Jason
@jasonoflondon.bsky.social
Pro doomscroller, also a @Manics and photography fan.
Likes and reposts don't necessarily mean I agree.
Likes and reposts don't necessarily mean I agree.
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Jason
@jasonoflondon.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Saw this on Facebook and I can't work out if this is AI, a bot, or an actual human being??! Just incredible.
Why wasn't this bit briefed out last night?? Kind of important information/context??
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Why wasn't this bit briefed out last night?? Kind of important information/context??
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Things Can't Only Get Better
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Things Can't Only Get Better
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people are so stupid, it's obvious the Bond markets are tanking because they don't know how to bring him back after he died in No Time to Die (2021)
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
people are so stupid, it's obvious the Bond markets are tanking because they don't know how to bring him back after he died in No Time to Die (2021)
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Today’s Budget speculation is that yesterday’s Budget speculation was wrong bit.ly/3XfQmfX and will be replaced by other speculation, probably- or maybe not
Rachel Reeves scraps budget plan to increase income tax
Chancellor was considering breaking Labour’s manifesto pledge but has backed down over fears it would anger mutinous MPs and voters
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Today’s Budget speculation is that yesterday’s Budget speculation was wrong bit.ly/3XfQmfX and will be replaced by other speculation, probably- or maybe not
They're not clever enough for this.
Here's an extraordinarily cynical take: did the government talk up the likelihood of a manifesto-breaking income tax rise in the knowledge that it would push down gilt yields in the window the OBR will use for its forecasts? Rowing back now pushes up yields but too late to enter the forecast on 26th
And there we go 10y opened up 11 basis points erasing 1/3 of the rally since October.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
They're not clever enough for this.
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"Trying to raise large sums with lots of tax changes that we hope no one will notice, although it actually just infuriates everyone. We thought it would work last year, but it didn't. It never does.
But...
It might work for us this year."
But...
It might work for us this year."
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"Trying to raise large sums with lots of tax changes that we hope no one will notice, although it actually just infuriates everyone. We thought it would work last year, but it didn't. It never does.
But...
It might work for us this year."
But...
It might work for us this year."
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I feel like you could literally hand them a big instruction book with "how to fix everything and win the next election" on it in big writing, and they'd use it as a doorstop but also keep tripping over it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I feel like you could literally hand them a big instruction book with "how to fix everything and win the next election" on it in big writing, and they'd use it as a doorstop but also keep tripping over it.
For some reason this reminded me of this post by @dril.bsky.social from back in the day.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For some reason this reminded me of this post by @dril.bsky.social from back in the day.
There's a story doing the rounds on SM about Sweden apparently switching to an edible rock salt formula it uses for gritting roads, as this is less harmful for birds. It comes with a pretty picture too obvs. But I think it's just made up?
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There's a story doing the rounds on SM about Sweden apparently switching to an edible rock salt formula it uses for gritting roads, as this is less harmful for birds. It comes with a pretty picture too obvs. But I think it's just made up?
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Particularly liked this sign post in Strathdon today...
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Particularly liked this sign post in Strathdon today...
Wtaf?
"There were Germans, French, English … people from all western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians."
"There were Germans, French, English … people from all western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians."
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups of Italians alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.
More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by constant shelling and sniper fire between 1992 and 1996 in what was the longest siege in modern history, after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Wtaf?
"There were Germans, French, English … people from all western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians."
"There were Germans, French, English … people from all western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians."
"Did I meet you in line for Death Cab?” I ask one of the field guards, thinking we can find common ground."
😅😥
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"I am forced to get on a stationary bicycle and pedal to generate electricity for the Loyalist States. The guard does not chuckle or show any recognition when I ask, 'Is it a fixed gear, at least?' He just stares for a moment and then hits me in the temple with his baton."
buff.ly/kvdEXDB
buff.ly/kvdEXDB
My Whimsical, Millennial, Meme-Addled Youth Did Not Set Me Up for Success in the New American Dystopia
DAY 1 The secret police appear at my door and drag me from my apartment. “What about my desert island discs?” I shout, thinking this will get a lau...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Did I meet you in line for Death Cab?” I ask one of the field guards, thinking we can find common ground."
