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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Don't remember seeing this Ravilious before. Back Gardens, 1935. Love the viewpoint and composition and the delicious English dampness.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Occasionally I wonder whether Jeremy Irons is relieved that, 11 years after gay marriages were introduced, his fear that fathers might marry their sons to avoid paying inheritance tax has largely proved unwarranted.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Just a few minutes stroll from home - thrilling music from the insultingly young George Johnson Quartet with good cheap vegan food. At the new-to-me-but-not-new Karamel N22.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

How boring, tedious, conservative a person do you have to be to point and laugh at someone wearing makeup in the year 2025. I thought the terf position was do what you like just not in single sex spaces. Not conform everywhere. Doesn't make you want to delve into his writing does it.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

As hotel management in passive aggressive war with each other, or as terrifying partners in life and in business.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

She came from Greenock she had a thirst for porridge

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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Oooh look, an article explaining the trashing of gay rights... by a straight guy. Thank God for the straight white men tbh, how the hell would we know what to think without them? (Read it if you want to, but it's nothing we've not read a thousand times before)

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Country churches and city pubs are two of the loveliest, most special things in our nation. Aspirational communal architecture anyone can walk into. This is an appreciation post for country churches and city pubs.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This is utterly mad. Yvette Cooper needs to come out and say what she means by "Many people may not yet know the reality of [Palestine Action]" because you can't lock people up for objecting to them being proscribed terrorists if you won't say why. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

theguardian.com

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London

Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Apparently I took this 20 years ago. Piccadilly Line. Felt like something you weren't meant to have seen.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

They should make a variety of tomato that has segments like a satsuma so you can put it in salads without the juice going everywhere

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

£1.3m is astonishingly low for someone who spent 17 years in prison, a cap that applies to anyone who lost over a decade of their life to jail after a wrongful conviction.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I was very surprised to be put on your list.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Enjoy the sun today, don't spend it all indoors

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Probably my favourite single of the last two years. I'm not even into Wolf Alice but absolute banger youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...

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Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (Official Video)

YouTube video by WolfAliceVEVO

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What the fuck is going on here are they trying to stop each other from taking off?

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

To be fair to Raynor Winn (not that writing under a different name is in itself dodgy), Moth is a totally legit if unusual shortening of Timothy and I said "oh yeah, doh!" out loud when I read that.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Quite liking all the hastily written think pieces but no, the main reason people believed The Salt Path was true was, quite reasonably, because a reputable publisher told them it was.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Have we totally lost the ability to understand context and rhetoric? Obviously it's not going to be a genuine call to bomb Glastonbury any more than a punk musician shouting death to the IDF on a Somerset farm is any danger to said foreign army.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The Inspector Sands things is odd, isn't it. "We need a secret code phrase that's used widely enough that it will unnerve a sizeable minority of people so that panic can spread slowly"

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Gosh Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith dueting on those Cure songs are just sublime what a lovely moment #Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Sure, Glastonbury is a huge swathe of gigs by major current, upcoming and legacy artists, uniquely and deftly captured by the BBC for us all, but TWO artists said extreme things without having the excuse of being an Israeli government minister so the whole endeavour MUST stop.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Pride month 40% discount on my play Animal! Use code NHBPRIDE (valid on loads of other fab stuff too) "A joy" The Times "Wildly entertaining" Time Out "Bold and brilliant" Gay Times "Insightful, funny & quietly heartbreaking" WhatsonStage nickhernbooks.co.uk/animal

A purple book cover with a picture of a banana hugging an aubergine. The banana has a progress flag sticker on it. The text on the cover says "ANIMAL by Jon Bradfield, from a story by Jon Bradfield and Josh Hepple"

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

THE BELL JAR HARD ❌ It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York EASY ✅ That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

An advert for a company called Magibook. The headline reads "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today."

Underneath is two covers of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Above the first cover is the original version of the opening sentence (captioned "Turn Hard Books"), which reads "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

Above the second cover (captioned "into Easy Books") is a simplified version, which reads "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Nothing makes me happier than those videos of a labrador that adopted abandoned baby tigers or a duck that adopted a baby shark or a rabbit that adopted three grizzly bear cubs and they grew up and it's like a tiny gang boss surrounded by loyal meathead henchmen.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"The pictures in the article were fake. In addition, so were the words."

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The AIDS quilt on display at Tate Modern until Monday

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Found this postcard tucked inside an early edition of the first "Tales of the City" book, at a second hand place in Frome of all places.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

How does one go about finding out if you have ADHD and depending on that finding ways to manage it? Thanks x

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Eurovision: I want to marry Hazel Brugger. Stage design astonishing. Spain's banger & ace staging deserved better. UK's scrappy staging undersold a strong song. Israel's genocidal devastation of Gaza & its people is horrendous. All "print and play" scoresheets are terrible, see following posts.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This from Matthew Syed made me pause for thought: Gary Lineker's views are amplified not just because of his BBC platform but because they are perceived as breaching impartiality rules and hence make news simply by doing that. www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

You can tell if an article has journalistic merit or is clickbait from whether the headline tells you something concrete. If it doesn't it's just clickbait.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I know people will disagree with this, and thoughtfully so, but I think it's good principle and not just because of where trans rights specifically are at this moment. Pride is about visibility, protest, many things. Not a publicity op for parties.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Don't wear yellow today you'll get greenflies all over you message ends

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

When the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in 2023 it felt inevitable that the Daily Telegraph would publish this headline. You can publish anything if you add ‘locals say.’

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Remember when straight regressive types complained that gay marriage would somehow devalue their own "real" marriages? That is how I see the toxic gays getting aggro about whether a trans guy gets to define as gay or not. Go live your life and get out of others' business you sad petty weirdos.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

They need to do public heats with the pope selection cos it's hard to get invested when you don't know the candidates and their journeys

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

At primary school we had to get sponsored for "finding ten things that could fit through the hole in a Polo mint." I included a live worm in the box i brought in. I remember asking people at my church to sponsor me and them clearly thinking it was a weirdly easy thing to be sponsored for.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Went to the theatre with a friend last night, and she said she always anticipates a theatre trip excitedly expecting it to be the best thing she's ever seen. What a lovely thing. I don't think I feel that way in advance about anything very often.

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