James L Smith

ambulant library of outdated nerd references. not a big hugger

[James L Smith @Roll_Persuasion]

@ABeeWords Happy birthday mate!

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

Things we’ve money for:
- Bombing Yemen
- Tax relief for independent schools
- Fujitsu
- Tory Peerages
- £15 billion of useless PPE
- Tax cuts for rich
- £2.3 billion scrapping HS2
- £290 million to Rwanda
- Sunak’s helicopter
Thing we’ve no money for:
- Junior Doctor’s pay

[James L Smith @Roll_Persuasion]

@ABeeWords @nikkireadsbooks Able Seaman is the Navy equivalent to Private - could be that? Also going to try and learn Cryptics next year as it's basically nonsense to me

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £350m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. But he still needs a 45% pay rise.

Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone.

#NotmyKing

[James L Smith @Roll_Persuasion]

Some #MESBG Rangers inspired by one of my favourite boardgames, #Thornwatch @TychoBrahe @cwgabriel made a damn fine game there

[James L Smith @Roll_Persuasion]

@ABeeWords Thanks for this rabbit hole Alice! Songs for the roadtrip playlist I think!

[James L Smith @Roll_Persuasion]

@gshowitt Loved this one. We ended up with the Criminal camp counsellors trying to burn down the camp and all the evidence and silence any witnesses by the end - went from whacky 80s hijinks, to dark 00s realist violence very quickly...

[✪ daniel barnes ✪ @Danny8bit]

Make the D&D movies the next Fast & Furious franchise, where the party grows, everyone keeps leveling up, and the stakes and powercreep keeps escalating until they’re fighting gods by the 10th movie

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK Government is trying to hang this portrait of King Charles in every public building including schools.

The SNP rejected it and saved £8m that they can actually spend on education.

If you want it out of our schools RT.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

If Penny Mordaunt wants to give teenagers a stake in society, why doesn't she call for the restoration of Education Maintenance Allowance, an end to the sale of school playing fields to property developers and properly funded youth clubs?

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

This just about sums it all up.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Some Conservative MPs think they are worth £1,500 per hour, yet don’t think Junior Doctors should start on more than £14.

In reality all doctors want is fair pay after more than a decade of real terms pay cuts.

Please RT if you agree they deserve it.

https://t.co/mkDxOhCCJp

[Grant Howitt @gshowitt]

GUY WHO PICKS KETTLES FOR HOTEL ROOMS: “I fuckin love how loud it is. Do you have any models that take longer to boil though”

[James L Smith @Roll_Persuasion]

@ABeeWords Jesus, what a dweeb... I still remember our TPK in 4e - boldly setting off every trap on your merry way as you Rogue down a creepy hallway iirc?

[James Rehwald @JamesRehwald]

A capitalist visited my workplace to teach us a valuable lesson

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

•Abolish the monarchy
•End the honours system
•Get rid of the House of Lords
•Votes for 16 year olds
•Change the voting system
•More political power to the regions & nations
•Abolish private education
•Nationalise essentials
•Save the NHS
•Tax wealth
•£15phr min wage

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

Do you know how the X app first came into being? It was Twitter once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of app.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Show Me An Old Rebel

Do not show me a young rebel,
whose eyes are bright
and whose tail is bushy.

Young rebels are fine and good,
but they are merely doing
what the young are meant to do.

Show me an old rebel.
One who keeps punching
when his hands are arthritic,
when her hair is white,
when his friends are all dead,
when her knees are shot,
when it hurts him to pee,
when her shoulders are so bad
that it would be much easier to punch down
than to punch up.

Show me an old rebel
who keeps standing up after being knocked down
over and over again,
year after year,
decade after decade,
who after the thousandth blow
merely spits out a tooth
and says “Son, you have no idea what you’re dealing with, do you?”

Are you a young rebel?
Are you Sticking It to The Man?
Are you upsetting the gray brainiacs
and knocking over their word castles?

That is fine.
Youth will youth.

But show me a young rebel
who became an old rebel,
who stuck with it through the setbacks
and the beatings and betrayals,
who watched the hippies become yuppies
and the protesters become pundits
and still kept a fire lit
amid the monsoons of infiltration
and the hurricanes of heartbreak.
Who will close their tired eyes for a final time
without ever once having cast them to the ground
or peered up in imploring subordination.

That, my friends,
that is a true spirit.

If you are still a fiery rebel
even as everything is ripped away from you,
I will be humbled and awed by you,
because I will know that you will carry that with you to the grave.
And I will know that whatever you find on the other side
will be met
with that same defiant glare.

And I will sing your song when you are gone.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Nigel Farage having his elite bank account cancelled, let’s remember who he actually is