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Jack 🏳️‍🌈

@jacksayspurple.bsky.social

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31. Lifestyle Journalist. Culture vulture. Nerd. Views are obviously my own. "This guy has written the best stuff I've ever read" - actress, Lea Michele, 2025 I'm also jacksayspurple on basically every other social media

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · Nov 13

Reintroduction post:

Name: Jack
Pronouns: He/Him
Location: London 💂🏻‍♀️
Interests: Gaming 🎮 (Nintendo and Pokémon), Doctor Who 🌌, travel ✈️, Greek mythology🏛️, books 📚, writing ✍🏻, theatre 🎭, hiking 🥾
Vocation: Lifestyle journalist 🕺🏻

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 2d

I won't be watching, I didn't even finish the last series because the last couple of episodes were too long and boring

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I don't want that 🙃

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 2d

All episodes in the final season of ‘STRANGER THINGS’ will be over 1 hour

• Between 90 to 120 minutes each
• Budget per episode is $50M-$60M

(Source: puck.news/can-peter-fr...)

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 3d

Lads, help urgently needed: a friend's hen do has unexpectedly diverted to London and they want to go to Magic Mike Live and it's so expensive and it'll be crap, does anyone have any other fun ideas we could suggest as an alternative?

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not worried about what Joe Wicks says about protein bars because I have never found anything that man has ever said to be worth listening to 😌

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 3d

When I type "FYI" I don't mean "for your information", I just mean "FYI"

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 6d

On a train where practically every single person around me is making multiple phone calls and I want to die

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 6d

Hearing Roses by Outkast at a karaoke for the first time and I genuinely can't believe these lyrics are real 👁️😵👁️

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 6d

Fucked up that Lucky Voice doesn't have girl, so confusing

Me and Patrick would have fucked that up

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 7d

I'm a cis man obviously, but I really don't want to have to bring my birth certificate down to the ponds every nice summer Saturday just to get in the door pls

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 7d

Policing people's genitals is literally impossible to do unless you're a massive pervert (as all transphobes seem to be)

Make your views heard, support your trans friends and support the poor staff who'd have to wade through limitless bureaucracy of implementing insane transphobic guidelines

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 7d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 9d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 7d

I know that basically the whole internet runs on Quite Thick™ men thinking they know better than you, but remind me never to make a TikTok about the Romans ever again 🙄

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

Hmmm... not AS nearby. Somers Town Coffee House is good, and The Prince Arthur is probably cheaper

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

We don't go to the pub outside Euston tbf

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

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jacob @gaycob2.bsky.social · 8d

No one asked but the new Taylor Swift album is egregiously dull.

Not a single song making any sort of impression outside of being generic slow pop, they all blend together into a softly sung mush.

Also ‘Actually Romantic’ is unnecessarily mean spirited.

1/5

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

An actually Actually Romantic sub-skeet

Louis🪿 @sket.bsky.social · 8d

Declared a Swiftie Ultra ! Wearing this badge with honour !

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

OK 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

Lol yikes the Swiftie Ultras are already out in defence of their problematic fave 🙄

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

After Charli releases a whole album about the awful way the music industry treats women and grapples with all her insecurities which resulted from that, I actually think it's pretty rancid of Taylor Swift to release a track like Actually Romantic

Mind you, Taylor is famously not a girl's girl so 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 9d

Finally catching up on Drag Race UK S7E1 and WHAT THE FUCK was that lip sync? Send them both home omg, the absolute disrespect to Von Dutch??? Unparalleled. They've both made an enemy of me

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 11d

Finally, it was the delight of delights for me to interview the totally wonderful Stephen Grosz, a psychotherapist of forty years whose no-nonsense, utterly heartfelt advice on navigating relationship problems was so moving to hear www.telegraph.co.uk/family/relat...

An expert’s guide to the most common relationship dilemmas (including how to get over an affair)

Psychotherapist Stephen Grosz explores everything he’s learnt about love during his 40 years of experience

www.telegraph.co.uk

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 11d

Just published this morning, I interviewed Wim Hof about his new album. I wonder if you can detect what I thought of him... www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/...

Wim Hof interview: ‘Everybody loves to see me crumbling’

The Iceman has turned to music to make his voice heard and, despite scandal, is doubling down on the benefits of his famous breathing method

www.telegraph.co.uk

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 11d

Next, I travelled to Edinburgh this summer to interview director Constantine Costi, and his subject, Charlie Miller. Their documentary, THE GOLDEN SPURTLE showcases the joys and madness of the World Porridge Championships held in Carrbridge, Scotland every autumn www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri...

The porridge world cup held deep in the Scottish Highlands

Every October, porridge makers from across the world descend on Carrbridge to compete for the coveted golden spurtle

www.telegraph.co.uk

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 11d

Firstly, I spoke to the delightful Louise Pentland, who you may remember from the early days of YouTube as SprinkleOfGlitter - we talked about becoming a mum, having her own children grow-up online, and the millennial psyche www.telegraph.co.uk/family/paren...

Youtuber Louise Pentland: Sharing my divorce online was embarrassing. One day I’ll have to answer to my children

The British social media influencer on protecting her children online and dealing with childhood trauma