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I was rather hoping capitalism would have finished by now. It doesn't even rhyme. jimjepps.substack.com

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 6h
Just fucking nationalise it
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 12h
Councils where Labour are in power-sharing agreements with the Greens: 🌹 Labour-Led: Sheffield Havant Southend-on-Sea Stafford West Suffolk 🔶 Lib Dem-Led Broadland Derbyshire Dales West Oxfordshire Arun North Somerset 🙋 Independent/Other-Led West Devon Rother 🌍 Green-Led: Lewes Warwick
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I did one of those ancestry DNA test thingy jigs I was 83% butter not Irish butter just butter like you'd put on mashed potato 17% potato
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My wicked life of crime: new from me. substack.com/@jimjepps/no...
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My wicked life of crime
we can give shape to the hubbub of our lives
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2026
40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart theonion.com/40-year-old-not-active…
40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At 4 a.m. today, Israeli forces raided a five-story building in Al-Tur, East Jerusalem, forced Palestinian families out with barely anything in their hands, and demolished 10 apartments — leaving around 70 Palestinians without their homes.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 06/10/2026
Holborn & St Pancras By-Election Betting Odds & Implied Win Chance: 🌹 LAB: 1/16 | 94% 🌍 GRN: 16/1 | 6% Odds from @oddschecker.com, 6th Oct.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
650 words of writing advice in the form of a nervous breakdown. jimjepps.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There are three kinds of poem
And only three
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call me a cynic but I love living in a barrel.
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Don't lose your glove: a brief word on gentle poetry and resistance to the Nazis. substack.com/@jimjepps/no...
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Don’t lose your glove
Piet Hein’s little Grooks
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Therese Hansen @qedtherese.eurosky.social · 14/02/2026
Reading Piet Hein today and decided to make a Piet Hein-like Valentine's card for my husband. It is in Danish but it means something like "love is not just wine and roses but what is done in daily doses"
Piet Hein-like simple drawing of two stick figures holding hands looking at the stars. 

A quote underneath says (in Danish) 
kærlighed er ej
    kun vin og roser
men det man gør
    i daglige doser
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Through her voice I saw a free woman... who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk in her own shoes, and speak her mind, tell her own story. "A black woman. Ready for the journey. The Journey." Bonnie Greer RIP
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Beware Wicket. Wicket Beware. jimjepps.substack.com/p/beware-wic...
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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What would you do if a ‘FOR SALE’ sign appeared outside your house without your agreement? That’s what has happened to several Sheffielders after a shadowy company called Tixerbon bought their freeholds. Now, an MP has written to the housing minister to decry their “incredibly misleading” tactics.
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‘Incredibly misleading’: are Tixerbon trying to trick people into buying their freeholds?
‘DO NOT REMOVE, COVER, DAMAGE OR OTHERWISE INTERFERE WITH THE BOARD UNTIL THE PROPERTY IS SOLD’
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh no. I’ve accidentally put up a link to the RNLI donation page. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Extreme right-wing protesters are in a stand-off with the RNLI in Portsmouth. The group, led by Danny Tommo, are waist-deep in the sea and threatening to go "under the water" if police try to arrest them. Six lifeboats monitoring. Volunteer rescuers giving up their evening for this.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 23/08/2026
Join me for a free public livestream of my new course, The Story of Capital. The course meets on Tuesdays from 4:15 - 6:15 pm [ET] from September 8th to December 1st.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Going to be honest, if British academics are going to spend time signing open letters any time a Postdoc loses his post under debatable circumstances in another country, they aren’t going to have much time for their main jobs.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We’re offering 50% off Pluto theory books until August 26th! From foundational Marxist and feminist texts to books on social reproduction theory, neurodivergent liberation, cultural politics, and more.
Promotional banner with bold text at the top reading "50% OFF" in white, followed by "Political Theory" in black serif italics. Below the text, a stack of paperbacks rests on a flat surface.
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Foxton Rox @foxtonrox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses
The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis? Good piece by Sandra Laville I hope the PM breaks his climate silence soon and levels with the country about how bad things are, & what his plan is to tackle climate impacts and fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?
Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves
Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month
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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Which side are you on boy, which side are you on?
A person in military fatigues hold a rock, about to chuck it at a second person who is crawling up a hill towards them. It is a still reportedly from the Moroccan Border with Ceuta, showing returning persons being assaulted.
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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Peak District is burning — and where there’s fire, there’s smoke. Given Sheffield’s proximity to the park, it feels inevitable that, if more frequent and severe fires keep happening on the moors, they are going to have an increasing effect on us. The question is, can we do anything about it?
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The Peak District is on fire. Can we stop it happening again?
‘You’re breathing in the smoke, and it looks and feels post-apocalyptic’
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Huh. I recall nt long ago a newly elected MP questioned the boozing in parliament & triggered a spectacular multi-week meltdown by the nation's most sensible Sensibles chin stroking & pontificating abt why the corridors of Westminster overflowing with booze ws nt only good bt virtually a natural law
“Participants described alcohol as being available throughout the working day, frequently provided for free, and often intertwined with career advancement.”

Twenty-four MPs, 58 Westminster staff and 108 constituency office personnel shared their experiences and views. One MP, describing how readily available alcohol was at Westminster, said: “Going to a meeting at noon and alcohol’s available. Of course, I’m not used to that in my old job.”

The free alcohol at events on the parliamentary estate, which organisations arrange to help them lobby MPs, emerged as a particular issue.

Another MP said: “Where else in a work environment would you go, unless it was the works Christmas do, and there was free alcohol there for you? It just wouldn’t happen in real life.”

A third said: “You can start drinking here from 12 o’clock onwards and go around and consume large amounts of alcohol, and it’s relatively freely available.”
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
more insects please
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026
See you in court, creep.
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yet again the world watches as more money is siphoned into Trump's family while feeling utterly helpless to prevent the corruption.
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't mind having a Prime Minister who praises the contribution of immigrants. I know these are crumbs - but after all the 'island of strangers' stuff I think it matters.
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GwedLid @gwedlid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
RIP Bill Oddie. Legend.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Get 40% off your next favorite book📚
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I regret to inform you that we have reached the “Broadmoor is a holiday camp” stage of right-wing discourse.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/07/2026
The 'Patriotic Millionaires' say 'wealth and power have been concentrated in a small group for too long'.
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More than 100 UK millionaires ask new PM Andy Burnham to tax them more
The 'Patriotic Millionaires' say 'wealth and power have been concentrated in a small group for too long'.
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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Most corals, on most reefs, can't survive long-term in the overheated seas which we have created. A quarter of all marine life depends on coral reefs during their life cycle. About half a billion people depend directly on reefs for food and livelihoods. We chose fossil fuels over coral reefs.
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Great Barrier Reef at risk of 'collapse', scientists warn
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and "ecosystem collapse" linked to this year's El Nino weather phenomenon, top scientists warn.
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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Burnham says he's going to undo the mistakes of the eighties - THE EIGHTIES - this is brilliant and I hope he starts with my O level choices.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
England is the home of 85% of the world's chalk streams, a crucial part of the UK ecological system. Despite criminal convictions, water companies continue to destroy it by dumping raw sewage. I asked the Minister to revoke their licence to operate. Watch the Minister's reply.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/07/2026
On his last day of PMQs and cabinet Starmer oversaw the order to enforce the trans segregation guidance that makes Britain one of the most trans hostile nations in Europe - creating a culture of gender norm enforcement, social suspicion, and vigilante toilet police.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/07/2026
Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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