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I'm fairly sure you've seen this, but for columnist's Giles Coren's excoriating letter to The Times sub editors dwells heavily on this question www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...

Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs

Read Giles Coren's irate letter to Times subeditors

Today the Irish Examiner published my piece about the hellscape of platform manipulation and spam that is the modern web. In it, I highlighted that such actions materially benefit Twitter. Now, for the first time in 14 years, I've been suspended by Twitter. For "platform manipulation and spam".

It's so sad, like watching a really great bar get taken over by irresponsible management and run into the ground

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This headline reads like a mad lib

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Champagne bottle plugs hole in boat after Marlin attack

Champagne bottle plugs hole in boat after Marlin attack

The fish skewered three holes in the boat as the female crew were attempting to cross the Atlantic.

Thank you!

Enjoy! (I realise you're probably home by now 😆)

Just shy of ten hours till I'm actually retired, but a few last thoughts (before the next last thoughts, and the thoughts after that):

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