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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16h

I spoke to Esther this spring and she was lovely, charming, generous and as sharp as anything. Very sad news. Dame Esther Rantzen obituary: presenter and founder of Childline www.thetimes.com/article/c8f8...

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Dame Esther Rantzen obituary: presenter and founder of Childline

Spirited and trailblazing host of the hugely popular That’s Life! as well as the founder of the charities Childline and the Silver Line

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looking back on when we first met I cannot escape and I cannot forget Andy you're the one You still turn me on You can make me

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When you’re Bill Clinton arriving back in your birthplace

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But as @hackblackburn.bsky.social has already pointed out, the conference slogan does feel somewhat like an order bsky.app/profile/hack...

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is meant as a promise But it reads like an imperative

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not sure I’m important enough to be donating money to this cause

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not sure I’m important enough to be donating money to this cause

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Blair didn’t find the WMDs so had to settle for some guns

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nine years ago today, I went out on a date

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Joe Twyman @joetwyman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And I have a cracking presentation that explores all of this, featuring Judy Garland in blackface and Bill Cosby as the devil. Available for corporate events, Christmas parties, birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs etc.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remain really uneasy about this.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In addition - the sketches are not racist, and it is a sign of a broader malaise that we now treat “jokes about racists and racism” as indistinguishable from “racist jokes”.

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stuck on a delayed flight and amused by the man behind me who is talking to a colleague about their boss’s potential new hire “He LOVES Mike Myers’ CV! He’s done everything in insurance. Yeah, yeah - Mike Myers has definitely got to be on the shortlist.”

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've said versions of this before but social media is meant to be fun, WAS fun for some years, and we hit problems when people started to believe it was a viable way of conducting debate.

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve just been told that October 8th is World Octopus Day, and why the hell isn’t it August 8th?

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

See, normally you wouldn’t get up in the middle of the night to watch the rowing heats but now…

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Saw two men - RP accents, early 60s - come close to blows in the cinema last night because one of them told the other to turn their phone off. Something bad and strange is happening in society.

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Crikey. Didn’t realise Piddington had that sort of economic heft.

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m hearing the new government of Piddington have found a £22bn black hole in their finances A separatist source said: “We didn’t know about this before the coup”.

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen”

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill is here Why does Burnham want the power? Why is it couched in such emotive language? There’s a valid, obvious reason why Catholics are barred from appointing CofE bishops. Clue is in the names. It’s not a great injustice. This is weird

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen”

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As a theology graduate and Sussex boy, this post was made for me

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Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I refuse to believe Ralph de Neville (bishop of Chichester 1224-1244) didn't know what he was doing when he assigned the theology lectureship to the Prebendary of Wittering.

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026