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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1m

I will say the source on this is Dominic Cummings.

Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 33m

"I have worked in the Philippines and adopted other cultures, so how can I be racist?"

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 2h

Thank-you for the Bnuy.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 2h

oh my god

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 8h

Can I just shock you? I like judicial review about urban planning. Despite what I just said earlier.

Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 9h

This is absolutely bizarre. These LTNs, which from the start always had majority local support, & which were paid for by TfL, are now uncontroversial in practice. Removal of £2million OBGR improvements would be an unprecedented act of social vandalism & financial waste. Shameful stuff.

Letter from Lutfur Rahman and Aspire Councillors promising they’re still planning to rip out the LTNs as soon as possible.

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 1d

I have been appreciating monster collecting games a lot recently

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 9h

Can’t remember this being in either the book nor in the Muppet version.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19h

“Left forward and substitute out in drunken night out shock horror” it says here.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19h

Just naturally assume there’s a KGB agent in the compartment next to you and there’s inevitably going to be a mix up over suitcases.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20h

I mean we did go through that brief period of crashing out of the Euros after losing 1-0 to the Faero Islands and drawing the must-win match with Neutral Moresnet but baby steps people.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20h

If you ever see in on cask at the pub get it because it's always lovely. Just a very full-bodied bitter but not too strong. The sort of thing that you want to have when you've got a few hours to kill and a big history book to get through.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20h

I'm a fair-weather fan of the England national side but the transformation from 2002-era "tabloid-appointed World Cup Winners who hate one another oh fuck we've gone out in the last 16" to "some nice role-models who make you feel disappointed for losing in the semis" isn't a terrible trajectory.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

My dad, who was a former steelworker and later a teacher himself was strict when I was growing up but didn’t once lay a finger on me because of how much a single caning at primary school had affected him.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

The former is also what makes a lot of people doompill themselves about American salaries because the median wage is not the same as the mode wage.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

The Telegraph always seems to have their stories right at the top of both of the main UK politics subreddits and I don't think it's coincidence. They've got very good at that sort of SEO.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

But you read comments from people my age and they're convinced that Gen Alpha are basically feral despite all evidence to the contrary (even taking the pandemic into account). There's nothing new under the sun about this, of course, but it's still depressing.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose if I'm being an absolute devil's advocate here that I draw a distinction from something pulling a kid's hand away from a gas hob as they're about to burn themselves and giving it a small but firm tap but even that's the sort of thing that has to be hugely sparing.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

If we're at the stage where a nonagenarian working-class South Londoner is being dismissed as a woke fuddy-duddy by thirty year old programmers then I think we may be a little cooked as a society.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose it's a sign that Millennials are already turning into Boomers because the other undercurrent in the thread is full of people going on about "maybe we should smack kids more often given how poorly behaved they are these days" which is emphatically not true.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

Given that the typical Reddit user is a thirty-something IT professional who spends half their day doomscrolling, I don't think this is unexpected, but it's a bit eggy, nevertheless.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

I say this a lot but of all social media, it's the radicalisation of Reddit that I find most acute.

A nice article about Sir Michael Caine leading a campaign to outlaw smacking the mean comment is "the government's too busy blocking a ban on cousin marriage" and "smacking didn't do me any harm".

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

You look like a low-budget porn parody of yourself. I mean this very affectionately.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

Quizzy Monday is cancelled because apparently people think you're more likely to want to watch Northern Ireland v Germany in the World Cup Qualifiers and therefore I've donated £50 to Sinn Fein.

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