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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Nov-2018 05:34:31 UTC 
Matthew Davidson
"Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today." #q Edgar Allen Poe https://drunkard.com/october-7/ -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 11-Nov-2018 04:31:02 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different." #q #Trump https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/trumps-greatest-moment-of-self-awareness.html -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 10-Nov-2018 05:00:48 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Mathematics brought rigor to #Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis." #q Kenneth Boulding -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 05:49:29 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"You know, I’ve never had a favorite [drink], which is why I’ve never been officially classified as an alcoholic. I’m a moving target." #q Bill Murray https://drunkard.com/september-21/ -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Oct-2018 04:09:33 UTC
Matthew Davidson
'Elsevier says “If you think information shouldn’t cost anything, go to Wikipedia”, inadvertently reminding us of what happened to the commercial encyclopedias.' #q George #Monbiot -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 15-Oct-2018 02:24:11 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"People come into working with me assuming I’m this, like, demanding, abrasive asshole, so I don’t want to play into that stereotype right away. I want to wait at least a month." #q Glenn Greenwald https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/glenn-greenwald-the-bane-of-their-resistance -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 10:30:11 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Some of the rituals associated with mass I find, looking back, quite strange. Confession is the one that, really… They locked you. In a wardrobe. With a priest. And then _you_ had to tell _him_ what _you'd_ done wrong." #q Zoe Lyons https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06m5xbp -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 23-Sep-2018 10:44:05 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"It's not the Irish border, it's the British border _in Ireland_. The Irish border is the beach." #q Andrew Maxwell https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06ltlgv -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 13:19:16 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"I went on holiday last week. I booked into a hotel. I said I wanted a room with a twin and a TV. I had to share with Ronnie Kray and Danny La Rue." #q The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer S02E04 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 08:40:16 UTC
Matthew Davidson
'The great advantage of privatising the railways was that rail companies would have to be competitive, and […] throughout this time, getting out of Brighton station has been harder than securing a passage out of Casablanca in the film. You CAN get out, but you have to find a man in a fez behind a stall, who says “I can get you to Crawley my friend but you must give me keys to your house.”' #q Mark Steel http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/18369 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 13-Sep-2018 08:41:42 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant, but also make pleasant things more pleasant." #q Bertrand Russell -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Sep-2018 09:37:55 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#q Stephen Fry on hosting #QI: "I liked the fact that so many young kids - and indeed old people - would write to me and say how excited they were to see a program where it was alright to know things. It was actually okay to know things." https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh454p -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 02-Sep-2018 07:36:52 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#q "Weird Al" Yankovic: "Please, please don't pickaxe my star. I know it's all the rage these days, but that's not cool. Unless at some point in the future, I do something unfathomably monstrous and evil in which case, sure, fine, okay, go ahead." https://boingboing.net/2018/08/30/weird-als-request-please.html -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2018 06:35:11 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Thousands of people have visited the jail since [Nelson Mandela] was released, and experienced a wide range of emotions. But [Theresa May] displayed her talent for originality, and managed an expression that may never have been given before within the cell; awkward and utterly unmoved, the face someone over 70 pulls when a teenager hands them controls of a PS4 for a game of Call of Duty." http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/17915 #q Mark Steel -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Aug-2018 12:51:55 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"I always thought it would be nice if they had a statue of me in the town square. I kept trying to negotiate and I finally got down to they could have a statue of a horse in the town square, and when I was in town I could sit on it." #q Roy Blount Jr. http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/16435 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 12:40:23 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#DFN Reaganfreude: '"Conservatives" wake up and discover that 40 years of Ronald Reagan antitrust-lite policies have given a handful of shareholder-driven tech companies control over public discourse.' #q Cory Doctorow #AlexJones https://boingboing.net/2018/08/14/the-rule-of-law.html
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