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Cautiously optimistic sceptic. News fiend. Technology tamer. Photographer. Non-militant vegetarian. Coffee connoisseur. Bicycle lover.

Bournemouth, Dorset, UK
Joined August 2012
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Bringing this back in light of recent news: Get a limited-edition But Her Emails hat and support @onwardtogether groups working to strengthen our democracy. shop.onwardtogether.org/prod…
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Opinion | This Changes Everything - The New York Times buff.ly/3YHBt40 (via @nytimes / @ezraklein)
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Noooooooooooo….. a shortage of tomatoes for a few months I can live with, but this is a step too far 😭 - “Huge 'unprecedented' coffee shortage to hit UK supermarkets”: buff.ly/3SySs7t
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🫶 – at Bournemouth, England
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👌 – at Bournemouth, England
Prompt: Home Alone. But as the opening credits of White Lotus season two. #MadeWithRunway
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😂👏 – at Bournemouth, England
This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.
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World population reaches eight billion - as projections reveal where is growing the fastest - buff.ly/3TCAsrA (via @SkyNews)
Such sad news. RIP. 😢 - “Angela Lansbury, Broadway luminary and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ star, dies at 96” buff.ly/3rLA5zh (via @washingtonpost)
This is the laugh we all need right now
When your face is on stamps and coins, surely no one could fail to recognise you... Well, turns out The Queen did once fool two American tourists, as former Royal protection officer Dick Griffin, told Sky News during the Platinum Jubilee in June 👇 trib.al/kOVP617
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Hard to believe this was just two days ago. The Queen couldn’t have looked any lovelier. Rest in peace ma’am and thank you
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Big fan of @joelycett refusing to take an unserious person seriously
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UK drought: Why do the trees think it's autumn already? - buff.ly/3T2rqFg (via @BBCNews)
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😯 – at Poole, England
This is how legends are made.
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I tweeted the other day that I thought @RishiSunak plans to deradicalise people who are critical of Britain had to be from a parody account. BUT THIS????? THIS!!!!!!!!???? It’s the Robin-Hood-in-reverse principle…..
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Well, this does actually seem to kind of work 😯👍 - 'How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb': buff.ly/3bBtwuH (via @lifehacker)
Best flag at Glastonbury so far. “This is a work event.”
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Ahh this is sad to learn. He was great. 😢 - ‘Actor Philip Baker Hall, known for Magnolia and Seinfeld, dies at 90’: buff.ly/3mHPIp9
You’ll soon be able to use an iPhone as a Mac webcam 👍 - buff.ly/394rVN2 (via @verge)
A perfect antidote to @SamHarrisOrg podcast on guns. Sam presents highly nuanced views and desires incredibly strict gun control, yet in his recent conversation was abjectly defeatist regarding systemic solutions. But "nothing fixes everything, you've got to start somewhere".
It’s strange how quickly America goes from the land of the possible to the 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 when it comes to stopping gun violence. #BetweenTheScenes
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