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I will say Kate’s traumatic childhood story about - if memory serves - Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is an all-time bit of self-parody.

I remember someone pasting her story from the original film on an old forum and people claiming it was creepypasta because it’s so extreme.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 17h

youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM?...

“You just like a child, you have the *brain* of a child” is something I find myself saying internally a lot.

Key & Peele - "Gremlins 2" Brainstorm - Uncensored

YouTube video by Comedy Central

youtu.be

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 17h

“May I explain how binary search works?”
“I’d rather you didn’t.”

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 18h

I just looked it up and yeah, that’s basically just a plot summary.

Fortunately I am gifted/cursed to forget a blurb moments after having read it.

Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, agree on that much, and entirely prepared to accept I’ve overindexed on ‘Twitter is not real life’ given recent events. As in, it’s still not, but it has a tendency to bleed across in ugly ways.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 19h

A rare disagreement - I’ve long thought Poppy Watch was the first panel and poppy culture the second.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 19h

I have more (but still little) sympathy for the private school thing because I could see someone somehow scraping together the money for one and not being absurdly wealthy. Inheritance tax as is by definition only affects the very, very, very wealthy - and even then has lots of obvious loopholes.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry, should say ‘estates’ rather than ‘households’.

Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

I guess I would say that taxing inheritance at such a high level (or indeed even lower) that it affects ~4% of households (or indeed multiples more) doesn’t in my view encroach on autonomy or looking after your kids (unless they have very expensive tastes).

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

I say this as someone to who inheritance tax may actually… apply:

I’ve always thought it kind of grubby how bent of shape people get about what is basically a big pile of free money they did nothing to earn (and as a result think thresholds should be lower but good fucking luck).

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 20h

It’s peculiar. I wouldn’t expect developers to continue to support online games indefinitely because, with rare exceptions, it’s obviously impractical. But then I’d also consider it fair to get a refund when Concord goes tits up after a week. So the question is: where do you draw the line.

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 21h

And yet I’m going to demonstrate an incredible resistance to such thinking when I say:

I think people have been trained by Labour leaders, not least the incumbent, to see a leadership hopeful making any sort of left wing noise and go, “Nice barefaced lies for self-advancement you have there.”

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, if anything, grasping the nettle is the least characteristic thing for this government to do.

“They’ll do the thing they’ve already repeatedly done” seems a safer bet.

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