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Brian Jefferson

@bjeff1.bsky.social
453 followers 224 following 1.2K posts

Retired maths teacher, folk singer/songwriter (www.youtube.com/channel/UCe6Urf-Rcz…), grumpy old man.

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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 14h
How can one tell if interference has had an impact? There is no control group against which to compare. It is agreed that in general advertising works (else why pay for it) so how is this different?
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 19h
I always regarded Emily as one of the sane ones, but this is just bollocks. FOM is part and parcel of membership and is anyway desirable in its own right.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 20h
I don’t think influence is the point. You can’t just say “they interfered but it didn’t work so it doesn’t matter”. If they interfered in any way it is unacceptable.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why is this even a question? Fuck off, Trump.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think the polite response is “Thank you for coming”.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Putin is safe as long as he has the film of Trump raping children.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not attention span, hypocrisy and deviousness because it appears he must have made the Russia oil agreement at about the same time, just delaying the announcement.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There has been a permanent shift of perception of the US whatever happens.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you’re feeling down in the mouth you’ll soon be spitting feathers.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On Monday (12 Oct) MPs will be debate the UK Rejoining the EU! Coming after Andy Burnham's speech at the Labour Party Conference, over 25,000 people have written to their MP asking them to attend The next petition is already live and growing petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Start negotiations now to Rejoin the EU
10 years after the Brexit referendum and 6 years after leaving the EU, it is clear to us that Brexit isn't working. We believe any benefits have been dwarfed by loss of influence, extra costs and the ...
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
RefUK Freepost address
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If it were a Musk rocket it would just blow up on the launchpad anyway.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Like a hall of mirrors.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Painful but unsurprising.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just give them the frozen Russian assets.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
How I wish that none of us had heard of Trump.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And the circus has only got clowns.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh yes he was.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Donny Crookett
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And there was me thinking it was Europe’s town.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That always was his best move.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And the pig got up and slowly walked away (if you know the poem)
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Be grateful. Think what the others would have been like.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just do it.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There should be heads on spikes in the background.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love it!
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My Mum would put cabbage on to boil at the same time as the joint went into the oven.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If only the size of one's wage were determined entirely by how hard one works! Think how hard someone on a hundred grand would be working compared to a care worker, say.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m not in favour of freelance revenge, but there comes a point…
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess if evil can be good (© P Thiel) then hate can be a compliment.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fair enough! But cats?
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good to see misogynistic stereotypes from last century are still alive and well.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Correction - I can’t let my dog roam.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Think how baffling that question would have been less than 20 years ago.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Domestic cats should not be allowed to roam freely. It is perfectly possible to make a large semi-outdoor enclosure with enough entertainment. I can let my dog roam free but the neighbourhood cats have 24 hour freedom and kill not only birds but rodents, amphibians, slow-worms and more.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m a bit confused. Cats, cars an turbines kill whales?
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But at least they are nursing her back to health so they can kill her properly.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She stoops to conker.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A pity about the label “toadstools” when the rest is more specific. Lovely illustration.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Or something to do with the psychotropic properties of muscaria?
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Of course we should, but Blair should just keep out of it.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let’s have the euro. It was only a stupid Blair/Brown era decision that kept the pound and perhaps already having the euro would have swayed the referendum.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jurgen is one of the good guys.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s the sort of drama I joined BlueSky for.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because why not?
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Agree in principle but I foresee difficulties in making it legally watertight. Unless of course you are suggesting that bans could be arbitrarily imposed at the whim of whoever was in power.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But to a capitalist the only value of a garden is the amount you can charge people to come and visit it.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And they get to feel important, too.
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Brian Jefferson @bjeff1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a no-brainer.
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