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Part-time writer. Long-time barman. Sometime Calvinist. Full-time Drunk. For Cricket stuff follow @BdJCricket.

Joined August 2013
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So like, I assume that everyone who has Jeff Goldberg on Signal is adding him to every single one of their chat groups for jokes right now yeah?
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Duplicate. Discriminate. Decouple.
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Is this hyperstition? Nick Land fans pls advise.
Ever get that thing where you see a take so bad that your brain just inserts a blue tick that's not even there?
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Actually wait no don't talk to me Nick Land fans. In fact best you don't talk to anyone tbh.
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Many years ago I found some old negatives at Waterlooplein flea market, hundreds of photos. Unique photos of the war & liberation. I'll share a few of these, never before published (except online by me) pictures here. Hitler & Mussert dolls hanging. Akoleienstraat. 🧵
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it's just so cringe tho
Really wasn't prepared for the decline of Anglophone civilization to involve this degree of vicarious embarrassment. youtube.com/watch?v=bb4ncggZ…
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ok well good luck with that
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When I get my time machine first thing I do is just post a bunch of 2020s AirBnB listings on 90's Usenet.
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Absolute tragedy everyone's got their "He's totally Thomas Matthew Crooksed it" tweets ready and we're not even gonna get penalties. #ENGvSPA
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BREAKING: Steve Albini, the legendary record producer behind Nirvana's In Utero, Pixies' Surfer Rosa, and countless other classic albums, has died of a heart attack. He was 61 years old → cos.lv/NTo050RzFeq
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Ever get that thing where you see a take so bad that your brain just inserts a blue tick that's not even there?
The cultural footprint of Gen X is nonexistent: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and Kevin Smith movies. In 20 years people will be whining about the complete dominance of millennial culture the way they whine about boomers today.
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Like seriously I leave you people alone for two decades...
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ok this app sucks ass im done if you want to find me i will be here using it
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Yeah it's a cricket joke but I'm proud of it.
ha ha send tweet into the void
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Hey pay attention this is one of those handy times you can check to see who on your feed claims to know what's going on and then immediately stop taking them seriously forever
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Bit of a long shot, this, but anybody got two tickets going for Thurston Moore at the Occii next weekend? Catastrophic miscommuniation has left us ticketless and sad... #OCCII #ThurstonMoore
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It's also not Van Gok.
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No, Elon Musk accidentally buying twitter is not very similar to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Solid rule of thumb: Anyone comparing a contemporary political event to the fall of Rome can be safely assumed to understand neither. nitter.cf/NickKristof/status/842…
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