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Thomas Jones

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I work @lrb.co.uk, most of my opinions are other people’s

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 21h
Some slight possible flaring on Morrissey’s jeans here? And who knows what happens to Marr’s below the knees
Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths probably not wearing flares
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i can scrub through a 4hr city council meeting in five mins thanks to YT transcripts but also so can everyone else, and so can an AI slop generator. So this doesn't make my life easier than a reporter in 1999 who went to the city council meeting and wasn't publishing into a fucked up info ecosystem
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I listened to it once (OK not all of it) and didn’t like it, and I’ve heard people say ‘hey what about that number one you’ve never heard of?’ a lot more — but I still can’t remember who it’s by or what it’s called.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Harthrathi?
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lists are garbage
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How? AI can’t do the fundamental work of journalism. These sites can only ever be parasitic.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He said ‘fuck it’ often - the labels wanted a Young Americans Pt 2 and he made Station to Station; they thought Low so weird it wouldn’t count towards the records they said he owed them - but also did the CD thing with the Rykodisc reissues of the early 70s albums after getting the rights back
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to shred!
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Blocking the Port of Dover, attacking refugees, threatening and closing an RNLI station, marching on the press, and, now, attempted murder? (Incase you're wondering, everything up to until this incident the govt and police have stated is 'legitimate' and 'legal' protest - despite it not being so)
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to rehabilitate Tin Machine
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s also this bullying case www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Former student of suspended Reform official ‘reopens case’ against University of Cambridge
Cambridge previously paid £5,000 compensation after an investigation partially upheld allegations against Dr James Orr
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Con lo ius scholae la percentuale di studenti stranieri sarebbe dello 0%
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2026
And Now for Something Completely Different: A perspective on AI swarms from someone who actually knows something about collective behavior.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Omg new cat just dropped www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oedipus Rex
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Public support for net zero is still close to two thirds of voters. The recent shift against it is almost entirely an elite thing! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Cut ‘net zero’ from name of UK net zero department, MPs urge
Cross-party group says term has become ‘lightning rod for opposition to climate action’
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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Per Giorgia Meloni il bollo è un balzello odioso per gli automobilisti. Per gli italiani, che non sono tutti inlattati, invece sono odiosi i tagli alla sanità ai quali le regioni saranno costrette. Vergogna.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And I assume that it does, though it’s still scarcely AI at all. So this is a familiar future, yet stupid. And in so many other ways as well.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
The data centre boom is the exact opposite of everything the energy transition should stand for. It is the opposite of clean, of climate justice, of community benefits, of electrification and technological efficiency. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/11/b...
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“Bring Your Own Power” Schemes Won’t Fix Data Centers
"Bring Your Own Power" fails to address the rising costs or pollution driven by data centers' exploding energy demands.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.
Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines. 

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Centre-right protestors march on Rome in October 1922, hoping to snatch a few selfies with local admirers
Image from the march on Rome, October 1922.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In more 'govern the country you actually have' news: minister finger-wags at nation with spectacularly historically overachieving cultural industry that they should all be engineers instead, and that this would be personally as well as economically fulfilling.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks! He’s definitely worth it.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey everyone, be like Robert and subscribe. Or if you can’t: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Jones · How to Choose Your Friends: Sciascia’s Sicily
The importance of Sicily to Leonardo Sciascia’s writing can’t be overstated, but Italo Calvino perhaps put it best...
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EagleOwl @eagleowlsheila.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I listened in disbelief. It's impossible to get your head around the fact that Justin Webb believes Ed Miliband isn't Jewish enough because he doesn't attend synagogue.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You don’t have to read this, but you should read Sciascia. Though if your response to that is ‘why?’ or ‘who?’ or ‘whatever’, then I guess maybe do read this.
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Thomas Jones · How to Choose Your Friends: Sciascia’s Sicily
The importance of Sicily to Leonardo Sciascia’s writing can’t be overstated, but Italo Calvino perhaps put it best...
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Really sad about Richard Alston. The only time I've ever come out of seeing any show in any medium and immediately bought tickets to see it again was his Volumina/Devil in the Detail at Sadlers Wells in 2006.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026
Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...
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Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters
Up to 500 activists dressed in black with their faces covered brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Keeps stopping to stare into abysses
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It seems plausible! Although:
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It seems quite hard to get tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum (next release, 21 October) so I'm glad I went to the Musée de la Tapisserie when Macron first mooted sending it to England www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Jones · In Bayeux
London Review of Books
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The mosquitos that come in when the cat demands to be let out under the mosquito screen are more annoying though
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m getting a bunch of these for people who aren’t me for articles that aren’t books
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026
Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Can’t think why they’ve banned him
A cranky campaign group opposing Covid vaccines had a stand. The most prominent display in the hall was selling gold bullion. A photograph of a beaming Farage loomed over it: 'Protect your wealth in uncertain times' Last year, Direct Bullion paid Farage £280,000 to record a handful of promotional ads that ran on GB News. Nearby a firm was selling cryptocurrency. Another stand selling gold gave me a chocolate coin and an invitation to 'explore the opportunity. The co-owner, a burly white Zimbabwean, told me gold was ideal for hiding money 'from the prying eyes of banks'. When I said I was a journalist he quickly started talking about Know Your Customer checks. 'We take compliance very seriously, he assured me.
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You can read @petergeoghegan.bsky.social ‘s report on last year’s Reform conference here www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Reform’s Disaster Capitalism
Reform has been accused of lacking policy: its critics say it’s a party of Farage and his epigones, with few firm...
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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Endsong
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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