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4 years
Cheap products bunch, chafe, leak. Some can cause irritation and rashes because they have fragrance or poor quality materials. If you’ve never had chafing right on your genitals from rough plastic, let me tell you it is DEEPLY unpleasant.
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One moment that radicalised me is going through PIP assessment and realising that they were perfectly content for me to live a life of abject misery where all I could do was work, sleep and eat miserably and then I realised that they want that for everyone, disabled or not.
@RachelCDailey
Rachel Charlton-Dailey 💖💜💙
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Disabled/ unemployed ppl on benefits deserve nice things. We’re allowed to get our nails done, have takeaways, watch Netflix, treat our kids, get drunk etc. The right would prefer it if we all lived in squalor eating gruel and wearing sacks but that says more about them than us
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We answer them literally every day (safe routes, a well funded, fast and humane asylum processing system) but our answers involve treating foreigners like human beings and not like vermin and y’all hate that for some reason.
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2 years
The trade off for low wages should be ‘not having to work very hard or take on much responsibility’ not ‘working harder than people on four times your salary for wages that don’t even cover rent and bills’.
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1 year
Guy who covered up his Harry Potter tattoo with a Rick and Morty tattoo who is about to lose his shit.
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6 months
@ymmayer It’s because everything Isreal does is a performance for propaganda purposes. It’s the same game as all those boxes with ‘MEDICAL SUPPLIES’ written on them in massive English letters even though everyone they are relevant to likely speaks Arabic or Hebrew.
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1 year
Landlord asked us to ‘declutter’ before the next estate agent viewing (so they can sell our home) and the absolute fucking AUDACITY?! Sorry mate was the four+ grand we pay you each month insufficient? You also want us to stop having items? Our bad.
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4 years
Do NOT do this. Don’t normalise being paid less than you are worth. MPs being paid and paid well is key to promoting more diversity in parliament. Resist pay rises that don’t include other public sector workers, but please take home your whole salary.
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Britain's youngest MP vows to only take home £35,000 of her £79k salary
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2 years
One of the first things I saw Jamie Oliver do is smash poultry giblets and neck to make gravy, then he went on a crusade about chicken nuggets on the basis they they include ‘junk meat’ from the ‘bad’ parts of the bird and the point is that his whole thing is just classicism.
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My life changed massively the day I realised that most people ENJOY giving you a cup of tea and a snack when you visit, that’s why they offered, you’re not a craven scrounging goblin if you accept.
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Me when I have friends over: Please treat my home as your home. Make yourself comfortable. Allow me to express my love for you through hospitality!!!!!! Me staying with friends: might I perhaps be permitted to drink a glass of water from your faucet if it is not too much bother
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1 year
But not, apparently, full of conservative women.
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2 years
And that’s what books and stories are FOR. They offer a space where you can experience things that you would never actually want to experience irl because they are disgusting or immoral or unsafe. Fantasy isn’t only aspirational - it teaches us about darkness and foulness too.
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My takeaway from the roughly 3/4 I read was that it was a book designed to make you feel uncomfortable by making you feel complicit. It’s written in a very beguiling & erotic way on purpose; to make you examine the way society has written ideas about the sexuality of young girls
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4 months
have you considered that is how you say the date because that is how you write the date and that in countries where we write it the other way we also say it the other way
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🐿️✨America Is Musty✨🐿️
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MM/DD/YYYY is how ppl talk. "On January 19th 2024" is normal speech. Who the hell says "On the 19th of January 2024"? Are you writing a letter to your wife from the Civil War? "My dearest Ernestine it is the 19th of January and each day my longing grows for you immensely"
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If you see a baby in a coffee shop and do anything other than poke your tongue out at it whilst its parents aren’t looking I don’t want to be your friend.
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3 years
WHEEZING
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@davidmbwana @flaminhaystacks Get fucked with this sanctimonious bullshit. The difference between ‘fine’ and ‘not fine’ can easily be one drink when you’re young and not accustomed to drinking.
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2 years
It’s such a self own to admit that this country has so little to offer we have to keep a rotten, expensive monarchy perched at the top of our political system just so tourists have something to look at.
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“The royal family is essential for tourism” THE BIGGEST TOURIST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD IS FRANCE AND LOOK WHAT THEY DID
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But I’m going to do it anyway. I personally have never finished Lolita. As a victim of childhood sexual abuse it was far too intense and uncomfortable for me. I do know the story and I’ve read essays analysing it.
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@TinyWriterLaura Also what if your phone battery dies? You’re just not allowed to park?
