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Charles Arthur
@charlesarthur
Journalist, speaker, moderator. Latest book: Social Warming, on social media's inherent, unavoidable effects. Ex-Guardian, Independent. Never paid for Twitter.
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    Replying to @sturgios and @oliviasolon
    Mine was similar, I told them they could access our bank by logging in with their name ("Quentin" - don’t have any child of that name) and the password was the family cat’s name.
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    I keep expecting an African TV station to do a segment standing in a Kent field saying “the rains have failed in this breakway country where the deposed ruler still clings to power, and people are worrying about soaring costs and how they will feed their children”. It’d be karma.
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    Me: how was your Spanish test? Son: (confident) I think I did pretty well. Me: oh? Son: yup, it was multiple choice in Google Forms and Google offered to translate the page for me.
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    Replying to @HoneyBadger3743 and @EM_RESUS
    how about: not something that is easily controlled by legislation? Perhaps something over which we have no control, such as congenital problems - as happens in the UK? (See "cause of death") ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
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    She’s as untouchable as menswear guy now. You bunch tried and she emerged from it like Daenerys Targaryen coming out of the burning temple. Meet your new queen.
    Busy day, but just to say I am obsessed with all the tweets that are applying olfactory ethics to real world scenarios. I love that I have somehow equipped everyone with new terminology and frameworks!
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    Because I am dim, this took me the LONGEST time. Brilliant. pic.x.com/y6WFffBJ9x
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    Can’t figure out if we’re living in Contagion, 28 Days Later or Planet of the Apes now.
    Coronavirus: Monkeys 'escape with COVID-19 samples' after attacking lab assistant news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
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    On a visit to the Titanic Quarter today, I asked the Prime Minister if he is captaining a sinking ship going into this election @BelfastLive
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    DYING 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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    Toby Young on why lockdown sceptics (such as himself) lost the argument seems to boil down to “because we were wrong on the facts, and also everything else”.
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    I understand you wanted to know how urban legends are promulgated