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Jim Whitlam

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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Velvet Shank
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is some great work all round.
A post from Stephen about some of the weaker elements of the British music charts and a message (much) further down the thread about Barry Goldwater. We can only surmise how it got from A to B.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Name your favourite Bob
Bob Hoskins
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Not the career direction I would have predicted after his retirement from basketball.
BBC sport headline above a picture of shaq and Sciver-brunt: The rare therapy used by NBA icon O’Neal to get Sciver-Brunt fit.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa Laa Po
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
For those with populated sections I beat yours at least. And nicely obscure:
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Arnie and Barbra concur with Daphne.
Two cats in a fluffy cat bed.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
You will be visited by three spirits
Comp, Clegg and Foggy
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Mandy
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Maigret and Lucas.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Unsolicited Mr. Dick pic.
Hugh Laurie as Mr. Dick in David Copperfield.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Front cover of Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A blue-haired woke activist…
Molly Sugden in Are You Being Served.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A picture of Don Warrington.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
What’s your go to Australian film to recommend to people?
Love Serenade film poster.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
In defence of the writer - he didn’t write the headline (which has since been changed anyway).
Guardian sportblog headline: Luke Littler’s rise brings darts huge opportunities - and burning questions.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Stumbled across this which reminded me of your post…
A letter to the LRB: at my local independent bookshop, where selected books are displayed vertically, I noticed recently that many of them had undulating fore-edges. Modern machine made paper has a grain and the paper will flex more readily with the grain. When I was taught bookbinding, the rule was that pages should have a vertical grain. This results in a book with natural flex when opened.  A book made so that the paper grain runs horizontally opens tightly and its pages will lack natural flexibility. Publishers love great emphasis on cover design but seem to ignore elementary binding technique. I can only assume it comes down to the economics of printing the maximum number of pages from a given sheet of paper.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Isn’t the government meant to do that? Is Chris under the same delusion much of the Tory party are in thinking they still set the agenda?
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Those poor Clets. Related to the Moops I believe. y.yarn.co/9cdc688d-1d9...
George Costanza reads a Trivial Oursuits answer and says: I’m so sorry, it’s the Moops.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
What would you call such a field of study?
Film poster for Weird Science.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
Telegraph loses faith in FTPT. Well whaddayaknow.
The Telegraph:
Distorted election: How share of votes compares with the seats won by each party 
Above charts illustrating the same
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
Enjoyed the installments but…
I ain’t reading all that 
I’m happy for you tho
Or sorry that happened
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 29/06/2024
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
AI (I assume) is doing very odd things to those age-defined exercise/diet regime ads I see constantly.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
In an interview with Harry Hill of all things.
Extract from an interview with comedian Harry Hill in which an editors not is inserted to describe Philip Larkin as a “poet and novelist”. Strictly true I suppose but missing the point.
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
From rafael behr’s piece today. Often wonder where they’d be if they hadn’t purged. Can’t see 2019 would have been worse for them (possibly better in fact). But I suppose the architects of it weren’t interested in party health, only in their own projects. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
“I work hard. I’m not insane!”
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
And so on…
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Jim Whitlam @bocklam.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Love this time of year when the trees aren’t quite fully in leaf and the skeleton is still easily discernible. Constable, Hockney et al knew/know what they were/are doing.
Elm tree (so says Google) in Preston Park.
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