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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 24m

Had a skim through this and there’s an odd thing going on here where the woman on the right doesn’t show up in the article at all? She’s not even in the header of the article itself?

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 29m

keir starmer should make beer free to save the economy

John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 46m

Giving pubs more choice about when they open and thereby patrons more choice about when they drink is...fine? But linking it to growth is mad (the link to public health is probably not that clear either).
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2h

don't care whether young tories watch doctor who, but also the funniest explanation here is that he somehow doesn't know why his jumper is like that.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 11h

I mean AI uses water why can't it use beer instead

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 15h

I've been criticised for playing the Riyadh comedy festival, but here's the thing: I don't like being criticised!

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 18h

"Just watch Father's Day on iPlayer, Sylvia"

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 21h

what if you BOOKED NOW

Maraoke - Video Game Karaoke - London - Oct 10th

Live in London: you sing karaoke classics, rewritten about video games!

maraoke.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

New app idea: you take a photo of any book, and the app goes beep.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

Apparently they might get final approval to pay me this week. For work I did 3 months ago. Fuck you.

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

but i don't like it

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Brynnester @brynnester.bsky.social · 3d

Me: *thinking to myself after someone wrongs me* You made an inconsequential and powerless enemy today my friend

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 1d

sometimes i'm not even sure really

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

oh so now we can't drink piss just because some bad people drink piss

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

Love to threaten clients with legal action.

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

I mean if we're only making economic arguments for this, surely it's only really a profit if they wouldn't have contributed more to the economy by doing something else instead?

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

The War Doctor

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Robin Clarke @rclarke.bsky.social · 2d

Heads up if you want to attend a Maraoke show at MCM Comic Con in London it's 1730 on Sat Oct 25. www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/en-us... -- There is another "Marioke" (sic) on the schedule, don't go to that by accident (unless you're a Nintendo lawyer).

Panel Information

www.mcmcomiccon.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

Not having heard Candle In The Wind '97 would be impressive.

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

tag yourself im keir starmer farmer harmer

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Every post from the Tory conference just makes me sad. Like watching a destitute clown begging for pennies.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d

In place of a speech by Victoria Atkins, the shadow Defra secretary, she is holding a “rally for the countryside” in the main exhibition hall. Her Union Jack jacket is back from the dry cleaners again.

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

(I mean obviously I would prefer there were more weirdos and less racists but also most of the people who say this are lying anyway)

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

Honestly think just being a racist is less weird than than genuinely feeling a surge of patriotism at seeing a flag cable tied to a lamp post

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

robocorbyn

Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 2d

welcome to "what the fuck i can't even have one cigarette as a little treat" club

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 6d

NEXT FRIDAY: for some reason we are doing a @singmaraoke.bsky.social halloween special on october 10th? i have (re)written a song to get everyone cancelled maraoke.com/booknow

Maraoke - Video Game Karaoke - London - Oct 10th

Live in London: you sing karaoke classics, rewritten about video games!

maraoke.com

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 3d

it's time to make The People's Fast X:2

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