Thomas Bell

Over there at the same handle. Participant in history's wild ride. Supporter of the Oxford comma. Opinions are those of my cat.

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

Haven’t seen an announcement, but Twitter lists aren’t appearing in chronological order anymore…

[Via Getty @bOysterous69]

@JennyENicholson Welcome to one of the bleakest things I've ever read

https://t.co/mQItQnfzXe

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

It’s been six months!

[Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned]

As one put it - "I feel like we were given false promises, false hope. We were told we were going to make Britain great again and that the working man would finally be able to benefit from their work, and I just kind of feel like all that's been pulled."

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

@ConspiracyBull1 Zyklon B is two words

[G.S. Quay @hemingquay]

I thought my favorite thread in Twitter history had been deleted and lost forever, but it turns out my friend had screenshots.

See replies for the rest.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

He realized he fucked up

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

Good and all, but just £4k for driving a car into someone?

[Jim Waterson @jimwaterson]

What's the deal with London's Harry Potter shops, which are in some of the capital's most prominent shopping areas? And why are so many of these businesses now owned by a 31-year-old woman in Oxford who originally claimed she was not the actual owner when we tracked her down?

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

@agraybee Amazing where the conversation goes

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

I hope a 50% increase in size is where London’s architecture is going

[The City Mentor @TheCityMentor]

A beautiful 100-year-old art deco building is going to be demolished on Oxford Street in London.

Instead of surviving for another 100 years, the building is going to be replaced by a new nine-storey modernist building.

Is this the direction of London's architecture?

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

@maxdubler I have this great idea that restructures the relationship between tenants and landlords that’s already in panel 2!

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

Hahahahahahahaha

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

@agraybee This is a very old slang for breathing, it was around most of Covid at least.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Trump pardoned an actual war criminal, a Navy SEAL whose squadmates disabled his gun because they suspected he was killing civilians for fun, and it caused maybe 1/10th the outrage as this.

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

Can’t believe Matt isn’t blue checked, would make bank off this monthly post alone.

[Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers]

It is not true that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck:

- 54% of adults have cash savings that can pay for 3 months of expenses.
- The median American household holds $8k in transaction accounts (checking/savings).
- The median American household has a networth of $193k.

[Tobias Schneider @tobiaschneider]

"Everyone or noone" sounds good as an abstract principle but it has no place in the contested relations of states. If you insist on it as the bar it will invariably default to no-one.

[Thomas Bell @RealThomasBell]

@zapatistazaddy @SuicidalTRNP @besttrousers @PotentM31734 Living paycheck to paycheck probably hits different if you aren’t becoming homeless if you miss the paycheck.

[Tetra @greenTetra_]

I am currently losing my mind that "voor de lol" is a real phrase in Dutch that means "for fun" that is somehow completely and utterly unrelated to the English neologism "for the lolz".

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

I think something that is deeply difficult for a lot of people to understand — not just left NIMBYs, but especially them — is that, virtually no one alive today has been alive during a boom in urban housing construction.

We shut it all down in the 1970s. You can read about it.

[Boots and a CKC on a Bike @boots_bike]

I’ve always felt this video demonstrates how cyclists are not a threat. The chap was quite happy to suddenly step in the cyclist’s way. They obviously did not fear getting hurt by a collision. Would they do that in front of a moving car?