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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 22h

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

I have, in fact, encountered several anonymous accounts over the last 5-6 months who have given out bad tear gas advice and I suspect that they may have done so on purpose.

When in doubt, come to me for the straight dope.

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 1d

I know you’re right but I had an old unwanted novel that was too knackered to give to a charity shop. When I put it in the recycling it felt… icky. An unexpected sense of uneasiness. Such an odd reaction to a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this is the Paris Review all over.

Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 1d

I was looking for the correct wording of this quote the other day came across this startlingly sneering, snippy Paris Review blogpost that could be the most on-brand thing I’ve read for a while. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03...

And Alexander Wept by Anthony Madrid

March 19, 2020 – “In what ancient text does that passage appear?” Answer: It appears nowhere.

www.theparisreview.org

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 2d

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 3d

Election of New Labour
NATO‘s Kosovo campaign
9/11 and GWOT
2003 RWC
Global financial crisis (if we count being an undergrad as “childhood”…?)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 4d

They didn't spot! They broadcast it!

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 5d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 5d

Phew I was worried for a second there oh wai...

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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 6d

Perhaps they think there is a tax on heterosexual sex, and that’s why they’re single?

Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 6d

A rounding error, as one pharma-specialising economist described it to me once.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 7d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry