Jay
@jpjernigan.bsky.social
Fan of good food & drink, despite my quest to reduce my waist at the gym. STL immigrant in LDN. Married to @peckhamkiwi.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
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President deals is at it again! The full flower of American business intellect, and one of the nation’s finest MBA programs
Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
President deals is at it again! The full flower of American business intellect, and one of the nation’s finest MBA programs
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whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all
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Actually disappointed by this. I thought it could be quite an interesting second season. Though I wonder if they just didn't want to budget it (as it would have been set in the middle east)
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Actually disappointed by this. I thought it could be quite an interesting second season. Though I wonder if they just didn't want to budget it (as it would have been set in the middle east)
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If (big if, but far from impossible) Andy Burnham managed to win in Oldham West, it would be (I think) a first in British politics: a leader of a party effectively doomed by their party winning a by-election.
Imagine the day after photo op – presumably Starmer wouldn’t show up?
Imagine the day after photo op – presumably Starmer wouldn’t show up?
Labour rumour mill will rumble on but Starmer has shown he is up for the fight
Labour rumour mill will rumble on but Starmer has shown he is up for the fight
Efforts to get PM to spend more time with his MPs appear to be bearing fruit – more so than any macho briefing war
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If (big if, but far from impossible) Andy Burnham managed to win in Oldham West, it would be (I think) a first in British politics: a leader of a party effectively doomed by their party winning a by-election.
Imagine the day after photo op – presumably Starmer wouldn’t show up?
Imagine the day after photo op – presumably Starmer wouldn’t show up?
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Starmer really needs to get his head round the fact there is zero point sucking up to these idiots, everything is a lie and can change with the wind
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Starmer really needs to get his head round the fact there is zero point sucking up to these idiots, everything is a lie and can change with the wind
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I know we talk about Starmer as a naive inexperienced politician in the context of his management of the PLP but it really shows in his actual understanding of the state and how to govern Britain *itself*
Keir Starmer: “As Prime Minister, every time I go to pull a lever, there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, arms-length bodies that mean the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be"
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I know we talk about Starmer as a naive inexperienced politician in the context of his management of the PLP but it really shows in his actual understanding of the state and how to govern Britain *itself*
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It’s time for leaders in the heterosexual community to denounce and reject the pathologies in their culture that lead to these beliefs and public behavior.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s time for leaders in the heterosexual community to denounce and reject the pathologies in their culture that lead to these beliefs and public behavior.
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Terrific Rob Reiner story, this…
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Terrific Rob Reiner story, this…
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we just went through a months-long cultural project where people lost their jobs for speaking ill of a dead man's politics
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
we just went through a months-long cultural project where people lost their jobs for speaking ill of a dead man's politics
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Hey you! Stop playing Fortnite!
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hey you! Stop playing Fortnite!
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You could do a history of American cinema through the lens of relative cocaine intake, culminating in this movie about a talking horse giving investment tips
I've just discovered the most "fake movie in a clumsy Hollywood satire" movie ever, except it happens to be real. The poster is amazing, too, especially that speech bubble.
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
You could do a history of American cinema through the lens of relative cocaine intake, culminating in this movie about a talking horse giving investment tips
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I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
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Rob Reiner, as I found out just a few weeks ago, was vocal in his support of the first Stonewall March in texas, all the way back in 1977, made his support of queer rights VERY public when it was not even a little bit fashionable to do so.
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Rob Reiner, as I found out just a few weeks ago, was vocal in his support of the first Stonewall March in texas, all the way back in 1977, made his support of queer rights VERY public when it was not even a little bit fashionable to do so.
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Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
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without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
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Rob Reiner was known to millions as a TV actor and film director. But he was also an outspoken supporter of progressive causes and a Democratic Party activist who went beyond the typical role of celebrities who host glitzy fundraisers.
Rob Reiner used his fame to advocate for progressive causes. 'Just a really special man. A terrible day'
The Hollywood director known for 'Stand by Me' and 'When Harry Met Sally' was also a political force and an outspoken voice for same-sex marriage and early childhood education.
www.latimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Rob Reiner was known to millions as a TV actor and film director. But he was also an outspoken supporter of progressive causes and a Democratic Party activist who went beyond the typical role of celebrities who host glitzy fundraisers.
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Rob Reiner is a guy you'd fly flags at half mast for.
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Rob Reiner is a guy you'd fly flags at half mast for.
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This is devastating. It’s hard to absorb such an awful end to such an extraordinary, creative and generous life. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Director and actor Rob Reiner found dead at home with wife Michele Singer Reiner
Authorities investigating ‘apparent homicide’ after 78-year-old director of Stand By Me and The Princess Bride was discovered dead at LA home with wife
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This is devastating. It’s hard to absorb such an awful end to such an extraordinary, creative and generous life. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?
Super flu' wave hits hospitals in England with no peak yet
Numbers in hospital rise by more than 50% in a week as NHS faces 'worst-case scenario'.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?
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With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
December 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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we like ours so much that we built a shrine to it. may the heavens continue to bless st. louis
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
we like ours so much that we built a shrine to it. may the heavens continue to bless st. louis
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Who is Connor Tomlinson and why are you giving this racist amoeba any daylight?
He’s a gobshite nobody and anyone with any sense would not be amplifying his dangerous waffle.
He’s a gobshite nobody and anyone with any sense would not be amplifying his dangerous waffle.
Harry Cole of Sun interviews Connor Tomlinson - who advocates banning ethnic minority MPs from parliament
Tomlinson regrets sacrificing Suella Braverman but feels sure (on no evidence) she would sacrifice herself to remove the risk of Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood!
Tomlinson regrets sacrificing Suella Braverman but feels sure (on no evidence) she would sacrifice herself to remove the risk of Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood!
December 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Who is Connor Tomlinson and why are you giving this racist amoeba any daylight?
He’s a gobshite nobody and anyone with any sense would not be amplifying his dangerous waffle.
He’s a gobshite nobody and anyone with any sense would not be amplifying his dangerous waffle.