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Ed Jefferson

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writes/codes/talks about things no-one else would bother to. e dot jefferson at gmail. he/him. was @edjeff. https://edjefferson.com I have a Mews Letter: https://mewsletter.co.uk/

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 5h

You keep going until you Become God

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 6h

This is BlueSky's funniest unintended feature

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 6h

I mean compared to Jimmy Mulville lol

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 6h

I wonder how involved he actually is with the day to day stuff now

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 7h

So it's actually coming from the head of the production company that makes the show, but I think it is kind of shitty to go "oh it's the junior staff's fault for being too online"? Like do you have processes to try and avoid this or not, and whose fault is that?

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 7h

Like not a news story about her tweet. Just a fucking X The Everything app post. Might bin my phone.

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 7h

Jesus Christ, the Google News tab thing on my phone just served me a JK Rowling tweet, what the actual fuck

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

It's actually in Phase One of the Pipes Cinematic Universe

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

The Burnham on Crouch one does hth

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

"specialist employment advisors" mm right yeah i bet

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

Had a skim through this and there’s an odd thing going on here where the woman on the right doesn’t show up in the article at all? She’s not even in the header of the article itself?

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

keir starmer should make beer free to save the economy

John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Giving pubs more choice about when they open and thereby patrons more choice about when they drink is...fine? But linking it to growth is mad (the link to public health is probably not that clear either).
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

don't care whether young tories watch doctor who, but also the funniest explanation here is that he somehow doesn't know why his jumper is like that.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

I mean AI uses water why can't it use beer instead

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

I've been criticised for playing the Riyadh comedy festival, but here's the thing: I don't like being criticised!

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

"Just watch Father's Day on iPlayer, Sylvia"

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

what if you BOOKED NOW

Maraoke - Video Game Karaoke - London - Oct 10th

Live in London: you sing karaoke classics, rewritten about video games!

maraoke.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

New app idea: you take a photo of any book, and the app goes beep.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 3d

Apparently they might get final approval to pay me this week. For work I did 3 months ago. Fuck you.

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 3d

but i don't like it

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Brynnester @brynnester.bsky.social · 5d

Me: *thinking to myself after someone wrongs me* You made an inconsequential and powerless enemy today my friend

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 3d

sometimes i'm not even sure really

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 3d

oh so now we can't drink piss just because some bad people drink piss

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 3d

Love to threaten clients with legal action.

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 3d

I mean if we're only making economic arguments for this, surely it's only really a profit if they wouldn't have contributed more to the economy by doing something else instead?

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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