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Mark Vent
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Problem-solver. Tech-nerd. Comedy-geek. Magic-fan. Book-lover. Rationalist & Atheist. Swansea Jack. You cannot live as I have lived & not end up like this.
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Washington DC scandal, 100 years ago today
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There should be more stuff like this in newspapers again.
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This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!
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Hi @washingtonpost.com thanks for telling me I should resubscribe because you promise to hold power to account.

Sadly the reason I canceled my sub was because you’ve already broken that promise. Before they even took power. Shame on you.

Signed a sometime contributor as well as former subscriber.
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“The problem with Fox News: It won’t broaden our horizons.”

“The problem with Truth Social: It won’t broaden our horizons.”

“The problem with the Manosphere : It won’t broaden our horizons.”

Come back to us when you’ve fixed their echo chambers.
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
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Look amazing Alec! I'm diving in as I type - starts not far at all from where I used to live ;)
The Wolves Are Running! can't wait for a rewatch all these years later.
you gotta use your body and your brain if you wanna win the game ...
I mean Gremlins was fine - but it didn't really have any kind of narrative arc did it? these are gremlins, gremlins are horrible & chaotic, film ends with gremlins being horrible & chaotic. less an arc more a flat line.
Ghostbusters had narrative, characters, fun, scary/jeopardy (for its age range)
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Really enjoyed doing this podcast for Dan (QI / No Such Thing As A Fish) Schreiber.

My two favourite topics - comedy and the strange - colliding. Got a chance to talk about life, the universe and everything, as well as the book…

https://pod.link/1687199754/episode/026995dcbd9ac34886ef2f588fad7e7a
if you write it - we will buy it 💜
Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon - was his second favourite step - his favourite was stepping on some steps that Jesus may have stepped on in Jerusalem.
Once upon a morning dreary, while I slumbered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
    While I nodded, clearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my window for
            a hotel biscuit, only this and nothing more.”
answer 65p a litre and sit there glaring whilst they do the conversion!
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If you have a bookshop near you, make sure to pop in regularly and check that your favourite bookseller has enough water and is being taken for regular walks

(Or just buy a book on their website)
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Are they calling it “long-awaited” because they think we will forgot that 10 days ago Israel said Hamas’s HQ was in the basement of a hospital in northern Gaza? Cause we did not forget it was like last week ffs.
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From Nigel Kneale’s introduction to the 1973 Folio Society edition of ‘Ghost Stories of M.R. James’, illustrated by Charles Keeping. 📚
[whatever]-as-a-service ...

Software
TV
Film
Books
Theatre
Music

AND even paying for these things doesn't guarantee you no f*cking adverts

as they say ... Games gone.
nor has it even remotely worked I'd add.
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