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Eleanor Gordon-Smith

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6 years

exhaustive list of podcast genres: - my friends are funny so i never edit them - you didn't know how X worked, now you do - how much personal trauma will people reveal into a mic? lots - murder exists

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a lot of philosophical analysis is people having mental illnesses and not knowing it. "the condition of man naturally is undissolvable suffering" like yes, true, but ALSO you have depression

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"hollywood has a sexual assault problem" "academia has a sexual assault problem" "parliament has a sexual assault problem" if only there was some way of extrapolating from this

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6 years

every single woman i've seen sharing this talks about how relatable it is, which is really fucking sad, but if you want to ~get it~, read this

“Cat Person”

“It was a terrible kiss, shockingly bad; Margot had trouble believing that a grown man could possibly be so bad at kissing.”

www.newyorker.com

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4 years

when I was ~this age I remember my dad telling me you can be scared and brave at the same time & this girl taking deep breaths through tears to throw a cops gaze right back at him is my fuuuucking hero

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As police went about their move-on order at Kirribilly House, one girl was visibly frightened during police direction. She and her father complied with the move-on order. #ClimateProtest

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7 years

Excited to wear Garfield Kissinger to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy courtesy of best boys @adam_chal @danrohankenny

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3 years

some Q supporters are realising they've been misled and being very sad about it online which is puzzling because I thought it was good that there isn't a cabal of cannibal paedophiles

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5 years

I think about this answer every single day

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6 years

People get so embarrassed when they deeplike but as someone who does this like once daily the correct strategy is to double down. Tap tap it's me again motherfucker, nice brunch you had in 2008

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I'm reliably told several prolific and brilliant people had depression their whole lives and after seriously experiencing it for probably the first time in my life I am here to say what the F U CK

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Seeing the word “Aussie” typed by an American gives my teeth the shivers. I can hear the way they slant the first vowel. The doggedly un-chill soft “s”. The cop-like insistence on capitalizing the A. Sin from start to finish

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6 years

[to the tune of eleanor rigby] möbius dickby flatten him out then rotate him and join at his tail inverted whale my boyfriend sang this last night I am confident it is the dumbest thing I have ever winded myself laughing at

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6 years

I wrote a book. It’s 7 true stories about people who changed their minds in big real high stakes ways, and how rarely they matched our ideal of rationality. It’s out soon. I’m tired and proud and I love u

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4 years

here's my literature review: the literature is bad

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8 months

Went to city hall to run a little errand 💐 ❤️

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2 years

My american boyfriend keeps thinking the leader of the opposition is called Tony Abalone

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6 years

How is Milo possibly gonna top that time a guy called DJ Fuknukl headbutted a former PM and then said he wasn't making a political point he just "wanted to nut the cunt"

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3 years

I very seldom find myself speechless but I am utterly without words for the behaviour of (some) Australian press today. Mediocre, intellectually void, self-congratulatory, self serving morons who appoint themselves the guardians of the values they undermine daily. For shame.

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6 years

Listen let me tell you a hard truth about sydney, Sydney is a fuckin asshole. I love it but it’s an asshole. In America you walk down the street and 20 people are your best friends in Sydney it’s like no thanks I have friends already, my uni class will do me just fine

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the best way I can convey what it feels like to write a dissertation: imagine a whale is following you at all times but you completely lack the concept ‘whale’. you just feel the presence of a huge, silent, behemoth mystery, and you can’t totally rule out that it will eat you

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7 years

I asked my catcallers why they did it for @ThisAmerLife . I know it's a cliche but I did not believe what they said.

Once More, With Feeling - This American Life

Stories of people who decide to rethink the way they’ve been doing things.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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4 years

We are organizing the bookshelf and have found this outrageous doubling of stock image

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3 years

Google says its search function is just like a friend you ask for recommendations lmao That would be true if my pal; - surveilled me & made a dossier of my preferences to sell to cafes - owned cafes that they recommended - made money when I asked "where's a cool coffee place?"

