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Lance Parkin

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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Yes

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Hey. If you have ever been somewhere near David Tennant and are semi-randomly approached to see if you have any anecdotes about David Tennant, assume it's enemy action. Sorry for vagueness.

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Looks like Truss has kept her seat, but Hunt and Schapps haven't, so there's an actual possibility she's next Tory leader.

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Just sayin'.

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It's simple enough: if them winning is inevitable and all hope is lost, they wouldn't need to spend billions every year telling us not to bother, we won't make a difference.

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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From the Queen of England to the Hound of Hell.

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I also have no firm plans for the weekend.

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Jeramy Neugin 's avatar Jeramy Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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The HP joke was, they thought, worth a double page spread.

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Reminder for people who seem to be convinced that a deficit barely outside the margin of error in July is insurmountable

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Current projections have it that Labour will have so many spare seats they could maintain a majority, but calve off an Also Labour with enough seats to serve as Opposition. They should.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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In the film, the British barricade a church and burn it down with people inside. In reality, it was the insurrectionists who did that.

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American history and politics: an explainer. Faced with a choice between sexy, hilarious, versatile, self-depreciating Jason Isaacs in a nice uniform, or Mel Gibson pretending to do some farming, America chose Mel Gibson.

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From memory, the comic has 'Just you remember that Leia - because I'll be back!'. Ford always says the original line was 'I love you, too'. Both versions, of course, could have been true at different points.

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The Rinzler book The Making of the Empire Strikes Back is definitive on this, with transcripts and other evidence. It's worked on by Ford and Fisher, with the full knowledge and approval of Lucas. The only wrong answer here is 'despite of Lucas'.

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He kept putting off paying Cohen. When he finally got around to it, he was President. So the argument is that the actual crime was committed from the Oval Office, so he's immune.

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'I can't see any difference between Trump and Biden'. Well, luckily for you we live at a time when there's less stigma around cognitive impairment, and we're aware now it would be cruel and stressful to force you to make a decision like that.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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We need to have a serious conversation about if Biden's too old to run, then Boomers are too old to vote. There are age limits for young people voting, why not just set the limit at 65 at the other end?

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It is a writer's worst nightmare to be someone that no one wants to listen to. Someone who people break eye contact with and back away from. If a muggle doesn't want to talk to a writer about 'penised lesbians', it must be because she is making such a good point he has no answer.

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My favourie from 2000ad, and that's saying something.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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How about Going Underground by The Jam?

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Subterranean Homesick Blues is the only song I can think of that starts off in a basement.

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Apparently people have started referring to Rowling as Enoch Blyton. Seems appropriate in multiple ways.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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I saw it all. During the Time War. I saw The Fast Show. I heard the Lightning Seeds. I was there when Gail Porter's bum was projected onto Big Ben.

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I think it's impossible to understand 90s Britain without treating 'the Gillian Anderson FHM' as a core text, therefore the best way forward is that later generations never try to understand the 90s.

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They used to be the cheap, everyday pen, then ballpoints came along, so making them became a lost art.

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The great advantage of a 'supermajority' is it'll massively increase the size of the Labour talent pool in the Commons. Meanwhile, the Tory benches will find it hard to fill every Shadow role and will forfeit some media appearances.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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Exactly. It's only slightly simplified to say any UK government can pass any law with any 326 Commons votes, and it's just as much a law as one passed with 600.

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It bears repeating that part of the reason the major parties love to do transphobia because they are bigots, yes, but also because it allows them to pretend they are doing something for women and thereby get out of doing anything real or meaningful.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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The only possible it's-still-wrong Commons application would be 'a majority of more seats than the dissenting faction of the ruling party'. Major post-92, with enough Eurosceptics to effectively veto him, didn't have a supermajority. But ... no no no.

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Predictably, my answer for a new one is TWSBI Eco with a Flex nib. I have a type.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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Assuming the problem isn't the paper, get things started by dipping the pen in ink. Try playing with the angle you hold it - some of mine are very unforgiving except at 45 degrees.

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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Let's just sum up both the UK and US elections in one image:

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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End of Raiders, but so many angels of death want in, there's a delay while they set up ticketed entrance.

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The way I'm picturing it, there's a special effect. A howling vortex of death energy that takes some henchmen with it, then abruptly ends.

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Counterpoint: the day a NY municipal worker jackhammers the Trump Tower sign off the side of the building.

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I mean, yeah, if we're talking natural causes.

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Hankies at the ready, guys. This parliament will see the death of Rupert Murdoch. That will change 'the discourse'.

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There's also no version of the next year where the Tories get their act together and emerge with a resplendent new leader who can win from the centre. (steeples fingers) Rather the opposite.

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