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The bread is mouldy and the circus has low attendance - 25 - she/her.

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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
who the hell is in control of keith haring’s estate because i cannot express how much i hate them
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@sellottie
lottie
3 years
sobbing ‘i’m an apex predator! i’m an apex predator!’ as a seagull waddles closer and closer to me and my sandwich
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lottie
6 months
you know what museum gift shops are really missing a trick on? costume-jewellery replicas of items in their collections. i walk around coveting the old jewellery on display, then get to the gift shop and it’s just unrelated modern hoops and studs. let me give you my money!!!!
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@sellottie
lottie
10 months
deeply suspicious about how hard it is to scan a tesco clubcard
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
the problem with being margaret thatcher is that you are dead
@MrsMThatcher
Margaret Thatcher
4 years
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
‘footasylum’? ‘footlocker’? why are all the feet incarcerated bro
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@sellottie
lottie
3 years
100% hasn’t dampened my trust in vaccines at all but i’d really like to see period/menstrual cycle disruption added to the list of possible side effects - enough people, myself included, have experienced it (certainly vs blood clots!) that it’d be good if it was acknowledged imo
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
imagine going to your local food bank and coming face to face with the man whose political career was dedicated to implementing the bulk of the policies that got you there in the first place
@David_Cameron
David Cameron
2 years
For the last two years I've been volunteering each week at the Chippy Larder, a food project in my local town, which helps low income families with surplus food from supermarkets (and cuts food waste at the same time).
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lottie
4 years
the ai meme generator has passed the turing test and nothing else will be as funny for the rest of time. goodbye everyone
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
very offline bf has only just found out about the concept of ‘the ick’. he is living the life of a rural 18th century villager who gets the news from a passing stagecoach 3 weeks after everyone else
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
when i go into aldi middle aisle i feel like a medieval king planning which scarce but precious items i should buy from a travelling merchant who’s come to court
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@sellottie
lottie
1 year
no, sorry, we need a blanket ban on anyone in BS1 being allowed to complain about noise from bars/pubs/venues. you can’t just reap the benefits of living in the cultural heart of a busy city and then make a fuss that said culture is disruptive for you.
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Bristol24/7
1 year
Residents expressed concerns about noise and a growing drinking culture in the area
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@sellottie
lottie
5 years
twitter replies when a woman has an opinion
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
why are you, as a person with a sense of joy, not sitting in the top deck front seat on the bus when it’s free? just asking
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@sellottie
lottie
11 months
i don’t mean this in a derogatory way (looks nice enough!) but if you had to create a meal to represent the early 2020s it would be this. like aspic in the 1950s or bacon in 2012 vibes.
@ratemyplatenow
Rate My Plate
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Chicken Chorizo & Halloumi Cajun Pasta by Ben
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
waiting for oxford uni’s response to coronavirus to be the introduction of different kinds of facemask during finals depending on if you’re a scholar or not
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
considering branching out into linkedin posting
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@EduardHabsburg
Eduard Habsburg
1 year
... noticed something worrying... author, in recent novel, using THEY PRONOUNS every time a man first appears (e.g. "they came into the room") and only "he" after the other person presented himself... Because... pronouns? Never assume gender? ...anybody else notice?
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1 year
what are the geopolitical implications of this
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
you will have to forgive me if i think that free public access to a story which reveals that the government has caused thousands of avoidable deaths through its own arrogancy is just a little more important in this case than respecting the virginal sanctity of a paywall
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@sellottie
lottie
5 months
yes. hope this helps
@GeorgeFergusonx
People & Cities
5 months
Is it really ‘nimby’ not wanting stuff like this in your backyard? #Bristol @BristolCouncil #Planning #Nightmares @PlanningShit ⁩ ⁦ @createstreets ⁩ ⁦
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
these men are at large in YOUR community. be vigilant!
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
‘be gay, do crimes!’ i shout as i brutally colonise half a continent
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@sellottie
lottie
11 months
why have spotify just decided to absolutely annihilate their UX by taking a straightforward, user-friendly app and setting it back into a confused prototype where doing something as straightforward as liking/saving a song is now significantly less easy or logical. tech brain!
