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Simon Jessey

@scjessey.bsky.social

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Englishman (living in the USA 🇺🇲). 📜 Municipal planning commissioner. 🖖🏻 Star Trek fan. ⚽ Tottenham Hotspur fan. COYS! 🤍 🏏 Surrey cricket fan. 🏈 Philadelphia Eagles fan. 🦅 📺 YouTuber "TrekkieMoto". 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ straight ally. 🤝 Joined August 30, 2023.

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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly so.

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 5h

"It just goes and you're left with sugar!"

This is a feature, not a bug. 😉🤣

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 5h

As a kid, I loved fairground food. Toffee apples were good, but I think candy floss ("cotton candy" over here) was probably the one I liked the most.

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 16h

🏈 Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Eagles are starting to look a bit shite.

#Eagles 🦅

a race car is driving down a race track with a red stripe on the side .

Alt: A race car is driving down a race track and a wheel falls off.

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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 17h

⚾ When all is said and done, the normally superb Philadelphia Phillies offense did not show up for the post season, except to shell Clayton Kershaw for runs that ultimately weren't needed.

#Phillies

a r2d2 robot is laying in the dirt next to a rock

Alt: A robot falls over in the desert.

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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 17h

⚾ A walk-off fielding error by Orion Kerkering seems like the perfect way to end the season. 😡

#Phillies

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 22h

"The company was purchased by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican Missouri election official..."

Maybe we should just do rock, paper, scissors. 🤦🏻‍♂️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

Company, which reached $787.5m defamation settlement with Fox News, becomes new entity called Liberty Vote

www.theguardian.com

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

The news media wants to give credit for "peace" to a guy who allowed tens of thousands of innocent people, a third of whom were children, to be murdered first?

I'm just appalled by all this shit.

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

I am ashamed to say this piece of shit is one of my senators.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

A photo of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., sits on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington, overlaid with the headline, "Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks," and the DEK, "It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean."

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

⚾ More of same, please.

#Phillies

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

⚾ Hello offense, my old friend.

#Phillies

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

President Dumbass.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

Starch Madness is followed soon after by Yeaster, I'm guessing?

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

So when do we see the "inept dictator tries to hold back an ocean with nukes" disaster movie script?

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 1d

I should add that resigning from the National Guard is not straightforward, since it requires the agreement of a commanding officer, or the possibility of facing a dereliction of duty charge. This is not something I fully understood before posting the above.

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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 2d

"With that rough cough, you have to go through the thoroughfare, though."

Isn't the English "ough" awesome?

RUFF
COFF
THROO
THURRAHFARE
THOH

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 2d

But they are complicit. They could resign immediately and go back to being everyday teachers and accountants instead of enabling this abuse of power.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 2d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 2d

People who use the word "cringe" colloquially are so cringe.

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 3d

You have GOT to be fucking kidding me! The @nytimes.com needs to stop platforming these fucking morons.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 3d

Of course, America leads the world in NOT doing this. 🤦🏻‍♂️🙄

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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 4d

Are we sure that's not just a typical Florida thing? Did the study have a control group based outside The Nightmare State?

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not at all surprised.

Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't seen ANY of these, and I'll add TITANIC.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 5d

a close up of a person holding a baby in a blue blanket .

Alt: A close up of an alien holding a baby alien in a blue blanket while riding an animal.

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