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Jessica Twentyman

@jessicatwentyman.bsky.social

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Writer. Editor. Dog rescuer. Portugal dweller. Surprisingly chipper 50-something. Just happy to be here, really. ❤️

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 5d

Salamanca

Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 18h

Careful now.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 23h

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 21h

See also: “buoy”

Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 1d

Three museums in three days - Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza. Happily exhausted.

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve often wanted her to stray from the path of being mute and decorative, but this really isn’t what I had in mind.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

What a splendid thought. 😂

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 2d

There needs to be a special group on Threads for museum fans.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 2d

Strong recent divorce vibes

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 3d

"which is nice."

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 3d

Madrid

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 4d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 5d

Salamanca

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 6d

Your own
personal
Negus,
Someone to look at your wares
Someone who cares.

Arthur Negus looking to the left. A teapot looking to the right.

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 6d

No word of a lie, I am currently en route to Madrid to visit Las Meninas.

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 7d

Perfectly normal country

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

What could be more American than the headline "Mother Buys Violent Son Ammunition and Tactical Gear to Shoot Up His Middle School in Exchange for Babysitting His Younger Siblings"?
www.yahoo.com/news/mom-acc...

A mom is accused of buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son, despite repeated warnings about violent plans at school

Warning signs that a San Antonio middle school student had deadly intentions had been building for months, police say. They took on a new urgency Sunday when his grandmother walked into his bedroom.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 8d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 10d

Can’t help thinking @lauracummingart.bsky.social should be on commission, but at least the book is sold in the @mauritshuismus.bsky.social gift shop!

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 10d

Omg - it’s the reason I went too, last year. And why I made a return visit two weeks ago!

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Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 11d

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.

The Boring Fund - Open Collective

We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin

opencollective.com

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Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social · 10d

Agree! Thunderclap by Laura Cummins is also a brilliant read:

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