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Nick Jackson

@nickjackson.bsky.social
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While everyone deserves a voice, not everyone has earned a microphone. US news junkie from SA🇿🇦. I also (re)skeet about advertising, film & TV, HIV, WWW, comedy & Lady Gaga. Agency guy in Digital\Strat\Prod\etc

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Conversation I wouldn't have imagined 10-20 years ago: "Want to go see the new Tom Cruise movie after work?" "Yeah sure, should we book now?" "No need, we can buy when we get there cos I just checked and nobody has bought any yet."
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Nicoooo Huuuuuulkenberg! What a close call. Kudos to Gabi on the save too. #F1 🚩
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matthew @pahuski.com · 10/08/2026
The ads alone are worth the price of The Onion’s print edition
Ad in The Onion: a stock photo of a man holding his neck in pain, with the United Healthcare logo and the text: “Walk it off.”
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's my cake day 🎂
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/08/2026
Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️
Most people don't dream of being fancy-rich.
I dream of being rich enough to say, "Treat's on me," without thinking twice. Rich enough to have a home that feels like a hug, a fridge stocked like a five-year-old with adult money, and a tray of chocolates waiting for someone to grab. Rich enough to quietly help a friend before they even have to ask. To send a care package when someone's too tired to reach out. To buy all the pencils from a kid on the street so they can go home early. For me, the real money dream isn't about luxury - it's about having enough to give, enough to comfort, enough to turn ordinary moments into something extraordinary.
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OligarchyOfTheWest @resistancematters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Choose your children's reading material wisely!
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So, what are everyone's plans for the semiquincentennial?
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
the scaffolding will continue until morale improves
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Except there are 1000 engineers behind each "character", non pre-determined outcomes, strict following of the rules, and closer regular brushes with death. But otherwise, sure!
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The first-ever dedicated Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel launches globally www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
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The first-ever dedicated Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel launches globally
The iconic, Pittsburgh-based children's show now has a dedicated YouTube channel honoring the legacy of Fred Rogers.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
South African TikTok users are averaging 90 minutes a day on the app. 80% open the app with sound on.
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lucasmundus @lucasmundus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
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Rhi @rhilovestv.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
jd vance negotiating with Iran
jd vance at the donut shop saying “just whatever makes sense”
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's sad on many levels that fun April Fool's pranks aren't a thing during Trump presidency years.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sounds like someone paid McKinsey to say what they wanted to hear, again. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/t...
McKinsey sucks
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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
All social media platforms would be better if they weren't allowed to be provided to users for free.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18/02/2026
This is also how every call to "slash red tape" or "deregulate" should be handled. Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.
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Slate @slate.com · 18/02/2026
Pro wrestling has a new kind of supervillain. Even fans can't believe who it is. slate.trib.al/JdXIxxt
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Pro Wrestling Has a New Kind of Supervillain. Even Fans Can’t Believe Who It Is.
Under new leadership after Vince McMahon, WWE itself is playing the heel.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Hi! We're a band whose first album you loved. Though we have 6 different social media channels and websites, and the record company made us 2 more, on none of them will we provide any useful information about a forthcoming second album, or a tour, or, indeed, if we're even still a going concern.
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Ukrainians warned for years that Europe’s human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right. euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/04/u...
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Ukrainians warned for years that Europe's human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right. - Euromaidan Press
Epstein files reveal how Council of Europe chief Jagland offered to connect the convicted sex offender to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
LISTEN. The Boss has a song for us.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 27/01/2026
bovino's access to the DHS social branded he was using has been suspended, which is like the death penalty in the Posting Administration
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I bought a pack of Wine Gums for the first time in ages the other day, and we used to be a society.
A strip of wine gums without the flavours in sets of 3s but instead in a random order.
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I think we need a corollary to Betteridge’s Law where any headline beginning ‘Meet’ features someone you would rather not exist
Guardian article pic and headline. Pic is of some smarmy little cunt, the headline reads 
Meet the young Tories fighting to change their old party: 'Where do we go now?'
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Everyone who is like "You gotta watch Interstellar!" can you please chill, it came out less than 2 hours ago.
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”
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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is the song Christie recounts Death Row prisoners singing in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison before each execution, to ease the terror of the condemned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJP7...
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Senzeni Na (What have we done?) - feat. Monde Mdingi - Cape Town Youth Choir (formerly Pro Cantu)
YouTube video by Cape Town Camerata
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Proud to contribute!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft
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Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Had a good time last night largely due to someone thinking I was in my 20s.
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Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. 
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... 
then it's real.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The chance of me accepting cookies from your website is proportional to the size of your cookie pop-up.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
PSA: Do not leave your Christmas biscuits out if you have a bad cat. Our cat sliced the plastic and licked out the whole centre of a Jolly Jammer, the best biscuits in the whole box.
Jolly Jammer biscuit with centre licked out by a bad cat.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
@bsky.app is asking for my birth date and then telling me that I don't have permission to add my birthdate.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Will OpenAI be the Yahoo! of LLM companies?
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Lando winning by just 2 points means that if the second Red Bull car had been there to finish in-between Max and Lando in almost any race, Max would be champion. And that's on Christian Horner.
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Nick Jackson @nickjackson.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Bets on whether they ever give out another one? www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
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