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4 years
The purpose of HS2 is not to ‘shave 20 minutes off a train journey’. It’s not even primarily intended as an upgrade to outdated and creaking infrastructure. The revolutionary thing it does is take high speed trains off standard routes. Why is this important? 👇🏻 1/
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into your subconscious without your awareness or consent. I was about 18 when I read it & we were very much in the era of tabloids counting down to when a female child star would become ‘legal’. It was peak Britney & all the other hypersexualised barely legal female celebrities.
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@EmmaSzewczak My good smear test story is the time I went to get my IUD checked and the nurse complimented my pubic hair. Apparently ‘you just don’t see a full bush like that’ any more and she was very appreciative 😅
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People with bad intentions do absolutely seek out affirming media. Lots of serial killers are really into True Crime and yet ‘it might encourage serial killers’ is rarely a criticism aimed at True Crime. But it’s usually not causative - the media is sought, it’s not the root.
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Some cunt crossed the police cordon, filmed her dead body being recovered and posted it online, can’t imagine why they wouldn’t want anyone knowing the details. 🙄 Leave her and her family alone you awful fucking ghouls.
@JacquiDeevoy1
Jacqui Deevoy
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Did any papers cover Nicola Bulley’s funeral, allegedly held on March 8th? Has any other funeral ever been shrouded in such secrecy? I’ve never heard of a no-fly zone being imposed for a funeral even for a high-profile one. Did anyone see the procession that day? If not, why not?
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The book could have been written in a much less erotic way and there are plenty of valid debates to be had about whether it should have been but the feeling of having to actually confront the erotic gaze society levels at children was more powerful than just being told about it.
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I’m sorry but if anything I wrote led to kids making statements like this I would ban my own book in shame.
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The comments from high schoolers who read this book are chilling.
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1 year
This should get you taken a straight to the fucking Hague.
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Books that make you think and that make you uncomfortable are just as valid to like as books you love because they reflect your personal values. Horror movie fans are more often than not lovely people who don’t want to rape and murder your girlfriend.
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‘What’s ADHD like’
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Books especially offer a safe place to do this - as soon as I felt unsafe I stopped reading. Are there people who will read Lolita and see it as an aspirational novel? Yes, of course there are. People watch The Inbetweeners and don’t realise they are the butt of the joke.
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One of the wildest facts about the Gabby Petito case is that whilst they were looking for Brian Laundrie they found FIVE unrelated dead bodies. FIVE.
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@ThisIsTomLittle Someone would identify as a cat…wokeness gone mad 🙄
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Some books are dodgy, don’t get me wrong. Books that act as manuals, recruiting tools or calls to action are legitimate red flags and the line between ‘this is Art because the author understands what they are doing and is doing it well’ and ‘this is damaging trash’ is extremely
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blurry and subject to valid debate. But it’s as unlikely that someone who owns a copy of Lolita or even enjoys it is a pedo as it is that someone who likes video nasties actually wants to rip your spine out.
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She’s my hero ❤️
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@noahpriebe @lolaplease__ @pradxi The standard for what level of attention and courtship is normal in sapphic relationships is very different lol.
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@AFABRocky Off topic but my life peaked when I went to get a sexual health check up the the nurse complimented me on my full bush. I will never reach that high ever again in my life.
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4 years
Shocking news this week: Toby Young has a wife and Allison Pearson has two friends (for now, stay tuned for updates).
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A reminder of what we stand to lose if Vice goes under
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4 years
‘Don’t wear your contact lenses in the shower’ they said. 😫
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3 years
Just read that back to yourself just one more time.
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@the_tweedy @mykola I literally nearly lost friends over a game of scrabble because they said that ‘bade’ wasn’t a word and refused to either believe me or look it up and that was twenty years ago and I’m still mad.
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The thing about AI is that we can, in fact, just ban it. It’s not a case of ‘oh well it’s out there now what are you gonna do’. Running these large models is INCREDIBLY expensive and resource heavy and so is not viable without a profit making company. You can just ban it.
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@modernistwitch On one hand: no external expectations on me rn. On the other: no external expectations on me rn.
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@Roysterini @GigerPunk SHE LITERALLY HAS 1488 TATTOOED ON HER BODY.
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3 years
You know what single people love? When people in long term relationships are like ‘omg online dating? I could NEVER! 💅🏻’ We love that. Keep doing that.
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@the_tweedy @mykola If your kid is willing to tank a whole relationship over a grammar dispute they probably don’t need warnings about succumbing to peer pressure (it’s me I’m kid)
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This is such an uncontroversial take that I can only assume that it is controversial SPECIFICALLY when Laurence wants to have dinner with *his* kids.
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2 years
I have a new shirt and I’m ready to trigger brutal childhood PTSD in my fellow millennials 😌
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3 years
Look JKR may be dead to us and that’s sad but we still have Rupert Giles representing decent bookish brits. (Via @JayHulmePoet reposted on fb.)