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
Sexy SINGLE women in YOUR AREA have a BRAND NEW COMBINE HARVESTER and they’d like to give YOU the key!
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@sellottie
lottie
1 year
at the point of anti-SUV radicalisation where i think that if you own one of these monstrous cars you’re probably not a very good person
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
every email notification from uni at the moment
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@s8mb
Sam Bowman
11 months
I’d love to take a sabbatical from work to spend a year running a branch of Lidl or McDonald’s or something. Seems like extremely useful management experience and probably the closest you can get nowadays to being the captain of a Napoleonic Wars-era warship.
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
unis squeezing rent and tuition out of captive students
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Out Of Context Moomin Comics
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
sixth formers with linkedin. a very dark variety of person.
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@sellottie
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1 year
good job team, it’s been a while since we had a main character so entirely morally desolate
@exavierpope
𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞
1 year
This @UberEats Driver just asked me to CashApp him gas money to bring my food to me @Uber_Support
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@sellottie
lottie
3 years
aaaah after 6 months of post-graduation unemployment i have finally got a job!
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@sellottie
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4 years
IN THE FUCKING HARBOUR
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1 year
gazing at the tesco reduced section with my hands behind my back like i’m the captain at the bow of a great ship
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
italy: singing from windows spain: conducting aerobics from roofs uk:
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4 years
tmz being the people to break the news of kim jong un’s death is absolutely integral to the energy of the timeline we live in
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
poo poo pee pee | The Spectator
@Peston
Robert Peston
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Has the furlough scheme removed the incentive to work? | The Spectator
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@UniofOxford
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We're committed to supporting our community in opposing racism in all its forms, including upholding anti-racist values.
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@sellottie
lottie
11 months
it’s time to say it: it’s dweeb behaviour to be scared of making phone calls
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lottie
11 months
having the most embarrassing bus experience of my life, having now moved seats about 4 times to avoid a wasp whilst everyone else sits there calmly. i feel like mr. bean
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
eternally revolted not just by the tweeness of sentiments like this but also their total ahistoricism. a ‘very british riot’ isn’t ‘ironic placards’ it’s Peterloo, Brixton, Bristol and brutal state violence against the marginalised, calmly sanctioned by the middle classes
@RussInCheshire
Russ Jones
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It will be a very British riot. There will be ironical placards, and instead of chanting we will just do highly organised tutting. Half of us will smash windows, and the other half will tidy up and leave apologetic notes.
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lottie
6 months
really hope that poor university challenge contestant is getting some support (from her college in particular).
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4 years
the power of this take: merging a ‘subtle’ reference to having gone to oxford, the idea that politesse be prioritised over the hurt pride of someone whose beliefs led them to deport british citizens, and the daft liberal feminist ‘all women agreeing with each other is feminism’
@FloraEGill
Flora Gill
4 years
Can not believe mum was ‘no-platformed’ at my old Uni yesterday Mum doesnt need the platform and travelled to talk for FREE for International Womens Day-proceeds to FGM charity I dont care if you disagree with her. Its fucking rude This is NOT how women should treat each other
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lottie
2 years
showing Swimming Brezhnev to everyone i see
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4 years
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@JoshBerryComedy
Josh Berry
5 years
White privilege
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6 months
the ashmolean is maybe the only exception to this (have got so many great earrings from the v&a but none of them had much to do with their collections), LOVE these but £75 😰
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lottie
4 years
@dazzaellis @BristolCouncil @DrDavidGK back at the bottom of the harbour? good idea mate!
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@sellottie
lottie
2 years
this girlboss YouDon’tOweAnyoneAnything individualism has absolutely done a number on so many people. i’m in a group where someone just asked if they should start an affair with a married man and one of the top responses is ‘Fuck around and find out’. pure callousness.
