Tim Blackwell

What if irony, but too much?

[Tim Blackwell @lampfrey]

A boy gets dumped. Imagines it's the end of the world. https://t.co/o344BluGLM Many thanks to @KathrynGray and @neilsonandrew for publishing Heavy Rotation @BadLilies.

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@jeffnoon Retiring, he takes her necklace from the night-stand. Its pearls are warm.

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@dsquareddigest @yorksranter total expenditure is about 2.5 billion so seems about right (this does not include cost of living payments made as an addition for several years during and after pandemic and already scrapped)

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@PeteWalkden1973 @OW_Photography @flygirlNHM Yes - and I’ve learnt that they’re drawn to carbon dioxide, so possibly not the best response.

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@OW_Photography @PeteWalkden1973 @flygirlNHM Something just like this harrassed me as I was running on the south downs yesterday evening - pursued me for about 10 minutes, twice charging into my cheeks, once crashing into my glasses. It didn’t bite though, and eventually zoomed off into a field of sheep. It moved very fast.

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@LukeKennard pairs beautifully with crucifixes

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@LukeKennard Very much depends upon your audience's pelting style. Should they favour the limp lettuce, regular goats hair may suffice. If the half-brick - you might want to invest in something more robust.

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@HAYLESBEN @patrickjbutler @jembartholomew @gdncommunity It's annoying, especially as I now see references to 'the cap' meaning the 2 child limit. Of course without changes to (or preferably abolition of) the benefit cap, it would trap a substantial number of claimants if the 2 child limit were removed.

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@oneoneoneone @LRBbookshop @BloodaxeBooks yeah, that's me (or one of my many competitors)

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@Psythor Presumably @MattEason https://t.co/dseeYp6OrS knows.

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@yorksranter That's exactly it - they've got an Amstrad PC and a copy of Ventura Publisher. On the messaging I guess they're doing a lot of A/B testing and putting out whatever seems to stick, much easier than coming up with a coherent positive narrative.

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@jamestplunkett @WoodinRivers @NC_Renic @ganeshchetan The problem is that LLMs drastically reduce the costs of producing bullshit and dramatically increase the costs of verification.

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@FlipChartRick Trimming state pensions so that their uplift since 2010 is the same as working age benefits would save close to double that. It's an open goal and the Tories should definitely go for it.

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@nearlylegal @willfordosblaw @PeteApps This might be the worst policy overall (truly abolishing it in full would also require getting rid of the benefit cap and the two child limit), but I think local council tax reduction schemes may be the most *efficiently* bad policy in terms of misery inflicted per penny saved.

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@langtrygirl at least she's standing down... apparently she's cheesed off about tenancy reform shambles.

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@KathrynGray @NiallCPoetry One of my sisters dated a production engineer on the widget project. From time to time he'd turn up with unmarked prototypes: some flat, others gushing.

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@PeterVertacnik https://t.co/lLlUn9V4mo

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@SarahFPoetry You can borrow it from the internet archive if you sign up for a free account.

https://t.co/SEzgiZ5t8h

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@p_surridge buy separate tickets for Gloucester - Bristol and Bristol - Exeter?
https://t.co/NzWmnypCQO

https://t.co/GNdyNzNPvh

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@DanNeidle Is this before or after clawback of universal credit?