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7 years

I thought of another thing for #HowIWillChange : please don't make women say "no" twice. Train yourself to hear the first one

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4 years

once a day I remember that when Anthony Bourdain filmed his only episode in Sydney his dipshit local stringer sent him to harry's cafe de wheels & I just stop and stare into a very deep void

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I am a Dr! An honour that makes me reflect on the honour I’ve had, daily, to be the recipient of such extraordinary mentorship and love from such extraordinary people. Cheesy grateful

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7 years

When will the resin jewellry brigade stop writing pieces in memoriam of the drugfucked sydney they peered down at from darlington terraces

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4 years

Is it because of all the doom

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@TheTLS

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Why doom-mongering is back in fashion

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5 years

eat my DUST

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the fact that this was published in the FINANCIAL REVIEW is so perfectly Australia. Astonishing boomer mediocrity given a regular role in a reputable broadsheet while talented young people freelance for Crushr dot biz

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4 years

I tell you what it's not helping the general descent into madness that I scrub my hands 800 times a day like I killed the king of scotland while feebly mentally singing 'happy birthday to me' over & over. very murder clown vibes

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6 years

Being an expat on Australian twitter is like being trapped in the worlds worst critical thinking test. What scandal did you sleep through? Your clues are “stolen generation” and “breakfast TV”, your time starts.. now

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5 years

Exciting news: you can now pre-order my book! it is about real people who changed their minds against all the odds & what their stories tell us about our (broken) model of 'rational discourse'. Plus it has a tortoise on it

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I genuinely believe a big problem in The Discourse is how many people read to experience well-articulated versions of thoughts they already have, as though resonance is the only goal, as though learning is just a matter of discovering what was ~within~ all along

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6 years

when women talk about bad sex they mean being actively in pain or leaving in tears. when men talk about bad sex they mean not getting off. read this

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2 years

what extremely specific brain worms cause residents of NYC to believe there is no such thing as a city anywhere else on the planet

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Imagine not living in New York City.

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the young child of a faculty member wrote this poem while being forced to attend a conference. I'm dying

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5 years

I have a story w This American Life this week about a woman who doesn't know whether she was abused as a child. It made me rethink things about costs of error, how to live with doubt, & what psychologists owe the people in case studies. You can listen here

Grownups Know Things - This American Life

Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells the story of a woman who wants to know why she was taken away from her mom as a kid.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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6 years

please stop calling jordan peterson a philosopher. He has no degree in it he does not teach it he has never studied it. all he did was read jung once and stuff his brain with packing peanuts

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7 years

Remember when we thought 2016 was bad because celebrities kept dying

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4 years

Johannes Leak is a boring racist who draws like he’s a $10 caricaturist who would give you giant teeth and a skateboard

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@BogleMM @Qantas I'm too tired to be laughing this hard

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8 years

If like me you had not seen a picture of trump's mother please enjoy this

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6 years

Update: I was crying into my cereal over this damn song and hiccup-inhaled a whole mini wheat and honestly nearly fatally choked alone in my apartment thanks a lot @timminchin

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people tweeting this as though it's an indication of vitality & therefore worthiness for public office, as though health & mobility are voluntary choices that express moral worth, which is incidentally the same thought that undermines medicare, proceed

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3 years

She's gonna get free and get her own instagram back and immediately say something absolutely cooked about immigrants or the vaccine but that is not the POINT

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6 years

Sorry but how did I miss the Iris Murdoch / Philippa Foot memo until now

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2 years

I try not to think or talk about this too much but leaving your family & friends and putting miles and oceans between you is a pretty sad and hard experience, and it's wild that some parts of academia expect you to do it over and over again with a smile

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4 years

I might get deported and my dissertation is dumb and my computer died and I moved house and I don’t have any milk so I‘m just going to go get unbelievably high and then upend a kayak on my head

