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I really dislike this sentiment.
Firstly, it’s wrong. If you are rich, privileged and docile, a member of the dominant ethic community, cis, straight and male, you are, in reality, safe. It allows people to exclude themselves by saying, actually, no they won’t: this is hyperbole and can be ignored.
Secondly, it is an appeal to self-interest which should not be required. You should not need to feel personally threatened to be appalled at abuses against fellow humans. You should be angry anyway.
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2026-08-17 15:43:29 UTC

Today’s favoured pebbles.
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2026-08-16 20:21:05 UTC

Photos from this evening’s walk.
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2026-08-15 18:34:43 UTC

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2026-08-14 08:34:35 UTC

Farage hid in a catering truck and attended a different by-election result.
#UKpol #Farage
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2026-08-13 17:59:07 UTC

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Would.

2026-08-11 22:46:52 UTC

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This was the bit in the BBC report that got me. That he basically claimed to the press pool that they were all in it together, when in fact he’d been smuggled out amongst the mini bags of pretzels.
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2026-08-10 13:19:30 UTC

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I could smell smoke from the upstairs windows last night but I didn’t know what was on fire. Apparently the answer was “Wales”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly57l78w8zo

2026-08-07 18:05:43 UTC

Eldest child has started earning their keep.
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2026-08-07 16:19:29 UTC

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“As a Tory, what the fuck am I doing writing for the Guardian? You may well ask.”

2026-08-02 20:49:59 UTC

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Reminds me of when ex-Radio 1 DJ, #TOTP and Saturday Superstore presenter Mike Read released “UKIP Calypso”, sung in a cod Jamaican accent.
https://youtu.be/Br_RhjvZIrU

2026-07-31 18:36:32 UTC

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Cheers! I’ve not had Franks yet.

2026-07-26 20:53:08 UTC

Fucked my ankle very painfully coming down the stairs with some boxes and, to be frank, I don’t feel that I am being offered sufficient sympathy on the domestic front.
More of a cursory assessment that they’re not going to have the call the knacker’s yard just yet, and told to suck it up.

2026-07-26 10:48:10 UTC

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4 was drek though, imo.

2026-07-26 09:53:07 UTC

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This post may be something to do with the fact that I have been informed that I have to take the kids to see Toy Story 5 today.

2026-07-25 11:14:07 UTC

Looking for stuff to do with the kids (zoos, farm parks, that sort of thing) and it would be nice for an adult and two kids to get into somewhere for less than £50, cheers.

2026-07-24 09:28:51 UTC

Just the UK’s actual Crown Prosecution Service using unchecked AI to cite fictional, hallucinated cases in an extradition case. cc @npub1huw…c5x7
https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/cps-apologises-cases-hallucinated-ai
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2026-07-23 13:50:38 UTC

- What are you talking about? Do you have a source for this?
- Look at his LinkedIn.
- I’m not going on LinkedIn!!
- Doesn’t stop it being a source.
TL;DR: some people on here are exhausting.

2026-07-21 14:30:28 UTC

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I kept reporting these ads for encouraging violence but it never did anything.

2026-07-21 14:09:42 UTC

I remember when I used to be on Twitter and Raytheon used to advertise bombs to me, like I was saving up my Christmas money for a bunker-buster.
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2026-07-20 15:00:05 UTC

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It says something that he purged the parliamentary party of the left and yet everyone remaining still thought he should fuck away off.

2026-07-17 21:04:25 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116936545274716461
I may have lost followers over the explosive diarrhoea noises. Clearly those people do not appreciate literature.
#note1awd…lva5

2026-07-17 12:37:13 UTC

Stupid little mental health walk in the stupid blazing sun, etc: The butterflies made a good show (tortoiseshell, meadow brown, large white, holly blue), but were too shy to pose.
The bees, however, were happy getting on with their business, regardless of me.
I also scrumped some very juicy and sweet blackberries. If you can scrump a berry.
#Bloomscrolling #Bees
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2026-07-16 07:40:40 UTC

Read this and thought of Ben. @npub1c6z…q3gp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgegqrp656o
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2026-07-15 14:43:36 UTC

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They’re thinking of a different Keir, surely.

2026-07-14 11:20:18 UTC

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Very glad that you are cancer-free. Take care.

