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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting.

As they are opposed to artistic expression, glorious representations of saints and the holy family will need to be destroyed as arty-farty nonsense.

As it was in the years post-1642, and as it is in the post-Christian Middle East.

… proving how far these idiots think things through.

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 4h

#BBC #R4Today

When a guest says the destruction of #Israel is written into the #Hamas charter (1987), PLEASE remind them that the destruction of #Palestine is written into the #Likud charter (1977) - almost word for word.

Hamas literally stole it from the current Israeli government.

#BBCBalance

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 4h

#BBC #R4Today

The #NotMyPrincess of Wales, who does not have cancer, and who dropped #psychology from her university studies to focus on old pictures in order to pass her course, has written an essay on psychology

Forget Erickson, Piaget, Bowlby, Axline … there is a new giant in town.

#Sycophants

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

#MinuteCryptic recently claimed you don’t need maths to solve the puzzle, then posed one that required solvers to know 20/20=1

Today you need a grasp of three European languages to solve it

… and they say Australians are not class-ridden 🤷‍♂️

#FairShakeOfTheSauceBottle, mate

#TallPoppySyndrome

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

#BBC #R4Today

Drop the #hypocrisy. EVERY nation spies on others, including supposed allies.

The US military has bases in Germany, yet was still caught spying on them. Anne Sacoolas left UK overnight to avoid revealing her role here.

Diplomacy is of limited efficacy. Spying is vital. Get over it.

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

#BBC #R4Today

Maggie Aderin-Pocock might well see her #dyslexia as a ‘superpower’, but I’m not convinced that telling employers to monetise ANY trait is the best way forward.

Business already exploits workers for anything they can extract at the lowest cost. If they can milk dyslexics, they will.

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Now they have delegated much of the work of space travel to another turd.

(I can’t believe it took so long for someone to say it. Your invitation was VERY clear)

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

What a scoundrel!

Did they change their year of birth along with their chosen name?

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously worried about #Israel

Abducting #US citizens in international waters, right after killing US #citizens - including #children - in a terrorist act in #Lebanon … President #Trump made it perfectly clear that anyone who mistreats #American citizens will pay a heavy price.

#Nemesis #Genocide

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Of course

Despite being an adult, in her twenties, Ms Thunberg is lucky enough to look younger

Upper end of the age range, perhaps, but #IDF troops find it difficult to meet any #child without at least thinking of abusing them

… and I don’t mean calling them names. #Israel is a #paedophile haven.

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

One of these people would be great to go out for a drink and a meal with. The other would be a crashing bore.

… unless the topic was him, in which case the other would soar while he sank into the swamp he was supposed to drain.

Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 1d

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Greta Thunberg and Trump are still not friends . . .

... does anyone remember that ?

💠 🤔 💠

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

I would support that, shared with Francesca Albanese, and I think it would be lovely to invite Donald Trump to present the award, as he has contributed so much to them having to earn it.

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

#BBC #R4PM

“My daughter (a former hostage) said ‘I saw a man shot in the head’” - while she was being allowed to watch a TV show about people being shot in the head.

By taking her to #Gaza, #Hamas quite possibly - inadvertently - saved her being killed by #IDF.

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

The state seal of Illinois is very sweet. It looks like the final design was chosen from entries in a competition held among local schools.

The state seal (State Seal?) of Illinois is very sweet. It has an eagle at the centre that looks white, wearing a comfortable home-knitted brown and cream pullover, holding a banner in its beak with four words on it - STATE, SOVEREIGNTY, NATIONAL, UNION, but sovereignty is written backwards. The eagle stands on a shield decorated with thirteen stars and thirteen red and white stripes - I assume signifying that Illinois was one of the original states. Next to the shield are the dates 1818 and 1868, possibly engraved on eagle droppings, then a river of blue beneath a stylised yellow half-sun. There is grass on the ground and leaves either side of the base of the shield. Most of the background is white, which makes the imagery clear but is also reminiscent of a child’s drawing. Around the top are the words “Seal of the State of Illinois”, and, at the bottom, “Aug. 26th 1818”, and all surrounded by a loop of yellow rope, or possibly a milled edge like a coin.

Please don’t be offended - I am not trying to insult it, but it is very different to the kind of bland, meaningless things designed by consultants these days.

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

#BBC #R4PM

The #Conservative Party has always had factions - wets, drys, Eurosceptics, monetarists, “broad churchers”, “one nation” Tories, Thatcherites, …

Now Robert Jenrick is angling to lead a new faction - the #Tory #KKK.

#Handsworth #Racist #Zionist #WhiteSupremacist #Shame #Resign #Defect

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

#BBC #R4PM

Robert Jenrick says he “didn’t see another #white face” in #Handsworth, but insists it’s not about colour but integration.

There you go, potential #Tories. If you live in an all-white area, you will be forced to mix with people of other backgrounds.

Not sure how he sees #Jewish people.

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Alice Lastname @ba55fr33k.bsky.social · 2d

likely All the civillians killed

Kibbutz all have Armed security groups who were Combatants ...kst of the non combatants who died were in safe rooms or had been gathered into homes by Hamas but not killed

it was the Tanks that killed everyone, israelis along with Hamas

anyway, Human Sheilds

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

I doubt the truth will ever emerge, until Netanyahu is in a cell.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 2d

Australian citizens have the right to return to Australia. Calling them 'Isis brides' does not change the law. They are Australian.

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

#BBC #R4Today

After two days of Yom Kippur, we enter seven days of Sukkot.

The UK Jewish Community have designated two days over the next year when they will not be celebrating a major festival and will allow British people a muted response to #Genocide in #Palestine.

Keir Starmer take note.

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Still, if a ceasefire is reached in #Gaza, there will soon be a racist motorcycle gang available to rampage through US cities, abducting and ‘disappearing’ citizens at random.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

#BBC #R4Today

Thank you for clarifying that the December “Cold Moon’ is not a scientific designation but one from folklore.

I am still astonished that, even without scientific equipment and computers, our ancestors were able to calculate when it was chilly outside.

Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

#BBC #R4Today

Did you forget to mention that a significant number of Israelis at Kibbutz Be’eri were killed by #IDF?

THE few areas where #IDF troops are known to have engaged with #Palestinian militants are the areas with mass “collateral damage”. Even with a well-worn euphemism, you are servile

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

#BBC #R4Today

“After global outpourings of grief two years ago, #Israel now looks internally split”

Shorthand for “Israel has squandered the support and empathy of the world in favour of backing from a sex offender in the US and cowardly lickspittles across the West, refusing to prevent #Genocide”

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Jim Fletcher @jimfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

#BBC #R4Today

A survivor of October 7 and former hostage describes “the feeling that you are helpless, and waiting for death”

As have millions of Palestinians over almost eight decades.

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