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Helen Jerome

@helenjerome.bsky.social
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writing. football - women’s and men’s. theatre. music. film. telly. books. comedy. food. cider. opera. all with a passion. carpe diem. editor of thenewwomenssportmagazine.com

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 3h
I have five words for you... The Tulip Crash of 1637
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Paulo Padilha @paulopadilha.bsky.social · 8h
Sometimes I wonder what it must feel like to be the world’s richest man and its most worthless human being at the same time
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 13h
Mid-November, "Musk" will be available for rent on Apple/Amazon etc. In January it will be on HBO.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h
Inside Ohio’s revolt against data centers [via @insideclimatenews.org]
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Inside Ohio’s revolt against data centers
A colorful crew of activists helped spur 10 moratorium votes next month. Now they’re eyeing a statewide ban.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
By the way, the Guardian has started a new election-watch newsletter and I'll be writing for it along with a bunch of others.... Please consider subscribing!
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Sign up for How We Win: a pop-up opinion newsletter with bold ideas for defeating Trumpism
Stacey Abrams, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Naomi Klein, Mehdi Hasan, Bernie Sanders, Rebecca Solnit and other leading thinkers offer ideas and analysis for how to save US democracy and build a better ...
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Beyond parody 🚬
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 14/10/2026
Pulling some thoughts together from disparate discussions on the SoA / AI Charter thing... (Full text here: societyofauthors.org/charter-of-e...)
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Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries  - The Society of Authors
Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries International authors’ organisations and other creative industry bodies have joined forces to create an international charter setting out commitmen...
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Lionesses Keira Walsh waxing lyrical to me about #England debutante Lexi Potter - aka Keira Walsh 2.0. For @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026
Researchers Suggest Wild Horses Don’t Have To Worry About Any Of This theonion.com/researchers-suggest-wi…
Researchers Suggest Wild Horses Don’t Have To Worry About Any Of This
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Saw a play where one of the onstage props was a rotating dial phone. The character used their finger - not to rotate clockwise from the specific numbers - but to press each number. Felt a bit queasy!
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 12/10/2026
This is NOT an ad for @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social’s new documentary “MUSK” (in theaters now). We are promoting it for free. Join us right here on October 20, 2026 at 9am Pacific/noon Eastern for a livestream hosted by @niedermeyer.online.
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The picture is Geoff Andrew hosting this morning's delightful, heart-warming, funny, moving and appropriately laudatory memorial event for Tony Rayns at King's College. I came of age reading Tony in 'Time Out', invariably with a touch of awe....
A large projection shows an image of the film critic Tony Rayns, with a QR code and the words 'Tony Rayns 1948-2026); before it and to the left of the image a man with a microphone stands behind a desk speaking to an unseen audience.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026
Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-h…
Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 10/10/2026
"Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important film of the year." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elon...
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Musk review: Alex Gibney shows Elon, warts and all (mostly warts)
May be the most important film of the year.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The deeper history of literally everything can be assumed to have been like this, can it not?
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In danger of getting overlooked, what with airing at just after midnight this coming Sunday, an absolutely brilliant Omnibus film from 1988 about Caryl Churchill. I believe the only time anyone's ever attempted to film Fen and those sequences are unforgettable. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Four - Omnibus, Caryl Churchill
Portrait of Caryl Churchill, one of Britain's most prolific and versatile playwrights.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Could do with one of these tbh 🥣
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Gone on holiday and I think this hotel is haunted by George Michael
Soap and a box of tissues, labelled “Carex” and “Whisper” respectively
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
⚽ Ahead of the #Lionesses World Cup qualifier double-header v #Greece - tomorrow and Tuesday - we look at which of the young guns might break through to the senior #England squad. ✍️ By Georgia Hamblett for @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/young-guns-w...
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YOUNG GUNS – which young Lionesses will step up? - The New Women's Sport Magazine
From Lexi Potter and Erica Meg Parkinson to Freya Godfrey, there are young Lionesses eagerly awaiting their senior debuts. But who will get on the teamsheet as England take on Greece – twice – as both...
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#ewegov 🐑
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More #cycling 🚴‍♀️ - this time on Xan Crees - from Peter Barnes for @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/round-two-ee...
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ROUND TWO – Een Tweede Ronde aka Xan Crees’ Second Year - The New Women's Sport Magazine
Much has changed in the year since cyclo-cross champ Xan Crees launched her own team; much has stayed the same. And the pressure remains. Peter Barnes brings us up to speed… Originally launched as OGT...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/10/2026
End Of Man’s Usefulness To Society Celebrated With Sheet Cake
End Of Man’s Usefulness To Society Celebrated With Sheet Cake
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Premiering tomorrow October 8, at the BFI London Film Festival, 'In the Shadows' is an exciting boxing biopic about Ramla Ali, and you can read more about it in our interview with star, Jasmine Jobson, and Ali herself. For @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/shadow-boxin...
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SHADOW BOXING. Ramla Ali’s incredible story is now a brilliant boxing biopic - The New Women's Sport Magazine
Boxing feature film In the Shadows has its premiere at the 70th BFI London Film Festival this week, with a wider release to come. Helen M Jerome and Ron Shillingford talk to the subject, Ramla Ali, an...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...
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Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist
The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! £2.99 in shops, £2 for subscribers, and only 20p for Emirati sponsors of Man City… Sheikh Mansour will cover the rest.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
Netflix Now Requiring All Subscribers To Recruit 5 New Customers theonion.com/netflix-now-requiring-…
Netflix Now Requiring All Subscribers To Recruit 5 New Customers
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wrote about the Manchester City scandal as a textbook case of sportswashing in plain sight. In our whipsaw age of impunity, some potential accountability—if not comeuppance—for Manchester City is conspicuously refreshing. For @gqmagazine.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/manche...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Explosive Manchester City Scandal
Last week, an independent commission determined that the illustrious soccer club had engaged in extreme financial chicanery totaling a whopping $1.2 billion.
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
👀 If you want variety, check out our home page @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social - with boxing 🥊 cinema 🍿 cycling 🚴‍♀️ rugby 🏉 football ⚽ and triathlon 🏊‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🚲 all there - and all from different writers ✍️ thenewwomenssportmagazine.com
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💯 agree 🤦🏽‍♀️
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Possible conflicts of interest” 🤦🏽‍♀️
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Khonri 🫜🎃 @khonri.com · 04/10/2026
I'm feeling attacked by @theonion.com but also 10/10.
"How a Book Becomes A Bestseller, The Onion demystifies the publishing process."

