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@doesjoknow.bsky.social
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Artist, fundraiser and Johanna factotum

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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m a sucker for novelty biscuits but I was not prepared for the colour of these Oreos (taste: very sweet, strongly chemical)
Photo of a startlingly lilac colured BTS themed Oreo coookie
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Christopher Nolan, make the sirens weird bird-women, you coward (jk loved the film)
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We can't be in conflict with Canada, man. Someone's got to set up a Reverse Truman Show for Trump, where he thinks he's always on camera but nobody sees or hears any of the things he says.
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sorry to give a serious answer, but the British Citizenship test is entirely about proving you want to live here badly enough to memorise an entire book of arbitrary facts. When I was revising, there were many answers native citizens didn’t know, had no cause to know, and had never been taught.
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trent Reznor’s favourite species at the London Zoo is Achatina achatina Nine inch snails
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Captain Revo @captainrevo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I know Count Binface has realistically no chance of winning that by-election, but if he did, it would be the funniest thing in British election history.
A count Binface poster in reds and blues, with the word Hope
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@hovisbakery.bsky.social Hey Hovis, I got the strangest loaf of bread. The loaf weighed well under 800g and the slices are all shaped like mittens
Weird shaped loaf of Hovis tasty whole meal
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Historical linguists never so aggrieved
NYT Spelling Bee rejecting the word "lenition"
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Why are all the commuter mugs in our house disgusting? Have some been merely rinsed? Panorama investigates.
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I am sitting in my car in the rain drinking tea from a flask. I was even looking forward to it. Please don’t tell my 25 year-old past self about this.
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social LENITION en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenition
en.wikipedia.org
Lenition - Wikipedia
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Art of the day Guim Tió Zarraluki
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Rooftop intensive care ward / garden — what an amazing fundraising proposition. Great example of something ‘additional’ and even visionary where donors can make a difference www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK's first rooftop intensive care ward opens at King's College Hospital
The outdoor ward, at King's College Hospital in London, will monitor how much it boosts the recovery of seriously ill patients.
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@rejectednytwords.bsky.social MIDDEN (refuse heap) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
en.wikipedia.org
Midden - Wikipedia
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is becoming a great series. “Supposedly fun things @annamerlan.bsky.social is persuaded to do (again)”
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Has anyone checked whether Joe Kent is a Victorian time traveller? Someone ask his views on the Dreyfus affair
Joe Kent in Victorian style filter
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Never have so many fought so that so few could make so much money.
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Has anyone recorded a song with the lyrics ‘Constant laundry’ to the tune of the KD Lang song?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/02/2026
can we please give my tax dollars to a blue haired 23 year old who will make weird alienating art with it instead of this wasteful bullshit
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kelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I’m sorry to bring Stephen Miller on to your feed but this actually shocked me.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I failed to finish my French cheek-kissing map in time for Valentine's Day so I'm having a sale on my equally romantic cholera deaths map instead. Now 15% off! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
3D French cheek-kissing map—coming soon!3D map of cholera deaths in Soho in 1854
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@CardiffCouncil.bsky.social Relieved to see the figure isn’t higher, but we should not be feeding school children chicken imported from outside the EU. Any at all is shocking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Chicken in some Welsh school dinners imported from China and Thailand
Chicken from thousands of miles away is particularly prevalent in some Welsh counties.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A quick look at Reform run councils should disabuse them of the notion they'll "get things done".
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/01/2026
The spectacular conclusion of MOBY-DICK WEEK at @flaminghydra.com just subscribe, it is worth $3/week for about forever Feat. a glorious essay from Carrie Frye, and an original SEA SHANTY via the offices of @joemacleod666.bsky.social I am not KIDDING. flaminghydra.com/lust-for-lif...
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Lust for life / Recessional
Carrie Frye on the romances of Moby-Dick; a farewell shanty from Joe MacLeod and friends
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism. He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 16/12/2025
For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Politicians can’t claim a mandate to do whatever they want on the basis of voter will if they deceived the electorate to get those votes in the first place.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 17/12/2025
A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
ME: god i'm so sick of hollywood making movies and tv shows about "the industry." nobody cares ALSO ME: ANACONDA (2025) should be 85% jack black and paul rudd playing slightly exaggerated versions of themselves pitching execs on an ANACONDA reboot. at the end they fight a giant snake for like 10 min
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 16/12/2025
AND FINALLY: Please CELEBRATE the victors of HYDRANYM volume 28! flaminghydra.com/annals-of-hy...
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Annals of Hydranym
a fiery writer-owned cooperative
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 13/12/2025
Hoo! Are you a @flaminghydra.com subscriber? Please don't forget to vote in HYDRANYM No. 28, our absurd acronym game (if not, subscribe and play!) amazing entries on the theme: HERO'S JOURNEY very lol flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...
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HYDRANYM No. 28: Vote!
by The Editors A grave responsibility awaits you. The moment has come to render your verdict on the best Hydranyms on the theme of HERO'S JOURNEY HYDRANYM is the Creative Writing word game espec...
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.economist.com/britain/2025... plug!
economist.com
Zombie politics: how Dead Man dominates British politics
Britain’s parties are catering to a voter who is, often literally, dead
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Just got a mailing from Reform UK. It asked me what issues were important to me, but there wasn’t a box to tick for ‘Reform politicians accepting Russian money to peddle Russian propaganda.’ Must be an oversight.
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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The president of the United States just called for the execution of his political opponents. We cannot normalize this. This is a moment for moral clarity.
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
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There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Happy FBAR panic eve to all who celebrate! Is the acronym a joke or a threat? Who knows!
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Jo @doesjoknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What a surprise, the middlemen are profiting the most
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Exc - The publisher of the Washington Post, Will Lewis, is facing fresh questions over his independence after leaked files revealed he gave extensive crisis support to Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser. Lewis spent two days with Johnson in No10 as part of a team battling to save him.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/08/2025
"Friendship is not, in fact, forever. It lasts approximately nine to ten months when you’re an adult with elementary school-aged children. And our bell has rung; our time is up." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
mcsweeneys.net
Our Kids Will No Longer Be in the Same Class, So I Guess We’re Dead to Each Other Now
It was beautiful witnessing our children’s blossoming friendship when they were in Miss Penny’s first-grade class—and by extension, our friendship ...
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.
washingtonpost.com
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/06/2025
Gov. Tim Walz: "Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Our state lost a great leader and I lost the dearest of friends...We must all stand against political violence."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My phone just served me this picture, from a March 2021 CNBC hit, and I want to put it in a museum of pandemic times.
A woman about to go live on TV via zoom, while a baby eats cheerios in a high chair and a dog begs for crumbs.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There are two problem-solving approaches: 1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it or 2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems. The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.
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