Peter @pickyouredge Twitter profile

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Peter

@pickyouredge

3 years

These are all just normal texts. This post has tens of thousands of likes. I’m losing my mind

Tyler Schmall

@tylerschmall

3 years

My friend Adam has never texted me for a normal reason.

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4 months

Honestly I’ve never felt more alienated before in my life. I feel like I live on a different planet.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 months

BREAKING: The UK will temporarily pause funding to the UN's relief agency in Gaza over claims members were involved in Hamas' attack on Israel Full story ⬇️

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5 months

The greatest sporting moment of the last 10 years was when they installed cameras in the changing rooms of snooker players for some reason, and when they checked in on Shaun Murphy he was just sitting there eating Mini Cheddars

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2 years

Corbyn: change of plan, we're going to run all these public services for actual public good, not for profit Labour MP who's been in the job for 45 years: Uh huh, but I still get to take massive bribes from water companies? Corbyn: No Labour MP: I'm afraid you're an antisemite

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3 years

@jamesdgreig We’re at the “someone I know irl interacted with me…and it was freakin epic” stage of total alienation

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@pickyouredge

10 months

One thing I learned recently is that Americans think raves are like Skrillex gigs at Madison Square Garden

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@pickyouredge

1 year

City Xtra

@City_Xtra

1 year

Kalvin Phillips on his 'perfect script' for the #UCLFinal : "For me, we start really well, get one or two goals quite early. And then in the 65th, 70th minute we get another goal, and then Pep [Guardiola] decides to change a few players and I get to play..." [via @TNTSportsBR ]

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3 years

Absolutely pissing myself

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3 years

Actually a quarter of a million likes. Honestly I’m going insane

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3 years

@EnemyBeauty This mf goes bowling?!?

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2 months

Hi guys, just got back from my trip to somewhere in not-Britain and it struck me how amazing everything is there. Like how I went out for dinner every night and had a laugh when in Britain I usually have to go to work every day? Why do we think this is?

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@pickyouredge

2 months

“If I bumped into myself I would assume I was a sexual predator”. Okay mate! Good to know

David "GARGOYLE OF BEELZEBUB" Spiers 🇺🇦

@davidspiersiii

2 months

But I am 6ft 1, and to anyone I run into in a public toilet, a total stranger. An unknown quantity. A man; a potential threat. I cannot tell you how horrible that would make me feel. I was not willing to be that person, so I refused to do it.

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4 months

I thought 2015-19 was bad. Just being lied to every day by the most disingenuous scumbags in the world. But somehow it’s managed to get about a million times worse

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7 months

@sophierebeccaf Next tweet starts "This is exactly why I don't like to stop for red lights". I hate these people lol

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@pickyouredge

4 years

Gordon Brown became Prime Minister when Marcus Rashford would've been 9 years old, which is presumably around the time when he was going to school hungry

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@cara_hilton

4 years

Can we have Gordon Brown back as Prime Minister please!

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8 months

Finally just admitted to myself that it'd be easier and cheaper to buy a crate of Coke in the weekly shop rather than going round to the shop for a single can every afternoon

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@pickyouredge

4 months

The gun, gromit. Kill me lad.

Hillary Clinton

@HillaryClinton

4 months

Greta & Margot, While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re both so much more than Kenough. #HillaryBarbie

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1 year

You've fed 1613 people with the food grown in your allotment and now somebody's come along and salted the ground. I just can't make sense of it. All I can say is good luck with your gofundme. Oh, just one more thing: is that a tub of Saxa table salt in your pocket?

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@pickyouredge

5 months

So Kate Middleton has had a facelift and an American gossip rag has found out about it and now the royal family are getting ahead of the story with “abdominal surgery”. They think we’re stupid.

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5 years

Earlier you were literally ordering t-shirts based on the brooch worn by a judge you’d never heard of until 5 minutes before

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

5 years

Crowds chant 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn' like it doesn't make them look like a bunch of deranged evangelical tools.

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6 months

@readonlymike I love this website so much

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7 months

Those Uniqlo self-service tills where you just throw the item into a big tub thing and it instantly knows what it is? Probably the greatest technological achievement of the last ten years

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2 years

This Sam Tarry stuff is going to seem pretty irrelevant later in the year when the Tories just throw money at people to help with energy bills and Starmer’s left going “err means-tested tax breaks for veterans with more than 7 lightbulbs in their house”

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@pickyouredge

10 months

This army of 23-year-old Labour "staffers" that you get on here with bios like "Northern exile in London. President of the roast potato fanclub. Spend too much time reading policy documents. Swiftie". Got to be the weirdest freaks on earth?

