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30 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
*frenching the mic* nice
realistically though Burnham isn't gonna do it, is he? Labour will lose Batley tomorrow but any possibility of a challenge is going to fizzle out because there isn't going to be a challenger
stuck with Starmer until 2024, when he'll lose an election completely catastrophically and Burnham and Sadiq will fight it out to be leader of a party with 17 MPs
whoever wins will then - since they're not an MP - have to get elected in a by-election, which they will humiliatingly lose to Count Binface (Racist Edition)

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30 Jun
rot in hell, etc, obviously, but fwiw i always thought the "known unknowns" thing was a sensible, elegant, quite useful idea
"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."

this is true, and well put, and useful
of course it also implies the existence of unknown knowns, the things we don't know we know, which Errol Morris made use of in this slightly frustrating film about how Rumsfeld armours himself against reality (an armour that Morris never breaks through) Image
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24 Jun
COUNTRY ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADS, TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOOOOME Image
it's West Virginia! like Virginia, but West. or, possibly, not like Virginia at all, since Virginia was all mansions and slavery and West Virginia has been historically incredibly poor and split off from Original Flavour Virginia over slavery during the Civil War. We'll find out! Image
we've kind of touched on the Appalachians before but West Virginia is the ultimate Appalachian state: wooded, mountainous, once heavily industrialised but now rusting, rich in a certain kind of backwoods history that may or may not be properly recorded by the official listings
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20 May
working on a grand unified theory of pride discourse, bella poarch, viral food videos and gen z reactionary politics
oh you thought i was joking? buckle the fuck up
so i have long believed that one of the defining things about cutting-edge internet/Gen Z culture is that it's deeply soaked in fetish culture/imagery

(please note: i am in my early 30s, i.e. old as hell, so probably talking out of my ass)
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2 May 20
a Soviet Bus Stops/Yugoslav Memorials-style coffee table book of shitty Millennium municipal features in British towns and villages
please submit your examples of this uniquely terrible moment in British taste
losing my mind at the Millennium Celebration Monument in Clevedon, Somerset
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28 Feb 20
devastated to learn that Alfons Mucha's batshit painting cycle THE SLAV EPIC is not presently on public display. here they are in a thread tho, with authentic batshit full titles

1: The Slavs in their Original Homeland: Between the Turanian Whip and the Sword of the Goths Image
Mucha spent almost 20 years on these and considered them his masterpiece, but they've sort of fall out of his legacy as we now understand it, which is...a shame

2: The Celebration of Svantovit: When Gods Are at War, Salvation is in the Arts Image
One of my fav things about them is that he evidently had trouble working out how to fill the immense canvases (these things are several metres high) so he's just like "fuck it, floating Slavs"

3: The Introduction of the Slavonic Liturgy: Praise the Lord in Your Native Tongue Image
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10 Feb 20
i will never learn how to spell massachusetts
massacheusetts? massachewsetts? massachusitts? massachusets? massachussets? massuchussets? massucheezits? there's literally no way to know
ANYWAY, mushycheezits has like a buuuuuunch of NRHPs. 4,318! that's the second most of any state, behind New York. so this might be a long one.
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