With Twitter and Facebook currently in meltdown, and probably likely to remain that way for a few years, I thought it was time for a little frivolity…normal service will be resumed next week! What follows will probably only make sense (sic) if you’re a hardcore seventeenth century geek, so others may wish to look away now.
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REAL OLIVER CROMWELL @godsenglishman
Friends 0 Followers 28k Men with guns 28k Sycophants 93k
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately… Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! #rumpageddon #LOL
RUMP PARLIAMENT @smallcorruptclique
Friends 0 Followers 122 Members of Parliament 122
#outrage #occupy #protest #resist #ohalrightwellgoquietly
REAL OLIVER CROMWELL
This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches. #englandvireland #wearethechampions
MAN IN ALEHOUSE @voiceofthepeopleinnit
Bring back the other guy. The other guy was good IMHO. The other guy was better than this guy. #borednow #timeforachange #impeachcromwellnow
LEVELLERS @momentum
Friends 749 Friends paying special one farthing supporter membership 914k
I think that the poorest he that is in England has a life to live as the greatest he. #aslongastheyrenotdiggers #wehatediggers #androyalists #andcromwell
LEVELLER WIVES @monstrousregiment
@momentum Now then, about this ‘greatest “he”‘ business…
REAL OLIVER CROMWELL
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows. #mensfashion #youdonottalkaboutfightclub #youdonottalkaboutrussetcoatedclub
BAPTISTS @whatdoyoumeanadultbaptismisweird
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads 1/718
RANTERS @notapropagandamyth
#partyanimals
FIFTH MONARCHY MEN @yeswedoknowwhotheotherfourwere
The end of the world is nigh, and will be heralded by the Last Trump. #justsaying
QUAKERS
MATTHEW HOPKINS @witchfindergeneral
#banwoodcutsofcats #awomansplaceisatthestake
JOHN THURLOE @spymastergeneral
We here at the Department for Protectorate Security take your privacy very seriously. This is why we advise you not to bother sealing your letters, so we can more easily check just how seriously private they are. #stopthebadfolks
ISAAC NEWTON @shouldersofgiants
I OWN YOU WREN YOU BADASS MOTHER
RICHARD CROMWELL @tumbledowndick
@godsenglishman What d’you mean, ‘hereditary’?
KING CHARLES II @bythegraceofgodkingofenglandscotlandirelandandfrancedefenderofthefaith
Friends 0 Followers 27k Mistresses 39 Penniless Irish exiles 9.4k Sycophants 93k
#returnoftheking #letthegoodtimesroll #restorationmeansrestoration
MAN IN ALEHOUSE @voiceofthepeopleinnit
Bring back the other guy. The other guy was good IMHO. The other guy was better than this guy. #borednow #timeforachange #impeachcharlesnow #orclarendon