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Jay Stringer

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Writer. 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon. Jokes. Neurospicy. Multiple award loser. Rufio deserved better.

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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
up to season 4 of my Justified rewatch and i think Constable Bob refusing to give up Raylan under torture might be one of the most heroic moments in television
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Johnny Shaw @bloodandtacos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
DOVE SEASON is back in print as an ebook. With a new foreword by the amazing @christafaust.bsky.social and a cover by the adequate @jaystringer.bsky.social It's arguably my best book, so if you're interested, it's the best place to start. Wherever ebooks are sold.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NGL it’s exceedingly funny to see pundits complaining that England (whose only international success came at a tournament they hosted, at their home stadium) are unfairly at a disadvantage because Mexico (co-hosts) get to play in their home stadium.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It seems like being middle aged is mostly about wondering if my feet will still hurt tomorrow
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Be a Djed Spence. Be a Stan Cullis.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Part mission statement, part tattoo
A man going through a midlife crisis getting a band tattoo reading “I Will Dare Westerberg 3:16”
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’ve been enjoying Apple Music since ditching Spotify. However anytime I let it randomly pick songs for me, it selects Blur 100% more than I ever want to listen to Blur.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I’m working on the rigorous scientific theory that ‘Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash’ by the Replacements is the greatest album of all time.
Album cover. One man sings loudly into a microphone while holding a guitar, another is standing on an amp while playing bass. The image is a mix of black and white photographs with blue stripes and red text.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hello old friend.
An aged Fender Telecaster
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My first Daredevil comic was 1986. I like that the tv show honours my near 40 year run now of thinking Matt Murdock is a fucking idiot
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
VERY excited to see this documentary. Apparently they have new footage of a test run with the suit. people.com/famous-1967-...
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Scotland and England need to pull out of the world cup.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Delroy Lindo. It’s about time.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Its a trap. This is Freddy Krueger in disguise.
A screenshot of a stall next to a loch. The stall is covered in green and red stripes.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
That feeling when you use the promise of the chocolate bar in the fridge to drag yourself about of bed. But then find out there is no chocolate bar in the fridge.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
People are going to be so surprised when Wolves win the league…
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A gentleman is someone who has an opinion about the Odyssey trailer, but doesn’t spend a day arguing about it online.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Christopher Nolan reply guy season starts earlier every year
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
When it comes to pop culture, it's a swinging pendulum People are getting fed up with an internet filled with fakes and lies and cheap fantasies Mark my words: the next cultural swing will be in favor of truth and authenticity and real community
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
For those keeping track, “a goddamned miracle” is the second time WELCOME TO DERRY had reduced me to a blubbering wreck.
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
RIP Peter Greene Here he is helping to set up the entire tone of Justified in 3.45m youtu.be/Ho2_c_LGZfk?...
youtu.be
Justified Opening Scene (Full HD)
YouTube video by Teller Morrow
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenterIn a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
ICYMI, the end of an era in T-minus..
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Rewatching TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and this movie gets better every time. Real masterpiece stuff.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 19/09/2025
Submerged remains of two altars from the only Nabataean temple discovered outside of Nabataea, at the port of Puteoli, Italy. This indicates Nabataean traders thrived in Italy before the Romans' annexation of the kingdom in AD 106. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Underwater, partially buried remains of two white marble altars.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.” youtu.be/sHd2O_KuCxA?...
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
You know someone who is a massively underrated actor? Dan Aykroyd. A pop culture icon in many ways, sure. But he built a career on playing so many different types of role.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Watching HIGH NOON and DIE HARD back to back is an interesting experience.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
in the realm of "assholes in film" a special place is reserved for the reception guy in Die Hard who makes John McClane look up Holly's name before announcing "they're the only ones left in the building."
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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
*taps mic* I’ll have some book news to share soon.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Read it as a teen, terrified by the sound of the window opening in Matt’s house. Read it as an adult, terrified by the scene of people knowing whats going on outside but refusing to look out their windows.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A man in dark sunglasses walking up stairs
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Why does ‘violence is not the answer’ and ‘this has gone too far’ apply instantly when a white christian dude (who was on record saying empathy was bad) gets killed, but not when the remains of brown babies are being scooped into shopping bags?
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Steve Weddle @steveweddle.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🎟⛏️ The hottest ticket in Scotland this weekend is at the @govanstones.bsky.social!
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Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I've missed making the 'Hobbs Lane' signs (Quatermass And The Pit, 1958) so have made 25 available to pre-order, to ship in Nov. I've slightly improved on the original version with rounded corners, and thinner board to make it more in keeping with the original prop sign. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
FINALLY writing Marah Chase 3
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goulablogger.bsky.social @goulablogger.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
With the release of the latest Conjuring film, it's time to once again post the link to one of many documentaries about the late Ed and Lorraine Warren, demonologists. @karenstollznow.bsky.social @matthewbaxtermt.bsky.social www.monstertalk.org/flashback-th...
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Flashback: The Warren Omission - MonsterTalk
We will be playing some episodes from our archives for a few weeks this Summer – let’s kick it off with this classic from October 2013! THE WARREN OMISSION. WAS THE STORY OF The Conjuring the true sto...
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Yasssss.
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Steve Weddle @steveweddle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
THE COUNTY LINE is #12 in Heist Crime. Lordy. I need to write more Heist Crime. “It’s like Faulkner had a love child with a couple of Elmore Leonard’s 1930s-set novels.” —Nick Kolakowski www.amazon.com/TheCountyLine
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The County Line: a novel
Amazon.com: The County Line: a novel eBook : Weddle, Steve: Kindle Store
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
There are only 5 good Bond movies. And Skyfall isn’t one of them.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Two billion for country-wide access to ChatGPT. Yearly budget of Arts and Humanities Research Council is little over two hundred million. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman
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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
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the word racism is written in black on a gray background
Alt: the word racism is written in black on a gray background
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Johnny Shaw @bloodandtacos.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I just hit 125 posts over at Torn Pages. If real pages of nonexistent books is your thing (and isn't it everybody's?) then head over there. Laughs abound. To make it even easier, the first 100 Torn Pages are free, free, free. Check it out here: www.patreon.com/c/tornpages
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Get more from Johnny Shaw's Torn Pages on Patreon
creating real pages from nonexistent books
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 19/08/2025
Sorry the Replacements hinted at something on Instagram so I can’t care about anything else for a little while
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
There’s a great song on the original Transformers soundtrack called DARE TO BE STUPID. Anyway. Don’t know why I thought of that.
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Jay Stringer @jaystringer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Just when I’m ready to write Strange New Worlds off, it laughs at me and delivers a BANGER. Seeing Kirk, Scotty, and Spock together…magical.
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