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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There's literally no irony here. Once you've removed retirees (40% of adults) the working age infirm (6.5% of over 16s) people already working in manufacturing (8% of working age adults) you have about 48.5% of respondants able to respond yes, and a whopping 2/3 of them are in shittier jobs. 😕
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Yay, nepo empies, etc. I know it's a profile, but it's very, very softball. I was actually embarrassed reading it.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
or bring back the millions of kids that got fed into the doge woodchipper. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Global health after USAID cuts
Daniella Medeiros Cavalcanti and colleagues1 offer a sobering estimate of the human cost of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s defunding, projecting over 14 million addit...
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
clicked through to make sure this comment was here.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Has Blair got a new war out or something
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Jeremy Bowers @jeremybowers.com · 15/04/2026
Me, having a stroke: call the ambulunz You: are you having a stroke? Me: by docgo, the ambulunz
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is a flex, not a fess
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Guilty Plesiosaurs
Cartoon of a man berating two guilty looking plesiosaurs "And what have you two got to say for yourselves?". Caption: Guilty Plesiousaurs
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
www.justgiving.com/charity/hatz...
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Hatzola Trust
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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I work at a number of large organisations and get to use their IT (laptops etc). I’m constantly amazed that the default page for Edge browser is configured to push GB News, Daily Express and Mail stories to all the employees. It’s not just Facebook and X. It’s the default config on Windows.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Er, no he didn't. And I'm sure you know it. Sleezy clickbate should be below Futurism.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
How to avoid getting an education while paying for one:
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Please let Mark Hamill be a good guy through and through 🙏🙏🙏
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Fuck. Neil Gaiman vibes.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I can't tell you how depressing the BBC Omertà is. Makes me nauseous (I'm thinking about sex pests, rather than nonces). So much talent driven out of the industry by vermin, many of the culprits lauded as national treasures. :(
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Automation may be the final straw I reckon before white collar Britain goes into full revolt." @jameskanag.bsky.social didn't exactly cheer me up with this post but it's really worth reading! politicalwhiteboard.substack.com/p/the-collar...
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The "collar flip"....what if class politics shifted in the UK?
Why the rise of AI, might change our politics in the UK (and US!)
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Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This article from @threadinburgh.scot is a jolly read. But when you get to the end, you realise that it is making a point that should worry all of us, even if we are not interested in the history of large suburban villas in #Edinburgh . threadinburgh.scot/2025/06/27/t...
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The thread about the Salisbury Arms and the famous literary association that never was
My eye was caught by a claim in local news that the author Arthur Conan Doyle once frequented the Salisbury Arms. In the best spirit of Sherlock Holmes, this thread sets out to thoroughly and factu…
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
pugn
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
But we do have a constitution, and it's only definable by constitutional law professors stringing together 1000 years of legislation/judicial precedent. Plenty of work for anyone willing to go on TV & help proles understand why the latest counterintuitive decision by the Speaker makes perfect sense.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Roger Wicker, Chair. (Frank Reed, Ranking Member, etc)
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Why 'and Starmer'?
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J Farrers @jfarrers.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Os ydych chi eisiau byw yn y Deyrnas Unedig, dylech chi siarad Cymraeg. Dyna synnwyr cyffredin. Felly rydym yn codi gofynion iaith Gymraeg ar draws pob prif lwybr mewnfudo.
Keir Starmer blowing a massive racist dog-whistle
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Jimmy Wales already moved to London and became a Brit. Unless the UK's unhelpful libel laws are an issue, could see the foundation becoming a UK charity.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
one theory: bsky.app/profile/trum...
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
@paulkirby.bsky.social can you explain why the BBC uses this really unhelpful, distortive projection for the map of Greenland for all its stories on Greenland - it's horribly misleading versus an accurate projection.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Thanks, that'll be it. There's probably a more complete quote out there, but the 4 sources I found jumped straight from quoting a paragraph of unrelated stuff (blackholes, foundations, etc.) to this claim.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
@guardianheather.bsky.social any idea what HMG's spokesperson meant today by 'By doing this, more than half of employers will either see a cut or no change in their National Insurance bills'? In all versions of the quote I can find 'By doing this...' is a complete non sequitur from what went before.
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HJenk @hjenk.rocks · 06/01/2025
All I’m saying is that if I was a megalomaniacal billionaire obsessed with space I wouldn’t be antagonising the government with James Bond on the payroll
A poll from Elon Musk about liberating the UK from the tyrannical yoke of Comrade Starmer
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
You've confused the two stats in your skeet (but the net figure is right)
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
@wendling.bsky.social you don't think the fact that the British government rescued the only viable competitor to Starlink allowing the EU to commission its own satellite constellation based on that tech is relevant? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Elon Musk's curious fixation with Britain
The tycoon has changed his tune when it comes to the UK - and there are clues which help to explain why.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
She assaulted a parliamentary candidate Nige. Candidate. You'd think that, as one of the only UK 'politicians' to spend waaay more time as a candidate than as an MP, you'd know the difference
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
📌
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The Misinformation Cliff. From "Health in Pictures," the American Public Health Association, 1930
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antmeals @antmeals.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
....arrest this naan
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Don't rule out an expansionist element to the project... pretty sure the USA also has a resource-rich neighbour that apparently doesn't merit sovereign status - just ask 'Governor' Trudeau.
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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Associated Press has officially joined Bluesky. Follow us at @apnews.com.
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Forrest Plump @nahyoudoit.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Welcome to December. The world is still a dumpster fire but, like, a festive one.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Twitter UK Ltd can give as much as it likes, pretty much regardless of source of funds.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Your last graphic in the article, suggests that inflation is hurting Romanians much more than the typical EU citizen, but the reality is that wage growth is offsetting price growth.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is how we work. Software company that used to operate on two-week sprints, then we said let's make them 9 days, and pair them. First one starting on a Tuesday, second one ending on a Thursday: four day weekend every four weeks. It's sweet.
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Perth lass @perthlass.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Austerity is a lie - as the government's own accounts show. So what is Rachel Reeves excuse for her economic illiteracy now? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11...
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The national debt has just fallen by £1.5 trillion
There is a very strange feature that, as far as I can see, has not had much attention paid to it so far within the Whole of Government Accounts for the year to 31 March 2023 that were published yester...
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
God, all the veteran twats of the 1990s are getting a second wind thanks to social media.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
isn't this a rare case where HMG can spend a bit more (on legal aid rates) to save a lot (on asylum seeker accommodation). Even though new rates would apply to non-assylum cases too, the general courts backlog needs to be addressed anyway. Unless the projected assylum savings have already been spent
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
who was the well known person?
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🧵Every pope's vibe if they were just guys from your childhood. Pope Francis sings in an all-male a cappella choir and sends you a cheque for your birthday every single year. He writes you encouraging letters every few months and he got on so well with your mum you assumed he was in love with her.
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Jonners @johnagnes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It's not deranged: Olivia Colman, Stormzy, Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton, Jodie Comer, Emma Watson, Victoria Beckham, Naomi Campbell, Dua Lipa, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Sophie Turner. I bet several UK-based cover models of the last 12 months are 'farmers' for estate planning purposes & are now furious.
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