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Keats in the streets, Yeats in the sheets

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06.02.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 3167 πŸ” 593 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 20
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protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed.

disgusting.

16.01.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 12054 πŸ” 2336 πŸ’¬ 167 πŸ“Œ 126
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Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

12.01.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 641 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 136
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I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

11.01.2026 09:26 πŸ‘ 895 πŸ” 246 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 71
International Fixed Calendar - Wikipedia

We should all adopt the International Fixed Calendar
- 13 months
- 28 days per month
- Every single year, 1st of the month is a Sunday

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

04.01.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Designing a LARP means you have to be prepared for the judgemental looks of a cashier as they scan a basket of miscellaneous props you found in a local small town shop

31.12.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A game which combines Spots (the dog based push your luck dice game) by borrowing the stacking mechanic from UpWords (Scrabble-ish game but you can stack letters to change the underlying words)

I will call it UpDog.

01.01.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions.

Apple doesn't recognise unions.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

The big corporations are not on your side.

25.12.2025 03:16 πŸ‘ 17765 πŸ” 5292 πŸ’¬ 530 πŸ“Œ 207

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

15.12.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 6188 πŸ” 1513 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 26

I thought I wanted to be in a poly relationship. I was wrong. I just love diary management and planning.

05.12.2025 10:20 πŸ‘ 216 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window…

It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍

15.11.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 785 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

I did that. It was good.
I enjoyed it.

15.11.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
CONGRATULATIONS
ZOHRAN
FOR NEW YORK CITY
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. CONGRATULATIONS ZOHRAN FOR NEW YORK CITY Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! πŸŽ‰πŸ’š

05.11.2025 07:00 πŸ‘ 964 πŸ” 207 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 16
Zohran Mamdami’s beautiful colourful typographic posters

Zohran Mamdami’s beautiful colourful typographic posters

Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.

05.11.2025 07:37 πŸ‘ 517 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".

05.11.2025 08:39 πŸ‘ 346 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 60

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

04.11.2025 02:05 πŸ‘ 5009 πŸ” 543 πŸ’¬ 170 πŸ“Œ 81

We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"

29.10.2025 05:35 πŸ‘ 2353 πŸ” 561 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 38

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

07.08.2025 11:31 πŸ‘ 11648 πŸ” 2859 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 32

"It was the best of times, but woke lefties are now claiming it was the worst of times!"

26.10.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

23.10.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 20689 πŸ” 6286 πŸ’¬ 344 πŸ“Œ 245

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

16.10.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 3632 πŸ” 1260 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 31

And you can also go to the Water and Steam museum about 30 seconds walk waway an dsee some cool giant steam engines.

21.09.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this post every single time I'm stuck at work when it's rainy or snowing.

15.09.2025 01:47 πŸ‘ 2608 πŸ” 883 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 20
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Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

17.09.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 5476 πŸ” 1679 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 71
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goodnight everyone

12.09.2025 04:16 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Many people in the UK had no idea who Charlie Kirk was before yesterday. Now, the BBC is running a whole programme on him. Strange that they see his murder as more significant than Israel’s assassination of the Prime Minister of Yemen. #bbcbias

12.09.2025 07:31 πŸ‘ 269 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff

Everyone: oh, like what?

Every centrist hagiographer: very important things

Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?

Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

11.09.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 6130 πŸ” 1593 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 29
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If the objective was to win support and squash the electoral chances of Reform UK, then the strategy had the opposite effects.

❌ Labour’s vote intentions dropped
❌ Reform UK vote intentions unchanged (or at worse better)

05.09.2025 06:50 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6
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If the objective of being tough on immigration was for Labour to be perceived as more right-wing & nativist, the strategy worked.

❌ Labour was seen as more anti-immigration & more right-wing
❌Immigration became more salient as an issue
❌ But Labour’s perceived competence on immigration fell.

05.09.2025 06:50 πŸ‘ 404 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 35
A hat that reads β€œever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights”

A hat that reads β€œever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights”

This is supposed to be ironic but I saw it and went β€œYeah!”

05.09.2025 00:26 πŸ‘ 314 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7