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John S

@johns78.bsky.social
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Potentially awkward mix of LFC, politics, daftness and the 49ers. @oracularclam on Twitter...

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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is SO dark! #CelebrityTraitors
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Real ‘Leroy Jenkins’ vibes
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still think this might be the funniest video I've ever seen
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
McKinsey was paid a fortune for that recommendation
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Haha, was every item in the manual listed under H? How to start the car, how to understand the dashboard...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.
A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion 
E extreme shivering or muscle pain 
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Those expensive lawyers definitely win either way.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh I'm sorry is there a *maximum* age of criminal responsibility now? And exempt professions/levels of fertility? Or perhaps is the whole proscription and mass arrests situation bullshit state violence?
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Yes, that’s right, the guy who resigned as Keir Starmer’s strategist because he was bullying and sexually harassing a Black female MP also thinks asylum seekers are living high on the hog and that people with disabilities are faking it! This is what a centre-left social democrat sounds like!
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 25/09/2026
INSTEAD WE ARE GOING TO POINT OUT VERIFIABLE HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE KHANATE CULTURES AND THEIR ENCOUNTERS WITH THIRD GENDERS. BUCKLE THE FUCK UP JOANNE WIZARD SCHOOL IS IN SESSION AND YOU ARE LATE FOR A POTIONS CLASS.
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The rules were agreed by the majority of clubs, not just the rich ones. And it was in context of numerous clubs going bust when ‘benefactor’ owners up’ed and left. And Chelsea’s spending was INSANE. Far higher proportionally than any spending since.It had little to do with pulling up the drawbridge
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's a fantastic view from up there. Not least because you can't see it when you're on top of it...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026
okay, today’s spicy hot take because I’ve seen this three times already this morning: The U.K. does not have any such thing as a ‘legal name’ this is a good thing! unequivocally! this means it also applies to people we don’t like
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Imagine my surprise, having listened to these episodes, when the BBC’s new prime time Saturday night quiz show began like this…
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sorry, did not get the reference 😭 @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Over 3,500 people are currently facing terrorism charges in the UK for holding signs saying "I support Palestine Action".
theguardian.com
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I so much want to love the BBC, but then they do this kind thing. The headline here should be ‘anti-migrant protestor attacks RNLI boat’, but they don’t even mention that, in a report. He merely “shared a livestream”. (And it was updated an hour ago, so this isn’t an issue of confirmation.)
bbc.co.uk
Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But what if... she was always there...
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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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kai @kaiq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There needs to be a word for how a bad technology can still help you by accident, but in a way that is actually a case against the technology
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now, imagine the response to a column asking why a Premier League team has a Jewish supporters group.
Michael Deacon
Why do Man Utd have a Muslim supporters’ group?
Sir Jim Ratcliffe must go, declares an organisation for the team’s Islamic fans. There’s just one thing puzzling
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
theguardian.com
If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
The problem is not famous people speaking out, as they always have. It is the feeling that leaders have failed, obliging celebrities to fill the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anything that makes people’s lives better and easier just boils these people’s piss, they cannot bear the thought of it, it appears to scald them
The Times and Sunday Times O @thetimes
Yes, WFH was vital during Covid, but the emergency's over
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not even slightly difficult to work out who the good guys and bad guys are in the Cancel Culture bullshit, and it never was. It is *politically awkward to explain*, because the pundits have been 100% on the side of evil and malice for many years now.
observer.co.uk
Macklemore’s axing from Ed Sheeran’s US tour exposes the ...
The outcry over the rapper’s calls for a ‘Free Palestine’ at the Met Life stadium shows that economic power is far more effective at policing free speech than ‘woke’ activists
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The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Reds 🔴
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh god. This is disturbingly likely
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Honestly, those half time interviews are worse than pointless
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW | On fascism on the streets and the front-pages… STOP THE BLOKES With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/stop-the-b...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Stop The Blokes
With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability.
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Billy OceanGate 🇵🇸 @stitzch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Imagine a left wing street movement shutting down a small town, seeing no arrests then the next day the same group mobilising to another port to cause disturbances? The daily mail would be calling for the military to overthrow the government
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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How was Neville not seeing that Konsa touched that?!?!
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 03/09/2026
How the Premier League’s greed could soon become its drastic downfall
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How the Premier League’s greed could soon become its drastic downfall
The Premier League has spent more than £3.5bn this summer and, as Chief Football Writer Miguel Delaney details, a lack of financial control and liquidity could provoke a nasty surprise in the not-too-distant future
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Welcome to the Museum of Thatcherism. Toilets are for paying customers only, and don’t forget: you can never leave.
Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford
X.com
EXCLUSIVE:
Andy Burnham has been warned by a senior ally that increasing taxes on wealth in the budget would be "stupid" because it would encourage entrepreneurs to leave the country and damage economic growth
The prime minister spent more than a month attempting to convince Lord O'Neill of Gatley to join his government as either a minister or an economic adviser, but was unable to do so
In an interview with The Times, O'Neill said that if the government raised taxes in the budget on October 28 it would demonstrate that ministers were not "thinking about growth as sincerely as they claim they are"
He said it would also show that they were being
"scared and lazy and constrained" in failing to take on "sacred cows" such as the pension trinle lock and welfare reform
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Boo lettuce @lettuce.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
[library] hi do you have any books about when a guy is really mad at one specific whale
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly made times less hard for a lot of people thoughtcatalog.com/nicolestawia...
thoughtcatalog.com
Dolly Parton Funded an Oscar-Winning AIDS Documentary in the 1980s When the Reagan Administration Wouldn’t Act
Parton lost friends to AIDS in the 1980s and put her production company Sandollar behind Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, the documentary about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt that wen…
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sharing this because it happened on Saturday.
I live in a beautiful street in Berlin and my apartment block has the kindest staircase of neighbours I have ever known. Also: there is a proud Nazi in my building. I know this because whenever they see anti-fascist graffiti on its walls, they write their own fascist slogans proudly over it in English. They want the foreigners to know they are there. On Saturday, leaving my favourite bar, I got talking to two friendly locals, and I mentioned that I thought that Nazis were regularly gathering in the neighbourhood, at a pub just down the road. Oh, no, they said, the pub you should really watch out for is that one, and they pointed to the pub directly next to my apartment block. So that’s my life in Berlin - where you can live among the best people, but also right next to the most cruel, who are increasingly bold. A great city, where happiness comes at ever greater cost.
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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The increasingly loud signal being sent from both academia and national media is: "Academic freedom" means that you gift bigots unquestioned prestige positions with bountiful resources, while the mere existence of Black academics should be met with both permanent surveillance and constant skepticism
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A reminder the Reconquista was the takover of Spain by Christians that led to the mass cultural extermination of Jews and Muslims- led by the Spanish Inquistion If universities are being defunded for "anti-semitism" how are Musk companies NOT having every federal contract cancelled?
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Perfectly nice and correct article in the FT and yer Da is absolutely apopleptic in the comments - nude, red, and mad that an actual historian knows about history and his wank fantasies aren't real. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
Why is the far right so obsessed with knights?
Medieval military monks have become a regular sight at political rallies and marches
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Liverpool FC @lfcbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“This is the peak, it's quite emotional to be honest." 💬 Lewis Koumas reacts after making his Premier League debut for #LFC ⤵️
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