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11 months
reading about the court order handed down to the somerset gimp
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4 years
keir starmer opening his speech at the leadership debate: ‘7ft tall because apparently that matters😅😜’
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6 months
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lottie
3 years
no idea what will ultimately come of this, but st. john’s ambulance are in the process of recruiting volunteers to help with vaccine administration (doing the jab itself, also more general support duties), so if you’ve any free time u can sign up and they’ll train u (link below)
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
quite telling that priti patel mysteriously disappeared for weeks until now, presumably because there was concern about just how fundamentally unable to show basic empathy she is, only for her to reappear and within minutes prove this fear to be...exactly correct
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
going to the jstor anyone want anything
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lottie
2 years
‘italy’…do you mean the house of gucci cinematic universe?
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@sellottie
lottie
4 years
coronavirus got me thinking: maybe i DO want to live in a society
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lottie
4 years
thinking about how young labour should be split in two (14-17, 18-25) and then what you’d call the new under-18s group. ‘child labour’ is maybe not a good name
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lottie
5 months
this is how i discovered that the UK and US have separate, wholly unrelated comic strips called dennis the menace, which debuted literal days apart from one another (possibly even on the same day)?!
@damnyouwillis
DMW! @your mom
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thinking about how the trope of the idealized 1950s is incredibly deployed in this Dennis the Menace strip, as the real Dennis was dumped at a boarding school following his mother's death because his father was too busy writing comic strips mocking him to be a present father
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3 years
one of the painful things peep show made me realise is that there really isn’t a comprehensive history of the byzantine church for the general reader
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lottie
6 months
fair play this is incredibly funny
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@theJeremyVine
Jeremy Vine
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Unfortunately the nice penny farthing video I uploaded a few hours ago provoked a very nasty backlash from people who can't read road signs ***updated video explains*** 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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6 months
also it doesn’t have to be the fussy bejewelled bits - the ancient roman/greek/egyptian/saxon stuff is reliably my favourite and is presumably quite plain and easier to replicate?
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2 years
you could write a brilliant and very lengthy article about the numerous slightly crap but well intentioned millennium monuments around britain. near my office there’s a stone circle with every country’s web domain engraved on it, like a kind of y2k-era fairy ring
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lottie
3 years
you aren’t a ‘burned out former gifted kid’, you just developed a god complex aged 13 when you got to skip geography to sit in a computer room and do ‘team leadership exercises’ with a couple dozen of your middle class peers
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1 year
not saying brewdog is exactly a cultural pinnacle but as someone who tbh is fairly noise sensitive i am sick to the back teeth of (mainly) well-off city centre residents increasingly trying to stifle nightlife when that’s one of bristol’s main draws
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@Independent
The Independent
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Nasa to make major announcement about the moon
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lottie
9 months
sorry how is this ‘cost of living’? doesn’t dublin have a worse rental/property crisis than even london (plus ireland has its own cost of living crisis)? this is just personal preference, not to mention surely awful for the environment
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
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Cost of Living: Oxford lecturer commutes from Dublin
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@sellottie
lottie
3 years
i’m sorry but i find it a bit fucking much that the SWP are handing shit out at this vigil
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lottie
4 years
why...have you pinned up,,,post-it notes.,.
@sajidjavid
Sajid Javid
4 years
My to do list...
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lottie
4 years
@SunVideo go fuck yourselves, absolutely not.
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4 years
rightwingers obsess over the possibility that losing the war would‘ve led to us speaking german - as opposed to, y’know, the extension of nazi genocide into this country - because the loss of ‘pure’ british culture is more distressing to them than racism/fascism. it’s that simple
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lottie
4 years
open book WITH WHAT FUCKING BOOKS
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lottie
2 years
i’ve definitely seen someone post these before, but went to bristol museum yesterday and saw some of the worst plates ever produced in history
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lottie
11 months
really great, inspiring and admirable that the labour leadership is steadily reneging on every single policy proposal that might actually make life liveable and affordable.
@joncstone
Jon Stone
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Labour scraps pledge to bring in rent controls
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lottie
1 year
radio 4 yesterday ran a piece about mortgage rates incl a segment about renters (in itself a novelty on r4). newsreader’s 1st query to his interviewee was to ask why there could possibly be an issue for renters, who he assumed could sit back unaffected. mindbogglingly uninformed!
