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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 5h

I think it was a reclaiming thing, and then a solidarity/safety-in-numbers thing whereby non-Jewish people (as I'm fairly sure he is) also did them supposedly to confuse Nazis. But this was about 10 years ago and almost no one else still does it

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 6h

Even when he was a left-winger, he was an... eccentric left-winger. Normalcy is not his thing

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 8h

Or indeed UKIP, who use this logo. Clearly a more progressive choice than the Greens

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Same with fitness videos: anything starting “if you…” is guaranteed to be oversimplified at best, probably entirely bullshit, and gets me noping out immediately

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Typo for backing, presumably

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The industrial look is very chic

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t remember the last time I saw a TT beer anywhere that wasn’t Landlord tbh

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, I thought you were younger than that so figured you were just going by the 42!

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are you sure? 1981 was not 42 years ago

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a little jarring that there is anything that comes in “apple” and “rabbit” varieties. The apple one looked at first glance like a packet of yoghurts…

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fourteen years would work for 2010-2024, but it definitely sounds like forty rather than fourteen

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m an ex-member of the Labour Party, wonder if they would give me an article to warn about the danger they pose

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The LabourList editor used to be on the advisory group of Sex Matters. So, yeah, that's not a surprise

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Half the time they make no sense at all, it’s impossible to tell if they’re being used as “agree/disagree” or “I like/dislike this” or something else. Which is why it’s so bizarre to remove them!

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Note the concern trolling about the “LGBT community” from someone who writes transphobic bile for the Sun

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plus there’s a selection bias. If the group you’re polling is “people who currently support Labour”, yeah, they’re going to be relatively favourable towards the current Labour leader. Otherwise they wouldn’t be in that group. It’s a form of begging the question

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congratulations. “Reader in Writing” is an excellent job title

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anything, many far-right voters are more amenable to properly left-wing policy than they are to centre-right policy, because they don't really know what they want - but they do know they want to reject the centrist status quo

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And people are far more complicated than that. There's no one-dimensional left-right axis, or even two-dimensional. Many voters are left-wing about some things and right-wing about others. They're frankly incoherent. They may not always be persuadable, but their priorities and saliency shift

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the reason she's going for is that the centre-right provides a buffer against the far-right. But I'm not convinced that's true. It's a model of politics like ice-cream sellers on the beach, where everyone gravitates towards whatever's closest. It gives up on any possibility of persuasion

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(Might be a bit of a stretch if the rescuer was not in any danger *until* the other dickhead stabbed the boat)

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As far as I can see, “Impeding a person endeavouring to save himself from shipwreck” is still in force and carries up to a life sentence

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

calling in sick to the kickflip factory and confusing everyone as to whether i'm coming in or not

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Q9 is scoring astonishingly low today (4% when I did it) which must just reflect how little people engage with that subject, because if you've ever heard of the answer it's basically unmissable, nothing you can confuse it with

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh, which ones? I am a big fan of detective novels, even though a lot of them are really, really bad. Which does make the good ones more impressive by contrast - it’s easy to take Christie for granted until you see just how tedious 90% of what came before her was

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nah. It just means her exact birth date isn’t on public record (why would it be?) but her age has been mentioned in an interview or profile at some point. If you know someone was 30 as of a profile dated June 2005, you know they were born in ‘84 or ‘85, but not which

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I agree she is, but I don’t see the logical path there…

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s going to make a great horror movie when he drops out of copyright

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As I understand it - and I admit my knowledge in this area is mostly from The Sting - isn’t this how most classic cons worked, too? You let the mark thing they were going to be getting an edge on some other poor sucker and then, whoops, it’s them after all

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Excellent, that’s where my work conference is next year, we can get dinner again 😁

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just make sure there are always rope marks to hide them :)

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Ray @mildperil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I blame you for the moonlight skyyyy 🎶

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Sam P @samjoshphillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They’re going to be so disappointed when nobody comes.

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It sounded like the opening for a feghoot - especially seeing the [1/4] marking

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love that the third comment on that post is “That’s pretty bad but at least you didn’t pretend not to know what a potato is.”

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of course it’s asked for by the sector! Trade associations always lobby for increased barriers to entry because it reduces competition and makes them more money. www.npr.org/sections/mon...

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Episode 381: When Business Loves Regulation

One in three American jobs require a license. Today on the show, why those licensing rules hurt the U.S. economy.

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No, entirely unrelated, and not very good

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Did you ever wonder why it was called Vigil? Because it actually refers to something in the first series but otherwise is a bit abstruse. (See also Red Eye: series 1 takes place on an overnight flight. Series 2 does not 🤷🏻‍♂️)

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

… if taxes are so punitive they reduce revenues, why would we need to cut spending in order to be able to lower taxes? In the world she’s describing surely by lowering taxes we would be able to increase spending?

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(though that wasn’t a French film, and actually it wasn’t called that in French for some reason, it was called La Môme, so it’s not a perfect example)

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I feel like it would be better to just not translate it: it’s a quotation, unless that quote is well known in translation there’s no point in translating it. Like how the film about Edith Piaf was called La Vie en Rose and not Life in Pink

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don't know about engineers, but the creator of the Weakest Link (the second biggest syndicated format) was a GP, so we're in the realms of STEM at least

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Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s AI, isn’t it? There’s no “she” to change outfits

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