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Iain. Came off Twitter (@anotheriain) for mental health; missed the ability to thank people and ask people questions; here we are.

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I have compiled, as a reminder to myself, the fullest and healthiest list of appropriate responses upon encountering provocations and controversies on social media. Here it is:

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@CalumAM hi Calum. I can't remember if I blessed you at such times before with my Beatles compilation analogy for party leadership elections, but it seems to be relevant again, so here it is (again, possibly). Best wishes, Iain

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@HolyroodSources @joannaccherry @wendychambLD @markdiffley1 @CalumAM @geoffaberdein @akmaciver Listening just now, thanks. Would be interested to understand more about what a 'second vote strategy' means in relation to Labour or other parties. (I'm in London, so not wholly across understanding the List vote.)

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@baroquebird Pencils always work.
Absolutely no history of vote fraud involving changing people's pencil-written votes.
Very recent history, last few years (Brexit referendum first time, perhaps?), of conspiracy theories around the idea and people telling people to use pens.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Barnet wins hands down for coolest count.

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@baroquebird Set of three, watch to the end, as they say https://t.co/NyhjEWzyQf

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@AndyAitcheson I'm guessing you're probably not talking about When Saturday Comes, the half-decent football magazine, which is my WSC; I'm also guessing I'm better off not knowing the WSC you /are/ actually talking about.

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@baroquebird It couldn't be better!

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@baroquebird you can understand it better, it's clearer, if you do it the other way around - AIWFCIY to the tune of OIRDC. That makes it clear that the first six lines of AIWFCIY do work to the 878777 metre of OIRDC, but then there are still two lines to go - one 5 syllables and one 8.

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@baroquebird disappointingly, I think your last retweet is not entirely accurate :-(

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@swade42 Amazing - I thought you must have wiped off whatever was there before and written both your names on the board!

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@dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory (and, as a Scot, I wonder what the non-English crew members thought of the 'England expects' signal...)

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@dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory At every line in praise of Nelson I thought of Fanny, his wife, who he treated so appallingly (as well recounted by yourselves). A not wholly admirable admiral. I wonder what Nelson's devoted personal chaplain made of his abandonment of Fanny and flagrant adultery with Emma?

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@holland_tom @TheRestHistory (and, as a Scot, I wonder what the non-English crew members thought of the 'England expects' signal...)

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@holland_tom @TheRestHistory At every line in praise of Nelson I thought of Fanny, his wife, who he treated so appallingly (as well recounted by yourselves). A not wholly admirable admiral. I wonder what Nelson's devoted personal chaplain made of his abandonment of Fanny and flagrant adultery with Emma?

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@OmnibusTheatre lovely, thanks

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@OmnibusTheatre do you have an emailing list? I may be missing something obvious, but I can't find it on your website, sorry.

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@MetCC someone is fraudulently giving our address as their address, causing us to have unwanted and unnecessary visits from emergency services. What should we report this to the police as? Fraud? Identity theft?

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@baroquebird 'good luck at your new job' ones any good? assuming they're going to a new job

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@baroquebird My first thought was that that was a banana in a roll, before I saw the tweet you were quoting. I'm losing my marbles.

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@baroquebird I was most impressed by your front row position, you high roller you. Is that in Germany? The first proper, staged opera I ever saw was basically by chance, in Zurich in 2008. I'll WA you a snip of my diary entry...