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Definitely a bot.

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[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

I’m Polish. If France is your future, I come from the end of that road.

France shows you the slow version. We lived the full one – the version where the state doesn’t just take care of everything. It owns everything.

In Poland it arrived with Soviet bayonets. In America it would arrive by vote – slower, softer, with better slogans. But the destination is the same, and so is the mechanism.

It starts with prices. When the state decides what things should cost, prices stop telling the truth. A price is a message: this is scarce, this is wanted, make more of this. Abolish the message, and the whole economy goes deaf. So the shelves emptied – first of meat, then of almost everything.

Every Pole knew the joke. A man walks into a shop: "No meat?" The clerk: "No, sir. Here is no fish. No meat is across the street."

We queued for everything. People wrote their place in line on their palms and kept lists through the night. You waited years for a small car, and often more than a decade for an apartment. Not because Poles were lazy. Because nobody in the system had any reason to produce what we needed.

At work, we had another joke: we pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us.

And the promise of equality? It produced the most unequal system of all. The party elite had their own shops – Poles called them the shops behind the yellow curtains. Those with dollars shopped in special stores. Everyone else got the queue.

Then the system needed informers, because nobody believed in it anymore. Our neighbors were recruited to report on us. You never knew who was listening – the colleague, the friend, sometimes family. So we learned to live a double life: one language in public, another at home.

Those who spoke up got the wolf ticket: no job, no promotion, sometimes no university place for their children. Nobody needed to send them to prison. They just couldn’t live.

The newspapers reported record harvests while the shelves stood empty. Everyone knew. Nobody said it. That is what a society looks like when the lie becomes the system.

In 1950 we were about as rich as Spain. By 1989, Spain was twice as rich. That is what forty years of "fairness" cost us.

Today in America, the method is softer. Your neighbor won’t inform on you to the secret police. Someone will report your post, and you’ll be cancelled – no job, no account, no platform. Different tools, same machine.

We got out. Ten million of us joined Solidarity, and in 1989 a system that looked eternal collapsed. Since then, Poland has become one of the great success stories of Europe – because people were finally free to build.

But we still carry it. More than thirty years later, you can see it in the careful answers, the closed faces - the system leaves faster than the fear does. It takes generations to get out of it fully once you fall into that trap.

Nobody votes for the queue. Nobody votes for the informer. They come with the promise.

Trust me, you don’t want to go down that road.

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Every poet is a fool, but not every fool is a poet

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A poem by Anne Carson, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read it in full: https://t.co/rtwdOUgu5e

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@allie__voss I would do this for any of my close friends and I’m certain they would do it for me. Family gets even higher priority

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@MissyFillion @tanyaelisabethh I will “babysit” my grandkids until I drop dead

[Seth Troutt @Seth_Troutt]

"It’s not to say that he’s cruel and mean and awful. He gets overexcited about what could be, and therefore overlooks the people around him and the consequences of what he’s doing.” - Daniel Craig on Uncle Andrew.

One of the goals in reading Narnia to my kids was for them to learn about evil adults. They exist. They do not have good intentions. They are manipulative. They use people and do not love people. Uncle Andrew is literally Exhibit A. He's not merely "overexcited" - he's evil and preys on children in the name of his fantasy.

The ongoing reputational rehabilitation project of villains is not good for the world or for kids. It is good for evil adults, though. An amoral world is an immoral world.

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@leadprompt_sh @robertwlk Can you hear traces of bh or mh when an Irish speaker says it, or is it a straight /v/? I’ve often wondered

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@RitaPanahi The date feels intentional to me

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@ReapthewhirlSL @allie__voss This is the only thing that stops me from doing it. I refuse to use an airplane bathroom. I start dehydrating myself the day before a long flight

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It’s just bloodlust now

[NBC10 Boston @NBC10Boston]

EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the NBC10 Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members. Read the full investigation here. https://t.co/qSjIiU8Og8

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@AndrewZink1238 @EmiliaDecaudin Lying is like breathing to the commie

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@M_Steeples That only emboldens narcissists and prompts increasingly attention-seeking behavior

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@Dorcas44856425 @MilanoReturns The Whaambulance

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@tyromper @princess092880 Yes

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@Oklahoma_Brave I’d ask a man to throw her into the pool for me

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@themaddierune I grew up in Florida and lived across the bridge from Morristown for years. The culture shock was pretty big. I’m very happily back in the south

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No, the science is settled. If you disagree, you are literally a grandma killer.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Science is messy , complex and uncertain

In a crisis like a pandemic , public health messaging has to be crystal clear

This inevitable conflict is Fauci's undoing

Not entirely his fault

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@thesightsmith @Gavin_McInnes It’s complex ptsd

[Pericles @PerryALPHA]

Donald Trump's reaction to the King of Morocco falling asleep during a speech

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@ShadeSalvo The prices rise while the portions shrink