1. Proletariat becomes literate. 
2. Author's creative inspiration flourishes upon marrying spouse with high-earning, unethical job.
3. Author chooses magical being to have sex with, then works backwards.
4. Author lands agent by running full speed into them while holding loose-leaf copy of manuscript.
5. Penguin Random House blackmailed into seven-figure book deal.
6. Editor removes typos and originality.
7. Famous author who hasn't read book reminded they got three glowing blurbs last year from authors who hadn't read theirs.
8. Publisher contacts Merriam-Webster to license all words it's using.
9. Marketing completely misrepresents plot, tone, and author.
10. Terrified independent bookstore owners gamble their razor-thin profit margin on this one.
11. PR firm hires thousands of people through Craigslist to performatively read book on subway.
12. Colman Domingo, contractually obligated to appear in all things, voices audiobook.
13. New York Times oracle nods.
14. Book written for sole purpose of becoming movie becomes movie.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quite apart from anything else, I am obsessed with the sub-genre of marketing intended to reassure men about using toiletries. Half the moisturisers you see are called MAN CAVE or BRO SMEAR. It's all so hysterically insecure.
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anniempeterson.bsky.social @anniempeterson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dude who has a newly created position in the U.S. military and is the biggest contributor to the GOP has a company that thinks it’s just fine to create non consensual porn from pictures of us and our kids.
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Really looking forward to seeing this 🍒 very soon
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Make them crawl. This is now our American republic. We are the shithole nation.
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seeing my ancestor’s comic masterpiece ‘Three Men in a Boat’ as a play @rosetheatre2008.bsky.social
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🥊 🍿 Two passions collide here! Cinema and women's sport. Read our interview with boxer Ramla Ali and actor Jasmine Jobson, who plays her in the movie 'In The Shadows' - for @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social. See it at the BFI London Film Festival this week. thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/shadow-boxin...
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SHADOW BOXING. Ramla Ali’s incredible story is now a brilliant boxing biopic - The New Women's Sport Magazine
Boxing feature film In the Shadows has its premiere at the London Film Festival this week, with a wider release to come. Helen M Jerome and Ron Shillingford talk to the subject, Ramla Ali, and the act...
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🏉 Charlotte Davey makes her ✍️ debut for @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social interviewing Exeter Chiefs rising star Dani Preece. thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/dani-buoyed-...
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DANI BUOYED UP. Exeter Chiefs hat-trick hero Danielle Preece speaks - The New Women's Sport Magazine
Exeter Chiefs returned to PWR Cup action last weekend with a dominant 67-13 victory over Leicester Tigers, and Danielle Preece certainly made an impact! Charlotte Davey speaks to the young Chiefs star...
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Peter @pbcyclewrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I did have some thoughts post-Worlds
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚴‍♀️ Thoughtful piece from Peter Barnes on the recent Road Cycling World Champs in Montreal - and what it means... for @newwomenssportmag.bsky.social thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/state-of-the...
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STATE OF THE NATIONS – Road Cycling World Champs Retrospective - The New Women's Sport Magazine
Montreal hosted the 2026 Road Cycling World Championships on a compelling parcours. There was climbing, although focused into smaller climbs rather than one big climb per circuit. This led to some int...
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this will be one of the defining images of the Premier League's void years: a proudly working class fanbase celebrating that the ruling family of an oppressive regime had hired a barrister on £10,000-an-hour to try and prevent them suffering consequences for their cheating. Embarrassing.
A bunch of mugs celebrating their perceived impunity
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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