Joe Blair
@joezblair.bsky.social
I will post about Wimbledon football, guitars, the blues and Bruce Springsteen a little more than might be healthy for you
Sorry, not sorry
Sorry, not sorry
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Legendary reggae artist Jimmy Cliff dead at 81
Legendary reggae artist Jimmy Cliff dead at 81
His wife has confirmed the sad news.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Legendary reggae artist Jimmy Cliff dead at 81
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We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
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It would be harder to find a less sympathetic case, given that her parents paid £20,000 for their house which is now worth £1.2m. Why is somebody moaning about the very existence of inheritance tax a news story?
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It would be harder to find a less sympathetic case, given that her parents paid £20,000 for their house which is now worth £1.2m. Why is somebody moaning about the very existence of inheritance tax a news story?
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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The greatest mystery in English football: who is it who *likes* 'North London forever' and what's wrong with them?
It is a terrible, terrible club anthem. But it’s awfully catchy.
Has anyone any suggestions for muting "Narf Lahndahn 4 Eva" when it's your spouse who won't stop singing it? (Hoping for suggestions less lethal than a le creuset frying pan to the head)
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The greatest mystery in English football: who is it who *likes* 'North London forever' and what's wrong with them?
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First Donald Trump, then Joe Biden using the terms of the Trump ‘deal’, sold out Afghanistan to the Taliban. Most European govts think Trump is now selling out Ukraine in the same way — trading major concessions for a belief in Putin’s promises, and not caring very much anyway.
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
First Donald Trump, then Joe Biden using the terms of the Trump ‘deal’, sold out Afghanistan to the Taliban. Most European govts think Trump is now selling out Ukraine in the same way — trading major concessions for a belief in Putin’s promises, and not caring very much anyway.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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Tusk slips the knife in right at the end.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tusk slips the knife in right at the end.
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Excellent summary of where we find ourselves in Europe.
The Swedish Deputy PM said this in Ottawa during a CTV interview with Vassy Kapelos. Can't recall another foreign leader being so blunt about the US, and so accurate as well! 🇨🇦🇸🇪
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Excellent summary of where we find ourselves in Europe.
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New advert on Netflix, in which it suggests using Gemini to tell you what episodes of Stranger Things you 'actually' need to watch before the fifth season returns. Something bleakly on the nose about a streamer merrily running 'some of this is disposable!' ads about itself.
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
New advert on Netflix, in which it suggests using Gemini to tell you what episodes of Stranger Things you 'actually' need to watch before the fifth season returns. Something bleakly on the nose about a streamer merrily running 'some of this is disposable!' ads about itself.
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Keeping Score: How ‘The Great Escape’ theme sparks hope
Keeping Score: How ‘The Great Escape’ theme sparks hope
An oddly upbeat sound.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Keeping Score: How ‘The Great Escape’ theme sparks hope
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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Remember how we kept getting told that a European Army was a REALLY BAD idea?
It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Remember how we kept getting told that a European Army was a REALLY BAD idea?
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Imagine if you could actually be arrested in England for sarcasm. Literally the entire population would be in jail.
Morrissey, somehow managing to be a more ridiculous version of Stewart Lee’s ‘These days if you say you’re English’ parody
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Imagine if you could actually be arrested in England for sarcasm. Literally the entire population would be in jail.
Cat Burns - people pleaser (Acapella ft. London Community Gospel Choir)
YouTube video by CatBurnsVEVO
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November 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
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We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
The James Earl Jones scenes rightly get the limelight but the Burt Lancaster Moonlight Graham scenes are equally the soul of Field of Dreams
"Son, if I'd only gotten to be a Doctor for five minutes THAT would have been a tragedy"
#FieldOfDreams
youtu.be/VCNp_jl5m6c?...
"Son, if I'd only gotten to be a Doctor for five minutes THAT would have been a tragedy"
#FieldOfDreams
youtu.be/VCNp_jl5m6c?...
Moonlight Graham Dreams
YouTube video by Adam W.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The James Earl Jones scenes rightly get the limelight but the Burt Lancaster Moonlight Graham scenes are equally the soul of Field of Dreams
"Son, if I'd only gotten to be a Doctor for five minutes THAT would have been a tragedy"
#FieldOfDreams
youtu.be/VCNp_jl5m6c?...
"Son, if I'd only gotten to be a Doctor for five minutes THAT would have been a tragedy"
#FieldOfDreams
youtu.be/VCNp_jl5m6c?...
The three men who, more than any others, shaped English Contemporary History are enigmas onto which everyone paints their own political positions
Discuss
#Orwell
#Attlee
#Churchill
Discuss
#Orwell
#Attlee
#Churchill
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The three men who, more than any others, shaped English Contemporary History are enigmas onto which everyone paints their own political positions
Discuss
#Orwell
#Attlee
#Churchill
Discuss
#Orwell
#Attlee
#Churchill
The 1980s were genuinely fucking mad
A Polish girl from Hackbridge became the biggest TV star/singer for a brief period
Made it in the US
And launched The Simpsons
You couldn't make it up
#TraceyUllman
youtu.be/FiwopPbHGts?...
A Polish girl from Hackbridge became the biggest TV star/singer for a brief period
Made it in the US
And launched The Simpsons
You couldn't make it up
#TraceyUllman
youtu.be/FiwopPbHGts?...
Tracey Ullman - Breakaway
YouTube video by stiffrecordsuk
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The 1980s were genuinely fucking mad
A Polish girl from Hackbridge became the biggest TV star/singer for a brief period
Made it in the US
And launched The Simpsons
You couldn't make it up
#TraceyUllman
youtu.be/FiwopPbHGts?...
A Polish girl from Hackbridge became the biggest TV star/singer for a brief period
Made it in the US
And launched The Simpsons
You couldn't make it up
#TraceyUllman
youtu.be/FiwopPbHGts?...
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It's like they asked AI to 'design a stadium that patronises English working class folk and that looks like it could be in a Wallace & Gromit film based on football.' So they probably did do that.
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's like they asked AI to 'design a stadium that patronises English working class folk and that looks like it could be in a Wallace & Gromit film based on football.' So they probably did do that.
The end of another illustrious tenure by a @thedonstrust.bsky.social Board Member
He'll always have his speaking side gig to fall back on
youtu.be/v4mMI0wd0OE?...
#AFCW
He'll always have his speaking side gig to fall back on
youtu.be/v4mMI0wd0OE?...
#AFCW
David Brent - Simply the Best
YouTube video by miggymigs
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November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The end of another illustrious tenure by a @thedonstrust.bsky.social Board Member
He'll always have his speaking side gig to fall back on
youtu.be/v4mMI0wd0OE?...
#AFCW
He'll always have his speaking side gig to fall back on
youtu.be/v4mMI0wd0OE?...
#AFCW