Jamie
@jdodger4.bsky.social
Anything gay and/or sci fi please 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The gall of American elites, who look like they take and undertake every drug and procedure under the fucking Sun, to talk about “healthy & natural” diets and lifestyles, is utter batshit shamelessness.
RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture in this country."
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The gall of American elites, who look like they take and undertake every drug and procedure under the fucking Sun, to talk about “healthy & natural” diets and lifestyles, is utter batshit shamelessness.
If a single penny leaves the BBC’s coffers and goes either to Trump, or some “investment” in one of his grifter mates’ scams/holdings, then the corporation will have signed it’s own death warrant.
A billion of our taxes? I think the fuck not. Time to stand up to this grifting fascist scum www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If a single penny leaves the BBC’s coffers and goes either to Trump, or some “investment” in one of his grifter mates’ scams/holdings, then the corporation will have signed it’s own death warrant.
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A remarkable choice of booking...
BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards
Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor on to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A remarkable choice of booking...
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I suspect there's also a strong element here of far too many journalists and BBC managers spending too much time on X and getting a wholly misleading impression of how big a story the Trump edits were. They're excessively influenced by right-wing activist opinion, and particularly US opinion.
The BBC is hopeless at reporting on itself. The idea that a minor, if misleading, edit is the most serious crisis in its history is ludicrous self-absorption, even allowing for the context of a Faragite desire to break it. It's certainly not as serious as the Iraq-Gilligan crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I suspect there's also a strong element here of far too many journalists and BBC managers spending too much time on X and getting a wholly misleading impression of how big a story the Trump edits were. They're excessively influenced by right-wing activist opinion, and particularly US opinion.
I generally like them but yes, they’re not great. Also, they just make the still somewhat silly redemption at the end of ROTJ even more preposterous when you now know Vader committed TWO genocides, as well as mass murder.
One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.
God its so insane anakin admits to slaughtering a bunch of kids and it’s just a non factor for padme
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I generally like them but yes, they’re not great. Also, they just make the still somewhat silly redemption at the end of ROTJ even more preposterous when you now know Vader committed TWO genocides, as well as mass murder.
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A Conservative motion to cancel Oxford’s new Congestion Charge has been rejected by a meeting of Oxfordshire County Council. The Conservative and Labour groups voted to withdraw the charge but were outvoted by the LibDem administration and the Greens. (Our live posts are in the thread below!)
The vote on Oxford’s Congestion Charge is taken and goes broadly along party lines.
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A Conservative motion to cancel Oxford’s new Congestion Charge has been rejected by a meeting of Oxfordshire County Council. The Conservative and Labour groups voted to withdraw the charge but were outvoted by the LibDem administration and the Greens. (Our live posts are in the thread below!)
I have to say @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is a breath of fresh air when it comes to thorough local journalism. Not like the ‘other’ one where you have to navigate stories on the Beckhams, Clarkson, Emma Watson, the Tory councillor’s PR and “this one thing you need to know”.
And we’re back at Oxfordshire County Council’s full council meeting. The Conservative and Independent group has put forward a motion calling for the Oxford congestion charge to be withdrawn. Their leader Cllr Liam Walker begins by saying “the so-called consultation was a sham”.
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have to say @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is a breath of fresh air when it comes to thorough local journalism. Not like the ‘other’ one where you have to navigate stories on the Beckhams, Clarkson, Emma Watson, the Tory councillor’s PR and “this one thing you need to know”.
I’m sure this sounded like a gotcha, but the park and ride with free bus travel is still a better deal for those coming from outside Oxford than those who live within the city and take the bus.
Cllr Thomas Ashby (Con, Witney West): “Many of our residents travel into Oxford regularly. Driving is often the only practical choice. The scheme risks deepening rural inequalities. The so-called free Park & Ride isn’t what it seems, because you still need to pay for parking.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m sure this sounded like a gotcha, but the park and ride with free bus travel is still a better deal for those coming from outside Oxford than those who live within the city and take the bus.
