Armin Tamzarian
kinell23.bsky.social
Armin Tamzarian
@kinell23.bsky.social
Londoner.
If you follow me it's probably best to subscribe to the Quiet Posters feed.
He/him
13/10 @weratedogs.com
Look after yourself because, although from the other side of the Atlantic I can see this is a warning not a threat, the regime probably won't
The ground zero guy for hecking doggo social media gaming is talking like this now
“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy
January 16, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Fascinating story about how genome-based theories of disease clouded our understanding of exposome-based explanations of disease and how those errors are now slowly being corrected.

“Your exposome is the sum of your own personal environmental exposures, from the womb to the casket.”
“No one knows exactly how much of the world’s drinking water is laced with TCE. The CDC reckons the water supply of 4-18% of Americans is contaminated… In Silicon Valley, where TCE was integral to manufacturing of early transistors, a necklace of underground plumes…”

www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
www.wired.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Slightly diminish a band.

They Might Be Quite Tall
The Four Bottoms
Frankie Goes to Brentwood
Slightly diminish a band

Status Quo Ante
Slightly diminish a band

Four and a Half Inch Nails
Tin Maiden
The Golf Carts
Slightly Discounted Trick
January 10, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I got some of my computer games in a book. I keyed the code and any I liked I saved on an audio cassette.

Also, I recorded stuff at home on cassettes 😃
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.

Two Americas.
January 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I had to look up 2003 releases as I'm old, but GTA Vice City is head and shoulders above everything else
Quote this with your favourite game NOW that was released in 2003, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)

Localisations*/early access count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.

Two-way ties count.

*('03 was the NA release of Wind Waker)

Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Great thread, thanks for starting it. Especially on a day when so many will be wound up by petty gripes IRL
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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They don’t even look like this any more but I don’t care I’m reposting it again 9 years on
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I think this is my favourite. It's certainly the one that pops into my head the most
This was a beloved friend's favorite Larson cartoon. I remember him whenever I see it.

I have cat-loving friends who always write CAT FUD for cat food.
December 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Quote post a Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF.
Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LoTR or Marvel
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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A chart from "The British General Election of 2024" (out soon!) which is relevant to this debate - here's what voters wanted (black line) and what they though Labour (red) and Cons (blue) would do on tax and spend during the campaign. Higher figures = "put them up". Some important lessons here 1/?
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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I think Michael Rosen nailed it
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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"While public concern often focuses on youth violence, today, a man aged 31 to 50 is more likely to be admitted to hospital with a violence-related injury than a boy aged 11 to 17."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

London: safer than ever. Because we all need reminding of good news!
‘Lawless London’ is safer than it’s been in decades
Official data suggests the capital may be safer than at any time in the past half century, comfortably beating other major cities
observer.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Sounds like a Fall album to me!
“Kardashian Synthetic Pubic Hair Thong” sounds like the words to a Disney song sung by an witch casting a magic spell
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Fabulous cover of Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers that crossed my timeline today (and really made me think about the lyrics). I particularly like the way the chorus is handled by two ‘arguing’ voices

youtu.be/VxbMKIttjTQ?...
SYSTIR - Army Dreamers (Kate Bush)
YouTube video by The Anúna Collective
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The obvious point here, which doesn't seem to have occurred to Jenrick, is that there has been a long history of white people moving out of ethnically mixed neighbourhoods. Refusing to integrate, if you will.
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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looking forward to subjecting @hugorifkind.bsky.social on Times Radio at 12.15 to my spiel about how to protect your phone if some thieving shit snatches it. Basically: lock your sim card, require unlock for sensitive apps including email, require unlock to read notifications, turn on anti-theft.
October 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM