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Jim
@passerjim.bsky.social
Generally sardonic, often sarcastic. Etymology enthusiast.
Bird-watching and cats. IT background.
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Please repost. This is so important.
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Hi,
Many on this platform, are disturbed that to see any official gov communications, they have to go back onto the #CessPit of X.
Could you please ask the media department to include @bsky.app and the growing Labour presence on here to give us representation and a voice.
January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How surprising and unexpected. Absolute bunch of third-rate educationally-challenged inept chancers.
The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I have a Lenovo PC. I understand they have a good relationship with Microsoft. I understand that they are largely owned by a Chinese company.
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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"Press Gazette has spotted more than 100 examples of fictional content sent by dodgy PR companies being published by major newsbrands in recent months."

Including quoting people who don't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/how-to-...
How to spot fake AI-written press releases
Reporters are being bombarded with millions of press releases from virtual PR agencies.
pressgazette.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We all know this is true. Anyone opened a book yet on when Netanyahu will explain why he had to renege and it has nothing to do with him facing charges for corruption? If so, put me down for one week, now that Orangina's Nobel aspirations have gone south so he's lost interest.
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Viewed from the safety of not being in the UK, it's actually hilarious. Her smug, condescending, bullying tone signalling she's about to be supremely confidently completely & utterly wrong about every aspect of today's topic, whatever that is.
Genuinely astonished she's still in position tbh.
October 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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listen to this man 👇
September 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Venn diagram
June 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
@susiedent.com Hi there! I just read a newspaper article which contained the expression "It was a bold-faced lie." I've always thought it should be "bald-faced lie". Is this just another egg-corn? Thanks, Jim.
August 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
And so it came to pass.
“Putin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.
August 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
@threadsusersnotgettingit
Phew! At least it’s still a good one.
August 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Imagine being Trump or Netanyahu, and being so fearful of getting prosecuted in a court for your heinous crimes that you're prepared to start a World War to avoid it.
#Israel #maga #netanyahu #trump
August 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Nigel Farage has been called “unhinged” and “like a giant manbaby” after a tense meeting with US politicians

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...
US lawmaker says Nigel Farage is a 'giant manbaby'
"This is why we had a revolution against you guys"
www.thelondoneconomic.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@peterstefanovic.bsky.social Is it my imagination, or is the institutional right-wing bias currently afflicting BBC news reporting starting to wane? I just read this (potentially good-news) report on housing and it only has 3 neg-paragraphs beginning with "However".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Up to 40,000 homes to be built on disused railway land
The UK government is taking a
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Superb!
Just missed out on this year’s John Moores Painting Prize with ‘Fracture’. Although I was amazed to get to Stage 2. Congratulations to those who got through!
June 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Sometimes the only answer to some of the more asinine intellectuals attacking London is some good old-fashioned laughter and mockery @ottoenglish.bsky.social
🔴'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'

Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Thoughts with @ianleslie.bsky.social at this difficult time.
June 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Imagine how comfortable you must feel today if you are an American holidaying abroad, when you see what the psycho your fellow citizens (who don't own passports) have voted in has done now, to keep the Epstein files secret, and himself out of court.
#USStrikesIran
June 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM