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Jon

@jonw67.bsky.social

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Liverpool, politics, theatre, wine, cricket, travel, Eurovison, family, republican (in the UK sense not US) - and more. Wry observations. General disdainment.

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 11h

AKA they're bullies with a shedload of money.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 12h

Scary.

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

Estonia has urgently closed part of its border with Russia following the appearance of armed "little green men," ERR reports‼️

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 13h

The poster was making a general comment, not specific to this case. Hence the "sometimes" in a tongue-in-cheek reply.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 14h

Given the dodgy past of our museums' acquisition methods, I guess this might sometimes class as stealing stolen property...

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 15h

Greta Thunberg is apparently a "legionnaire of the Antichrist", according to tech mogul Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel has apparently totally lost the plot, according to everyone else.

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 18h

Quite wonderfully moving and uplifting. What courage.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 19h

Jimmy Anderson still managed to take five wickets the next day....

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 1d

I've ordered this. Looking forward to reading it!

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing to see here. Move on.

Literally nothing newsworthy in this.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 1d

A video that shames the USA.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 1d

Ask Ground Control?

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 1d

One of the greatest novels ever.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 2d

this was on my wife’s timeline and she said to me, how long did it take you to realize it was a paw? and I said it is what

A FB post about a new tattoo that has a hand reading for a paw but the paw just straight up looks like a penis idk

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

The scenes of devastation from Gaza City are appalling. Peace deal or not, Netanyahu deserves to spend the rest of his days behind bars.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Anthony, presumably, hence A Bell .

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

I learned the most wonderful useless fact on here today!

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 3d

Went to a play last night. One very niche criticism.
The American character's tie had the stripes going the wrong way.

British tie stripes go from left down to the right: American are opposite. There are historical reasons that I won't go into.

I feel both proud and ashamed of noticing.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, that's fascinating! Thank you.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Liverpool's youth recruitment policy moves to another level entirely, as the BBC reports we're interested in a player who's not yet even been conceived...

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Oh please, do go into the reasons!

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St0ney of Henge @stonehenge.bsky.social · 3d

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Taylor Swift's new album notches up "the most UK album streams in a week ever" - wow.

And it's not just hype: 57-year-old men are probably not her main target market, but I think it's absolutely brilliant.

www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...

Taylor Swift lands the biggest opening week of her career in the UK with The Life Of A Showgirl

All hail Taylor Swift, queen of...well...everything, according to Official Charts data this week.

www.officialcharts.com

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 3d

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see the committee awarding this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump.

Oh.

No they didn't.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

And what's even better: they never will.

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