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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 2h

You seem to like your audience as well which must help (apart from us English and how we make tea)

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@scalzi.com Now you can think of caddis fly larvae as auto burrito makers.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can only imagine that people who can’t work it out from the context have never played any version of the game, whatever they called it locally.

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If your definition of Englishness excludes a man like him, it is your definition that needs challenging.

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brexiters should be rejoicing at Burnham’s speech. They can campaign on all the ways Brexit has improved our lives and the fortunes of our country. They can set their case out clearly and with facts for all to see. Bet they can’t wait.

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having read Kindred I’d recommend your next book even before it is published.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Feeling smug, not only did I get the no pain no gain sequence question but came up with “a gin cocktail” as a possible 4th answer in the time.

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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

✨Bullet Shattered Cafe windows in Paris 1944 by Photographer Lee Miller✨🇨🇵💥

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thanks, got it, but perhaps delete this in case others don’t want a spoiler. Thanks for leaving it a day though.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Swimmer needs to dry back - I think I know exactly how that clue works but I can’t for the life of me think what could fit. No spoilers but that is me stuck for the rest of the day.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not sure what you want or budget but this is one of my city www.leedsowltrail.com/wp-content/u... Made by jamesbrowndesign.co.uk

leedsowltrail.com

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

… and some cutting chants from opposition fans.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@scalzi.com I’m currently re-reading the Old Man’s War series prior to starting Shattered Peace. Just because you might have one - do you have a series FAQ? e.g. Parallels between CU and East India Company - intended or situational?

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No foreign series at all? I would have thought that Money Heist/Casa de Papel, Astrid et Raphaelle or Engrenages/Spiral should have had a shout.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Leonardo da Vinci, Caricature of a Man With Bushy Hair ca. 1495, pen and brown ink drawing on paper

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dictators have often seen books (other than regime-authorised publications and hagiographies of themselves) as a threat. So glad this man managed to preserve his library from Assad's goons.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It works on me, I’m embarrassed by how many writers outside my comfort zone I’ve read just because of intelligent social media posts or fascinating and thoughtful blogs.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are none so blind as those who will not see

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Have a look at the delightful replies and remind yourself that AI could never

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m 60, I’ve now found that almost every night someone steals a small bit of my body and replaces it with something similar but non-functional.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I would argue that the bit where Apple Music deletes all your songs from your device but leaves a link to a cloud version that a) Doesn’t work in North Yorkshire b) Is a dance remix of Nutbush City Limits, not the original.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not as good as the Ray Harryhausen Clash of the Titans then?

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's only terrorism if it's from the Environmentaliste region of France Otherwise it's just sparkling "legitimate concerns"

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh this is so wonderful

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jason Arday was driven to suicide but this is what counts as normal at Cambridge. It was never about standards. It was always about maintaining white male mediocrity.

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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Let us recall that you cannot, ever, ban abortions. You can only ban safe abortions. Thank you Dr John Sharpe. Thank you Gloria Marie Steinem.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

OK I’m retired now but I found before I retired that the efficiency depended how big a job you used it for. “Rebuild these SQL create table statements into a python dataframe schemas” worked well, saved lots of typing and easy to check and test. Rewrite all this legacy SQL code into python” didn’t.

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caryocatactes.bsky.social @caryocatactes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A Spider Potter Wasp (Aupoplus carbonarius), climbed athletically up and down the walls of the church at Thurgarton with its spider prey. Not so far away a stunningly, frilly, Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus) hunkered down amongst the Flavoplaca ruderum @NorfolkNats

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This exists now. Many old Doctor Who episodes and archive radio recordings have been recovered from home recordings. A number of hobbyists do this e.g. www.radiocircle.org.uk

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Jan de Laat @jandl.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984) - San Gimignano, San Marco Gate watercolour

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Surely it is tennis, as that Athena poster was particularly current during my early teens.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A reminder, last year The Spectator did an interview so fawning & uncritical of the Tate Brothers , that victims of the Tates had to complain to Ipso about it. Editor Michael Gove also champions the IDF & hates people of colour . The Spectator Summer Party is eagerly anticipated & attended 🥂.

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Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article

Complaint sent to Ipso over interview with ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother in Michael Gove-edited magazine

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My great great grandfather was one of 14 many died young, he was a footman for the Earl of Moray. My great grandfather was one of 16 all but one reached adulthood. None of my great grandfather’s generation had more than 3.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Would you mind me asking how he digitised it? I have around 2000 wartime letters by my great uncle who was in the RMC. He was in North Africa, Italy and assigned to Belsen. This took me a few days to transcribe too long for the whole lot - www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tv2kq...

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ve told you before how invested I’d become in Nutmeg. Like others on here I’d come to love the stories you have told. I’m sure she will live on in the memories of many of us.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#FullMoon in #August is also known as the Barley Moon or the #SturgeonMoon Artwork by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist #WomensArt

Stained glass artwork featuring a hare faceubg right lying diwn in a golden field at night under a full moon

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BBC West Yorkshire writing a casual puff piece for Reform in Wakefield, even describing the council leader's "flowing hair". Fucking sickening www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How Reform UK leader Karl Johnson wants to change Wakefield

New leader has already repainted road markings - but will he be able to lower council taxes?

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Appalling article. Basically a Reform puff piece. No balance. No fact checking. Just this guy telling the BBC reporter what a fab job he's done (back with unsubstantiated numbers) & its lapped up and presented as fact. Dreadful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How Reform UK leader Karl Johnson wants to change Wakefield

New leader has already repainted road markings - but will he be able to lower council taxes?

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social I took my uncle (94) to Mansfield today. Thank you for the exhibition. He trained at Derby College like Harry Wingfield and his uncle was at the RCA with Tunnicliffe. He worked as a graphic artist for the gas board, he loves illustration, family card image attached.

An man standing in front of a wall of ladybird books.

A short, old man in front of a display case in a gallery, there is a wheelchair in the foreground.

A cartoon of two dogs carrying a cat on a pole. A piece of doggerel above them says

“A huntin’ we have bin’
A huntin’ we have bin’
We met a great big ginger cat
and we did the b____er in.”

The cartoon is by Roger Bliss from a family card.

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Jonathan Bliss @jonathanbliss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you don’t agree it is propaganda. Point out the lie.

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