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Jack Blackburn

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History Correspondent and Diary Editor for The Times

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Help I've accidentally become too important at work and it is burning me out” #celebritytraitors
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like she has a black lab and enjoys real ale #celebritytraitors
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Help I've accidentally become too important at work and it is burning me out” #celebritytraitors
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Traitors fans be like:
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Romesh develops a theory that traitors don’t eat carbs Immediately looks at a plate belonging to a super model #celebritytraitors
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#celebritytraitors
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Richard E Grant’s strategy is amazing - Turn up and tell anyone “I want to be a traitor” - Become a Traitor and laugh like a Bond villain - Tell everyone you’re a Traitor #celebritytraitors
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alternative interpretation
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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
“Go on! Be hopeful! Please!”
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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 · 27/09/2026
SLEEP TIGHT
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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
What a wonderful place
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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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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These aren’t strawmen so much as total non-sequiturs. Truly bizarre.
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That’s hilarious
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow - what a discount
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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
His wife has just threatened to cut her son’s legs off if he doesn’t stop kicking the seat in front. So I’m wondering if they’re admirers of the other Mike Myers.
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That’s what he does when you try to make a claim
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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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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Better than the equivalent for Sussex
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Interesting specific comparison…
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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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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
True, but Novak Djokovic called and wants his look back
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*imagining
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m imaging 1999 and you going to see this with some mates. They see the opening crawl and say: “What the hell?” You see it and say: “Oh this is the good shit”.
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jupiter’s had a glow-up
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Especially one they share genetic material with
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So excited about this
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cute. We were 66 by then.
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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
👏
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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
Surely not…
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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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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What’s occurred?
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Having grown up in an agricultural area, I can never support Garden Route Badgers
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To be fair, you’d get lots of death with the Ottomans too
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shapeless, toothless, clueless #mufc
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was on a train last year and someone started having a work Zoom call without headphones. Someone realised that they were about to talk about sensitive information and ended the call.
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