Jo
@joacie.bsky.social
✝️ ,🐈🐈⬛, 📚 & 🎼🎶🎹
also a Lionesses and LUFC fan. Opinions my own.
also a Lionesses and LUFC fan. Opinions my own.
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It is legitimately hilarious that they couldn't figure out what to do with the "The" before JFK's name so it looks even more tacked on.
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It is legitimately hilarious that they couldn't figure out what to do with the "The" before JFK's name so it looks even more tacked on.
In watching all the coverage yesterday this was the question in my mind and, as @chrischirp.bsky.social says in the following post to this one, we can't know!!
The important question is whether this year’s flu season will peak soon (and so we have a ‘normal’ serious flu wave, shifted earlier) or whether it will keep going up and only peak towards end of the year in which case it will be a terrible flu season - i.e. are we in scenario A or scenario B. 6/10
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In watching all the coverage yesterday this was the question in my mind and, as @chrischirp.bsky.social says in the following post to this one, we can't know!!
I'm somewhat suspicious that delay is to improve the chances of it being a three way contest for the final checkpoint... 🤨 #ratw #raceacrosstheworld
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm somewhat suspicious that delay is to improve the chances of it being a three way contest for the final checkpoint... 🤨 #ratw #raceacrosstheworld
BBC playing us for fools with this defensive line up proposal 😅 Bronze in the centre?!
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
BBC playing us for fools with this defensive line up proposal 😅 Bronze in the centre?!
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We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
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Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains
on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF
on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF
September 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains
on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF
on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF
Just updated to Android 16. Jury is certainly going to be out for some time methinks... 😒
September 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Just updated to Android 16. Jury is certainly going to be out for some time methinks... 😒
Well Donald, your influence over global geopolitical diplomacy and peace is looking pretty shaky right now isn't it? #nobelpeaceprize 🤔
September 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Well Donald, your influence over global geopolitical diplomacy and peace is looking pretty shaky right now isn't it? #nobelpeaceprize 🤔
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Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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"I’d love to read an interview with a “British patriot” where they did recognise the facts. I think it might end something like this… 'There’s no two ways about it – I’m being played for a mug. An absolute mug. Sod this for a game of soldiers, I’m going home'.”
Wrapped in a flag, outside a hotel
Imagine if anti-asylum hotel protesters admitted the truth: they’re being played for mugs by the powerful they think they defend
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"I’d love to read an interview with a “British patriot” where they did recognise the facts. I think it might end something like this… 'There’s no two ways about it – I’m being played for a mug. An absolute mug. Sod this for a game of soldiers, I’m going home'.”
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What has the ECHR ever done for us?
August 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
What has the ECHR ever done for us?
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"Fears of mass unrest" over the appeal court over-ruling the high court. The Independent says police "braced" (again). There is once again a list of 23 locations where protests will be attempted. These v underwhelming (30-300 people) when previous protest "waves" announced last weekend & in July
August 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"Fears of mass unrest" over the appeal court over-ruling the high court. The Independent says police "braced" (again). There is once again a list of 23 locations where protests will be attempted. These v underwhelming (30-300 people) when previous protest "waves" announced last weekend & in July
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Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.
August 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.
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Sumption makes the key point in assessing Israel's offensive: attacks must be proportionate. Even if Hamas is located in a civilian area, you can't attack that area regardless of the civilian cost.
July 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Sumption makes the key point in assessing Israel's offensive: attacks must be proportionate. Even if Hamas is located in a civilian area, you can't attack that area regardless of the civilian cost.
So this is just an absolute mess in every possible way isn't it 🙄 #afghanistan
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No automatic right to resettlement for Afghans in data leak, says Healey
Defence secretary says it was ‘never the plan to bring everyone’ on dataset to UK, while Ben Wallace denies Tories sought superinjunction
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
So this is just an absolute mess in every possible way isn't it 🙄 #afghanistan
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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There’s too much anger and hostility in politics. We don’t seem able to accept that many decisions are not bad v perfect but a compromise between bad and less worse.
July 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There’s too much anger and hostility in politics. We don’t seem able to accept that many decisions are not bad v perfect but a compromise between bad and less worse.
#WEuro2025 opening ceremony isn't quite up there with some of the greats of the international events of recent years, bless the Swiss.
July 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#WEuro2025 opening ceremony isn't quite up there with some of the greats of the international events of recent years, bless the Swiss.
If I had enough of a following, I'd probably get slammed for this but I have sympathy for Rachel Reeves. The pressure right now is major (even if some is of the government's own making) and HoC is an intense cauldron, unpleasantly intimidating at times. Keeping in the tears is tough at times.
July 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If I had enough of a following, I'd probably get slammed for this but I have sympathy for Rachel Reeves. The pressure right now is major (even if some is of the government's own making) and HoC is an intense cauldron, unpleasantly intimidating at times. Keeping in the tears is tough at times.
This. I'm fed up of the impression created that changing a course in light of new information is some sort of weakness. The weakness is doggedly holding on to a position that has been proven to be inadequate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One way or another, it’s time to stick up for Keir Starmer and the art of the big, fat U-turn | Stefan Stern
As with so many things, Margaret Thatcher is to blame for making the obstinacy brand a given in our politics. It hasn’t done us any good, says writer and autor Stefan Stern
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This. I'm fed up of the impression created that changing a course in light of new information is some sort of weakness. The weakness is doggedly holding on to a position that has been proven to be inadequate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This from Graham Tomlin is an excellent summary of the concern I have as a Christian about last week's votes 👇🏼
www.seenandunseen.com/what-will-st...
www.seenandunseen.com/what-will-st...
What will stop the culture of death that libertarian Britain has embraced? | Seen & Unseen
www.seenandunseen.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This from Graham Tomlin is an excellent summary of the concern I have as a Christian about last week's votes 👇🏼
www.seenandunseen.com/what-will-st...
www.seenandunseen.com/what-will-st...
By chance, I selected Blue Bayou as my Friday night film of choice. Had no idea how pertinent it would be in light of the current ICE activities in the US. Drama always has a way of driving home difficult realities...
www.imdb.com/title/tt1112...
www.imdb.com/title/tt1112...
Blue Bayou (2021) ⭐ 7.1 | Crime, Drama
1h 57m | R
www.imdb.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
By chance, I selected Blue Bayou as my Friday night film of choice. Had no idea how pertinent it would be in light of the current ICE activities in the US. Drama always has a way of driving home difficult realities...
www.imdb.com/title/tt1112...
www.imdb.com/title/tt1112...
And to think so many people blamed England men's continual falling short on Gareth Southgate... 🤔👀 Problems are much much more deeply rooted in the players attitudes and approach as tonights outcome demonstrates.
June 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
And to think so many people blamed England men's continual falling short on Gareth Southgate... 🤔👀 Problems are much much more deeply rooted in the players attitudes and approach as tonights outcome demonstrates.
"These grifters, these attention merchants, these relevance chasers, pollute the body politic every day with their lies and half-truths for their own financial gain - and then blame everybody else for the disaster they’ve created."
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Liverpool: If there is "two-tier" policing, the hard right is to blame.
Why the police can't win.
open.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"These grifters, these attention merchants, these relevance chasers, pollute the body politic every day with their lies and half-truths for their own financial gain - and then blame everybody else for the disaster they’ve created."
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