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1 year
just saw a booktoker post her ‘worst books of 2022’. one was ‘it ends with us’ by colleen hoover. the other was dostoyevsky’s ‘crime and punishment’.
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lottie
11 months
so many venues and festivals make it really difficult to access free water, despite the fact it’s licensing law! it’s 100% deliberate and a clampdown is well overdue. not hyperbolic to say it’s potentially life-threatening - and at the very least just incredibly dodgy
@gracepetrie
Grace Petrie
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My edgy festival take is you should be allowed to bring in water particularly in this heat. It’s right scab behaviour to discourage people bringing in their own and charging extortionate sums for canned water. Literally what are we doing
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lottie
3 years
found an actual log of wood underneath my boyfriend’s bed. he has defensively informed me it’s ‘for whittling’. ok king
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lottie
4 years
the palace screening of ‘cats’ was all a bit much for him
@BBCBreaking
BBC Breaking News
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Prince Philip admitted to London hospital as a "precautionary measure", Buckingham Palace says
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lottie
5 years
eduroam logging me in to provide me with a shit connection wherever i go
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lottie
5 years
this frog knows when i’ll die and i keep asking him but he’s ignoring my dms i dont know what to do
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5 years
glad to see amber rudd standing up for her principles!
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4 years
Summer fun! 🏖❤️ (*private island all tested negative multiple times wear a mask❤️)
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lottie
3 years
more than anything, esp as drs/scientists seem to recognise this as non-threatening, the recognition of it as a side effect would prob do a lot to reassure a lot of ppl for whom it’s a p unpleasant surprise. plus just generally…pay any attention to gynae/mentrual issues please!
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3 years
hugely caveating this - i am NOT a scientist and simply Posting ™️ but eg, i’m on the mini pill so not meant to get periods but got (a v normal, q light, just annoying!) one post-vax & know others in same sitch for whom this is the case/have seen p widely reported across news now
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4 years
that‘d be luciana berger, as i’m sure you know - but hey, who am i to suggest that a female jewish mp being hounded out the party by relentless, violent antisemitism should get in the way of you winning clout by being a hard lad who thinks that institutional racism is for melts?
Luciana who
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4 years
3 whole years of study and a lifetime of debt to understand what the history boys told me all along: that history really is just one fucking thing after another. goodbye degree!
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1 year
at the scariest bookshop in kernow (but she’s right and she should say it!!)
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4 years
. @UniofOxford please confirm - is it true you’ll be conducting exams via tik tok?
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lottie
6 months
creasing at ‘when will i wake up from this nightmare’. acknowledgement that all this shit happens in the same timeline to the same man. bro is single-handedly experiencing the Inferno
@TheRstott
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What a year he's had...
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lottie
4 years
i totally understand that it might just make me sound conspiratorial but i just do not believe that 72 was the final grenfell death count. and i don’t know if we’ll ever be able to know what the reality is but it feels so dishonest to accept that
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4 years
sharing this again for no particular reason. anyway @UKLabour are you going to do anything, or are you just going to carry on finding minority groups to alienate?
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Father Christmas now squats like a giant toad across Christmastide. He has expanded the festive window in both directions. Praising merriment and good cheer, while tight on chimneys and miserliness. Cheered for bringing merriment and pro mince pies. Where does Labour find a gap?
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4 years
bristol uni students when they move to stokes croft
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lottie
3 years
excuse me? white men? the sopranos are italian!
@HadleyFreeman
Hadley Freeman
3 years
I find it fascinating that Sex and the City - a show about a bunch of white women making jokes and shagging - is considered embarrassingly retro and borderline offensive, but The Sopranos - a show about a bunch of white men killing each other -is considered an untouchable classic
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5 years
imperative that the bolton fire is seen not just within the broader housing crisis but within the context of the crisis in student accomodation. fire alarms that didn’t go off & cladding of the kind that was on grenfell should be linked back to the ‘sui generis’ classification/
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4 years
oh for christ’s sake, i thought ‘he died jeremy, he tragically died’ was a peep show quote not david miliband talking about crosland
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