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RJ Shook

@rjshook.bsky.social
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’ve had a lot of success with SeatFrog over the last few years.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How much US higher education policy makes more sense if a University was understood as a portfolio of sports teams with a large non-profit institution attached to it, in order to generate life-long support and tax advantages?
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Based on headline alone, I’ve not read the article, but in the UK the solution is called The Pub. It’s a crèche for lonely men.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a great thread and it goes a long ways to explain how boys can be largely raised by women, and still be problematic.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I knew there was a railway, but I was surprised to find out there is now a regular service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican...
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Vatican Railway - Wikipedia
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I thought we were beyond mocking people’s looks. Please mock what they choose to say, not how they happen to look.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And instructions about types of microphones and how to use them.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m not a legal expert, but when was the ticket bought and when was the support act advertised? If those align, then a refund should be due.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I did at a club in London. A fav Canadian band supporting a Belgian band I’d never heard off. The Belgian band gained a new fan. So yes, but not quite a stadium gig. I also bought my ticket in the door.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That’s not a fess, if true that is completely honourable.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wondered if she was in the UK based on ‘form class’. What a strange lie.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Amazing Escape Rooms if that is of interest.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It really did happen. The problem is that it happened every night of her tour. My long term GF/partner looked on and laughed and applauded at me/us as I was down on one knee.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The last time I walked up to a stand up comedian, I proposed to her.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I had no idea this position would get so much attention. It almost proves my point.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have a strict policy of not Liking gif replies.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I hate animated gifs. They are normally lazy responses. But this is excellent.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The northern shoreline is as much the border as the southern shoreline. That part description is wrong, or at least misleading. The border goes through the middle of the lake.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We were there too. Self Esteem and her crew were having a ball! A real trek to get home on the 98 though.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It was very interesting tour and the economics were grim. While the cost between can sizes is negligible, switching between the manufacturer of two sizes is probably a massive undertaking.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A very strange headline and article. The missing step is the rolling mill, buried deep in the article. I toured the Crown Cork and Seal plant across from Coca Cola bottling in Toronto a very long time ago. An absolutely incredible process to make an apparently simple product.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/08/2026
This Substack post is gloriously written and made me laugh out loud three times
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Absolutely outstanding.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I could be wrong, but I didn’t take that statement at face value. That made me suspicious, not sad.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10/08/2026
This week Andy Burnham is going on a tour of the UK talking about dodgy shops. In the spirit of providing him with some ideas, London Centric partnered with Edinburgh Minute to look for the Londoner running gift shops that recently burned down in Scotland. www.londoncentric.media/p/edinburgh-...
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Exit through the gift shop
Plus: "Vertical drinking" politics • Robocop comes to Greggs • Robotaxis controlled by humans • London's festivals-in-parks mess
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is a lovely drive from Reading and well worth a visit when it is operating under steam. It helps to understand how the Kennet operates.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
3 AM eternal?
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Extra $300-500/mth for a motorcycle? Does he ride 8 hours a day every day?
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Where did you see it?
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Jez 🤍💛💙 @madmidweeker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
No wonder they are constantly on the brink of extinction: they don't breed well and are more reckless and uncoordinated than a 15 year old boy on a BMX in front of a group of girls.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I made no reference to hangovers nor did I say that the bells shouldn’t ring. But given how much noise a church can make, there may be times the church has to accept inconvenient noise.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Part of me sympathises with you but part of me thinks Pot Kettle Black. How many rural churches across the country were ringing their bells and waking up locals that wanted to sleep in this morning? I’m fairly certain it was >zero and probably greater than the congregation of your church.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This must have been written by a saint. Simply brilliant.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Is there anyone left to enforce the NDA?
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You literally asked to be judged.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I love pickles but they belong on hamburgers and not hot dogs due to their size and shape. I think I you mean relish, not pickles for hot dogs. If that’s not what you mean, then you are wrong.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Don’t forget Rolling Stone.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is actually truly fascinating thread. The foreign newspapers are having a great time.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don’t care if it was inside or outside the parliamentary rules. A £5MM personal gift is problematic no matter how you slice it.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Definitely! Well put.
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Count BL3 🏠🎶🦇 @sbdcmusic.com · 26/06/2026
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
EIIR only lived there part time anyway. And barely. Is this really news?
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Have you ever seen financial reports on GW? Astonishingly profitable.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I would definitely take note of Fawley Southampton and the LNG terminal and storage on Isle of Grain (Medway).
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
There’s 3 bullet points with 10 interpretations. Each.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Genuinely impressive. I do recognize the scene depicted.
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RJ Shook @rjshook.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It was plumbing the depths indeed. Wordle 1,823 6/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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