2026-07-10 07:35:26 UTC

Oh no, Ann Widdecombe is dead.
*takes out party blower from desk drawer, blows it once, returns it to drawer*

2026-07-04 18:18:32 UTC

One of my kids only likes margarita pizza so when we share a large one, I add toppings on one half.
Recently I’ve been adding chicken, black olives, chilli flakes and then adding chilli sauce when it’s done.
What toppings do you put on pizza, when left to your own devices?

2026-06-28 19:44:37 UTC

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The hen won’t be happy about that.

2026-06-28 16:47:25 UTC

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6-7.

2026-06-28 09:22:48 UTC

I can’t really cope with recipes that have 18 ingredients. It’s asking too much of me.

2026-06-22 10:46:58 UTC

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That just means you’ve had your recommended daily allowance of fajitas.

2026-06-12 08:56:58 UTC

A white wild thing, which has grown in my garden unbidden, as a climbing weed. Also a wild poppy, growing in a stony, unplanted bed in a car park. #Bloomscrolling
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2026-05-19 11:52:41 UTC

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Every news programme for 5 years had these motherfuckers on, talking out the back of their fucking necks. I’m basically traumatised by the whole thing and the whole Brexit discussion brings me out in hives.

2026-05-17 09:35:44 UTC

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The text is the obvious star here, and horror clown Wonka, but the teddy bear with the cameltoe is a little treat for the observant.

2026-05-17 09:32:56 UTC

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AI posters give off a definite air of “you should not attend this event, it is probably shady as all hell and your kids might get tetanus and/or legionnaire’s disease”. Remember the Glasgow “Willy’s Chocolate Experience”?
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2026-05-17 08:58:26 UTC

Your Fucking AI Poster Is Fugly As Fuck and other graphic design advice.

2026-05-15 07:05:49 UTC

They told Barry not to wear glasses in the photo.
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2026-05-13 21:29:34 UTC

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Sacking Keir Starmer to replace him with Wes Streeting is like cutting your own head off to cure your appendicitis. #UKpol

2026-05-13 21:27:07 UTC

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#UKpol
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2026-05-13 21:10:38 UTC

Imagine being as popular as Wes Streeting thinks he is. #UKpol

2026-05-11 07:17:52 UTC

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2026-05-10 10:32:38 UTC

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They did an early Come Dine With Me in Leeds and it was all very positive and normal but I kept seeing the participants around Leeds like, all the time, and it was just a bit weird.
Like, you’d see Emmerdale stars all the time but they knew they were famous and being recognised. Do people who’ve been on Come Dine With Me know they are?

2026-04-24 22:25:50 UTC

I saw the phrase “gimlet-eyed” again and decided to look up what a gimlet actually is. It’s a little hand drill thing. Like a corkscrew but for drilling small holes.
So it’s like saying the eyes drill or bore into you.
That is not what I thought at all. To me, absent any context or cause, “gimlet” sounded a bit watery and amphibious, so I pictured it as those sorts of eyes: newty.
Although, a gimlet is also apparently a gin and lime cocktail, although I assume they don’t mean that.

2026-04-23 13:37:26 UTC

Not clear if this play is about a Canadian coffee or a London pie and mash shop.
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2026-04-23 00:02:43 UTC

Ouroboros: proof that you are what you eat.

2026-04-22 09:56:07 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116444939082187556
Apart from anything else, we need to stop calling people “czars/tsars”.
Would you say that a public servant in charge of some particular program is a “King”, or “Emperor”, or “Caesar”?
No you would not, because it is both wildly inaccurate and really very fucking silly.
#note1fsv…wj46

2026-04-21 21:59:22 UTC

“Hi, I’m the Golden Dome Czar from Space Force. No I am, don’t laugh. Can’t you see my Space Force uniform? No it does not look like cheap cosplay from a forgotten 1990s SciFi series. Well. Maybe a little.”
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2026-04-20 21:37:57 UTC

Tim Cook stepping down as CEO to spend more time with Trump’s boot.

2026-04-20 21:17:29 UTC

They never tell you that Sisyphus was actually a dung beetle.

2026-04-20 20:17:13 UTC

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The great thing about Fedi is that there are precisely 0 (zero) Gen Z on here to give us the right answer. You are all secondary sources, at best.

2026-04-20 19:38:55 UTC

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Wikipedia is not necessarily helping.
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2026-04-20 19:32:02 UTC

Lend an increasingly middle-aged father a hand:
I stopped using 😂 (cry laughing) to respond to my kid’s texts when they send me something funny, because I was told you should use 💀 (ded) instead.
Child now tells me in no uncertain terms that I should not use 💀.
I ask what emoji to use instead and “I shouldn’t have to be told”.
So, what do *you* think is the right emoji, these days, for that?