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6 years

How long do you have to live overseas before White Wine In the Sun and a Qantas flight home doesn't decimate your tear ducts

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4 years

There are gonna be people who die coz they went to Olive Garden in a state that opened too soon. Imagine dying for Olive Garden

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6 years

Got really sad yesterday because I thought my recently bereaved grandfather bought a book called "persevering" but it turns out it was "preserving" and he's just learning some new marmalades

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5 years

It's publication day! (In Australia). Six stories about high stakes changes of mind and what they teach us about rationality are now available at this lovely link

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I was so wrong about this. My US pessimism made me think NSW would have a huge outbreak. I'm so blown away by & grateful for this country, its luck, and the unbelievably hard work that's keeping us safe

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NSW recorded no new locally acquired cases of #COVID19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. There were three cases acquired overseas, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases in NSW since the beginning of the pandemic to 4,901.

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I have been threatening @michaelkoziol for years that I'd tweet this when he won a Walkley and I was kind of joking but turns out he 1000% won a Walkley. He is very talented and you should read his work and also RIP our misspent youth

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I start most mornings thinking about how the text never actually specifies that Humpty Dumpty is an egg

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4 years

couple on the train next to me negotiating the fact that he didn't tell her he was married, happy valentines day to MEEEEE

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4 years

Graduate students are the absolute worst

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3 years

Charles Mills once sat in the lounge with a handful of us grad students for two hours after a seminar talking to us each about our journey to and with philosophy. He wrote people's contact details on folded up napkins to follow things up. I feel very sad that he is gone.

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6 years

Editing your own work: a past self proudly presents you with a pile of hairballs and candy wrappers and you have to say wow thankyou I can absolutely make a beautiful scarf with this

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americans get mad when the great british baking show is like "this is a right plonker of a scone!" and then they walk around going "it's a hundred degrees outside here on month-day-year and I'm excited to keep manifesting my journey", fucking WHAT

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4 years

I am getting pretty damn sick of people wilfully misunderstanding what social distancing asks of you, no you cannot have people over, yes one brunch CAN hurt, what is it about the risk of killing people that is not sinking in for you

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If it were Australia, 95% of people would vote, computers wouldn’t malfunction coz you’d be using a pencil, there’d be delicious bbq at your polling place and it wouldn’t be pouring in November but go ahead “greatest” “country” “on” “earth”

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5 years

Why doesn’t his have six hundred million retweets this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

British GQ

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Jordan Peterson on his all-beef diet #GQ30

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my hobbies include tea, reading, and being found well by emails

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me, an Australian stuck the US, looking directly at the camera

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pundits today: I and my entire political class had no idea this would happen, now pay for and listen to my analysis of why this happened

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[stepping over an overdose] what a raconteur [homeless man chokes on vomit] this reminds me of a les murray poem

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Did you know some people lie to their therapists like what the fuck ahaha you’re going broke financing a play that you had to bribe the only audience member into attending

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I have met some pretty unflappable people in my day but I just learned Buzz Aldrin’s heart rate was 88 when he left the atmosphere. that is ice cold

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something weird about confined to 2-5 person households is that we probably have never before been this wretchedly isolated AND this starved of genuine & restorative alone time. it's strange to lose both simultaneously

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@adam_chal no markets are free until all are free

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if someone you know is getting really into baking all of a sudden they are without doubt having a breakdown

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6 years

Holy shit

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3 years

I made a podcast! Little Bad Thing: true stories every week of the things we wish we hadn't done. First 2 eps are up today, subscribe so you don't miss the one with the man who pretended to be a professor of russian

Little Bad Thing Trailer

Listen to this episode from Little Bad Thing on Spotify. A show from The Ethics Centre about the things we wish we hadn’t done. New stories every week, true stories every time. Subscribe now so you...