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1 year

The fucker looks like a VAR decision has just gone against him and he knows it's going to cost him his job

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@pickyouredge

6 years

I just joined the Labour Party 🎉

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@pickyouredge

3 years

Patrick Maguire

@patrickkmaguire

3 years

A terrifying glimpse of the future: just been in the new Tesco Express on High Holborn in search of a newspaper. They don’t sell them 😱

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@pickyouredge

10 months

I've never been to a bad gig because I grew up in a thrifty working class household and I can never admit when something I've paid good money for ends up being shit. Same reason I've never had a bad meal in a restaurant, never seen a bad film at the cinema, and so on.

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@pickyouredge

7 months

Jo Cox was murdered in the street by a fascist and instead of thinking seriously about how ~the discourse~ fuels right-wing hatred, we have a crackdown on left-wingers pointing out an MP's voting record instead.

Siobhain McDonagh

@Siobhain_Mc

7 months

My statement about Labour women being threatened, intimidated or having their offices vandalised:

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Peter

@pickyouredge

1 year

Just got an email from someone at work who had their salary in their signature. Never seen that before. Bold as brass.

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@pickyouredge

10 months

When the oil-rich South American country elects a socialist president

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1 year

My view on travelling? I’m glad you asked. Well, when other people do it, it’s very Tory. Where did they get the money for that? Parents no doubt. When I do it…I’ve saved up for this mate. I deserve it.

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7 months

Marine Le Pen: Israel is the West's easternmost outpost defending the white race from a barbarous onslaught from The Orient The Guardian: Hard leftists will sneer, but are we witnessing the reformation of a once-controversial figure? Dare we stan an anti-racist queen?

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@pickyouredge

2 years

Good that Lula won but have you considered that it might not be that good and you should be miserable instead? I’m left-wing btw

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@pickyouredge

6 years

@DPJHodges you tweeted this half an hour ago you mug

(((Dan Hodges)))

@DPJHodges

6 years

One area where I would agree with @OwenJones84 though is the issues we’re all debating are serious, and generate genuine passions on all sides. So if we want to engage we all have to be a bit less precious, and if we dish it out, we have to be able to take it as well.

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@pickyouredge

3 years

Pissing myself at the tone of this. Does anyone else think this accidental killing is bad? Am I the only one?!

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@pickyouredge

8 months

We genuinely don’t have free speech in this country

Harry Cole

@MrHarryCole

8 months

You can report Novara star to Prevent here:

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@pickyouredge

2 months

@Chrisfinn2703 Love how it just floats in

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@pickyouredge

2 years

It really is quite amazing - personally, I love it - that the only politician to look at Britain and say "you know, things could be a bit better than this" got basically hounded out of political life and smeared as a traitor to the extent that fascist psychos tried to murder him

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2 years

Your boyfriend, who writes for The Social Review, is tweeting about how he’s going to be arrested and sent on Sunak’s deradicalisation programme

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5 months

This was during the world championship final btw

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1 year

For every case of "this meeting could've been an email" there are about a thousand cases of "this three-day email back-and-forth could've been a five-minute meeting". Shut-in millennials don't want people talking about this but it's true.

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1 year

Every dull-as-fuck politics junkie that believed every lie they told about Corbyn now suddenly flabbergasted to learn that they’ve done the same thing to Lineker, who is even more harmless and boring. Funny.

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4 years

This tendency of UK left people to think that they live in the worst country on earth is really weird. Lots of the UK is stunning

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@pickyouredge

3 years

Wonder what that bloke would say if he won the lottery. "Actually, I'm alright

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@pickyouredge

4 years

The Melts: "We need a northern working class woman as leader!" RLB: "I'll do it. Do you mind if I'm left wing?" The Melts: "We need a London-based male lawyer! Boris is an Etonian anyway, it doesn't matter!"

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

4 years

Several former Labour MPs from the north say it’s not about the geographical location of the next leader, but their political location. Choosing someone just because they’re northern would be a bit knee-jerk, according to Jenny Chapman.

