Mark Hammonds

Virtual tweet mute. That's enough to be going on with.

[Mark Hammonds @almalydan]

@pequod51 @red_mutant_eyes Sterne got there long ago, with more variation and better laughs.

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@Cox_A_R @verybadwizards It is as good as they say, and probably better.

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@pequod51 Be reassured. You’re not the last to the party.

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@pequod51 When I first met you. I could only manage the plebeian B&W version of the Drop badge.

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@DrDavidVernon Jesus, that’s good. I have read Lear many times - it’s my favourite Shakespeare - and missed it. He truly does contain worlds.

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@pequod51 Incorrigibly stupid, deeply unpleasant. And simply wrong.

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@psybertron This is very interesting. A mnemonic Ship of Theseus. I’m sure Derek Parfit has a thought experiment for humans along these lines.

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@pequod51 @AmnestyUK Gender ideology is just the latest - if craziest - iteration of identity politics. Never was Christopher Hitchens more prescient than when he warned, “Beware of Identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.”

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@psybertron @Kekius_Sage Is this one still trundling on? Since ‘you’ - the mythical observer - is part of that same universe, it follows that you, too, only exist when observing. Even as a thought experiment (on God-and-the-quad lines), it fails even a cursory run-through.

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@d_spiegel Bargain. It’s an excellent book, enjoyable and rather wise.

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@psybertron @Socket1Sophie It’s true that they now make that flush of fervour look like a half-arsed fad. And they degrade the flag. A perfect metaphor for the sort of sugar-rush populism that parades as true patriotism, but has neither the ability nor inclination to consider anything but the short term.

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@pequod51 It *is* progress. And, given his position, it provides a golden bridge to many who simply nodded along to the zealot’s TWAW mantra for a peaceful life. I have no doubt most of these will be relieved to back away from the whole shoddy episode.

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@psybertron Or, indeed to complicate things that aren’t complicated.

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.”

The Nicomachean Ethics

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@pequod51 Good man!

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@pequod51 Done. The draft bill is a mess.

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@PaulBrazill @YouTube ❤️❤️❤️

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@pequod51 @DarlingtonUnion Brilliant!

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@psybertron @JohnCleese Precisely. Not atheism, not any particular religion, but secularism has the final say and arbitration here.

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@PaulBrazill Discureknockerated!

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@PaulBrazill @PCClotter Great to have these little gems in one tidy collection.