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Jack Harrison

@jlharrison.bsky.social
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Former maths extraordinaire. (he/him)

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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 18h
I don’t want to say the AI bubble has burst but rather you can tell it’s reached maturity because both GPT-4 and GPT-5 had huge hype leading up to release about how they were leaps and bounds ahead of the last model and, in contrast, as a non-user this is the first I’ve heard they’re on GPT-6 now
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 18h
Midterms? Yeah middest term in American history I’d say
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The real message to take away from the entire mess at Fairford is that Hot Fuzz is like that because rural England is like that.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK Official confirms that no viable explosives were found at Fairford.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jerry McEnroe, great tennis player, short-tempered man, what a time
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am once again pointing out that when politicians say they want less people to go to university or more people to work in a factory, they never mean their own kids.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not to pour water on his fire or anything but he has managed to walk only about 3 miles a day on average
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I do find it so funny that the worst ever approval rating for a US President is an approval rating most British politicians can only dream of.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s great but how is he going to vote in the independence referendum?
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m sure his lawyer plans to use some kind of bullshit legal defence about maritime law or territorial waters on the first charge but pleading not guilty to failing to provide your phone PIN to police? Like either you did or you didn’t it’s pretty clear cut, that’s very stupid
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What? - Joe Biden
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do have to ask that if you, as an MP, want to put the least effort possible into the words you say in Parliament, why did you run for Parliament?
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rees-Mogg is embelmatic of how far the Overton window has shifted because he wears his opinion on his sleeve and he has held the same opinions basically forever and through no fault of his own he has gone from being on the right flank of the right-wing party to more liberal than a Labour government
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even Trump appears to have come round on the fact that a diesel embargo would harm the American economy in Roland Emmerich disaster movie ways and it's very funny that this point on which Republicans are refusing to fall in line with him is because he is for once not taking the very stupid option.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is quite tame compared to a lot of what other people said but I remember being surprised in primary school at just how many of the hymns we sung being about soldiers in the crusades.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026
I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What? - Joe Biden
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This happened on my 23rd birthday and that morning I had an interview for a job with a company so closely linked to the Treasury their offices are on Whitehall. I got the job and lasted 3 incredibly chaotic weeks there, leaving the Treasury even before Kwarteng did, and I don’t mention it on my CV.
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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I never thought I would see the day where the Overton window has shifted so far to the right that even our ostensibly left wing party believes that enforcing basic laws concerning violent crime would play badly with its voters if the perpetrator happens to be the leader of a far right paramilitary
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If the police and the government cannot act over a guy trying to deliberately sink boats that have souls on board then what is government even for?
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yeah so this is just straight up attempted murder? at the absolutely bare minimum it's criminal damage with intent to endanger life or reckless as to whether life endangered
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
how is that not like, attempted murder?
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Frankly, I don't think it would be unreasonable to prosecute this given the clear intent, probably hard to charge with attempted murder but very clearly that was the intent. bsky.app/profile/yeom...
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is surely a really serious crime, as Emma says it’s essentially attempted murder. Thomas needs to be arrested before he and his thugs kill someone.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Arrest this thug and proscribe his organisation. It’s a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Maybe we should have arrested this guy for blocking ports.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
6. As far as we can see, the rescuer was okay - though this is bordering on attempted murder. RNLI then headed towards the Solent, AIS off and chased by the far-right. Authorities in Portsmouth likely were warned that people would be offloaded and processed at Gosport, so Thomas rallied activists.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They go back to the old. It’s got more names than any other place in the world.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“They go back to the old. It’s got more names than any other place in the world.” Instant classic, going to enter everyone’s speech like Many Such Cases
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do we know why?
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Obviously all these reasons create a terrible stew but I’m drawn again to the tax issue specifically because UK tax policy is asinine in a lot of places like we are on the fifth year of the one year emergency fuel duty cut and why does national insurance decrease (as a percentage) as you earn more??
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lib Dem conference votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion "Restoring Trans Rights" 🎉🏳️‍⚧️
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Maybe having air traffic control run by the private sector is just a bad idea and merely shuffling around the people at the top of a specific limited company is not going to fix it.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A boat purchased by far-right activist Daniel Thomas (aka “Danny Tommo”) to interfere with Border Force operations in the English Channel has sunk.
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Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks
Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tilly Norwood probably gets the most press compared to the number of acting roles she has landed of anyone ever.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The way government has worked, for my entire adult life, regardless of party, is they look for a Facebook group called something like “STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, PUT HARROGATE FIRST” whose profile picture is an AI generated bulldog wearing an England flag, find the most liked post, and do that
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
This is true. But also, sometimes you just have to stand up for stuff even if you don't know the effect it will have.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Surely there is only so long the government can pretend this isn’t a problem
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today, we are all a member of the precariat
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This would be like the Guardian having me on as an expert to tell you that 12 diet cokes a day is fine, actually, and is not a problem. I will tell you that but there’s a reason you shouldn’t trust me on it.
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