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18 December 2013

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  1. Planespotting

    James Bridle, spotting and tracking the private coaches and planes that are deporting immigrants in our name. Good, difficult stuff.

Tweets

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Also, from that excellent casting call tumblr: “Fagin on stilts”. I’m sure that used to be on one of @jamesbridle’s ideas Post-its.

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    “I’m looking for someone who can eat fire while back flipping over midgets and then tap dance to Irish folk-metal” castingcallwoe.tumblr.com

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    @simonth Feels like it shouldn’t work, like the universe will suddenly fold in on itself. But no, it works. Technology!

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    Using Shazam to identify music another app on the same phone is playing feels wrong. Like I’m feeding the phone to itself. Expect implosion.

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    @al_chewy I’m so locked in I’m like David Blaine.

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    @michalmigurski @phae Ooh, congrats both! All!

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    @paulpod Mmmmm, I can imagine myself nodding off alreadzzzzzzz

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    @paulpod Looks nice, but I’d prefer a taller back. Hard to doze off in something like that, and you should be able to doze in an armchair!

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    @paulpod What is it? We spent a lot of time looking at armchairs; found the comfort vs looking nice equation hard to balance.

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    @matlock @chrislunch Ooh, well done Matt!

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    @aanand Worzel Gummidge was a bit of a git.

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    extraordinarily satisfying mapping: london indexed in two-mile hexagons (via @duncangeere)
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