2026-04-19 21:17:30 UTC

The Wurlitzer at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
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2026-04-19 12:03:35 UTC

I just think, when the CEO of a company outlines in detail how they are a horrific fascist and that their company is going to be doing loads of fascism, that you should stop doing business with them. But that’s just me.

2026-04-18 16:40:58 UTC

People really need to stop equating “it’s expensive and involves a big change” with “it’s impossible”. We’re going to “it’s impossible” our entire species into the grave.

2026-04-18 08:55:51 UTC

I’ve stopped buying Nutella for the family because of palm oil (made from orang utan’s hands) and instead am buying Bonne Maman’s chocolate and hazelnut spread.
But then I thought, capitalism being what it is, Bonne Maman is probably owned by a bear-baiting ring of Hitler clones or similar.
But I looked them up. The parent company, Andros, *does* have a “controversies” section on its Wikipedia page, but it’s only for cartel activity! Quaint old cartel activity. They’re basically angels.
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2026-04-17 09:06:54 UTC

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My brain is so addled from working out what is real and what isn’t, online, that it is convinced that picture of Farmer Tom is AI, even though it’s not.
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2026-04-16 19:43:06 UTC

I am reading “Maigret at the Coroner’s” at the moment, a postwar Maigret written by Simenon when he was living in Tucson.
The book is also set in Tucson, with Maigret supposedly on a US study tour.
Simenon had left France for America after having been accused, then cleared, of collaborating (he had sold some film rights to a Nazi studio).
The main themes of the book so far are, Maigret fucking hates Tucson, Maigret fucking hates Americans, and Americans drink too much.

2026-04-16 12:42:50 UTC

This may not look like much to you, but it is an oak sapling that I have managed not to kill for two whole years.
It has survived two winters, and to be honest, I was not holding out much hope in 2026 before the first tiny leaves showed up.
#thintrunkthursday
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2026-04-16 11:34:12 UTC

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I searched “put cat down slowly” and got a bunch of results about euthanising cats.

2026-04-16 11:18:07 UTC

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Can’t get a girlfriend?
Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
Paint your left knee green
Then extract your wisdom teeth
Form a string quartet
And pretend your name is Keith

2026-04-16 10:54:23 UTC

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Ah, I had missed the looksmaxxing hammer face drug story somehow.

2026-04-16 10:41:41 UTC

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You’re saying that Supreme Court Justice Abraham “Gavelface” Buckminster was on drugs?

2026-04-14 10:10:30 UTC

“4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read”
You absolutely do not need to read Finnegans Wake. This is a flat lie.
There is no Finnegans Wake Enforcement Service. You will not be fined for failing to read over a thousand pages of impenetrable neologisms.
There is no mandatory test to see if you know what Finnegans Wake means. The plot and characters of Finnegans Wake are not regular pub quiz questions.
No-one will even give you a badge for reading Finnegans Wake, although they should.

2026-04-13 16:36:33 UTC

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Yes, yes, there are structural and systemic forces and causes, but this daft fucker is charging around like a structural bull in a systemic china shop. #Trump

2026-04-13 16:03:10 UTC

Amazing that one arsehole bloke has managed to make every single normal person’s life measurably worse, all around the world.
The Great Men theory of history is wrong, but the Massive Cunts theory of history is holding up pretty well. #Trump

2026-04-13 08:01:26 UTC

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“Egg like an egg like a hen’s egg!”
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2026-04-13 07:31:52 UTC

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Romantic Creme Egg Heist movie! The Thomas Crown Eggfair. Oeufcean’s Eggleven.

2026-04-13 07:18:08 UTC

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Peterborough seems to be the centre of Creme Egg crime, after that guy got banned from Cambridgeshire for his Creme Egg theft.
Also: potential romance?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g71lnv40ko

2026-04-12 20:44:03 UTC

Hey look, you’re all in today’s Ripley’s Believe It Or Not cartoon.
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2026-04-12 13:11:55 UTC

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The other thing that seems to have changed is the decline in the “slap-up meal” as a reward for the child.
Typically depicted as a towering mountain of mash with sausages sticking out of it at random points, its decline can perhaps be seen as related to a reduction in scarcity and child poverty, in addition to recent concerns about child obesity.
I think there is a potential paper in such comic depictions of hunger and excess and so on over the years. Slap-up meals, ration books and food banks