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@pickyouredge

16 days

If I see another "because of [word that rhymes with woke]" joke I'm going to blow my brains out I think

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@pickyouredge

16 days

Genuinely funny that this bloke’s an (alleged) sex offender - there’s a whole section about it on his Wikipedia page - but he’s married to a Spectator writer so no journalist will ever mention it

Sky News

@SkyNews

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'If you want change the way to do that is through the ballot box' The government's adviser on political violence @LordWalney tells @SophyRidgeSky blocking roads and stopping ambulances 'is not acceptable' #PMQs 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YouTube

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@pickyouredge

15 days

We’ve got 6 weeks of our entire media and political class chasing the votes of people who find this funny

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@pickyouredge

8 months

Watching genocide happen live on TV and on my phone and I’m sitting here too scared to go into work tomorrow, or into any casual conversation, and say “this is happening and it’s bad” because I might get sacked. It’s a surreal disgrace.

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8 months

“Too many people in Britain hold views opposed to our values” is really mindbending

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7 months

Analysis

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@pickyouredge

5 years

An SWP guy tried to give me a leaflet yesterday and I just brushed him off. He then went “too busy on his phone” and, inspired by this tweet, I said “I’m just googling comrade delta mate”. He told me to fuck off. Good times.

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@pickyouredge

2 years

This is an actual transcript of a conversation that happened btw. Paul Waugh won't tell you about it cos he's incompetent unfortunately

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@pickyouredge

8 months

Me at 8:59am: Only good vibes on the tl today folks. Post tunes! We have a laugh here don't we. 8-13 pints of Guinness haha Me at 9:00am: British journalism is a disease. It needs to be wiped off the face of the earth. This one guy in particular should be violently tortured

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@pickyouredge

7 months

The one constant truth in life: there is quite simply nothing like drinking 3 pints on a weeknight

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@pickyouredge

3 years

Hard to tell if this bloke’s anti-vaxx or not. I guess we’ll never know

Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

3 years

Great to be @Arsenal earlier today. If you are over 18 and haven’t had a covid vaccine (or are over 40 and ready for a 2nd Pfizer), come along & get one today, tomorrow and Monday between 8am-8pm Walk-ins accepted but book to saving queuing #TravelSafely

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3 years

Planet’s on fire lads

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7 months

How intimidating can the Labour Party whips be really? Some absolute gimp from Cambridge pinning you up against a wall and whining at you? Gimme a break man c’mon

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@pickyouredge

9 months

Remember when we were only allowed out the house for an hour a day even though Covid didn’t spread outside? Just remembered and burst out laughing. Also we weren’t allowed to touch cats because they might have Covid on them. Lol.

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1 year

Unbelievable narcissism double-header here

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2 years

I'm sorry we can't do anything about your energy bills or how much it costs you to get to work, but can I interest you in a petition about toilets?

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@pickyouredge

2 years

Feel like I’m going completely mental

Caitlin Moran

@caitlinmoran

2 years

I'll say this once again - it would be far more logical & effective to give all teenage boys a vasectomy, only reversed when they decide to have kids, than to curtail the right of women & girls - particularly those who have been raped - to decide whether or not to become mothers.

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2 years

Trying to get my head around having to pay a deposit for a university place. What a load of fucking shit, honestly.

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1 year

Should stress this is a junior person and it's there in a "I do all the work around here and this is all I get" way. Excellent imo.

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1 year

“If you want to increase public spending and decrease endless war, you are antisemitic.” This is what passes for sensible liberal commentary in this country. It’s brilliant

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2 years

Not sure who to side with here, the 5-year-old cyclist or the adult in the big metal tank

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2 years

"Unions should stop focusing on LGBTQ+ issues and get back to their traditional issues, which I also don't support. And instead of giving money to asylum seekers, we should help out our homeless people, who are all lazy scum who should just get a job", impossible to argue against

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11 months

If Twitter disappears forever my life will be immeasurably worse and I’m the only one brave enough to admit it

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3 years

Yes, we lost Batley & Spen, but George Galloway had a very fast car, and he used it to get to doorsteps minutes before us. How do you tackle that? Impossible.

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5 months

I’m the one subpostmaster who actually did commit fraud. I’m having the time of my life and I’m laughing all the way to the bank…twice!

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@pickyouredge

2 years

This really should be the end of the discussion. Would be great if people could just stop and think: "Why do I feel the way I do? Is it because of a newspaper? If yes, why do they want me to feel like that?"

