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  1. 18 hours ago

    Here’s my Switch FAQ. Everything I’ve learned from 48 hours with the hardware:

    4 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
  2. 18 hours ago

    I got a replacement iPhone for this bug in November 2015 but Apple didn’t acknowledge it publicly til today

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  3. 18 hours ago

    Ah yes, the problem with Brexit as that the patriotic posturing is fake. If the patriotic posturing was real, well, who could have a problem

    RT if you agree that the Tories have wrapped Brexit up in fake patriotic posturing.
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  4. 19 hours ago

    I was a HUGE fan of Breath of the Wild. It's the best opening of launch title I can recall

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  5. 20 hours ago

    Don’t believe you.

    7 replies 95 retweets 201 likes
  6. 22 hours ago

    Fucking hell, a new pair of Joy-Cons is £75. SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS

    5 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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    Feb 24

    So Ukip have still only ever got MPs by getting tories to defect.

    1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
  8. Feb 24

    It feels like that should have been more of a thing

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  9. Feb 24

    So we started watching Arrested Development series four this month, why did no-one tell me that it predicted 2016 perfectly?

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  10. Feb 24

    The new Mountain Goats album is about Sisters of Mercy

  11. Feb 23

    Washington, I mean

    2 replies
  12. Feb 23

    I'd never realised that the Delaware River is partially frozen in the painting Washing Crossing The Delaware

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  13. Feb 23

    I’ve just read the plot synopsis of Mass Effect for the first time (I know) and… it’s the Revelation Space universe, isn’t it?

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  14. Feb 23

    Yeah p. much

    "It’s difficult for me to call myself a feminist because it seems to be very anti-male and pro-abortion” — Kellyanne Conway at CPAC
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  15. Feb 23

    Come at the king you better not miss

    Ted Malloch attacked the FT and its journalism, in an article on Breitbart. Read our response.
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  16. Feb 23

    Modular nature of the course also hinders attempts to talk about what PPE “is”; almost every student has a radically different set of papers

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  17. Feb 22

    You learn to take a hundred topics to the depth of a 1,500 word essay and none any further.

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  18. Feb 22

    One thing that absolutely felt correct is the description of it as a course in glibness, not scholarship.

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  19. Feb 22

    And a lot of the criticism of the actual course content feels out of date. I started less than a decade ago, and don't recognise much of it.

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  20. Feb 22

    I'd have liked to see far more on access issues, which feel like a huge black mark when you have a "degree to rule the country";

    1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes

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