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13 Feb, 32 tweets, 18 min read
It's Saturday night in lockdown and I'm on my 2nd glass of wine. So, going to do something I've not done in many years

1 like = 1 #ff entirely-fabricated ridiculous recommendation

Basically, I make up a ridiculous claim about you. For no reason, beyond my own amusement
#ff @fergup
He made a sex tape and accidentally leaked it online in the late 2000s. Despite not getting much attention in the mainstream, for various convoluted reasons, it ended up being the inspiration for Gangnam Style.
#ff @thebrainofchris

Has been banned for life from Graceland after kicking in every bathroom door and yelling "Is this the one he died in? That's how I want to go!", which violated the T&Cs of the official guided tours.
#ff @veebeevet

Claims to be the proud owner of the genuine Shroud of Turin*, and will tell anyone who'll listen.

* = It is in fact a potato print picture of Russell Brand on a used tea-towel, but honestly, what harm is she doing?
#ff @ir_emery

The current owner and manager of MySpace

He didn't pay for it or even want it, it's just his turn. It's like jury service these days. Next week he's scheduled to join the Sugababes.
#ff @rich_allport

Was once mildly jabbed by a radioactive cactus, and now has some of the powers of a cactus

It was only a mildly radioactive cactus and it was only a small jab, so it's not that impressive. Mostly means he gets thirsty 13% slower than typical humans.
#ff @GarethEdwards77

Night watchman at a shoelace museum. Tends to livestream his 2am patrols. Has accumulated over 3m YouTube followers and is in talks for a movie deal, because people are weird.
#ff @HanSoliton

Holds the world record for drop kicking the most Christmas puddings over a portable toilet in under an hour. It's a hotly contested title, leading to him experiencing 6 confirmed assassination attempts (thus far).
#ff @jonmsutton

Has a very big brain.

He keeps it in a jar in his shed. Tourists can see it for the reasonable sum of £3. If they want a photo, it's £5, or £3 and a Curly-Wurly (other nostalgic confection considered upon request)
#ff @emmahoneybone

Has a chronic habit of ordering random stuff from eBay when drunk. Most intriguing purchase thus far is the rare Lego set of Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, complete with spare Jim Davidson figure for when you inevitably set fire to the first one
#ff @wisdomstatement

Producer of some of the finest organic wines in Europe.

Owns no agricultural land and employs no staff. Actually lives alone in a high-rise flat. No idea how any of that works, but seriously, it's *very* nice wine.
#ff @RobJFH

Due to a very convoluted and frankly ridiculous chain of events, his left shin is officially a sovereign nation. His trousers are technically a tax haven. Apple are currently in negotiations to set up their HQ in his sock.
#ff @Boonhawk

Inventor of the ball pit. Was going for something else entirely, but there was a miscommunication at the patent office and it ended up becoming something waaaaaaay more child friendly.
#ff @armchairescape

A genuine real-world superhero. You've not head of him before, because vigilantism is illegal and he understands that but wants to keep doing what he's doing.

Shouldn't have tweeted this, to be honest.
#ff @moiness

Member of the Illuminati. Mid-level member, though. Deputy HR manager, that sort of thing. Can't tell you anything about the shadowy plans for world domination, but will occasionally slip and reveal who's going to win Great British Bake Off ahead of time.
#ff @notenoughcrows

Serial liar. Despite her Twitter handle, she has, if anything, an abundance of crows at any given time. Can't bloody move for crows!

Lying on Twitter for no reason. Who could do such a thing?
#ff @howlieT

Extreme-knitter. Does very interesting but hard-to-replicate instructional videos on Tik-Tok. Not sure if anyone actively wants to know how to knock up a decent scarf in 15 minutes while suspended over a chasm with only a rabid sheep for company, but if you do...
#ff @IamKaleid

Owner of a string of award winning seafood restaurants.

Deathly allergic to shellfish, and hates being near water.

It's a very very very very very very very long story.
#ff @popsramsey

You know when you see the face of Jesus in burnt toast/spills/tortillas etc? 35% of the time, it's not Jesus. It's @popsramsey. Some sort of legal settlement that got wildly out of hand, apparently.
#ff @ian_wac

Inventor of approximately 98 different flavours of crisps

None of the 'famous' ones, admittedly. It's only a matter of time, though. There's a lot of underground buzz about 'Hazelnut and marmite-coated pinecones' at the moment.
#ff @eljayjay74

Food blogger, specialises in recipes involving the skins of poison arrow frogs. It's actually a very long winded assassination plan, but honestly, 'Toxic beans on toast' is a game changer.
#ff @LeonieHilliard

Abstract artist. Her current project is a long-term installation where she does no abstract art and denies all knowledge of being an artist if and when people asked, even getting quite angry about it

"Breathtakingly audacious" - Damien Hirst
#ff @GrahamDallas1

74th in line to the throne of Ireland. The fact that Ireland hasn't had a hereditary monarch for centuries has not at any point stopped him ordering dedicated business cards
#ff @marcus_ness

Expert mathematician, responsible for the equation that works out the exact movement of plastic bags caught in a breeze

Was regarded as the person most responsible for ruining the experience of watching 'American Beauty', until a few years ago.
#ff @h2osarah

One of those Canadians. Coincidentally, has 1000 times the strength of a normal human. Can crush the average skull with one hand. But doesn't, because of Canadian politeness.

