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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 5m

This feels like... pretty good polling for a thing everyone thought would be career-ruining-ly unpopular?

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29m

if any government departments are interested in improving the quality of transport nerdery or historical trivia they offer to ministers i have a proposal

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 31m

Please help Ed is he broadly a good thing

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4h

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21h

Okay, thoughts on the speech: 1) Knowing what we do about Andy Burnham, both his strengths and flaws, I think this was as good a speech as he could have given? Bigger on stirring rhetoric, personal ambition and vague ambitions than actual immediate action.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 21h

If there was a Scottish referendum under him and it was lost he’d amost certainly have to resign anyway, so there’d be at least one more UK PM during the transition period to independence.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21h

one way of Burnham proving Swinney's prediction he'd be the last UK PM wrong would be to... resign

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22h

"And so conference, I pledge to you today: another missing Hartnell episode, back at the BBC, by 2030 - AND an ambition to find a missing Troughton."

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22h

“I will tell you things no leader has been brave enough to say before…” “Thatcher was bad, 1945 govt was good, Tories are bad.” (*wild applause*)

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 22h

Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 23h

Weird you can whack a PM yet still be beholden to a random PDF. Committed to a document with a massive picture of Keir Starmer on the front of it

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22h

It is pretty funny that the theme of this year's Labour conference is "ANDY'S GIVEN US HOPE AGAIN", considering thst the theme of last year's was "SHUT THE FUCK UP ANDY FOR FUCK'S SAKE'

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22h

What the people think the PM should talk about in his speech, via yougov. Explosion in DKs.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 23h

potentially landslide-winning compromise position: reverse Brexit, jail Steve Bray

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

horrified as I am to learn that Henry has discovered short form video, this is an interesting thought

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 29/09/2026

it’s like when ed miliband wasn’t tuss enouss but also ruthlessly knifed his own brother to become leader

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌹 NEW EPISODE 🌹 Hope again… again? Can Burnham and Healey get Labour a second first chance with the Liverpool conference? 🌹 With @rostaylor.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & @jamesrball.com 🌹 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You there boy! What day is it? Today? Why it’s The 28th of September sir! Wait what?

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Muppet from Muppets Christmas Carol in Snow

ALT: Muppet from Muppets Christmas Carol in Snow

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"In 1930, physicist Wolfgang Pauli put forward a theory he was very obviously a bit embarrassed by..." Everything I learned on my day out at the particle accelerator

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I’ve been to see a particle accelerator

They didn’t let me have a go, the spoilsports.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s the 9/11 bit on The Day Today DVD where Chris Morris goes “coming up next, what is a hijacked airliner and HOW DOES IT CRASH?!” that lives rent free in my head when I see headlines like this.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For centuries, Oxford made graduates swear that they would "never consent to the reconciliation of Henry Simeonis". The odd thing was, nobody could remember who the hell he was.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 28/09/2026

Has it occured to anyone at City Hall or in No 10 that at some point someone is going to have to step up and do something about the bridges? Because at this rate there aren't going to be any functioning river crossings in central London in a few years' time.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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Cesq @cesq123.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hamlet. Act 4, Scene 5. HORATIO: Fuck.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This seems to have struck a chord with a number of people. If I had time I’d start a campaign.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨 ICYMI 🚨 On our latest episode: WHY CRYPTO OWNS REFORM – If angry Britain thinks it’s voting for an anti-immigrant party, it’ll get a government for crypto spivs instead. 🚨 Listen on “Why won’t Burnham confront Britain’s Blackshirts?” out now: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Have you read Iain M Banks’s culture novels? The ones that portray a post-scarcity paradise, in which humans and super intelligent machines work together as equals? Well, it won’t be like that at all.” The really frightening thing here is that some of these quotes are real.

thenewworld.co.uk

What the rich and powerful are really saying about AI

It’s going to turn us all into paperclips, and wages will become a thing of the past – as will water. Here’s how they really see the future of AI

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m doing a talk at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture on October 14 at 5.30pm. It’s open to the public and tickets are free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...

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The News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about it

Journalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For centuries, Oxford made graduates swear that they would "never consent to the reconciliation of Henry Simeonis". The odd thing was, nobody could remember who the hell he was.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really feel like someone is over-reaching with the slogan "Discover Euston".

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This would make sense if the Falklands were 2 miles off the Argentinian coast and not 300

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fundamentally people need to learn to mind their own business

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn't hear anything about this incident but wow this is fucking horrible. I increasingly feel like being able to publicly share our immediate reaction so easily is not good for us. That dopamine hit of self-righteousness seems to override critical thought, empathy, everything.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"If you’re feeling shamed by your ignorance of who Henry Symeonis was and what he had done, rest assured that the men running the University of Oxford in 1827 had no more idea than you did. Worse: it soon transpired that no one had known for literally centuries."

jonn.substack.com

Oxford’s five hundred year grudge

Also: this is not a wombat.

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