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Christian JB

@christianjb.bsky.social
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Humanist, Zionist Dublin, Ireland You are only one of many And of small account if any, You think about yourself too much

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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I 100% support Ed Sheeran now.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I really enjoyed the new Jon Ronson book, The Castle. Being a careful reader, I think he is suggesting that building a castle with the intent of filling it with a harem is probably not a great idea.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I wonder how the strategy being tried on Bluesky of accusing Sophie Cunningham of being a MAGA bigot for expressing a very commonly held view is going to work out.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 06/07/2026
As the English husband of a part-Brazilian wife I am, of course, being outwardly polite and apologetic this morning, and smug on the inside.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 01/06/2026
Last night
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is the greatest meme by the way. Every time I see a variant of it, it brings me joy.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“I lost my job after harassing a complete stranger in the street because he’s Jewish”
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Jesse Singal writes: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Bluesky taking the new Jesse Singal piece in the NYT well, I see.
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz353bs
IF you accidentally shrink
a top in the wash, all is
not lost. Simply pass on
the item in question to a
smaller friend, and then
phone up a larger friend
to see if they have made
a similar mistake.
Rasputin Cronkite, Leeds
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 15/01/2026
large blue puppet annoying senior citizen
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It does sound more authentic in the original German.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
One of my favourite facts is that when the 90's ode to taking 'E' 'Ebeneezer Goode', was performed on Top of the Pops, the singer shouted out 'Has anyone got any underlay', so they could claim it was not a drugs song, but a song about *rugs*.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Beginning to think that Björk may not be especially wise on geopolitics.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. But nobody wants to discuss the aleph antonym in the room.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I had no idea that nuclear war is bad until I watched a Netflix drama that very clearly showed that nuclear war is bad. Thanks Netflix!
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Galileo’s middle finger. Museum of Galileo, Florence. cc @alicedreger.bsky.social
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Me: I like washing my hands. Makes me feel like a surgeon. My mother: That's the closest you're ever going to get.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I miss having @dumbdumbmm.bsky.social on twitter, because he would 'like' my tasteless jokes.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Somewhat grudgingly, I am now a subscriber to The Bulwark. Somewhat grudgingly, because I'm not even an American! I feel a bit ashamed paying US journalists when I should be supporting European journalism. But I do like The Bulwark, and the work they're doing.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
theatlantic.com
Bari Weiss Still Thinks It's 2020
She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos www.404media.co/apple-banned...
404media.co
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2025
"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 08/10/2025
who up grinding their stump
a sign advertising "stump grinding"
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Youth Culture Killed My Dog | They Might Be Giants
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"This is where we’ve been headed since Jan. 6. The man who fomented an actual insurrection will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law & deploying the military against civilians. The thing about Rubicons is they can’t be uncrossed." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
thebulwark.com
Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
He's now been pardoned, but unbelievable that this happened at all in the first place: Tunisia sentenced a man to *death* last week for criticizing the president on Facebook.
aljazeera.com
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Yes, Of Course, Trump Will Invoke the Insurrection Act open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just sent out this post. Three and a half years after Bucha, after mass child abductions started, after nightly attacks on civilians, the political strength of parties sympathetic to Russia (which is doing these things) is growing not declining. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com
Does Europe Really Want to Save Itself?
We will know Sooner Than Many Understand.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
awesome
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“They are deliberately blurring the line between speech protected by the First Amendment and violence or other unlawful activity, and they seem to be quite explicitly listing viewpoints that they don’t like as predicates for an all-of-government crackdown."
notus.org
Trump’s Directive on ‘Organized Political Violence’ Could Lead to Increased Surveillance of His Critics
The president issued a directive that could make dissent riskier for people and nonprofits.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
When you ask for the salad options.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
theatlantic.com
Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong
The party’s progressives seem to think the problem is not with their platform but with voters.
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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Syrian refugee stabbed to death in street after walking past woman www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
dailymail.co.uk
Syrian refugee stabbed to death in street after walking past woman
Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, had been living in Huddersfield for just a couple of weeks when he was fatally stabbed in the neck in broad daylight by Alfie Franco, 20, Leeds Crown Court heard.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I don't think many Pro Pal protestors would openly support murder. They are not generally Islamist radicals. But I do think they are tolerant of those who commit violence. Violence they often rationalise as 'resistance'. And that's bad enough.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2025
Breaking News: The man who attacked a Manchester synagogue had been released on bail after being accused of rape, according to an official.
nyti.ms
Manchester Synagogue Terrorist Was Under Investigation for Rape
The man who attacked people at the Heaton Park Congregation synagogue in northwestern England had been released on bail, a police official said.
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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/10/2025
I genuinely don't think I've ever done a post on here that a reasonable person would consider to be 'bigotry.' Literally not one. If someone points one out to me I'm happy to consider apologizing and taking it down but I'd be surprised!
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
'experts'.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
ouch
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In October, this year?
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
1/4 Antisemitism is not taken seriously enough in progressive spaces or in pro-Palestinian activism spaces - that is simply a statement of fact Week after week we saw antisemitic elements at pro-Palestine protests, shouting hatred with protesters walking by saying and doing nothing about it
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 03/10/2025
One way that Bluesky today feels like 2010 Twitter: It has an antisemitism problem. There are thankfully plenty of people willing to call it out, but lots of accounts cheering on or justifying terrorism in the last 24 hours.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Religion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence - across generations, participation drops, then importance of religion, and later belonging. This is a broad model for understanding religious change around the world. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
religionnews.com
Religion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence, study argues
(RNS) — The study maps secularization and religious change across more than 100 countries and major religious traditions.
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Does starting and running a wildly successful online politics and news magazine not count as experience?
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Christian JB @christianjb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Dreadful news from Manchester today. I have opinions, but they can wait.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Into my veins. gizmodo.com/the-adl-defe...
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