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Sean Jones KC

@seanjones.org

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King’s Counsel, gobshite. General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook. Trustee of FRU Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal Pl

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 4d

Announcing @billablehour.bsky.social's very first Halloween T-shirt by the fabulous @soengery.bsky.social. Links in the reply. Also available in extra Goth.

As usual, all proceeds go to @savechildrenuk.bsky.social /1

A young woman in a sunlit and bewilderingly inappropriate field, wearing the new Billable Horror T-shirt

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2h

That’s why I cant work out whether it is now more or less likely.

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3h

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U.S. Navy Cruiser Escorts Special Operations Ship Off Venezuela

As the Trump administration ramps up pressure on the regime of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, open-source marine traffic watchers have been clos...

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3h

Does this make it more or less likely that the US will now attack Venezuela?

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 15h

The most tedious thing on earth is someone having a big toot on the racism dogwhistle and then everyone on every channel spending time debating bad faith exculpatory readings. Yes, of course they didn’t say the bad thing overtly. That’s why it’s a dogwhistle.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 18h

Buy Gail's stuff
It's ace

Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 19h

Spiral slipmats are back in stock.
Be quick though. I can’t keep up with demand!
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 22h

I realise, with discomfort, that my own style is very similar.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 22h

Reading a book by someone I admire on a subject that fascinates me, but their style grates. Every noun has at least one adjective, every verb its adverb. Paris, for example, is a “seething melting pot of boundless ideas”.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

That is entirely down to the wonderful Holly Rust. She’s amazing

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

Hi! What a joy to have you here!

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

Well done Thom. I’m sure you’ll have already acquired your humblebrag licence from billablehour.org

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

I’ve only just spotted that @thomdyke.bsky.social is here. This place has ever more juice.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

I’m not saying those who oppose the President’s will should be in jail, but I’m not saying they shouldn’t be.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

I LOVED this book. You will too, I promise.

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

It's #buyastrangerabook day!

@seanjones.org has bought a copy of We the People : A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore for me to give to someone.

blurb in second image.

If you'd like it, get in touch.

UK only.

Blurb for the book.

On the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era. The US Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world - and one of the most difficult to amend. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified.

Tellingly, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without amendment, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential power.

Leading Harvard historian Jill Lepore captures the stories of generations of ordinary people who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend their nation. Recounting the history of America through centuries of efforts to realize the promise of the Constitution, we witness how nearly all those bids have failed. We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitution was never intended to be preserved, but was expected to be gradually altered.

At a time when the risk of political violence is all too real, it hints at the prospects for a better, amended America.

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 1d

Some of us DO NOT WANT a dishwasher with intuitive loading. Being custodian of the stacking is the only power we have.

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Instagram’s added a brand new ad format! It’s terrible!

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

The dumb money is stampeding into the markets. We all know what comes next.

Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 1d

Don’t miss @katie0martin.ft.com on 🚀 on.ft.com/48QHpjV

Brace for a market melt-up

[FREE TO READ] Some say this is a ‘good’ bubble, but investors should remember that all bubbles burst in the end

on.ft.com

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

Lots. Especially, joining with people I met on Twitter to run the social media based charity appeal Billable Hour which has raised many hundreds of thousands of pounds over the last decade for Save the Children.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 2d

You can get my book Borderlines in electronic form for an amazing 99p at the moment; at a time when politicians are fetishising borders, why not look at them in a bit more detail, and get the view from Europe’s borders? www.amazon.co.uk/Borderlines-...

Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders

Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders eBook : Baston, Lewis: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

Happy birthday!

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

It was in a tin with J N Gray QC written on it

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

It wasn’t even a judge’s wig.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

Are white ethnic enclaves a sign of failure too?

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

My eyes! My eyes!

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