James Alistair Henry
@jamesbluecat.bsky.social
Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Smack The Pony, Delivery Man, Piglets, my first novel Pagans out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/9781916678064
Pinned
Just realised that, brilliantly, my pinned tweet for ages has been for the exclusive edition of Pagans that sold out some time ago, so here's a link to the other one. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
stop posting, me, you are TOO TIRED
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stop posting, me, you are TOO TIRED
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Ah, that supportive, nurturing kind of racist behaviour, gotcha.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ah, that supportive, nurturing kind of racist behaviour, gotcha.
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All the stuff about totalitarian woke students so on is the grim realisation by an older generation that soon they will be dead, and the blue-haired variously sexualled kids will inherit the earth, and then *they* will decide what is good and bad.
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
All the stuff about totalitarian woke students so on is the grim realisation by an older generation that soon they will be dead, and the blue-haired variously sexualled kids will inherit the earth, and then *they* will decide what is good and bad.
Reading about AI being subverted by adversarial poetry and Russian drones' navigation systems jammed by Ukranian folk anthems, which suggests the opening future 'human rebels' scenes of Terminator may now have to be revised.
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reading about AI being subverted by adversarial poetry and Russian drones' navigation systems jammed by Ukranian folk anthems, which suggests the opening future 'human rebels' scenes of Terminator may now have to be revised.
I like seeing Kate Bush dressed as a bat, but tbh I'm always going to prefer seeing her dressed as a lion, that's just how I feel.
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I like seeing Kate Bush dressed as a bat, but tbh I'm always going to prefer seeing her dressed as a lion, that's just how I feel.
I always assumed it was pronounced 'swee-generous', so I'm doubly glad he asked.
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I always assumed it was pronounced 'swee-generous', so I'm doubly glad he asked.
No danger of ever *not* knowing the innermost thoughts of posh RWers, is there?
"America is British", "socialism is heaven". Good Charlotte Edwardes profile of Danny Kruger, in which he gets the opportunity to say what he really thinks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
No danger of ever *not* knowing the innermost thoughts of posh RWers, is there?
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The consolidation of Right Wing power in the UK.
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Deal likely to trigger indepth investigation after agreement between Lord Rothermere’s DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The consolidation of Right Wing power in the UK.
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Why is autism so politicised? Professor Simon Baron Cohen writes about the implications of the other thing RFK Jr did; examines why diagnoses are rising and calls for the spectrum to be divided. on.ft.com/49tIxdM
The new politics of autism
[FREE TO READ] As contentious claims over rising diagnoses get a presidential platform, Simon Baron-Cohen explains where talk of an ‘epidemic’ goes wrong — and why we need more recognition that autism...
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Why is autism so politicised? Professor Simon Baron Cohen writes about the implications of the other thing RFK Jr did; examines why diagnoses are rising and calls for the spectrum to be divided. on.ft.com/49tIxdM
Instagram now showing me two images from people I follow then fifteen clips of films I've never heard of and have no desire to ever watch.
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Instagram now showing me two images from people I follow then fifteen clips of films I've never heard of and have no desire to ever watch.
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I've thought this ever since the recorded announcements at train stations started saying "I'm sorry for the delay."
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I've thought this ever since the recorded announcements at train stations started saying "I'm sorry for the delay."
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
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I mean providing safe routes and then telling the racist press to fuck off we’ve got a massive majority is pretty straight forward tbh
There aren't simple solutions. There are solutions though. You ensure there are genuine safer means for people to seek asylum in the UK. There is no silver bullet, one shot, way of doing that which can be summed up in a three word slogan. It requires a multiplicity of different things, such as: 1/
What will Labour do when its asylum reforms don’t work?
James Baggaley: There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
James Baggaley: There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I mean providing safe routes and then telling the racist press to fuck off we’ve got a massive majority is pretty straight forward tbh
Oh yes, I'd almost forgotten about him boasting he'd been shaking hands with patients. *mind boggles all over again*
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Oh yes, I'd almost forgotten about him boasting he'd been shaking hands with patients. *mind boggles all over again*
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🎶 The AI bust is coming / and everybody's jumping 🎶
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
The AI boom has been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
🎶 The AI bust is coming / and everybody's jumping 🎶
I went outside and it was HORRID
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I went outside and it was HORRID
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my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
I know journalists don't pick the headlines when they write an article, but when they send in the copy do they have 'suggested' one? Or just send a big old chunk of prose and let the subs come up with something? I'm not even researching a thing, it just occurred to me.
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I know journalists don't pick the headlines when they write an article, but when they send in the copy do they have 'suggested' one? Or just send a big old chunk of prose and let the subs come up with something? I'm not even researching a thing, it just occurred to me.