Lefty Arty Writey person.

Scotland
Joined March 2013
Ruining everyone's day by pronouncing this like "socks"
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complimentary adam curtis burial edit
The White House releases footage of snowfall on its grounds, February 2025.
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What are the main reasons voters have switched from Labour? Winter fuel allowance trumps all else. After that, impatience over public services + cost of living. Immigration less salient. Net Zero of no salience whatsoever. Scandals less than I expected. via @YouGov
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Me, a perfectly normal guy getting into a taxi: "How about them grooming gangs ay?"
My cab driver just now, a Brit of Pakistani origin, on the rape scandal. "Do Labour think Muslims want to go easy on paedos? I've got two little girls. I want them bastards castrated." The reluctance to offend the imagined sensitivities of minorities is both foolish and racist.
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Can't have peace on Earth without Mr. Worldwide
Christmas tree lighting tonight in a Christian area of western Homs, Syria. Free Syrian flags abound. Pitbull blaring over the speakers.
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Cracking anecdote from John Banville in The Guardian
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A good day to recall one of John Prescott's most famous lines. And to honour its promise. “The Green Belt is a Labour achievement and we intend to build on it”.
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Nov 18th 1815 - Jean Valjean is released from prison, after serving 19 years. 5 for stealing a loaf of bread, the rest for trying to run. 📽️📅 Les Misérables (2012)
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*squints* Theatre Twitter? You still out there? If so come and see my play "Fandemonium!" at @ScotStoryCentre on Tuesday, part of Gateway New Writing Festival.
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The CIA publishes the craziest stuff on their website. "Oh yeah we had professional remote viewers, yeah, we asked them to go visit Mars one million years ago. What did they see? Pyramids, obelisks, a dying elder race looking for a new home. Anyway its declassified now."
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Years ago, in the 1990s, me and my boss were looking at a client's rental accounts. He asked was I sure about the mortgage repayments. I said I had checked them with the bank. "They can't be less than the rent," he said, "That never happens. Not on a 90% mortgage." Seems like...
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*squints* Theatre Twitter? You still out there? If so come and see my play "Fandemonium!" at @ScotStoryCentre on Tuesday, part of Gateway New Writing Festival.
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David Bowie- Low (1977)
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If I had a nickel every time a fat presidential candidate was accused of rape, and lusted after the girl he raised as his daughter, was elected anyway, lost reelection, then was elected to a second non-consecutive term, I'd have one nickel because that man was Grover Cleveland.
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Hawkemon GO TUAH the polls!
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Still can't wrap my head around there being someone else called The Queen. Doesn't feel like a job title that should be transferable.
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Just thinking of that time in 2018 when Quincy Jones gave a couple of remarkable interviews with eye-popping details. RIP to a real one. Here's the Vulture interview (1/2) vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-j…
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Beware the Badenoch , from ⁦@PrivateEyeNews⁩ Notes & Queries, 2022. #Badenoch #Jabberwocky
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Sometimes it pays to stop and zoom in on a photo
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