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Gentleman, scholar, murderer.

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That one is a classic tbf

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I for one have the lyrics tattooed across my brave English heart

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That’s literally the one I was thinking of! Also there was one with Rik Mayall that made me sad

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Tbf I have just experienced a range of historical England songs at my local’s celebrations and there’s worse out there than Vindaloo

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Afraid you get two options: old (wet) or new (wet)

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I mean I can understand being bored of Three Lions but World in Motion is right there

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I can preemptively sense unprecedented levels of Vindaloo being sung across the country this weekend

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Well yes that too

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(of course when people say they’re regularly working 60+ hour weeks, I tend to assume they’re lying)

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Dia Lacina's avatar Dia Lacina @dialacina.bsky.social
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YOU GUYS WE HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING SO THE ECHIDNAS CAN DREAM

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Remember reading an interview with Fauci where he said “well I’m in the clinic at 8 am and reading/writing papers until 10 pm” and my brother in Christ, you’re 80, you don’t need to do this. In fact you didn’t need to do it when you were 60, or 40

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Wonder if part of the increasing geriatrification of the Democrats (Feinstein, Ginsberg and now Biden) is due to the American tendency to elevate work above all other aspects of your identity, even up to ignoring the realities of aging

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There are some emojis that lead to things coming up as special interests I think? Not entirely clear how it works

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Maddening that everyone’s been pretending to take it seriously for the last few years

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Jamie McKelvie's avatar Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social
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The stupidest, most pathetic thing the Tories came up with, and that's not getting into how it was also a transparent lie

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If your policy advice for any situation can be replicated with a Malibu Stacy drawstring toy then maybe it’s time to move on

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Oh is the answer to all our problems ID cards and registers? What a surprise

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It’s cute that Blair thinks he can spend years as an advisor to some of the worst regimes and organisations on the planet and still come back and be taken seriously

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Jeph Jacques's avatar Jeph Jacques @ass.golf
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All the US news headlines about France being in “political limbo” and “uncertainty” now are wild to read, because the actual vibe over here is “whatever, we got a coalition that kept the fascists from getting in control, we’ll figure out the rest as we go”

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Well yes, I can only imagine the common solution to this is to lie, which seems like a weird incentive to set up for people as they re-enter the workforce, but what do I know

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Maybe I’m overestimating how much hassle it would be, but I can only imagine that the sort of busywork you’d need to do to fill 7 hours a day would get in the way of actually finding a job you’re suited for

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Excitingly me and my partner are both currently out of work and presumably eligible for Universal Credit, but the prospect of having to show evidence that we’re job hunting for 35 hours a week is enough to put us off. So job done from the DWP’s perspective I guess

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The Posts Genius's avatar The Posts Genius @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com
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You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

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Seems like Rosa Luxemburg thought she was quoting Engels as coming up with the phrase originally but turns out it was someone else

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"Either the triumph of Imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery. Or the victory of Socialism, that means the conscious active struggle of the International Proletariat against Imperialism and its method of war."

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Does feel increasingly like we're going to end up with a choice between socialism and barbarism over the next few decades, and I'm relieved that France made the right one

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BBC radio bulletin described it as “political deadlock” which seems a funny way to describe a successful effort to coordinate and keep out the fash

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Lindsay King-Miller's avatar Lindsay King-Miller @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social
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I love potatoes. If you ignore other vegetables they become gross mush. If you ignore a potato it becomes a Creature. This is an approach I deeply respect

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I do feel like many of our societal issues come down to not depicting skeletons decently since Army of Darkness in 1992

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Same for us! Only discovered afterwards that it’s from the director of Vivarium which rules and it has some similar themes

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We watched Nocebo on Netflix the other day, which never really appealed from the description but turns out it’s a low-key banger

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Time to start preemptively panicking I’d say ⚽️

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He’s too revolutionary and forward thinking for that

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Given that England scored twice from their only two shots on goal against Slovakia, they might want to consider having a shot on goal before the 95th minute today against Switzerland #tacticsmasterclass

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I guess they’ve had quite a long time to work on it

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Ian Betteridge's avatar Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com
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So: Joanna Cherry lost. Rosie Duffield won, but in a Labour landslide saw her share of vote reduced. Kellie-Jay Keen got less than 200 votes. Maybe being a highly vocal bigot isn't the vote winner the punditocracy would love you to think?

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Next time I might have to head there to encourage the vote to stay in

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Also Wes Streeting almost lost his seat ahahaha

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Very happy about the Greens unexpectedly picking up a bunch of seats and becoming the second party in even more (including my own). Realise they have their issues, but it sends a pretty clear message

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Was going to stay up but realised that actually nah, I’m not taking much joy from seeing people vote for the mega-Tories rather than the Tories and Labour coming through the middle. I can always watch the important scalps in the morning

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Also UKIP has had the odd MP over the years, and whether they did or not made very little difference in Farage’s coverage (fawning, constant)

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Any Reform MPs, let alone 13 of them is grim, but this is a feeding frenzy on the corpse of the Conservative Party and I guess everyone’s going to come away with a piece

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Wish they would just frame all the election exit poll discussion as: here’s which well-known Tory MPs are fucked. They must know what we’re all here for

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