I get the noble sentiment but most people offline without big followings don’t put themselves in situations where they encounter differing opinions or hateful conduct. They cultivate their environments (whether that’s good or bad); why should online be different?
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I get the noble sentiment but most people offline without big followings don’t put themselves in situations where they encounter differing opinions or hateful conduct. They cultivate their environments (whether that’s good or bad); why should online be different?
Share Labour’s achievements if you must but if you can’t at least see that it’s somewhat tainted by the govt’s abhorrent stance on trans people’s healthcare & existence in public life, as well as constantly having their immigration policy being led by the right and their messengers then 🤷🏼
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Share Labour’s achievements if you must but if you can’t at least see that it’s somewhat tainted by the govt’s abhorrent stance on trans people’s healthcare & existence in public life, as well as constantly having their immigration policy being led by the right and their messengers then 🤷🏼
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I get this but I also see many people from Ireland on social media cast the UK/US/Canada etc, and their citizens, as just irredeemable, which I’m sure is understandable, but doesn’t necessarily help.
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I get this but I also see many people from Ireland on social media cast the UK/US/Canada etc, and their citizens, as just irredeemable, which I’m sure is understandable, but doesn’t necessarily help.
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The inflatable costume thing with the protesters is really good because it renders the body armor/CoD weaponry aesthetic of the ICE Nazis even more ridiculous than it already was. Suiting up like Rambo to face down a dancing frog. No coming back from that
October 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The inflatable costume thing with the protesters is really good because it renders the body armor/CoD weaponry aesthetic of the ICE Nazis even more ridiculous than it already was. Suiting up like Rambo to face down a dancing frog. No coming back from that
This is obviously batshit but it does bring me joy that the right constantly broadcast that they’re friendless, boring dickheads.
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is obviously batshit but it does bring me joy that the right constantly broadcast that they’re friendless, boring dickheads.
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It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences
Spoiler:
Trump has.
The media hasn’t.
Trump has.
The media hasn’t.
Trump on Schumer: "I think he's losing IQ points with time. I think that happens. I hope it hasn't happened with me. I know if it did, you guys would let me know about it very quickly."
October 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Spoiler:
Trump has.
The media hasn’t.
Trump has.
The media hasn’t.
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"We're saving God."
Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.
Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
October 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"We're saving God."
Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.
Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.
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He's "saving God" y'all.
This was once called blasphemy in the church I was raised in.
This was once called blasphemy in the church I was raised in.
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
He's "saving God" y'all.
This was once called blasphemy in the church I was raised in.
This was once called blasphemy in the church I was raised in.
I’m sure using a v60 shouldn’t be trial & error; it’s simple really but here I am, struggling to get it to the right strength for my taste.
October 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I’m sure using a v60 shouldn’t be trial & error; it’s simple really but here I am, struggling to get it to the right strength for my taste.
Any Trekkies that aren’t subscribed to Paramount+, the first season of Strange New Worlds will start to air on ITV1 at 10:20pm this Sunday. It’ll also be available on ITVX 🖖🏻
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Any Trekkies that aren’t subscribed to Paramount+, the first season of Strange New Worlds will start to air on ITV1 at 10:20pm this Sunday. It’ll also be available on ITVX 🖖🏻
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This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics
Not Helene, but some of the replies to her post from accounts that rightly call out the state of UK politics, particularly the rise of reform & the far right, really do feed into it. An almost visceral disdain not just for the politics but for the country itself.
If you are overly focused on the admittedly increasingly batsh*t character of British politics, don‘t neglect the batsh*t character of French politics.
Ah, the famous French work-life balance
on.ft.com/4mTFYVb French prime minister resigns less than a month after appointment
on.ft.com/4mTFYVb French prime minister resigns less than a month after appointment
October 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Not Helene, but some of the replies to her post from accounts that rightly call out the state of UK politics, particularly the rise of reform & the far right, really do feed into it. An almost visceral disdain not just for the politics but for the country itself.
lol. Trump, his family, his administration & his party are going to burn in the deepest depths of hell
Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."
October 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
lol. Trump, his family, his administration & his party are going to burn in the deepest depths of hell