Dave Hutchinson

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the littl shynin man the Addom, he runs in the wud

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When is a Prime Minister not a Prime Minister? When they’re a truss.

Everybody: “Britain is a modern, forward-looking nation.” Also everybody: “And standing beside the King’s golden chair is the Keeper Of The Monarch’s Stool Pursuivant, an office which dates back to Edward The Confessor.”

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Parliament in Gormenghast. Mogg is a shoe-in as Lord Sepulchrave.

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"Black Rod, brows beetled, strode the dusty corridor and paused before the door. The patch of beaten wood, pitted and pale his splintered legacy."

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I got to make replicas of various bits including black rod's staff, the despatch box and the speaker's mace for kids to be taught with on school visits to the HoP because the real dressy-up toys are obviously too spendy for the children of serfs to even look at.

The State Opening is the kind of thing people come up with during a long boozy night. “We’ll make it so that nothing can happen without a sword, a crown, and a magic hat, and they’ll be so special that they’ll have their own golden coach lol.”

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Shares in Taiwanese companies plummeted after Trump said Taiwan should pay the US for defence and said it would be “very, very difficult” for the US to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack. He claimed “Taiwan” stole our chip industry.

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On today's Norwegian for beginners:

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Trump now says he is against sanctions on Russia.

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"But when do I get to do the fun bits?" "Are you kidding? These _are_ the fun bits!"

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She's like the anti Lady Jane Gray.

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Right, so this is the story of the old mate I was out with last night, didn't happen to me, but too good not to repeat. Will probably only work for the Brit adjacent.

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Schroedinger's Prime Minister.

It just occurred to me that Truss never got a State Opening. Does that mean she never existed?

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i have written my first ever media and container query hybrid and i deserve to be carried around in a golden litter. bow before me, loyal subjects. #css #containerQuery #magic

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It’s the same as this bollocks from the front page of today’s Times. Desperate client journalists completely lost. The figures are out by an order of magnitude, it is completely without any evidence, and it’s an agreement made by the Tories.

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This kicker is something else. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

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Yesss, motherfuckers!!! Even if none of it passes, shine the spotlight on the historically unpopular SCOTUS during an election year!

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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i love this so much! i love how they're saying sounds i've never heard in my life and out of nowhere "is the day unlucky?" i could go back in time and ask somebody "is the day unlucky?" and they'd know exactly what i said

norse and old english were mutually intelligible languages. movies and TV portray them as if these people couldn't communicate easily, but norse grammarians at the time talked about the anglo-saxons speaking a dialect of norse. here's two norse & old english scholars demonstrating

A Conversation in Old English and Old Norseyoutu.be Were Old Norse and Old English really mutually intelligible? Jackson Crawford and @simonroper9218 set out to test this often-asserted statement as best as th...

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This will never be not funny to me

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There’s some evidence that Trump’s core support is people with a grievance against the modern world, which took away the time when they were the top dogs. Anyway, here’s another group: divorced men.

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Sky’s US Correspondent managing to pronounce ‘Waukesha’ almost entirely wrong. Remarkable work.

The media at the RNC: “Trump is magnificent.” The media at the DNC: “Will Biden even be able to walk?”

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wait until you figure out he doesn't get cars either

Musk’s Robotaxi Plan Shows He Gets Cars But Not Peoplewww.bloomberg.com Uber and Lyft investors shouldn’t worry. The Tesla CEO’s self-driving ride-hailing strategy is full of flawed assumptions.

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It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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Olympic condom discourse seems to come round earlier every Olympic year

Olympic sex bed discourse seems to come round earlier every Olympic year

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.