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  1. If in a couple years the company I work for launches a product named XLR. Then I caused that name and it's inspired by Airbus's XLR name. #CalledIt

  2. CW: CW: ukpol, relentless pessimism

    They’ll fester on the crossbenches in their own toxic filth until mounting public loathing for Labour leads the public to forget just how truly vile the Tories are. And then the cycle will repeat once again.

    (I’m mostly putting this out there so that if Masto’s still around for the next decade or so, I’ll have something I’ve peppered with hashtags to point to and declare: “Ha! #CalledIt!” 😉)

    #UKPolitics #UKPol (4/4)

  3. just finished season one and i'm here to say that Outer Range is a pretty wild ride. next up, season two. #OuterRange #CalledIt

  4. The #TWDrama Not a Murder Story is an 8 episode mini Drama that I've spent the first 5 episodes thinking was giving off strong Macbeth vibes . Then in episode 6, one of the characters is rehearsing a play. The Scottish Play.
    #CalledIt 🙂

  5. Wow, he got Damie's number. Poked him right in the insecurities.

    [Mary: Is this a nice way of saying he kicked him in the nuts?]

    I think he's going to betray Elise.

    Oh no, she won't have the True Love that arose from a kiss in a bathroom and boinking 3 years later one time. Instead she'll have to just be an amazing dancer and choreographer.

    Ah, yes. He's walking away from her hospital bed. She's crying. #calledit

    He's wistfully and moodily looking
    no, that's one of the bureau dudes.

    #TheAdjustmentBureau

  6. #Speaking of: #FediWolf...

    I've #CalledIT: #UseITWisely...

    🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:​🤖⚔️🧙 | 🚁​:fediverse:🚀​🦄🚀​:fediverse:🚁​

  7. Roughly 8 months ago we reported on the take over of cnn. With reporting coming out of the #Atlantic this week, we are here to say, "we told you so!"

    youtu.be/T4bAYnE3M5Y

    #cnn #CalledIt #journalists #journalism #commentary #analysis

  8. And no one who knows the small-minded cynicism of our plutocracy, its secrecy, its gambling spirit, its contempt of conscience, can doubt that the artist-advertiser will often be assisting enterprises over which he will have no moral control, and of which he could feel no moral approval. He will be working to spread quack medicines, queer investments;
    -G K Chesterton
    4/4

    Utopia of Users (1917) #Art #Artist #Plutocracy #Advertisement #Contempt #Quack #CalledIt #Thoughts #GKChesterton #Quotes

  9. But the improvement of advertisements is the degradation of artists. It is their degradation for this clear and vital reason: that the artist will work, not only to please the rich, but only to increase their riches; which is a considerable step lower.
    -G K Chesterton
    3/4

    Utopia of Users (1917) #art #artist #Capitalism #Plutocracy #RichPeople #advertisement #History #CalledIt #Thoughts #Gkchesterton #quotes

  10. I do not necessarily mean that there will be no good art;
    much of it might be, much of it already is, very good art. You may put it, if you please, in the form that there has been a vast improvement in advertisements.
    -G K Chesterton
    2/4

    Utopia of Users (1917) #art #artist #advertisement #capitalism #Plutocracy #History #Journalism #CalledIt #gkchesterton #quotes

  11. I should say the first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
    -G K Chesterton
    1/4

    Utopia of Users (1917) #art #capitalism #oligarchy #advertisement #History #CalledIt #gkchesterton #quotes