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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 51m

People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 2h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1h

Bro you have to leave Twitter and come to BlueSky it's so great because people post screenshots of things awful idiots said on Twitter, bro you have to see it

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 4h

I have a degree in English. I used it to get a job where I work on writing for worldwide brand. But, more importantly, it gave me the opportunity to study and examine our country's literature. You know, the sort of thing that makes life worth living.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 18h

I’m starting to think that these google docs don’t even have phds

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 19h

I think the main problem with The Paper is that in a sitcom the lead actor should be funny.

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James @sisterdogmata.bsky.social · 20h

Does anyone have/know someone with a copy of the Black Library novel The Rose at War by Danie Ware they'd be willing to sell at a reasonable price?
Trying to complete my collection of Adepta Sororitas novels and I'm missing this one.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 21h

It would absolutely suck if you had to destroy the only copy of your hand-written memoirs and there wasn’t a roaring fireplace to do it in.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

Unless morale improves

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Fatboy Slim DJ mental health workshops to continue

The Brighton DJ, whose real name is Norman Cook, is working with a Sussex NHS trust and charity.

www.bbc.com

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

The Conversation

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

Dolly Parton is the only pure and perfect thing in this world.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 1d

ICYMI: Around 5,000 children have already been registered for Dolly Parton’s free book-gifting programme, just two months since the initiative first launched in Wandsworth 👇 #BookSky

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Wandsworth recruits 5,000 children in two months

ebx.sh

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

Spell-checking is woke, Jamie.

Or, as they now write it, wike.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

This does make me nostalgic for when we were governed by genuine idiots, ultra-pragmatic, risk-averse joy-crushers.

Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely love this. 10/10, thank you Tories, everything you do is a gift 👏👏👏

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

Reminds me of this

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 1d

This right now is another golden era of @2000ad.bsky.social and Henry’s a huge part of why that is—and yes, it’s time you started reading the Prog again. Get it on the app if you can’t get to the newsstand / are far from the UK

St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 2d

This is what @henryflint.bsky.social is cooking up in Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return. RIGHT NOW. Phenomenal, exciting, psychedelic artwork. Nobody is doing it like Flint.

A page of Henry Flint's art in Judge Dredd, And To The Sea Return. The page features Judge Anderson trying to read the mind of a perp, whos mind is filled with nightmarish images of worms. The panels are all at different angles, suggesting the madness Anderson is witnessing. Sat behind the entire composition is one giant nightmarish worm creature. It's spooky stuff!

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RoboSchro @roboschro.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose it was unavoidable that political time would be measured in imperial units

Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

France’s latest government lasted 13 hours and 47 minutes

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

France’s latest government lasted 13 hours and 47 minutes

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

FRENCH PM LECORNU RESIGNS

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

America, you can keep making films and TV shows about American Football, but no one in the rest of the world is going to give a shit about them.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

BRB just pitching Hobbes and Calvin

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

"I said Big Barda? I hardly know her!"

Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 2d

"What's the deal with the Source Wall anyway? How many sauces do you need? Can't they just make do with ketchup?"

Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 3d

When I was asked to play the Apokolips comedy festival I wasn't sure. But then I found out the only rules were that I couldn't make jokes about Darkseid or the anti-life equation, so I decided to go. And I found out at that the parademons are just like us in many ways.

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Flavio Sette @flaviosette.bsky.social · 2d

"I know Darkseid is searching for the anti-life equation so he can enslave all sentient beings and erase free will even as an abstract concept, but he's paying me enough to look the other way."

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 3d

I had one from the Pizza Pilgrims in Soho that had chips and hot dogs on it. It was what my daughter's nursery used to call a "sad choice".

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 3d

I think part of the reason for Starmer being so keen to use the law against protestors is that he has a background as a prosecutor. When you're used to using a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 3d

When I was asked to play the Apokolips comedy festival I wasn't sure. But then I found out the only rules were that I couldn't make jokes about Darkseid or the anti-life equation, so I decided to go. And I found out at that the parademons are just like us in many ways.

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