Stereotypes can sometimes be helpful, it turns out.
#ff @jon_blaine

Twitter feed dedicated to him being owner of the world's first 'Urban Circus'

At first glance, it seems to be just him pointing at pigeons. And it may actually be just that. But it's lockdown, so it's genuinely entertaining.
#ff @WonkyBearhead

Flower arranger. She specialises in arranging dead or mouldy flowers into insulting forms and phrases, for making unpleasant ex partners feel bad. Would normally do Valentine's day specials, but she's booked solid for those for the next 11 years
#ff @markdavid

Estranged brother of Craig David. Not as charismatic as his younger sibling, but will stick with you for longer than 7 days. 'Chilling' is not rigidly scheduled.
#ff @CrayonMoney

Currently live-tweeting his attempts to count every grain of sand on Brighton beach. Usually manages to get up to the high 10 thousands before falling asleep and having to start over again. Surprisingly soothing to follow in realtime.
#ff @jedlangdon

Professional perfumer, is regularly tweeting his latest scents and asking for feedback.

Please don't tell him the technology to do this hasn't even been invented yet. It would break his heart.
#ff @itskatywithay

Philosophical heavyweight, regularly tweets about how to use Uchlides's concepts of personal ambiguity to decipher modern day ideology through a socio-zeitgest lens.

Or it may be stuff about dogs. I'm not sure. I was never good at philosophy.
#ff @IoanGwyn

Professional procrastinator. Hasn't even tweeted yet. But it's a *deliberate* absence of content, and that makes all the difference. It's bespoke silence, you know?

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16 Feb
OK, so, seen many people sharing this image online today, often supportively.

YMMV of course, but based on my own understanding, rather than being insightful or 'right on', this is completely vile, and actively harmful, on multiple levels

Where to even start?

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First and foremost, there's the breath-taking entitlement. For a bloke to assume that not only should people send you nudes, but that that's the absolute bare minimum*, and is in fact an insult to your far more refined expectations? Good lord almighty

* = pun intended

/2
Different for women, obviously. Unsolicited dick pics are constant problem and a whole other thing. This doesn't say that, though. It's a bloke, talking about nudes. And literally puts his name to it. So original point still stands, I think

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23 Jan
OK, so what I learned from doing this thread is that when I tweet stuff, some people might actually read it. I should really keep that in mind in future
FWIW though, my thread was never meant as an all-out condemnation of the Guardian. Yeah, they really ballsed up here, but you know what? I still got my rebuttal published, and nobody else was giving a random Welsh science nerd clown his own blog on a major platform

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Yeah, Hari had (has?) a lot of had/defenders there, but they were definitely in the minority. That they wielded enough clout to promote his dangerous conclusions is very bad, and needed to be called out, hence I did. But most there were were very much on my side

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22 Jan
This has come up a few times lately

But it suddenly dawned on me that I'm not employed by the Guardian any more, so can be more honest about how this went down

It's a very strong example of how 'the media' can look after 'their own' so vigorously, no matter the consequences

/1
I've also been accused of some pretty far-out things by Hari fans in the intervening time, like I 'violated an embargo' or 'orchestrated a campaign' against him, as well as the usual 'big pharma shill' stuff.

All BS

Here, from my perspective, is what happened

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20 Jan
It's 9 months today since we lost my healthy 58yo Dad to #COVID19

In that time I've endured

- My PM insisting that violating lockdown rules is "what any good parent would do" to defend his main henchman

- Many pundits insisting that Covid is nothing to worry about

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- A complete collapse in any efforts to get the pandemic under control

- 3 lockdowns (even if they weren't called that)

- 2 socially-distanced funerals

- Endless scandals where £billions have been shunted to Government cronies rather than key workers of the vulnerable

/2
- Accusations that I'm lying about my Dad's death from Peter Hitchens fans

- A world-record-breaking death #Covid19 death toll

- An isolated Christmas, where plans were scuppered at the last minute

- An isolated Birthday, where plans were scuppered at the last minute

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2 Jan
Seeing this picture doing the rounds lately, the one of Johnson 'Doing Science'

I'm not being facetious here; in my experience, that's exactly what media types call it, "Doing Science". It's a personal bugbear. Probably because I was once on the receiving end of it

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Back in the 'aughts, I was part of a TV show about the Welsh (well, Cardiff) comedy scene. It was for BBC Wales. If you've not seen it, don't worry about it

I was working on my PhD at the time, as well as doing stand-up. Which probably says a lot about my academic prospects

/2
The show was a sort of part X-Factor contest, part Fly-On-The-Wall documentary. I learned a great deal about how the media works by being part of it

Not in any way that was intended, of course. More a series of "...seriously? This is how it's done?" revelations.

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Seeing as everyone's getting confused, here is the UK #Covid19 Tier system explained in full

Tier 1: Medium

- 10pm curfew for bars, pubs and restaurants

- Gatherings of more than six people banned, apart from some settings such as funerals and weddings

/1
Tier 1+: Medium rare

- 10pm curfew for bars etc. but 11pm curfew for staggering in the street

- You can no longer go to a wedding without a gift valued under £40

- Christenings only on alternate Sundays

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Tier 1b: Medium well

- Pubs close at 10, but all bar staff have to say "don't you think you've had enough?" to every customer served after 8pm

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- All wedding cards must be incinerated immediately after opening

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