John Michael White
@johnmichaelw.bsky.social
Is all about New Labour, #nffc, #threelions, #veganism, Brett Anderson, Morrissey, physics, Star Trek, @prodnose, and thinking tea, lovely tea, solves most ills
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Footballers who pretend to be more hurt than they are should be forced to visit an 8 year old child who's dressed up as a doctor on the side of the pitch, and only be allowed to come back on when said child is bored of using their toy stethoscope and bandages on them.
As a kid I used to watch James Bond films and wonder why so many were prepared to risk their lives henchmanning for weirdo psychopathic up to no good megalomaniacs. But you look at all those who've made fanboying for Elon bleddy Musk 95% of their personality, and you understand.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
As a kid I used to watch James Bond films and wonder why so many were prepared to risk their lives henchmanning for weirdo psychopathic up to no good megalomaniacs. But you look at all those who've made fanboying for Elon bleddy Musk 95% of their personality, and you understand.
It really is a cultural crime against humanity that there doesn't seem to be any place on the internet you can watch the Psychobitches "Mitford Sisters" bit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It really is a cultural crime against humanity that there doesn't seem to be any place on the internet you can watch the Psychobitches "Mitford Sisters" bit.
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This imagines that people aren't aware of who they fancy, rather than it being one of the most obvious things that we all experience.
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Most people are probably bi, or put another way they have the capacity to be attracted to more people than they believe. Also maybe it's just a couple of people - that's still bisexuality. Bi doesn't mean 50/50.
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This imagines that people aren't aware of who they fancy, rather than it being one of the most obvious things that we all experience.
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The Lake District looking resplendent today
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Lake District looking resplendent today
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My daughter didn’t even know what diphtheria is - and if I’m honest, nor did I.
The reason for that is vaccines. Without them, some of you reading this wouldn’t have made it to adulthood.
So why do people refuse them?
New MORE JAM TOMORROW
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The reason for that is vaccines. Without them, some of you reading this wouldn’t have made it to adulthood.
So why do people refuse them?
New MORE JAM TOMORROW
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/jabs
Jabs
No one dies of diphtheria or polio in Britain any more. Since World War Two, we've virtually wiped out the diseases that used to kill tens of thousands of...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My daughter didn’t even know what diphtheria is - and if I’m honest, nor did I.
The reason for that is vaccines. Without them, some of you reading this wouldn’t have made it to adulthood.
So why do people refuse them?
New MORE JAM TOMORROW
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/jabs
The reason for that is vaccines. Without them, some of you reading this wouldn’t have made it to adulthood.
So why do people refuse them?
New MORE JAM TOMORROW
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/jabs
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My hot take on the yesterday's events in America.
US politics seems like a fridge freezer being rocked back and forth until their democracy ends when it tips. Those currently pushing think it brilliant they're seemingly winning, without considering the possibility they're just adding momentum for the other side's next shove.
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My hot take on the yesterday's events in America.
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Fun fact: Middle class folk sneering at working class remembrance of those from our communities who sacrifice everything to save democracy is one direct cause of the "stick a flag on a lamppost" lot's reaction. The Legion is one of the hubs of Warsop, my former pit-village
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November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Fun fact: Middle class folk sneering at working class remembrance of those from our communities who sacrifice everything to save democracy is one direct cause of the "stick a flag on a lamppost" lot's reaction. The Legion is one of the hubs of Warsop, my former pit-village
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Over half way through the twenties, and I've got to tell you, they haven't been as roaring as precedent seemed to promise they would be.
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Over half way through the twenties, and I've got to tell you, they haven't been as roaring as precedent seemed to promise they would be.
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This postcard I wrote to a young reader, Sasha Stephenson, was returned to me, as she no longer lives at the address she gave me. Please help me to get it to her if you can!
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This postcard I wrote to a young reader, Sasha Stephenson, was returned to me, as she no longer lives at the address she gave me. Please help me to get it to her if you can!
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I see BlueSky has that feature from the other place where you pop open the browser and are half way through reading an interesting post when it decides to remove it, hide it, and erase the timeline of humanity so that it was never written in the first place. Way to make everyone feel at home.
November 27, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I see BlueSky has that feature from the other place where you pop open the browser and are half way through reading an interesting post when it decides to remove it, hide it, and erase the timeline of humanity so that it was never written in the first place. Way to make everyone feel at home.
Is it me, or do they ban Christmas earlier every year?
PS, when the fuck does he imagine they were called "Christmas Mince Pies"?
PS, when the fuck does he imagine they were called "Christmas Mince Pies"?
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Is it me, or do they ban Christmas earlier every year?
PS, when the fuck does he imagine they were called "Christmas Mince Pies"?
PS, when the fuck does he imagine they were called "Christmas Mince Pies"?
Important All Hallows' Eeen fact. Memorise, may come up at parties later.
