Jim
@passerjim.bsky.social
Generally sardonic, often sarcastic. Etymology enthusiast.
Bird-watching and cats. IT background.
Bird-watching and cats. IT background.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
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"Press Gazette has spotted more than 100 examples of fictional content sent by dodgy PR companies being published by major newsbrands in recent months."
Including quoting people who don't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/how-to-...
Including quoting people who don't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/how-to-...
How to spot fake AI-written press releases
Reporters are being bombarded with millions of press releases from virtual PR agencies.
pressgazette.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Press Gazette has spotted more than 100 examples of fictional content sent by dodgy PR companies being published by major newsbrands in recent months."
Including quoting people who don't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/how-to-...
Including quoting people who don't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/how-to-...
We all know this is true. Anyone opened a book yet on when Netanyahu will explain why he had to renege and it has nothing to do with him facing charges for corruption? If so, put me down for one week, now that Orangina's Nobel aspirations have gone south so he's lost interest.
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We all know this is true. Anyone opened a book yet on when Netanyahu will explain why he had to renege and it has nothing to do with him facing charges for corruption? If so, put me down for one week, now that Orangina's Nobel aspirations have gone south so he's lost interest.
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Viewed from the safety of not being in the UK, it's actually hilarious. Her smug, condescending, bullying tone signalling she's about to be supremely confidently completely & utterly wrong about every aspect of today's topic, whatever that is.
Genuinely astonished she's still in position tbh.
Genuinely astonished she's still in position tbh.
October 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Viewed from the safety of not being in the UK, it's actually hilarious. Her smug, condescending, bullying tone signalling she's about to be supremely confidently completely & utterly wrong about every aspect of today's topic, whatever that is.
Genuinely astonished she's still in position tbh.
Genuinely astonished she's still in position tbh.
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“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
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listen to this man 👇
September 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
listen to this man 👇
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@susiedent.com Hi there! I just read a newspaper article which contained the expression "It was a bold-faced lie." I've always thought it should be "bald-faced lie". Is this just another egg-corn? Thanks, Jim.
August 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
@susiedent.com Hi there! I just read a newspaper article which contained the expression "It was a bold-faced lie." I've always thought it should be "bald-faced lie". Is this just another egg-corn? Thanks, Jim.
And so it came to pass.
“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
August 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
And so it came to pass.
@threadsusersnotgettingit
August 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
@threadsusersnotgettingit
Imagine being Trump or Netanyahu, and being so fearful of getting prosecuted in a court for your heinous crimes that you're prepared to start a World War to avoid it.
#Israel #maga #netanyahu #trump
#Israel #maga #netanyahu #trump
August 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Imagine being Trump or Netanyahu, and being so fearful of getting prosecuted in a court for your heinous crimes that you're prepared to start a World War to avoid it.
#Israel #maga #netanyahu #trump
#Israel #maga #netanyahu #trump
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It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Nigel Farage has been called “unhinged” and “like a giant manbaby” after a tense meeting with US politicians
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...
US lawmaker says Nigel Farage is a 'giant manbaby'
"This is why we had a revolution against you guys"
www.thelondoneconomic.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Nigel Farage has been called “unhinged” and “like a giant manbaby” after a tense meeting with US politicians
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...
@peterstefanovic.bsky.social Is it my imagination, or is the institutional right-wing bias currently afflicting BBC news reporting starting to wane? I just read this (potentially good-news) report on housing and it only has 3 neg-paragraphs beginning with "However".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Up to 40,000 homes to be built on disused railway land
The UK government is taking a
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
@peterstefanovic.bsky.social Is it my imagination, or is the institutional right-wing bias currently afflicting BBC news reporting starting to wane? I just read this (potentially good-news) report on housing and it only has 3 neg-paragraphs beginning with "However".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Superb!
Just missed out on this year’s John Moores Painting Prize with ‘Fracture’. Although I was amazed to get to Stage 2. Congratulations to those who got through!
June 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Superb!
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Sometimes the only answer to some of the more asinine intellectuals attacking London is some good old-fashioned laughter and mockery @ottoenglish.bsky.social
🔴'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
'Nine Years on from Brexit: And I've Had Enough of London Too!'
Inspired by the insights of Matthew Goodwin and David Goodhart, Professor Ivor Oddgrin documents the terrifying change that is happening before our eyes
bylinetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Sometimes the only answer to some of the more asinine intellectuals attacking London is some good old-fashioned laughter and mockery @ottoenglish.bsky.social
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Thoughts with @ianleslie.bsky.social at this difficult time.
June 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Thoughts with @ianleslie.bsky.social at this difficult time.
Imagine how comfortable you must feel today if you are an American holidaying abroad, when you see what the psycho your fellow citizens (who don't own passports) have voted in has done now, to keep the Epstein files secret, and himself out of court.
#USStrikesIran
#USStrikesIran
June 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Imagine how comfortable you must feel today if you are an American holidaying abroad, when you see what the psycho your fellow citizens (who don't own passports) have voted in has done now, to keep the Epstein files secret, and himself out of court.
#USStrikesIran
#USStrikesIran
At some point soon, someone is going to have to deal with the trio of megalomaniacs currently trashing the northern hemisphere - Putin, Trump and Netanyahu. I don't know who, but I don't see it ending well. What a time to be alive 😟
#NETANYAHU #PUTIN #TRUMP
#NETANYAHU #PUTIN #TRUMP
June 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
At some point soon, someone is going to have to deal with the trio of megalomaniacs currently trashing the northern hemisphere - Putin, Trump and Netanyahu. I don't know who, but I don't see it ending well. What a time to be alive 😟
#NETANYAHU #PUTIN #TRUMP
#NETANYAHU #PUTIN #TRUMP
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Ellie Reeves, Chair of the Labour Party, commenting ahead of Nigel Farage’s speech this morning...
Labour is stepping up its attacks on Reform UK, and its rhetoric:
Labour is stepping up its attacks on Reform UK, and its rhetoric:
May 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Ellie Reeves, Chair of the Labour Party, commenting ahead of Nigel Farage’s speech this morning...
Labour is stepping up its attacks on Reform UK, and its rhetoric:
Labour is stepping up its attacks on Reform UK, and its rhetoric:
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As a white middle age man I can only apologise for my people. It’s fair to say a high percentage have been radicalised but also we have a very high percentage of bell ends. Things always get taken too far be that racism, sexism or even the more healthy midlife crisis journey into Lycra
May 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
As a white middle age man I can only apologise for my people. It’s fair to say a high percentage have been radicalised but also we have a very high percentage of bell ends. Things always get taken too far be that racism, sexism or even the more healthy midlife crisis journey into Lycra
Great to see that the Qataris are giving the Orange One a new aircraft to use as he travels around, that absolutely definitely won't contain any bugging devices at all - no sirreee.
May 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Great to see that the Qataris are giving the Orange One a new aircraft to use as he travels around, that absolutely definitely won't contain any bugging devices at all - no sirreee.
IPL matches - robot dog???
Why tho?
Why tho?
April 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
IPL matches - robot dog???
Why tho?
Why tho?