[first day as a mechanic] customer: can i get a quote? me: give me liberty or give me death customer: i meant for the truck me: oh sorry...autobots, roll out

English has an ancient law: in words like 'chit chat', 'zigzag', and 'seesaw', we always put the part with an i (as in 'pit') or e (as in 'be') first. We instinctively know this rule of 'ablaut reduplication'. You can't have a pair of flop flips or jamjims, or play pong ping.

For anyone who has ever missed a parcel delivery. This is spot on (and hilarious)

President Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries, as a way to protect against something just like Coronavirus breaking out across the world. Experts begged Trump to keep them open. He closed 37 of them.

Umm... this is fucking amazing

In 2010, Bernie Sanders spoke on the senate floor for *8.5 hours* in protest of a deal extending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy in a time when working Americans were utterly reeling from the recession and the housing crisis. Joe Biden wrote the deal...with Mitch McConnell.

Quick tip on #COVID_19 terminology: *Coronavirus: family of viruses that cause, eg, common cold, MERS, SARS *Novel coronavirus: a newly discovered kind of coronavirus *COVID-19: the disease caused by the new coronavirus *SARS-CoV-2: official designation of virus causing COVID-19

Want to know how to cough? This is how I teach my preschool students. Hope it helps.

Ilaitia Cokanasiga: 14 years in the army, tours of Iraq and Afghanistan + 2 sons play rugby for England Told he had no right to live UK. Now stuck in Fiji, 10,000 miles away from wife who has cancer and missed son's World Cup debut. #hostileenvironment theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/m…

Right, bugger this. There must be something positive I can do. I work for the best and biggest damn tech programme on the planet. So let’s try and get a few positive ideas and bits of advice out there (might even put them on the programme). So please read these... 1/

No EE, I won’t switch to Chrome. How about you stop using 3rd-party tracking cookies.

*Chemical Brothers voice* Back with another one of those baroque lock-in tweets

Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since. In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of what forty years of increasingly deregulated free-market capitalism has actually achieved.

The fact that Kevin McCarthy, the House @GOPLeader, stripped Justin Amash of all committee seats for criticizing Trump, but has worked to protect this person from consequences (including pretending he doesn’t see it) tells you this is happening with the support of GOP leadership.

Them: My religion says I can’t do that. Me: Okay. Them: My religion says you can’t do that. Me: Fuck you.