Despite there being a popular misconception about it, the monster people call "Frankingstein" isn't really called "Frankingstein", it's called "Frankingstein's monster" because it was created by author Dave Frankingstein, who wrote a book about a monster of unknown origin.
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Important All Hallows' Eeen fact. Memorise, may come up at parties later.
There is no amount of money that could make me say this while arguing with someone pretending to be a cat.
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is no amount of money that could make me say this while arguing with someone pretending to be a cat.
I cannot overstate just how much I hate this. Politics as a game of "when we've worked out how to win, what policies will serve that" rather than "how do we improve peoples' lives". This is *exactly* why populists of left and right are on the rise.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I cannot overstate just how much I hate this. Politics as a game of "when we've worked out how to win, what policies will serve that" rather than "how do we improve peoples' lives". This is *exactly* why populists of left and right are on the rise.
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This man looks like the bastard lovechild of Keir Starmer and Michael Heseltine.
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Fed's Schmid: Inflation risks remain, economy still showing momentum reut.rs/4hxZ7ei
Fed's Schmid: Inflation risks remain, economy still showing momentum
Kansas City Fed president Jeffrey Schmid said on Friday that he dissented against cutting interest rates this week out of concern that continued high inflation and signs of price pressures spreading in the economy could raise doubts about the central bank's commitment to its 2% inflation target.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This man looks like the bastard lovechild of Keir Starmer and Michael Heseltine.
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It's that day of the year Americans describe as a "holiday" because, though working at the grindstone as usual, they're permitted to do so while wearing a funny hat and/or costume as a treat.
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It's that day of the year Americans describe as a "holiday" because, though working at the grindstone as usual, they're permitted to do so while wearing a funny hat and/or costume as a treat.
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That mean the title is going spare? I might apply for it, I'd be good at that. But it's probably one of those things where it's not what you know, it's who you know.
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Prince Andrew, who gave up all his remaining titles and honours earlier this month, has now finally moved out of the Royal Lodge in Windsor after mounting pressure
King removes Prince Andrew's titles and takes Royal Lodge home - updates
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October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
That mean the title is going spare? I might apply for it, I'd be good at that. But it's probably one of those things where it's not what you know, it's who you know.
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A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com
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Yr Eifl, Gwynedd, Wales, 22/09/2025
I always loved the way these mountains just fall into the sea and it was great fun to climb them. Before we reached them though the view of our (literal) quarry from the Welsh coast path was tremendous.
#photography #wales #yreifl #gwynedd
I always loved the way these mountains just fall into the sea and it was great fun to climb them. Before we reached them though the view of our (literal) quarry from the Welsh coast path was tremendous.
#photography #wales #yreifl #gwynedd
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Yr Eifl, Gwynedd, Wales, 22/09/2025
I always loved the way these mountains just fall into the sea and it was great fun to climb them. Before we reached them though the view of our (literal) quarry from the Welsh coast path was tremendous.
#photography #wales #yreifl #gwynedd
I always loved the way these mountains just fall into the sea and it was great fun to climb them. Before we reached them though the view of our (literal) quarry from the Welsh coast path was tremendous.
#photography #wales #yreifl #gwynedd
Imagine writing "with climate doomerism fading" as Jamaica declares a disaster after being hit with the strongest hurricane in its history.
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Imagine writing "with climate doomerism fading" as Jamaica declares a disaster after being hit with the strongest hurricane in its history.
I love @maxrushden.bsky.social a little bit. I don't always agree with him, but his polite but firm pushback on talksport just now against the idea that the gambling industry is a "woe is me" benevolent victim of a grasping government, rather than a misery causing parasite, was beautiful.
October 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I love @maxrushden.bsky.social a little bit. I don't always agree with him, but his polite but firm pushback on talksport just now against the idea that the gambling industry is a "woe is me" benevolent victim of a grasping government, rather than a misery causing parasite, was beautiful.
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What do those who say "AGI will only benefit billionaires" think being rich even means in a world of AGI? Money has no intrinsic value, it's just the ability to get people to do stuff for you. If no-one needs to do stuff for everyone to have more than enough of everything, what's money even worth?
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
What do those who say "AGI will only benefit billionaires" think being rich even means in a world of AGI? Money has no intrinsic value, it's just the ability to get people to do stuff for you. If no-one needs to do stuff for everyone to have more than enough of everything, what's money even worth?
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It will never not be funny that those obsessed with Richard III put so much effort into finding his bones so they could prove all the hunchback nonsense to be evil Tudor propaganda ... then it turned out he had a hunch. A considerable hunch. In his back.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It will never not be funny that those obsessed with Richard III put so much effort into finding his bones so they could prove all the hunchback nonsense to be evil Tudor propaganda ... then it turned out he had a hunch. A considerable hunch. In his back.
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