Jamesy
@blokeblogging.bsky.social
Still looking for stuff and nonsense. Mostly the nonsense.
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As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
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A few loving words about Madness and one song in particular.
“With Madness that felt important because you know how desperately a certain sort of pink-faced, St. George's flag-waving Reformer would love to embrace them as one of their own.” | Pete Paphides
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December 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A few loving words about Madness and one song in particular.
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"You boy, have you seen Alistair Sim?"
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"You boy, have you seen Alistair Sim?"
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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I mean, in theory I really like the idea of celebrating Christmas in a perfectly clean and tidy house with heaps of delicious home cooked food and baked goods.
But when it dawned on me that all the cleaning and the cooking and the baking would have to be done by ME, I kind of lost interest.
But when it dawned on me that all the cleaning and the cooking and the baking would have to be done by ME, I kind of lost interest.
She also said: "Oh, so you're not the type that needs to have their house perfect." And no, indeed I am not.
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I mean, in theory I really like the idea of celebrating Christmas in a perfectly clean and tidy house with heaps of delicious home cooked food and baked goods.
But when it dawned on me that all the cleaning and the cooking and the baking would have to be done by ME, I kind of lost interest.
But when it dawned on me that all the cleaning and the cooking and the baking would have to be done by ME, I kind of lost interest.
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RIP Steve Cropper
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
RIP Steve Cropper
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Look, I know that fast fashion is terrible and I try to buy nothing new and repair what I have whenever possible. But my normal resistance to Temu ads is utterly undone by this objectively incredible item
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, I know that fast fashion is terrible and I try to buy nothing new and repair what I have whenever possible. But my normal resistance to Temu ads is utterly undone by this objectively incredible item
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Lamb as presenter, every breakfast telling the faithfuls they’re fucking useless now put down that fucking croissant and fuck off #CelebrityTraitors
OK hear me out. Celebrity Traitors but with the cast of Slow Horses, all in character.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Lamb as presenter, every breakfast telling the faithfuls they’re fucking useless now put down that fucking croissant and fuck off #CelebrityTraitors
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Remember what I was saying about understanding the average voter?
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Remember what I was saying about understanding the average voter?
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how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for
October 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for
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Great news for people who consider themselves Real Men
October 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great news for people who consider themselves Real Men
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Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.
Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.
YouTube video by Hank Green
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October 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.
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I've long thought social media is on the decline
That's what happens when you continually make your platforms worse so you can shove more ads into feeds
I don't think it's going away any time soon though, these platforms can limp on with a smaller user base
And Facebook is 20 years old next year
That's what happens when you continually make your platforms worse so you can shove more ads into feeds
I don't think it's going away any time soon though, these platforms can limp on with a smaller user base
And Facebook is 20 years old next year
This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I've long thought social media is on the decline
That's what happens when you continually make your platforms worse so you can shove more ads into feeds
I don't think it's going away any time soon though, these platforms can limp on with a smaller user base
And Facebook is 20 years old next year
That's what happens when you continually make your platforms worse so you can shove more ads into feeds
I don't think it's going away any time soon though, these platforms can limp on with a smaller user base
And Facebook is 20 years old next year
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Remembering Millie Small on her birthday. Here's a joyous clip of her rehearsing Be My Guest and Daydream with Norwegian band The Vanguards in 1966
October 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Remembering Millie Small on her birthday. Here's a joyous clip of her rehearsing Be My Guest and Daydream with Norwegian band The Vanguards in 1966
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Here's a YouTube playlist of classic Human League TV appearances and videos including this version of Path of Least Resistance plus Only After Dark, Being Boiled, Circus of Death, Empire State Human, Love Action, Do Or Die, Open Your Heart and many more
▶️📺 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
▶️📺 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Here's a YouTube playlist of classic Human League TV appearances and videos including this version of Path of Least Resistance plus Only After Dark, Being Boiled, Circus of Death, Empire State Human, Love Action, Do Or Die, Open Your Heart and many more
▶️📺 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
▶️📺 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Have had my fill of these idiots.
September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Have had my fill of these idiots.
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Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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You know that “red wave” map Republicans love to trot out to prove how conservative the U.S. supposedly is? Well, now Trump is weaponizing the data behind it as his latest evidence of having won a so-called "landslide." But the thing is, the actual data tells a far different story.
The Myth Of The MAGA Majority
Trump's latest 'landslide' claim masks what a minority movement MAGA really is
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September 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You know that “red wave” map Republicans love to trot out to prove how conservative the U.S. supposedly is? Well, now Trump is weaponizing the data behind it as his latest evidence of having won a so-called "landslide." But the thing is, the actual data tells a far different story.
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It’s also the 65th anniversary of the pilot episode of Michael Bentine’s It’s a Square World being shown on the BBC. It ran for four years, was positively unhinged, and – according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – gave rise to one of the finest of all BBC memos
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It’s also the 65th anniversary of the pilot episode of Michael Bentine’s It’s a Square World being shown on the BBC. It ran for four years, was positively unhinged, and – according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – gave rise to one of the finest of all BBC memos