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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1m

New York City (to be fair other parts of the US had had them for ages…)

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve still got a @septaphilly.bsky.social token, but Septa phased them out a lot more recently.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

What a lad.

(Do not do this)

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 4h

every line of this story keeps getting better

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

That is an extremely cool album

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

Some of my clergy friends in the US are still paid by someone writing them a cheque (sorry, check), which they then have to deposit.

(Good luck with the bank accounts…)

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

I have just looked up when the first American Recordings albums came out, which was when people outside the world of country began to catch on to Cash, and it was 1994. I was at school.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

It took you how long?!

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

Still, you can now tap in and out with your card on the Subway in New York. (Though I confess I miss swiping a pass).

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

One of the things that strikes me on visiting the US is how antiquated the banking is, in a lot of ways. No, I don’t have a Venmo, if I want to transfer money to someone electronically I use my banking app. I have no idea when I last used my cheque book. Why are you taking my card? I need to sign!?

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 5h

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

on.ft.com

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 5h

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash

Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

on.ft.com

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 3d

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 20h

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 4h

Actually I suspect what will happen is that the unis will throw a lot of money at them, they’ll be semi successful for a bit but never earn as much as hoped, and the whole thing will ultimately fizzle out.

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 5h

When I was involved in uni Cons stuff, the BBC were sniffing around for what became a documentary "Young, Bright and on the Right". The only people who had the self-awareness to not come off terribly also had the awareness to know they would get stitched up, so only the weirdest got involved.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Maple Anglican @mapleanglican.bsky.social · 5h

FOR he shall deliver the poor when he crieth; / the needy also, and him that hath no helper.
Psalm 72.12 (1962 Book of Common Prayer, page 418)

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5h

I have a feeling this isn’t going to end well.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

'prime minister Keir Starmer...confirmed that the University of Lancaster and the University of Surrey had been given approval to open new campuses in India while on a trade mission to Mumbai, joining six more institutions already in the country.' (Lancaster is mooting 20% academic redundancy) 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’.

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5h

The Edinburgh Journal of Botany now has its entire archives freely accessible online (if you go back far enough, you can read Beatrix Potter’s papers…)

journals.rbge.org.uk

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Journals

journals.rbge.org.uk

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 7h

You know, it’s just occurred to me that one of the ways the Witch gets Edmund on her side is with the (in the grand scheme of things) little treats he used to have and that are now out of his reach.

Edmund is, of course, a naive child, but I wonder how powerful a motive that can be for adults, too.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 7h

Betteridge’s Law applies here…

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Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster · 19h

Roko’s Basilisk is actually an inkjet that functioned long enough to end the world, which is the true desire of all printers

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 19h

No objection but I think I need @oldenoughtosay.com’s input on that

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