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Andrew | TheSpoilist @thespoilist.bsky.social · 1h

What does this mean? That everyone has read The Merchant of Venice?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 3h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 3h

Sorry, should have said the guitar ones are full of 65+ yos and also 16yos just buying a $10 guitar from a yard sale and asking how to start.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 3h

I think this is right, and it varies wildly in specialist areas. The guitar subreddits are absolutely full of 65+ year olds, for example.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 5h

I find that my experience of it varies widely across subreddits - in the London Food one it's largely pleasant and nobody says anything mad. In UK Driving or r/London there's a much higher chance of encountering some very "tasty" opinions

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 5h

The thing with Reddit is that its size has largely flown under the radar because people (particularly the news media) don't think of it as a social network. There are plausibly 10mn+ active UK users, which means it cuts across huge swathes of demographics.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 8h

I don’t have a funny answer to this but I would like to know whether that’s Charles Fleischer inside the costume. It would not surprise me at all to learn that it was.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 11h

I need to know what Bob Hoskins said to Princess Diana in front of Roger Rabbit at the London premiere of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Bob Hoskins meets Princess Diana as a full size Roger Rabbit costumed character stands next to them.

Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 8h

I saw one of these that said *some* books shouldn’t be made into films.

The correct answer is that *no* books should be made into films. Force the film people to make their own stories.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social · 21h

Oh I wish you better. (A few years ago I used to pass an elderly lady who sat on a wall in our neighbourhood repeating the words, "Always the same. Always the same." Never heard anything more Beckett.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 17h

Quite. I have bought one or two things but they are watched like a hawk while they charge.

Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

I thought mine was getting too convoluted.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Aha

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Each of them features someone involved in the production (actor or writer) performing on the theme tune? I would have said actor but Sullivan obviously invalidates that.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Something theme tune related?

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

True, as is your other point about Flowers’s story being known. I first heard about him studying cryptography in the 90s. But this is all a far cry from being known to the average Guardian reader, who can probably name Turing and that’s it.

Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

I’ll tell you one thing: I am absolutely not buying anything edible from Temu

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

To borrow a little from Chuck Palahniuk, “on a long enough timeline, everything is policy”

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Flowers is definitely little known by the public, partly because since the pardon campaign Turing is now a household name so by definition almost everyone else in British computing history is relegated to a footnote, even the father of Colossus.

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 1d

The book actually says that when interest rates are at the zero lower bound, you absolutely should not do fiscal
consolidation. They thought they knew better than the book, we are all living with the consequences.

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 1d

I sometimes think how frustrating it probably was for Cameron and Osborne. They did everything by the book, and the book says that when you cut the fat and weather the immediate storm, you then get growth and dynamism in response... and that part simply never happened!

Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 1d

For the past 40 days reactionary assaults on the welfare state have been part premised on the idea that welfare is a corrupting force that erodes values and then they cut it, everything gets a bit worse and values don't change.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

These are all great but the cricket one is particularly evocative.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Honestly no idea what would turn up if you ordered these 😬

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Arf

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Just pretend that the first sentence ends with a question mark.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 1d

Who is buying knock-off crisps on Temu. And why?

A Temu ad on Instagram showing Pipers Crisps for sale, 24 packets for £1.77

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 2d

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 2d

Just lost the Keith Vaz game *because Keith Vaz is advertising to me on Instagram* - it turns out Big Tech was in the pocket of Big Vaz all along.

A massive picture of Keith Vaz, on Instagram

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