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Election Tweets ‘n’ Stuff

Martin McCallion — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:06:24 +0000

Thirteen years ago we had champagne ready for the overall majority (though we opened it when Portillo’s seat went). This year might look more like what Warren Ellis says:

Shopping list for watching the election tomorrow night: beer, nuts, whisky, methadone, humane cow-killing bolt gunWed May 05 19:52:55 via webWarren Ellis
warrenellis

More sensibly, my friend Stuart says:

I’m not voting for them but if Labour lose, its supporters should take heart from the fact that the UK is better than it was in 97 #ge10Wed May 05 19:24:56 via TweetDeckStuart F Wallace
soapyfrogs

which is a good point. Britain’s not broken; it never was. Just its electoral system.

Here’s something I said about that a while ago:

Hey, the Tories: Society _isn’t_ broken, and if it is, it’s partly the fault of your witch-queen & her regime.Tue Sep 30 16:37:55 +0000 2008 via EchofonMartin McCallion
devilgate

I’m having fun with this tweet-embedding thing.

Embedding Tweets

Martin McCallion — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:22:23 +0000

There’s a new way to embed tweets in blog posts. Here’s one of mine to try it out:

My nine-year-old daughter confuses ‘Conservative’ with ‘sinister’. Out of the mouths of babes & little children…Mon May 03 19:36:25 via TweetieMartin McCallion
devilgate

Looks pretty cool, actually. Go to Twitter’s “Blackbird Pie”, or get a bookmarklet.

Without Twitter, how will we know what’s happening?

Martin McCallion — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:41:14 +0000

Twitter seems to be down at the moment – or at least, it’s not accepting tweets, and I can’t log in at the website. But how do we know what’s happening without Twitter to tell us? Edit: back to normal … Continue reading →