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Jon South

@phlebasjon.bsky.social
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Christian, dad, programmer, cook, reader, listener, watcher, player. (he/him)

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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Corrs of Fenric
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Share a movie soundtrack you love from the 2000s. 🎥🎶💿
Cover of the soundtrack album for the film Brick.
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john JASON saeteroy @johnjasonsaeteroy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what's a favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you're in the vicinity tomorrow, why not stop by and check out Sar's comics? I picked up Beware the Knight at Caption and really enjoyed it.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
E(nearly 9) did this drawing as part of the #MFTADVENTURE challenge that @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social organised at Newbury Library. She loved a big old key they had.
A drawing of a large key. "I would give A KEY to ANY FRIEND because I LOVE THE KEY + I LOVE THE FRIEND"
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.
The cover of The Violet Burning's 1996 self-titled album. A young girl with wings and a silver face holds out a sparkling fruit towards us.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Drop an image from your favourite film. 🖤
A scene from Chungking Express: a cafe in Hong Kong. A cop sips his coffee at the counter; the waitress leans on the other end of the counter, watching him.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Do you like and/or make comics? Consider coming to Caption. If you're considering coming to Caption, how about prebooking a ticket, maybe snagging yourself a T-shirt, and helping fund the event? 11 hours left on the clock!
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Listening to Somapolis for the first time in a while. What an absolutely superb album. youtu.be/jJ9wKTVNhg4?...
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Sweet Billy Pilgrim - We Are The Bright Carvers
YouTube video by sweetbillypilgrim
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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Coprolites aren’t my favourite fossil but they’re a solid number two
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our Man in Havana
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It was actually James Cameron who drew her like one of his French girls.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
An odd question for @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social : E(8) has just read Noah's Gold twice and now she wants me to make Granny's Magic Pasta. Is there a canonical recipe or do I forage some wild garlic and then improvise?
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MJ Hibbett @mjhibbett.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Speaking as An Actual Expert On Supervillains, I think it's important to clarify that he sounds like one very specific supervillain i.e THE RED SKULL. I'm sure that's fine though. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears
Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I've just finished reading Maud is Moving for the first time. So beautifully written and illustrated, and I loved seeing the world through Maud's eyes for a little while. I promised E(8 and a half) she could read the book after I finished, and she has seized it.
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Jim @toyotabedzrock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
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This 18-year-old Afghan girl nearly escaped the Taliban – then we took her visa away
She resisted a forced marriage and studied in secret, winning scholarships to leave Kabul and attend a British university. But now the home secretary’s ban on study visas has removed her one chance of...
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Peter Greenaway's From Hell
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!
A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.
a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle." "OK," you say. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. "Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Captain Zep, Space Detective!
A spaceship bridge; Professor Spiro (Harriet Keevil) looks down at a console while Jason Brown (Ben Ellison) talks to Zep (Paul Greenwood). They all wear flamboyant yellow space uniforms.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hey folks! How about supporting Jack and Talha in creating something weird and horrible? Go on, it'll be brilliant.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I'm torn between encouraging more people to pick this up, and hoping nobody else solves it before I do! Why not give it a try? It's weird and imaginative and has a CROSSWORD.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Patience.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Lovely music from a classic Z Tapes/Start Track artist. Going free. 24 codes left at time of posting!
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If you live in the UK and you were shocked to see the US ICE seize a 5 year old boy, don't forget this is what Nigel Farage and the Reform Party UK want for our country.
Liam Ramos, 5 years old, being seized by a masked ICE agent who has left his humanity and decency at home (if he ever had any)Liam Ramos, a 5 year old child, in a little blue hat with ears and pom poms, is being put in an ICE van. The people who seized him belong in prison. REFORMUK

AUG 2025

Operation Restoring Justice

Our plan to deport all illegal migrants in the UK, and secure our borders.

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 pow-er bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power ad-dresses 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 willFarage, who had previously said mass deportations were a "political impossibility", said his party had now come up with "a credible plan, so that we can deport hundreds of thousands of people over the five years of a Reform government".

During the news conference, Farage asked Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf whether it was realistic to deport 500,000-600,000 people within the lifetime of the first Parliament under a Reform UK government, to which he replied "totally, yeah".

Reform, which currently has just four MPs although it is leading in many opinion polls, has not specified what proportion of this number would come from future arrivals, or people already in the country.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
post a great jorts song from your playlist: 50 ways to leave your Jorts
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Laurel Peking Restaurant on Cheap Street in Newbury. Nice atmosphere, a flexible set menu (great for special occasions, you could pick a couple of favourite dishes and they'd choose the rest to go with them) and the best crispy chilli beef I've ever had.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Cure
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Red Letter Christians UK @redletterxnsuk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
There are some free codes left for one of my albums of the year! Why not have a listen?
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I enjoyed this a lot. Proper hard sci-fi with a nice satirical edge, while also a proper well-constructed whodunit. Recommended!
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
My first computer was a Spectrum. I loved typing in programs from magazines (and inevitably having to debug the mistakes I'd made in typing them in).
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wham!
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other. There's no such thing as useless education.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Just a day and a bit to go. Dear friends, please consider backing - I'd really like to hear more of this, and you might enjoy it too!
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I forgot to post this yesterday. youtu.be/JCBIelqeuEU?...
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The Bad Plus - Cheney Pinata
YouTube video by Smims
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My name is Paul Cezanne, King of Kings. Look on my table, peaches and this pear.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Have you listened to the first season of The Holmwood Foundation? Then you'll be wanting season 2. Have you not listened to the first season of The Holmwood Foundation? Then I recommend it. You can pick up tips for what to do if you ever find yourself on the run with Dracula's head in a carrier bag.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.
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Emaux @emauxstylo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
In a world of Lucy Connollys, be a Miss Webster.
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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Still the best gorilla joke 128 years later:
The Best Gorilla
Joke of 1897
Gorilla: Did you hear about the gorilla who escaped from the zoo?
Zookeeper: No. I did not.
Gorilla: That is because I am a quiet gorilla.
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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Jon South @phlebasjon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
If you see this, post a DC comic cover you love
Cover of Legion of Super-Heroes(1989) #1. A man (Rokk Krinn) in a long brown coat stands among wreckage and clouds of purple mist. In the foreground, a broken Legion flight ring.
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