Nicole J
@nj2024.bsky.social
Interests: law, dogs, books, theatre, politics, food, whisky, Pilates, hills, comedy, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, sailing, Scottish rugby.
Mostly here to stay sane in a mad world. But also to hear new views.
Mostly here to stay sane in a mad world. But also to hear new views.
You jest…This will end being one of your spot-on predictions.
September 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
You jest…This will end being one of your spot-on predictions.
Exactly. We are used to the hypocrisy but this is:
There is no such thing as hate speech
Except there is when it’s about the right wing guy
Who said repeatedly there was no such thing as hate speech
And even when the speech they are now saying is wrong is just repeating what that guy said. 🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨
There is no such thing as hate speech
Except there is when it’s about the right wing guy
Who said repeatedly there was no such thing as hate speech
And even when the speech they are now saying is wrong is just repeating what that guy said. 🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨
September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Exactly. We are used to the hypocrisy but this is:
There is no such thing as hate speech
Except there is when it’s about the right wing guy
Who said repeatedly there was no such thing as hate speech
And even when the speech they are now saying is wrong is just repeating what that guy said. 🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨
There is no such thing as hate speech
Except there is when it’s about the right wing guy
Who said repeatedly there was no such thing as hate speech
And even when the speech they are now saying is wrong is just repeating what that guy said. 🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨
These are the people who share your ‘legitimate concerns’. Are you still willing to voice them? Remind people this supposed ‘polite racism’ that’s ’ok to say now’ is the ideology of the far right thugs deCEnt PeOpLe iN tHiS CoUntRy FouGHt aGAinsT in tHE wAR. 2/2
September 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
These are the people who share your ‘legitimate concerns’. Are you still willing to voice them? Remind people this supposed ‘polite racism’ that’s ’ok to say now’ is the ideology of the far right thugs deCEnt PeOpLe iN tHiS CoUntRy FouGHt aGAinsT in tHE wAR. 2/2
Agreed. I was thinking about those racist older relatives everyone has who are ‘not racist but…’. They clearly wouldn’t want to be classed in the same group as the flag wearing thugs. But maybe we need to be clearer their opinions are the same.. 1/2
September 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Agreed. I was thinking about those racist older relatives everyone has who are ‘not racist but…’. They clearly wouldn’t want to be classed in the same group as the flag wearing thugs. But maybe we need to be clearer their opinions are the same.. 1/2
…if we’d all just subscribed at the beginning (like we consume TV now) instead of letting it be run by advertisers.
April 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
…if we’d all just subscribed at the beginning (like we consume TV now) instead of letting it be run by advertisers.
… I do think we need to learn lessons from how we adopted the internet and how we let it change society and think more carefully about the potential wider impact of AI and not just adopting the ‘quick fix’ because it’s there. There was a good TED talk about how different the internet would be if…
April 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
… I do think we need to learn lessons from how we adopted the internet and how we let it change society and think more carefully about the potential wider impact of AI and not just adopting the ‘quick fix’ because it’s there. There was a good TED talk about how different the internet would be if…
As someone who confidently declared in the late 90s that I couldn’t see the internet catching on, I hesitate to dismiss AI, but…
April 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
As someone who confidently declared in the late 90s that I couldn’t see the internet catching on, I hesitate to dismiss AI, but…
Our Labrador’s propensity for what my husband has coined the “danger poo” had to be included in the instructions to friends providing holiday care.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our Labrador’s propensity for what my husband has coined the “danger poo” had to be included in the instructions to friends providing holiday care.
You know how we had to give up thinking ‘this will be the thing to bring him down’ because our hopes were constantly dashed…Could…could this be the one…? Zelensky is very popular worldwide. Trump has most definitely picked the wrong side here. And maybe the wrong fight.
February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You know how we had to give up thinking ‘this will be the thing to bring him down’ because our hopes were constantly dashed…Could…could this be the one…? Zelensky is very popular worldwide. Trump has most definitely picked the wrong side here. And maybe the wrong fight.
Hopefully the team are finding some of it at @quietriotpod.bsky.social, but never as lucrative as the right’s grifts of course.
January 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully the team are finding some of it at @quietriotpod.bsky.social, but never as lucrative as the right’s grifts of course.
Well precisely. Will be interesting how many of these cabinet nominations are even still in favour come inauguration…
November 14, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Well precisely. Will be interesting how many of these cabinet nominations are even still in favour come inauguration…
November 14, 2024 at 4:55 PM