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October, 2017

• Behind The Tweet: Libraries in the UK. 2017-10-25 11:34 PM.
  • Politics
  • swampip.com
  
  I think public libraries are great, but I found this funny today. Funny in a “people are utterly incapable of putting basic statistics into context these days” kind of way. There’s this guy in the UK who doesn’t like public libraries. https://twitter.com/andrejpwalker/status/922174270347804672 https://twitter.com/andrejpwalker/status/922628584619085824 Then this happened: https://twitter.com/andrejpwalker/status/922928993564856322 People are retweeting his “surrender” and celebrating victory. By my calculations, what on Twitter seems to be an overwhelming outpouring of support by 110,000 people for public libraries in the UK is: 0.2% of the adult population of the UK. 389 words.