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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 9h
You wake up at 5am. You hear murmuring. You go downstairs. It’s Andy Burnham. He is waiting in a dark room with a single lightbulb. “Chris I’ve been expecting you” he says. “I’ve been tracking your thoughts. A Labour government will correct these for you”. You try to escape but it’s too late.
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 9h
Ok but say Andy Burnham said thought crimes are illegal under a Labour government. You would be scared of the ai then, no? Like say Burnham said if you think the word death you will be arrested forever. And then you can’t think the word death and you do trying not to and the police come for you.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Their problem is consumption. Moving to more capital intensive production makes the problem worse
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ask Jev!
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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Last POTUS to grow up without indoor plumbing was Bill Clinton
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’ve written I think a fair and clear Trustpilot review, but I miss the days on Twitter where you could tag them and get a directly groveling apology
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@cjterry.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social guardian says life was better in wartime Britain. I remember my grandparents wouldn’t eat much and offered me to eat mouldy bread, because that’s how it was back in the day. Simpler times
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 12/10/2026
this is extremely dumb because a momentary sober reflection on how AI is likely to extend lifespans would tell us that the mechanism is almost certain to be "helping us invent a bunch of different drugs that improve various different things," & "making people stop smoking" is an already solved one
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@jorisbinned.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social disappointing the government is cutting education opportunities in Wales
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@lawrencemckay.bsky.social
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wasn’t making a comment on the author it was more how Holden referred to a trope about Jewish chabad landlords buying properties and evicting black tenants to gentrify Brooklyn. I have seen other leftists repeat this idea
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I phone banked for Owen smith and met him when he visited here. I eventually became very despondent about politics
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@nutedawn.bsky.social @deargodwhaat.bsky.social @cjterry.bsky.social lots of important work has been done to reconcile tensions between the Jewish community of Brooklyn and the black community of Brooklyn and I am worried that there are interests seeking to divide these communities again
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Revisionist rewrite of Peppa Pig from the pov of Daddy Pig, who married into a higher social class and has never been fully accepted by his in-laws
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this one involved answering several hundred questions about my personal psyche. I think that is very subjective frankly. who am I to judge if I am empathetic or cruel? timely or disordered?
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I did get offered an assessment for adhd but because I found the application form too difficult to do on my own I didn't submit it so I am at the back of the waiting list. however I might have it you are right
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
sometimes we all get carried away by a joke. some pretend our friends are secretly a doctor from a well known medical drama. others pretend they are victorian craniometrists.
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
do not be mean to dan please, he was making a joke
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@jamesdaustin.bsky.social I thought I would share - owen jones who is on the left in this country is sharing a relatively obscure (but very serious) antisemitic conspiracy theory about jewish people
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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I mean, you absolutely do not have to hand it to the Sun, but it's nonetheless fascinating and perhaps an indication that the TERFs have overreached
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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This feels like an interesting inflection point
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
why do lib dems and socially liberal people like the show so much? I have never fully understood this. I know RTD is a liberal himself but earlier seasons were far from fuzzy warm liberalism
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
you sound like a new atheist here lol
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
dan: doctor who did not define a genre of sci fi television or break british culture onto an international stage. the whole premise of it, and the plot devices it uses, have aged terribly. furthermore, regarding the pacing of the seasons - me: - stop me: let people enjoy things
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
though as you will likely point out, for Kansas this is liberal skewed!
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
he claims the figure is higher, that he does preach to republicans as well as democrats "Hamilton estimates that some 9,000 of those are Republicans" www.christiancentury.org/news/how-meg...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
When Adam Hamilton returned to Resurrection United Methodist Church last month, the megachurch pastor stood onstage looking almost sheepish. It was his first time preaching there in months, or roughly...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Fear is infectious, of course. But hope is also infectious. People have courage now because they think that they can have courage." Neha Bora profiled by @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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From theatre to streets, Gen Z protester Neha Bora a new face of India's youth unrest
The 29-year-old doctoral student said she did not set out to become an activist.
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@quarkquent.bsky.social you may be interested in some of the analysis here
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@cjterry.bsky.social @deargodwhaat.bsky.social @danwaterfield.bsky.social @lines.ink first time Israeli voters have only known of Netanyahu's rule - terror, war, death and the impossibility of peace
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The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 11/10/2026
Over 500,000 Israelis aged between 18 and 22 are expected to be voting for the first time this month. Read more: www.timesofisrael.com/peace-is-not...
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11/10/2026
The Monolith and the Apes from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this is my thought too. in california they are proposing a wealth tax on billionaires which is a noble principle but most economists have said it will reduce tax revenues so the net effect seems a bit pointless
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also I think it is worth adding during covid most non orthodox Jewish services went online - there was an absence of material to work from online at that time (except for chabad ofc) so he filled a niche
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think Azi Schwartz is very good at promoting music to a sort of secular / culturally religious Jewish background - a background familiar to a lot of Jewish Americans. Maybe you like religious music and the algo has picked up on it?
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Visit the monastery and fund claude's wine habit, and receive knowledge in exchange, but it only speaks in biblical metaphors or whatever
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social if you know non orthodox jewish music lore you will like this moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j_...
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‘You’ll Be Back’ x ‘Adon Olam’ – 10 Years Later
YouTube video by Park Avenue Synagogue
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"my freakin' back is killing me and it's making it hard to kvell"
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3b...
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Curb Your Enthusiasm - 05x08 - The Ski Lift - Larry's Band
YouTube video by RandyMeowenstein
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@cjterry.bsky.social chris what is your opinion of this larry david episode
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think the wider point you are making that the condition of scotland and the scottish people is akin to british colonial rule is wrong and misleading and in my view is offensive to the actual victims of colonisation
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Always been fascinated by the white populist brand of Southern Democrat who whilst not LBJ style liberals were still trying to offer more than just hate.
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think lots of senior figures in the trump admin have troubled backgrounds (not that it justifies any of their actions at all - just something I've seen others notice!)
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have lost your thread
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@nutedawn.bsky.social nute reading about roman history like www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcV8...
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Live in Houston, 1978)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think he means the part where the democratic rights of falkland islanders were defended over a fascist junta
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social ciaran you have been quoted by a respected bluesky account!
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
brutal on software engineers lol
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Chris Hayes liked my good post
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
baja blas mood
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