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I don't always remember to say this: thank you for a very pleasant evening.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I don't always remember to say this: thank you for a very pleasant evening.
I have to repost this. We love her and we fear her. This is Joyce Carol Oates. She is real. Fear her.
(I am reluctant to continue with this, it's so trivial, but the bewildering fact is that of 2,301,857 tweets posted expressing disdain, dislike, disgust & dyspepsia for E M last week he seems to be aware of just a single tweet.)
( make that make sense?)
( make that make sense?)
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I have to repost this. We love her and we fear her. This is Joyce Carol Oates. She is real. Fear her.
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If you think "authors shouldn't be political" you're straight up a dumbass with the mind of a child.
So apparently: "authors shouldn't be political," is doing the rounds again.
So let's go over this again.
• trans rights are human rights
• LGBTQ+ rights are human rights
• gay people deserve to marry and adopt
• Women's rights are humsn rights.
• Believe women
• black lives matter
So let's go over this again.
• trans rights are human rights
• LGBTQ+ rights are human rights
• gay people deserve to marry and adopt
• Women's rights are humsn rights.
• Believe women
• black lives matter
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you think "authors shouldn't be political" you're straight up a dumbass with the mind of a child.
I love Julien Gracq. His writing style is impeccable. His real-life conduct was the same. Like a French version, a Frencher version, of Beckett. Plus he replied to my fan mail. I still have the postcard he sent!!!
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I love Julien Gracq. His writing style is impeccable. His real-life conduct was the same. Like a French version, a Frencher version, of Beckett. Plus he replied to my fan mail. I still have the postcard he sent!!!
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Why did Keir Starmer and the Labour Party decide to destroy EVERYTHING they could have been - to hand over the uk to the far right with such dainty gloves on - utterly disgusted by it all
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why did Keir Starmer and the Labour Party decide to destroy EVERYTHING they could have been - to hand over the uk to the far right with such dainty gloves on - utterly disgusted by it all
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social - many people in the UK are NOT Nazis
Loathsome crowd
Also at this year’s Oakeshott Lectures: Dan Hannan, Kathleen Stock, Nigel Biggar and David Starkey. Conservatism is a sewer
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Loathsome crowd
I am 57 and, to my surprise, I am on board.
Huge.
And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I am 57 and, to my surprise, I am on board.
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I will read it in Danish even if I have failed to learn much Danish. I will read it, in other words, as Mr Pastry.
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I will read it in Danish even if I have failed to learn much Danish. I will read it, in other words, as Mr Pastry.
My brother went to that school some years later. He was taught by many people who were able to confirm the truth of these stories. They remembered. Because, frankly, you would.
Well colour me shocked & stunned.. Farage.. outed as a toxic little racist sh*t at school who loved anti semitism too..
Someone who’s put so much time and energy into stirring racial hatred, even had #FarageRiots named after him.. a racist🙄
It’s more shocking MSM platforms him so enthusiastically
Someone who’s put so much time and energy into stirring racial hatred, even had #FarageRiots named after him.. a racist🙄
It’s more shocking MSM platforms him so enthusiastically
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My brother went to that school some years later. He was taught by many people who were able to confirm the truth of these stories. They remembered. Because, frankly, you would.
Darkly and pointlessly forming New Year's resolutions.
That's why I am learning Danish in December.
That's why I am learning Danish in December.
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Darkly and pointlessly forming New Year's resolutions.
That's why I am learning Danish in December.
That's why I am learning Danish in December.
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www.rawstory.com/the-dark-and...
“Possibility:
“…he’s trying to hide his involvement in Epstein’s and perhaps even Giuffre’s apparent suicides… Some people believe Trump would stop at nothing.”
I have zero trouble believing this.
“Possibility:
“…he’s trying to hide his involvement in Epstein’s and perhaps even Giuffre’s apparent suicides… Some people believe Trump would stop at nothing.”
I have zero trouble believing this.
Trump's Epstein scramble may be a coverup for an even darker and more extreme secret
The likelihood that dozens of House Republicans will vote in favor of compelling the Justice Department to release the Epstein files has caused Trump to reverse his objections and urge House Republica...
www.rawstory.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
www.rawstory.com/the-dark-and...
“Possibility:
“…he’s trying to hide his involvement in Epstein’s and perhaps even Giuffre’s apparent suicides… Some people believe Trump would stop at nothing.”
I have zero trouble believing this.
“Possibility:
“…he’s trying to hide his involvement in Epstein’s and perhaps even Giuffre’s apparent suicides… Some people believe Trump would stop at nothing.”
I have zero trouble believing this.
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From The Archives: ‘We Will Never Speak Of This Again,’ Says Trump To Mohammed Bin Salman As They Dump Khashoggi’s Body Into New Jersey River https://theonion.com/we-will-never-speak-of-this-again-says-trump-to-moha-1830547181/
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
From The Archives: ‘We Will Never Speak Of This Again,’ Says Trump To Mohammed Bin Salman As They Dump Khashoggi’s Body Into New Jersey River https://theonion.com/we-will-never-speak-of-this-again-says-trump-to-moha-1830547181/
I get a lot this.
(2^64)-1
Probably.
Probably.
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I get a lot this.
SUCH SMALL PORSONS
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
SUCH SMALL PORSONS
Might take my chess set to work tomorrow. Is chess complicated?
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Might take my chess set to work tomorrow. Is chess complicated?
I am actually going to do this, in time for Jul.
Do you reckon I can learn Danish in a month? It's for a thing.
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I am actually going to do this, in time for Jul.
Do you reckon I can learn Danish in a month? It's for a thing.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Do you reckon I can learn Danish in a month? It's for a thing.
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Goodnight from Lou Kemp, studying the Polaroids she took in Harland Woods, trying to make out what the shadowed shapes peering from behind trees might be. Goodnight from Cora Hobbs, whispering poems into her sleeping daughter’s ear despite being dead. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Goodnight from Lou Kemp, studying the Polaroids she took in Harland Woods, trying to make out what the shadowed shapes peering from behind trees might be. Goodnight from Cora Hobbs, whispering poems into her sleeping daughter’s ear despite being dead. Goodnight from Hookland.
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This is just to say
We chopped up an actual journalist
We chopped up an actual journalist
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is just to say
We chopped up an actual journalist
We chopped up an actual journalist
Can seo
two men are sitting at a table in a dark room talking to each other
Alt: Scottish people
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Can seo
Cheese Dundee
"Call that a cheese directory? ...THIS is a cheese directory"
a man wearing a top hat with a snake on it
Alt: Crocodile Dundee is not impressed by your cheese directory, which he frankly considers jejune
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Cheese Dundee
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Rossssss !!!!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Rossssss !!!!!!!
THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHEESE DIRECTORY
anyway I can't find a cheese to fit "...and I would've got away with it if it hadn't been for those pesky (cheese here)" but - BUTTT!!!! I *have* found an alphabetical list of all the cheeses in the WORLD and obviously this is going to come in VERY handy from now on
www.cheese.com/alphabetical/
www.cheese.com/alphabetical/
Alphabetical List Of All Cheeses | Cheese.com
Cheese.com is the world’s largest cheese directory, here’s our list from A to Z of ALL cheeses. These are all the cheeses in the world in alphabetical order.
www.cheese.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHEESE DIRECTORY