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@SO0u0o Wasn’t there a video recently of a woman like 1/2 his size doing the same job much more calmly and competently in almost spotless overalls? 🤔
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lol, lmao (hollow)
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Apparently I was supposed to have an ultrasound today which I missed because I never got the referral letter because apparently Royal Mail don’t concern themselves with anything so prosaic as ‘delivering letters’ these days.
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@mpellittieri why did you stop scratching my tummy this is unacceptable
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Willow and I are in the paper lads!
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Dear journalists. I cannot CANNOT express how much no one gives a fuck about whether or not parents of private school kids get refunds on their fees. There are children at state schools going hungry because they are no longer getting free school meals.
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@hangsawoman ‘If several important details were completely different and this was real life not fiction…’
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@KaelWrit @mandolakes Yeah this is a level that goes beyond bigotry into something unhealthy. But it’s fed by sincerely held beliefs held by perfectly sane (if deeply unpleasant) people. Such a toxic little ecosystem.
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Tell me you’ve never read any Pratchett without telling me. Fucking LOL. Apropos of nothing here’s my official Discworld Stamp featuring Queen Blodwen Schmaltzberg, (prev. King Rhys Rhysson) the first transgender queen of the Dwarves.
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@Chinchillazllla I think it’s in poor taste to champion Pratchett as “anti terf” and his characters as “part of the terf wars” considering Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s well before the media circus of trans rights really picked up steam. He may have HATED trans people for all we know.
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Giblets and neck from a free range goose that probably cost like eighty quid? That’s just good flavour. The same bits mashed up and fried for a meal deal? Time to kick off. He hates fat people but he hates poor people even more.
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How did millennials+ become ‘the boundaries generation’? I have a theory but it’s a bit complicated so bear with me. In very broad terms, our parents had a much colder & more authoritarian relationship with their parents than we did. So when they had kids, they didn’t want that.
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Seeing environmentalists campaign AGAINST HS2 after decades of banging the drum *for* public transport is baffling. Like this is literally what we wanted? More train capacity, fewer car journeys and fewer flights, fewer new roads and airport expansion? /fin
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Oh god I hope so.
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@JacksonEflin @JayHulmePoet @stringlytyped I think the missing detail here is that almost all our traffic enforcement is done by cameras. Your average British driver will get pulled over maybe once or twice their entire life, many never get pulled over whilst driving at all.
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@moorehn Wasn’t the previous dog also retired for biting secret service agents? Something smells and it’s not this good boy
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Kinda mad that in the last year of free movement I wasn’t free to move.
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Hi Rishi! I hear you like maths! Heard a nice easy one. If someone’s take home pay is £1500 a month and their bills, rent, food and expenses come to £1550 how much are the tories fucking us? Please show your working.
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The reasons people end up on benefits are exactly as unexpected & out of their control as a pandemic. If you’re only outraged now that the government expect people to surivive on it consider how much you may have internalised the idea that people on benefits deserve to be poor.
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@GatorsDaily So M A J E S T I C
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@OyYallaNu @picantebeefbaby @clhubes And if you wore them for a couple of months they often went a kind of nicotine yellow colour?
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People with ADHD like the site where your two options are tiny chunks of information on a variety of subjects or incredibly deep deep dives into a single topic of interest? Oh WORD?
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“Lol everyone on Twitter says they have ADHD” Gosh I wonder why people with ADHD might be overrepresented on the dopamine slot machine website
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Matt Rife building an audience off his himbo vibe then immediately turning around and opening his special with a DV joke and getting uppity that his *mainly female audience* were rightly disgusted is just peak unforced error. He could have ridden that himbo wave for decades.
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@sleepesocialist I’ve seen lots of teens talking about their ‘age gap friendships’ and oh my GOD children please take a rest. (Apparently anything over a year is an ‘age gap’)
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Feminism: spends centuries decoupling the definition of ‘woman’ from that of ‘brood mare’ TERFs: WOMEN HAVE BABIES IF YOU DONT HAVE/THINK ABOUT/DEFINE YOURSELF IN RELATION TO BABIES YOU ARE NOT A WOMAN
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@JacksonEflin @JayHulmePoet @stringlytyped *note I should have specified ‘white’ drivers, the cops will obviously make -certain exceptions-
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@OyYallaNu @picantebeefbaby @clhubes Oh my GOD clear strapped bras which somehow hade your bras straps MORE visible?
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The confusing sapphic feeling of not knowing if you fancy a girl or want to be her or both
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@turtletesticles @altoidsrevenge This sign is just on the kids play area, not the whole park. Do you need the little slide? The teeter totter? No?
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look how they have massacred my boy
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