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John B

@johnb78

Brother to dragons and/or jackals; companion to owls and/or ostriches. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.

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Reminder: a young person living in urban rented accommodation with little chance of buying and working as a barista or call centre operative is working class under any meaningful definition of the term, even if they have an arts degree and think that Black Lives Matter (1/2)

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A retired person living in a house they own outright with a guaranteed pension is not working class under any meaningful definition of the term, even if they own several cloth caps and whippets and only eat pie and chips (2/2)

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John B I met a retired economics professor last year who, in the span of 5 minutes, lectured at us: - that the resource curse was real, look at Saudis who are rich without doing anything for it, bla bla moral hazard - that estate taxes were immoral, he had paid enough taxes while living

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A new rhyme: If the M Godwin has one O, he is an internet hero If the M Goodwin two Os does feature, he is a fascist-adjacent creature

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- Bad news, boss, the lead singer from My Chemical Romance won't be able to attend your 80th birthday performance of beloved genre-fusing acoustic-guitar-led Latino pop and soul songs this year! Sorry, my screen-reader is playing up, can you summarise that for me? - No Way, José

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Fascinated by this one - no idea when the post was from but it's well over a year ago and the guy's an irritating tankie-or-equivalent, and also very obviously the tweet doesn't do any of those things

Fascinated by this one - no idea when the post was from but it's well over a year ago and the guy's an irritating tankie-or-equivalent, and also very obviously the tweet doesn't do any of those things
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The figure we know as "JD Vance" was likely a historic person only in the sense that King Arthur was. A political leader by that name probably lived in the early third millennium, but the figure that's come down to us in the sources is likely an amalgamation of traditions,

The figure we know as "JD Vance" was likely a historic person only in the sense that King Arthur was.

A political leader by that name probably lived in the early third millennium, but the figure that's come down to us in the sources is likely an amalgamation of traditions,
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Snatch all the bits you can, raid your money box for tuppences, and go deep in for this one, all of youse cunts gofundme.com/f/btscc2

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This seems a bit odd - I could understand banning power banks flat out, and why they're not allowed in hold luggage, but surely once you've got one then using it is neither here nor there? If anything, safer than being in your big cabin bag in the bins... 9news.com.au/national/singa…

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Sydney people: any idea what's happening on the corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool outside Museum Station? It looked like they'd nearly finished the bike lane infrastructure but they now seem to be digging everything up again...

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It’s more Louis Theroux’s great signature move – pseudo-naïveté knowingly utilised to get people to say exactly what they think, or exactly how things are