open.spotify.com

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6 years

@adam_chal great tweet from me, taking the afternoon off now

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5 years

The 'gender debate' in philosophy is hurting trans people. & when they say so, the response is to be a skeptic all of a sudden? Yeuch. Non-trans women are often cited as a casualty of trans inclusion so it seems important to say: I support trans people in philosophy & this sucks

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how's this for a spicy take: some australian university students really are just lazy as shit. obviously do not punish people who are struggling. and financial wrist-slaps like this are punitive AND ineffective. but also ..... some of you are lazy as shit

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I don’t think ACU grasps quite how badly their mismanagement and deceit damages not only their reputation, but all of Australian academia’s. For a place with a mission of improving thought in Australia, this is atrocious @ACUmedia

Dmitri Gallow

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Today the provost of @ACUmedia , Meg Stuart, told me that being sacked from a continuing contract less than a year after moving to the country is normal for universities in Australia, which must remain "agile".

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burnout culture is so dumb, why is it supposed to be impressive if you can't get through your workload without neglecting your mum & eating cereal for dinner over the sink. seems like you're doing bad

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hello to you if your tween is asking for short shorts or a bikini this christmas

'I’ve tried to raise my daughter with feminist values but I’m struggling with her clothes. What do...

The cold truth is there’s nothing your daughter can wear to keep her safe, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. So give her the message the rest of the world won’t

www.theguardian.com

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There are a lot of moments in life where someone could point out "you are being irrational about this" and you could just reply "yes" and continue. An unwavering commitment to revenge is one of these.

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do classical logicians think that fake counterfeit money is money

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Switching dissertations to “how is it conceptually possible for bath towels to get dirty when we only touch them when we’re clean”

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in which I reveal my deeply-held view that work for work's sake is actually bad

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When I told a US doctor that they vaccinated us in school he said “what, they herd you up like cattle!?” and I was like no ... like ... a public health program

The New York Times

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Cervical cancer could be eliminated in Australia within the next two decades because of a government program to vaccinate children against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus, according to a new report

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god save me I just googled a primer on the relationship between two of my fave thinkers and was like man this is sloppy who wrote this and it was ME

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Reading Kant like wow the soaring intellect of this man & then you turn the page to “it follows plainly that only some of the crustaceans in the sea are beautiful”

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hello 911? yes the more I learn about philosophy the worse I get at doing it

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Why do people say “you were born alone and you’ll die alone” no one has ever been born alone

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in 'the' world of modal realism?

Aeon+Psyche

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In the world of modal realism, any possibilities that are considered are necessarily taking place in another reality. So don't get too hung up on what could have been – it's actually happening. From the Aeon Video archive:

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I don't know how we're supposed to say more clearly that the world is fucking ending

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remember the contact tracys? that was nice. let's do that media week again

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UK & USA! You can now buy my book about people changing their minds in big high stakes ways. 6 true stories, each one shows us something we get wrong about rationality. I hope reading it is as fun as writing it was USA --> UK -->

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it's my firm philosophical view that death is not always a tragedy. sometimes it's good that a person is dead. I don't really understand thinking otherwise

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@GarethRPearce This is part of my thinking re: why permissibility isn't the useful lens for sexual ethics. Maybe you can permissibly do this, but why would you? Seems to me something like benevolence has to be the lens; sex shouldn't be a place for doing whatever you can't get told off for

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I went to sleep at 6am and just now I thought about paddington bear and a single tear rolled down my cheek. I have not read or seen paddington bear, but my understanding is he is a bear who has a nice time

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@simoncosgrove @acgrayling I think white, still-alive people can hold off on comparing ANY of their mistreatment by bureaucrats to being murdered by having your neck knelt on by an officer. You do not know that feeling. There are ways to make your point without co-opting & trivializing that suffering.

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Alright New York, alright

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one time an ex described me as a formula 1 car that no one is driving & I don't know if he meant it as a compliment but it's on my business cards now

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