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2 years

If I stay on this website much longer I think I’ll go insane

Memorial Device

@memorialdevice

2 years

At the risk of stating the obvious here, but this man has heard Marquee Moon 🇺🇦✊🏼

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2 years

Me: “Germans winning this easy” Football Twitter lad quote tweeting me for 3 likes: “Me being evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940”

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2 years

Everyone agrees that what makes Lynch so effective is his ability to speak in plain language to get his point across quickly. But what would be better is if he'd give a 10-minute lecture on anarchism before answering each of Piers Morgan's questions.

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1 year

Gary Lineker: probably the most popular person in the country tonight, doing something just basically decent The Online Left:

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8 months

@RMCunliffe Never mind Rachel, mistakes can be made, repeatedly, over the course of several years

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2 years

@spinningjoe Amazing isn't it? I doubt this bloke works in facilities at that building, so he'll have been called in from an external cleaners. Just Stop Oil are creating work

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4 years

Me: I think Keir Starmer’s beautiful. Just a big hunky man. I’d like to give him a big kiss. Guaranteed to get a 100 seat majority too. Stephen Bush in my replies: Very good point.

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6 years

Who exactly is the Guardian for?

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8 months

If you’re a fascist and you say something a bit wild you get invited onto every TV station going. If you’re pro-Palestine they’ll go through your bins and literally report you to the government.

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2 months

Going on Masterchef and immediately chopping my whole hand off in front of John and Gregg to change the trajectory of their lives forever

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10 months

@irishloubega I think we need to take the “invented dance music” label off them for a while, just until they’ve figured some stuff out

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4 years

Country's fucked lads

YouGov

@YouGov

4 years

Who Britons would hold most responsible if the UK was to suffer a second wave of coronavirus: The public: 52% The government: 31%

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2 years

A historian saying “don’t make me tap the sign!” and above them there’s a big sign that says “I am a wanker”

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11 months

An observation I’ve made over the years is that if a senior person at your work tells you that a junior person is “bright”, it usually just means they went to Oxbridge

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11 months

Tremendous news. Two of the brightest young talents in political journalism

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2 years

Not a comment on "West Elm Caleb" but more generally do you think it might be a problem that a not-insignificant number of people log on to a website everyday to watch as the most basic forms of human activity and interaction are microscopically interrogated and pathologised?

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5 years

Seeing a lot of people refer to the voting records of @TheIndGroup members. Please remember that this is a slur, and possibly a criminal offence.

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6 months

Idk if this makes sense, but I love how his home looks lived in. Like sometimes you see celebrities houses and it’s like I can tell you spend no time here..?

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6 years

"When I helped run Labour communications we did absolutely fuck all of substance" isn't really the zinger you think it is tbh

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1 year

This is funny (obviously) but honestly it is completely irresponsible to stick obviously deranged people like this on TV

Bill Ryder-Jones

@BRyderJones

1 year

Well there we are

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@sophierebeccaf Deliberately driving into traffic because otherwise I might get killed

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2 years

When you’re so desperate to get your “I’m not Jeremy Corbyn” message across that you publicly attack an anti-war organisation that basically no one’s ever heard of, that’s when you know you’re winning

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1 year

Mark Fisher said “maybe it’s better not to live in isolated bunkers of our own identities” and 15-year-olds are never going to forgive him for it.

boyish transsexual girl vs. 1 billion lions 🔻🇵🇸

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1 year

mark fisher would be writing articles about gender ideology for compact rn if he didn’t kill himself

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10 months

Oh I suppose just because I got a job working for Wes Streeting straight out of uni (where I was vice-president of Young Labour btw) and I tweet like a breakfast presenter on Magic FM I must want a safe Labour seat somewhere 🙄

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5 months

The King’s prostate now?! Ha ha ha. Unbelievable! Literally! They’re in there getting facelifts and you’re fucking paying for it.

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@pickyouredge

9 months

Suella Braverman watched the video of the enormous rabid dog mauling several innocent people, and she didn’t care. But then she saw WalletInspectorGeneral’s (387 followers) tweets, and that changed everything.

Michael Walker

@michaeljswalker

9 months

Well done left twitter 😭

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@pickyouredge

4 months

When I went to uni, "media studies" was treated like a joke subject by the usual morons. Here we are 20 years later and the left's biggest brains are now of the opinion that if a crime is in the headlines it means that editors of news organisations really care about the victims.

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@pickyouredge

4 years

Everybody should sign off their tweets with the initials of their political affiliations imo

Nick Ferrari

@NickFerrariLBC

4 years

Take it from me, Trevor Phillips is the least "ist" or "phobic" person I've met in 40 years of journalism. Utter balls. NF

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