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Stephen JC

@sjcoltrane.bsky.social

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I got a PhD and somehow I ended up live streaming Dark Souls. Living the dream in west London. He/him and Welsh. (Profile pic is my black cat.)

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 2d

Just idly musing on the need to keep ourselves informed & do the equivalent of "due diligence" in our personal lives. It's exhausting. At some point we need to trust others. We have neither the knowledge or the capacity to check everything.

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Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Annie Hall. 😢 La di da.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I suspect the entire carriage was waiting for someone to Say Something. How very British.

I could have played the sensory issues card, but I’ve got so used to masking it that I just suffered out of habit.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

I’m open to being told that I’m all three, incidentally.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

Oh thank God, she’s got off. Now I can enjoy a whole fifteen minutes of quiet.

How do you tell someone to STFU without seeming impolite, intolerant or possibly (in this case) misogynistic?

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Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

I had no idea they had to be inspected. Although I’m not surprised, it being Switzerland.

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 3d

When we were in Switzerland, I wrote about our bunker.

www.saltandcaramel.com/swiss-nuclea...

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Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

I support my friend’s Substack because she’s a friend and actually writes really well. But otherwise, right with you.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

Also she’s swearing (casually, not angrily) with children in the seats by her. I’m no prude, and I don’t feel it’s my place to complain, but for heaven’s sake this is surely unacceptable and I don’t know why the parents aren’t saying something.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

The train’s full, in case you’re wondering why I don’t move.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus, this woman is so *loud*. And she has not stopped talking since we left London. I no longer even know what she’s saying, it’s like rain thundering onto a roof. A constant hammering of noise which your brain just filters out because it’s inescapable.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

I’d mind less if this woman’s voice weren’t so penetrating. It’s a shame, I normally love the Irish accents.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to a young Irishwoman several seats away I now know everything I never wanted to know about the Marylebone nightlife.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

I find quiet carriages are either like hushed churches, or family reunions. This is the latter.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

I’m on a train. The quiet carriage isn’t.

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Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 3d

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Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 4d

Since I don’t do age verification, I have no idea who has messaged me; nor, more annoyingly, how to get rid of this irritating badge.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 4d

Just my luck to be reading this the day before I take my son to an open day.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4d

"Four in 10 English universities are now believed to be in financial deficit, according to the Office for Students."
#HigherEd www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 5d

Someone threw anti-semitic abuse at me.

I’m not Jewish.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

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

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 6d

“Could” lead to an authoritarian state. Surely this is the very definition of one?

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 6d

These days I often think of how Australia dominated world cricket in the 90s. Someone astutely observed that they would be beaten not because other nations got better, but because Australia got worse. I see the same pattern with Tory governments.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe he means last Friday.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! Gosh, that takes me back. Pleasant chap.

Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 9d

Please tell me someone has developed a spray wash for vegetables and called it Lettuce Spray. I so want this to be a thing, please please tell me it’s a thing.

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Stephen JC @sjcoltrane.bsky.social · 9d

One of my proudest boasts is that my father was an assistant officiant at the ordination of the first women priests at Bristol Cathedral back in *checks notes* 1994.

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