😅😥
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She could have said this after her first day as Chancellor though? What a waste of their first year.
The chancellor also gave the clearest indication yet that she plans to raise income tax despite the likely political backlash.
“It would of course be possible to stick with the manifesto commitments, but that would require things like deep cuts in capital spending," she said.
“It would of course be possible to stick with the manifesto commitments, but that would require things like deep cuts in capital spending," she said.
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
She could have said this after her first day as Chancellor though? What a waste of their first year.
"When I went back to Derby County, I booed myself in my own face."😂😂
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"When I went back to Derby County, I booed myself in my own face."😂😂
PSA: Hayley Williams is playing the Roundhouse next June!
a woman wearing headphones and a hat that says love is a team u.s.
ALT: a woman wearing headphones and a hat that says love is a team u.s.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
PSA: Hayley Williams is playing the Roundhouse next June!
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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I think banning it would be bad, because:
1. It would backfire domestically
2. It would backfire HUGELY internationally
3. Democratic governments shouldn’t ban social platforms.
BUT: they really, *really* should stop using it.
1. It would backfire domestically
2. It would backfire HUGELY internationally
3. Democratic governments shouldn’t ban social platforms.
BUT: they really, *really* should stop using it.
genuinely hard to think of another single move the UK govt could do that would do as much good as banning twitter. it's the poison at the root of so much ill
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I think banning it would be bad, because:
1. It would backfire domestically
2. It would backfire HUGELY internationally
3. Democratic governments shouldn’t ban social platforms.
BUT: they really, *really* should stop using it.
1. It would backfire domestically
2. It would backfire HUGELY internationally
3. Democratic governments shouldn’t ban social platforms.
BUT: they really, *really* should stop using it.
See I don't think this is right. Of course everyone at various points takes issue with specific BBC News output, as Alan says, and I'd guess this has always been true. But that doesn't mean all those also people want BBC News to be diminished or shut down.
As far as the political class is concerned, the BBC has always been Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. “We’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.”
Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.
Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
See I don't think this is right. Of course everyone at various points takes issue with specific BBC News output, as Alan says, and I'd guess this has always been true. But that doesn't mean all those also people want BBC News to be diminished or shut down.
Yep - it's a culture war but only one side is fighting it (as I've said before).
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Yep - it's a culture war but only one side is fighting it (as I've said before).
Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and admit defeat.
This popped up on my insta feed and I have to say, the algorithm has me well and truly sussed, fair play. #Wednesday #sttng #ds9
This popped up on my insta feed and I have to say, the algorithm has me well and truly sussed, fair play. #Wednesday #sttng #ds9
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and admit defeat.
This popped up on my insta feed and I have to say, the algorithm has me well and truly sussed, fair play. #Wednesday #sttng #ds9
This popped up on my insta feed and I have to say, the algorithm has me well and truly sussed, fair play. #Wednesday #sttng #ds9
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BREAKING: CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness has also resigned
BBC Chairman Samir Shah said: “This is a sad day for the BBC. Tim has been an outstanding Director-General for the last five years. He has propelled the BBC forward with determination, single-mindedness and foresight.
BBC Chairman Samir Shah said: “This is a sad day for the BBC. Tim has been an outstanding Director-General for the last five years. He has propelled the BBC forward with determination, single-mindedness and foresight.
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
BREAKING: CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness has also resigned
BBC Chairman Samir Shah said: “This is a sad day for the BBC. Tim has been an outstanding Director-General for the last five years. He has propelled the BBC forward with determination, single-mindedness and foresight.
BBC Chairman Samir Shah said: “This is a sad day for the BBC. Tim has been an outstanding Director-General for the last five years. He has propelled the BBC forward with determination, single-mindedness and foresight.
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Political Editor New Statesman “SCOOP: Tim Davie is about to announce his resignation as Director General of the BBC, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Political Editor New Statesman “SCOOP: Tim Davie is about to announce his resignation as Director General of the BBC, according to a person familiar with the matter.”