Jack Pickering
@jackpickering74.bsky.social
Research Associate at University of Sheffield. I work on: Packaging, environmental politics, consumption issues. I write fiction, ride bikes, and make wine.
Cars over a certain engine size, weight and width should be banned unless your job necessitates it (and there should be a review of acceptable professions), and even then you should be prevented from driving on certain roads. Also headlight intensity should be lowered.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Cars over a certain engine size, weight and width should be banned unless your job necessitates it (and there should be a review of acceptable professions), and even then you should be prevented from driving on certain roads. Also headlight intensity should be lowered.
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The BBC could really redeem itself to much of the public by re-commissioning Robot Wars
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The BBC could really redeem itself to much of the public by re-commissioning Robot Wars
Making a Dutch apple cake
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Making a Dutch apple cake
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We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years
What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration
This is what I explore here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration
This is what I explore here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years
What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration
This is what I explore here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration
This is what I explore here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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if you follow the logic of shareholder capitalism far enough, trying to cut costs to maximize profits, whittling down every corner to juice returns, eventually you end up in a situation where a company that once built houses ends up trying to sell toothpicks that cost a million dollars
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
if you follow the logic of shareholder capitalism far enough, trying to cut costs to maximize profits, whittling down every corner to juice returns, eventually you end up in a situation where a company that once built houses ends up trying to sell toothpicks that cost a million dollars
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I will never not repost this
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October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I will never not repost this
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Wasps swarming me in my bathroom at 5am: sincerely, go home, go back to the tree you live in
September 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Wasps swarming me in my bathroom at 5am: sincerely, go home, go back to the tree you live in
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STARMER: hey I'm appointing this close friend of the world's most notorious paedophile to be US ambassador :)
BRITISH PRESS: ok :)
[One year later]
BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute
BRITISH PRESS: ok :)
[One year later]
BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute
September 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
STARMER: hey I'm appointing this close friend of the world's most notorious paedophile to be US ambassador :)
BRITISH PRESS: ok :)
[One year later]
BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute
BRITISH PRESS: ok :)
[One year later]
BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute
I'm about to complete a very long railway journey: Prague to Sheffield. Did it the other way last week. Ask me anything?
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I'm about to complete a very long railway journey: Prague to Sheffield. Did it the other way last week. Ask me anything?
Absolutely insane music in the university cafe here in Prague - frantic jazzy noodling seemingly composed on a school keyboard - but it kind of works.
August 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Absolutely insane music in the university cafe here in Prague - frantic jazzy noodling seemingly composed on a school keyboard - but it kind of works.
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What an absolute shower of pathetic, two-bit authoritarians the UK Labour party are.
BREAKING: Downing Street has warned Sally Rooney risks committing a terrorist offence if she funds Palestine Action
It comes after the author said she would continue to support the group financially
It comes after the author said she would continue to support the group financially
August 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What an absolute shower of pathetic, two-bit authoritarians the UK Labour party are.
Just fitted a water butt to the guttering. Yorkshire water where do I apply for a rebate?
August 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just fitted a water butt to the guttering. Yorkshire water where do I apply for a rebate?
Giving the dishwasher a dirty look to threaten it into not leaking
August 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Giving the dishwasher a dirty look to threaten it into not leaking
Basil brush is why we have Nigel Farage. Don't @ me.
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Basil brush is why we have Nigel Farage. Don't @ me.
Week off, 50km cycle in and out of the peaks 👌
July 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Week off, 50km cycle in and out of the peaks 👌
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Kemi Badenoch has said she does not believe one in four people are disabled.
I don’t believe Kemi Badenoch is a decent human being and capable politician.
We’ve all got our views, Kemi!
I don’t believe Kemi Badenoch is a decent human being and capable politician.
We’ve all got our views, Kemi!
July 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Kemi Badenoch has said she does not believe one in four people are disabled.
I don’t believe Kemi Badenoch is a decent human being and capable politician.
We’ve all got our views, Kemi!
I don’t believe Kemi Badenoch is a decent human being and capable politician.
We’ve all got our views, Kemi!
Enjoyable travelogues: narrow dog to Carcassonne - mad old couple take their canal boat across the channel and enjoy themselves for a bit. Deeply silly, life affirming and believable.
July 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Enjoyable travelogues: narrow dog to Carcassonne - mad old couple take their canal boat across the channel and enjoy themselves for a bit. Deeply silly, life affirming and believable.
This is a deceptively amusing post- wait till the end of August...
July 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is a deceptively amusing post- wait till the end of August...
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Yael van der Wouden, who won last night’s @womensprize.bsky.social for Fiction, said she was intersex in her speech and had only got the right treatment because of “every trans person who’s fought for healthcare.” Say it again: Transphobia. Hurts. Everyone.
June 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Yael van der Wouden, who won last night’s @womensprize.bsky.social for Fiction, said she was intersex in her speech and had only got the right treatment because of “every trans person who’s fought for healthcare.” Say it again: Transphobia. Hurts. Everyone.
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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.
(Via Christopher Hale)
(Via Christopher Hale)
June 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.
(Via Christopher Hale)
(Via Christopher Hale)
Sheffield smells much better than Paris.
May 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sheffield smells much better than Paris.