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James King
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Jazz Liberal. Moves carefully & fixes things.

Mature student of Law & Business @ Open University
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neilperryman.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
Don’t eat American chicken unless you get it fresh off an Amish farmer or someone you personally know.
January 4, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
Russia and China already know that the president of the United States is helping to clear the way for their adventures—and they should keep their faux-outrage to themselves.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Maybe Russia and China Should Sit This One Out
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are just shocked—shocked!—by the American attack on Venezuela.
www.theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Surely nobody is this stupid. *Yes*, we will say that: we will roar, screech, foam at the mouth and squeal, and if any notable says “Isn’t this a bit like the US kidnapping the leader of Venezuela” then our politicians and media outlets will unify to scream abuse at them, too. Yet again!
Gideon Rachman * @gideonrachman X.com So when China launches a special op to seize the president of Taiwan: or Russia tries to do the same for Zelensky - what exactly do we say? You can't do that, it's illegal?
January 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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garethlpowell.bsky.social
Where are all the science fiction readers on Bluesky? If you're out there, say hello!
garethlpowell.bsky.social Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 5d
Happy #NationalScienceFictionDay everyone. Go read some science fiction #books!
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 PM
lapsed-heathen.bsky.social
The West has found a way to end free speech
open.substack.com/pub/councile...
The West has found a way to end free speech
The censorship industrial complex has gone into overdrive as western governments look for ways to suppress dissenting opinions, and our rulers have now figured out the best approach: sanctions.
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
It was never about immigration…
louobrien19.bsky.social Louis O'Brien @louobrien19.bsky.social · 7d
Thursday's MAIL: Digital IDs for babies #TomorrowsPapersToday
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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clairecopperman.bsky.social
This is exactly the kind of fearless journalism we need more of.
stephencollins.bsky.social Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 7d
One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?
A comic for the Guardian by Stephen Collins on New Years Eve 2024. Script as follows: 1 THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him. Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading: OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England FAN 1: That’s Harry Styles! FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]: Can I have a selfie, Harry? 2 FAN: What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry? 3 HARRY STYLES: Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘ 4 *FSHW* [Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM] 5 [We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it] 6 [Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles] [Legend on screen]: ARTIST ELIMINATED HOLLAND: Goddamn it 7 HOLLAND: Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT? 8 HOLLAND: Tim Davie! TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]: Y-yes Jools? HOLLAND: Who’ve we got left for this year? 10 TIM DAVIE: The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond HOLLAND: Almond *again*? 11 TIM DAVIE: We’re running out of artists to call, sir… M-must we keep killing… so many…? HOLLAND: You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it… 12 HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]: Must be eliminated
December 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
lapsed-heathen.bsky.social
This is fascinating.
www.standard.co.uk/news/environ...
The Coronation Pavement, also known as the Cosmati Pavement, at Westminster Abbey in central London, which researchers say is a slice through a rhombic dodecahedron intended to show harmony (Jonathan Brady/ PA)
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Strong prospects if they ever bring back the 3-legged race
"We'll use AI to help GB athletes win medals, says UK sport chair"
December 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?

Interesting

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He kicks the dude in the beans and then mocks him
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 11d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
NEW

Jane Austen as a writer about law

Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me

(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)

emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
emptycity.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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amandasmith.bsky.social
I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
The Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY is facing foreclosure by December 31st. The Paleontological Research Institution needs to raise $1 million or their collection of 7-10 million fossils — one of the largest in North America — gets scattered across the country. This includes world-renowned Burgess Shale specimens, the most complete eurypterid ever found, and the Hyde Park Mastodon. Many fossils came from sites that are now paved over and can never be collected again. The NYT just covered their fight for survival. If you've ever visited or care about preserving paleontological research, they're accepting donations of any size.
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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astrokatie.com
[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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andrecarrington.bsky.social
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
Twitter screenshot, 23 December 2016 (and god knows we needed a laugh at the end of that year): Gerry Adams, “This house is like Santa's Grotto. Takes half an hour 2 switch off fairy lights and assorted Yule illuminations. Feel like a grinch now.” Reply from ‘Eddielzzard'sBeret’: “Surely you know someone who can fit a timer.”
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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silversprite.bsky.social
One of my schoolmates runs a gift shop in Worcester. These are currently her best sellers in the run up to Christmas.
Two retro designed metal plates, each with a painting of a woman baking with exaggerated happiness. One says "Baking. Because murder is wrong." while the other days "I baked you some shut the fucupcakes."
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
lapsed-heathen.bsky.social
Government announces exciting plan to put spyware in every device that can't be removed
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Government announces exciting plan to put spyware in every device that can't be removed
All of us agree that the one thing the government could do to solve the cost of living crisis and make life bearable for everyone is to put surveillance software in our devices and spy on everything w...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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bethanyblack.bsky.social
Your taste is in your arse, go fuck yourself. “Oh but I love my mum’s gravy and it’s like this” your mum makes shite gravy you only like it because of, excuse the pun, Stock Home Syndrome
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue:

1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims

2- see above
October 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
I don't send emails out of the blue to people offering author services and my email doesn't have the word author in it. If you receive such an email it is not from me.
December 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM