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Justin Hancock

@justinhancock.bsky.social

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Sex and relationships educator. Resources and courses, not discourses. BISH. Doing a PhD. Solution Focused (SFBT). justinhancock.co.uk

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · Nov 30

Thousands of young people read Bish every day, but what do they like about it, what do they do with it and how does it help? 1. Vibe 2. Depth and breadth of content. 3. Inclusive (feminist, LGBTQIA and straight cis lads too) 4. Helpful tools to take away. Lots more 👇🏻

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What do people do with BISH

A lot of you visit BISH every day, which is nice, but what do you think about it and how do you use it?

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 8h

This one is for Patrons.

Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 8h

Latest Second Opinion is about a well known conservative Canadian psychologist. It's often said that his advice is 'on the face of it' pretty all right. Is it? What are the implications of a bad guy giving good advice? What does socialist relationships advice do?

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Second Opinion 4: How to conquer past relationship ghosts? | Culture Sex Relationships

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 14h

My latest quarterly report for the crowd-funders of BISH is out now. If you donate via Donorbox, I can't find a way to email this to you (without having to pay the platform to do so) so please contact me and I'll send it to you if you like. Thank you! www.patreon.com/posts/140735...

Report for Patrons July - September 2025 | BISH

Get more from BISH on Patreon

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 17h

Do you ever get the feeling that nothing seems to work anymore?

Bills go up. Services get worse. Basics are luxuries. How did we get here?

🧵 Our new project explores the experiment that transformed Britain.

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

This is really good

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make hope normal again.

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

I'm listening to Music For 18 Musicians. What a superb piece of music. (listen to the 1996 recording with Steve Reich and Musicians)

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 1d

“…the top priority should be to lay the ghost of September 2022”.

Couldn’t agree more with Tooze.

The crisis consists of the fact that likelihood of his advice being followed is zero.

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Britain needs a ‘whatever it takes’ moment

The Bank of England must acknowledge the priority of reviving investment-led growth and stop quantitative tightening

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 11d

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 11d

On the masturbation vs partnered sex bollocks that Perel talks about. Here's a good bit of advice from one of my BISH articles www.bishuk.com/your-questio...

I've Trained Myself To Orgasm, Now It's Taking Too Long

Advice for someone who has trained themselves to orgasm but it's now taking too long. Can you (de)train yourself through masturbation?

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I go into Google Analytics when I'm writing my quarterly reports for BISH

Jeremy Irons in Margin Call saying "Please, speak as you might to a young child, or a golden retriever"

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly I just also found out that he had a fire at his studio which destroyed the whole set for YOUARENOWHERE and this thing you went to see is now one of the only things he has left of his previous work because it was over here in London :-(

Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for alerting me to this. We went to his show YOUARENOWHERE years ago and it was amazing

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

How polarised is Britain?
Some thoughts: www.ft.com/content/c7e4...

How polarised is Britain?

Behind media perceptions of a sharpening political divide is a more complicated picture

www.ft.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Shabana Mahmood in 2014 via X (x.com/ShabanaMahmo...):

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

🇮🇹 For the fourth straight day, Rome was flooded with protests for Gaza. Organizers said one million people marched on Sunday, October 5, from Porta San Paolo by the Pyramid of Cestius to Piazza San Giovanni. La Repubblica described it as a “human tide” — an endless procession still streaming past...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

A months-old baby and 17 others were killed, and 40 injured, in a massacre in Gaza City today.

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 3d

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, probably thinking about how all becomings have to first go through a becoming-woman

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 3d

Mom can you come pick me up? They're doing sex is for women and makes you gay again.

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, that's why it's good.

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 3d

Or at least go to Bleeker Burger

Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 4d

Oli is a mate of mine and one of the best publicans to grace London. These developers are ripping the heart out of so many communities and it's truly disgusting.
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They claim to save London pubs. So why have they shut so many down?

Linea Homes has been called the “grim reaper” of pubs. Their targets include some of Peckham, Wimbledon and Camden’s most iconic boozers.

www.the-londoner.co.uk

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 3d

The Battle of Ideas is one of the many fronts of the reactionary Furedi/LM Network www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3... which since been granted additional support from Viktor Orban's MCC Brussels where Furedi is a director. An LM member, Munira Mirza, was one of Boris Johnson's key advisors for 14 years.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently there’s this event happening called “The Battle of Ideas” - it makes you think there might be discussions from different viewpoints, but if you look at the speakers, it’s just crammed full of transphobes and their mates talking to each other! 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s one big echo chamber! 🙄

Speakers - Battle of Ideas

www.battleofideas.org.uk

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

What strikes you as more likely? That the whole country of seventy million people has unaccountably gone insane, or that maybe two thousand people who all know each other and work together, often in the same building, have slowly roasted each others’ brains to lunacy. www.ft.com/content/c7e4...

How polarised is Britain?

Behind media perceptions of a sharpening political divide is a more complicated picture

www.ft.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not the public’s fault that senior Labour figures chose to make roaring defence of Israel’s right to destroy their subject population the core of their propaganda pitch to the public, right before Israel ramped up their genocidal project. All of that is on the government, who did this gladly.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 3d

This is an extract from my book "The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy", on digital labour, virality, and imperialism. Please download the book online and do not buy it. Zer0 Books is owned by Israeli AI Venture Capitalist Etan Ilfeld. www.boycottwatkins.com

Boycott Watkins

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 3d

"‘The machine’ may be able to occupy the subject position of a sentence and be attributed a predicate, but the machine is not subject to itself—its self-consciousness lies outside itself in the workers and managers that collectively produce it." newintermag.com/the-labour-o...

The Labour of Artificial Intelligence

The autonomy of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a bourgeois mystification.

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