FearofthePenaltyKick

Dilettante, rootless cosmopolitan.

Views expressed are rarely my own, but often passed off as though they were.

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Sharif don't like it...

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Burnham at Euston Station

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

The combined Conservative, Lib Dem and Green vote in Makerfield collapsed from 22% in 2024 to just 3% yesterday - the latest evidence of very high tactical voting against Reform which means it won't win anything like as many seats at the next election as some models predict

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@Lost___London Feels like home to me

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@PigeonFeatherz “We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.” - Dostoevsky

[Pigeon Feathers (Alpha Male) @PigeonFeatherz]

Quite apart from anything else and leaving Letby entirely aside, this is the flimsiest reasoning imaginable. By no means all people who commit even inconceivably evil crimes in sequence exist in a state of unwavering, monotonous psychopathic impetus. There are near countless examples of spree killers and serial rapists etc that just randomly lost their nerve or couldn’t go through with it on a particular occasion, because of something specific to the putative victim or because it was the anniversary of their mother’s death or because they had a hangover or for no ostensible reason at all.

[George Sessions @GeorgeSessions]

Genuinely crazy that the two English people to ever achieve this feat were both born in Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, attended Chingford Secondary School and played for Ridgeway Rovers 🤯

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

As Solzhenitsyn said:

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts.”

[Skipster @FarRightSkip]

You were watching PawPatrol on YouTube after curfew were you not?

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

*Before the 12th round of a fight, wheezing and spitting blood* Alright, no more playing around.
https://t.co/6bVLdvywSo

[Impressions @impression_ists]

David Hockney, Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime

[Jordan Tyldesley @PippyBing]

“NHS Nurse” is such an unusual and unique name.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This exchange is so revealing. Kenyon points out the obvious - that the more people that enter a country, the more houses that country will need. But upon hearing the argument that immigration puts pressure on the housing supply, the Green candidate immediately defaults to her "I'm shocked and horrified you could ever say such a thing!" mode. The funny thing is, she ends up agreeing with him, but even then she tries to pretend he has said something appalling. This is what happens when politics is rooted in feelings rather than facts.

[kasra @kasratweets]

this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious

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@Zonal_Marking Cruel. I love it

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@KarlreMarks Baffling amounts of bitterness from Liverpool fans in particular this season. Good luck finding another player to carry the team now Salah is off.

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@Tom_Slater_ Having already won the league, not as much as it might have done

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@ukpolreact @PigeonFeatherz I was saying this just the other day

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@buffsoldier_96 That's like winning League Two and calling yourselves Champions of England

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This is like winning League Two and calling yourselves Champions of England

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

Crystal Palace, Champions of Europe ❤️💙

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@prodnose The FA Cup was new once 🤷🏽‍♂️