2026-04-12 13:05:17 UTC

The Beano is still going after 87 years and this is because of change, not despite it.
The Beano now:
- Has a diverse range of child characters, including regular BAME characters and a character in a wheelchair.
- No longer makes fun of fat/spotty/ugly kids.
- Hasn’t depicted children being slippered or caned since 1988.
- Is still full of mischief, pranks, stink bombs, catapults, whoopee cushions, etc
See link for more, but CW for child abuse.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2023.2279148

2026-04-10 19:40:04 UTC

I remember watching this dark, funny 1988 Canadian animation short and loving it, but I can’t remember exactly when. It’s still brilliant.
Apparently it was released in Canadian cinemas with Who Framed Roger Rabbit and was nominated for an Oscar.
The Cat Came Back, written and directed by Cordell Barker.
#Caturday
https://youtu.be/Ck0jwS0CvKk

2026-04-09 09:28:20 UTC

Can’t even have cod and chips any more, because of w̵o̵k̵e̵ overfishing and climate change.
(I was shouting “haddock!” at the screen until it finally mentions haddock towards the end).
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/consumers-urged-to-completely-avoid-uk-caught-cod-as-population-plunges

2026-04-08 22:53:17 UTC

It took me a second to realise that this meant “shots fired” in the traditional sense of real shots actually being fired.
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2026-04-08 14:46:05 UTC

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Don’t you think he looks tired etc. I wish the locals would just hurry up and happen so that Keir can get the boot.

2026-04-07 23:04:36 UTC

Well we’ve got the “consummation” to look forward to, anyway. #Trump #IranWar
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2026-04-07 19:40:38 UTC

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America was never a society of laws. It was always a country of genocidaires, robber barons, slavers and rapists. #USpol #IranWar

2026-04-07 19:37:04 UTC

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Reminder that the US has an actual law giving prior authority to INVADE THE NETHERLANDS if US forces or officials are tried for war crimes at The Hague.
Reminder that no Democrat saw fit to repeal the law in the 24 years since it was passed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
#USpol #IranWar

2026-04-07 19:25:14 UTC

Things that absolutely will not happen in a million fucking years.
The US state is crimes all the way down. Those are load-bearing crimes. #USpol #IranWar
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2026-04-07 19:06:20 UTC

Man cannot live by bread alone but I reckon he could make a good go of it on just chocolate hobnobs.

2026-04-07 08:42:26 UTC

Not convinced about the new US Army Chief of Staff, tbh. #Trump #USpol #IranWar
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2026-04-06 18:22:28 UTC

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Thank you for your service!

2026-04-06 15:14:25 UTC

I call people fucking cunts on 3 platforms. Here's what I've seen.
1. Mumsnet. Lots of engagement on posts where I call JK Rowling a fucking cunt. Banned.
2. LinkedIn. More consistent engagement with me calling Elon Musk a fucking cunt being most viral. Banned.
3. Mastodon. I once did a post where I called JK Rowling and Elon Musk a pair of fucking cunts and John Mastodon sent me a nice hamper.

2026-04-05 19:33:40 UTC

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I did several and some were better than others.

2026-04-05 19:23:55 UTC

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Only ones I drew myself.

2026-04-05 19:19:24 UTC

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I love this Russell.

2026-04-05 09:37:08 UTC

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To the tune of “Hot Cross Buns”
Creme Egg Bums
Creme Egg Bums
Nine’s not many
Ten is plenty
Creme Egg Bums
Go and tell your sisters
Of your record sum
Nine’s not many
Ten is plenty
Creme Egg Bums

2026-04-04 21:21:30 UTC

“Good news” stories from the US are all like, this kid died of scurvy but a gofundme was set up to buy his sister a bag of oranges.

2026-04-02 10:43:09 UTC

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This had been a worry, thanks.
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2026-04-02 10:41:13 UTC

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Cool story bro.
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2026-04-02 10:37:27 UTC

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All animals were lovely and cuddly then they “developed” all the nasty pointy and venomous bits in order to survive the Fall.
Sounds a bit like fucking evolution, mate, but do go on.
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2026-04-02 10:28:32 UTC

Creationists reckon they’ve found a smoking g̶u̶n̶ fish.
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2026-04-01 10:20:38 UTC

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I do see a fair number of Porsche SUVs.

2026-04-01 09:21:11 UTC

Having a Ferrari is like saying to everyone else on the road, look, I know your car can do everything this one is legally allowed to, but I just decided to spend an extra £300,000.