John ‘the importance of ideas & information’
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#ceasefire #nevervotetory Outsider | not in the Meursault way | Cymro #AntiTory since 62 | republican ‘…let’s exalt the importance of ideas and information.’ Loves reading & enjoys a pint or two! 🏴 🇵🇸
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Fun fact: Over the years, I have spoken to 6 male scientists who were funded or entertained in some capacity by Jeffrey Epstein. Every single one of them distanced themselves by declaring he was a ‘creep’.
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fun fact: Over the years, I have spoken to 6 male scientists who were funded or entertained in some capacity by Jeffrey Epstein. Every single one of them distanced themselves by declaring he was a ‘creep’.
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The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.
Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age
How an experimental British 1970s television play pioneered a folk horror revival
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.
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I think it’s this tablet published by Prof Eleanor Robson for those who wish to go down a rabbit hole www.sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMV...
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I think it’s this tablet published by Prof Eleanor Robson for those who wish to go down a rabbit hole www.sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMV...
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An ancient multiplication table in clay by a student named Suen-apil-Urim from the 1800s BCE
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
An ancient multiplication table in clay by a student named Suen-apil-Urim from the 1800s BCE
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Thank you Ian. That’s so lovely to hear. It makes demands on a reader, for sure, and thankfully there seem to be people like you well able for it.
This excellent novel, by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, is so vivid and moving in how it captures multiple stories and voices in a compelling narrative. Funny, shocking, insightful and so richly alive.
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Thank you Ian. That’s so lovely to hear. It makes demands on a reader, for sure, and thankfully there seem to be people like you well able for it.
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Damn it. Once again tricked into clicking on a small child’s cardigan that looked like something I’d want to wear. They should put actual toddlers in the photographs so people know the lovely brightly coloured clothes are meant for people who are only two foot tall.
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Damn it. Once again tricked into clicking on a small child’s cardigan that looked like something I’d want to wear. They should put actual toddlers in the photographs so people know the lovely brightly coloured clothes are meant for people who are only two foot tall.
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If there was any doubt, test match cricket is the greatest game that humans have invented, and possibly the high point of evolution.
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If there was any doubt, test match cricket is the greatest game that humans have invented, and possibly the high point of evolution.
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Going through my emails, which included this essay from @psbhq.bsky.social’s Patreon. And BY GOD it’s wonderful, crunchy prose.
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
What Makes a Hero and the True Measure of the Human Spirit: Walter Lippmann’s Stunning Tribute to Amelia Earhart
“The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.…
www.themarginalian.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Going through my emails, which included this essay from @psbhq.bsky.social’s Patreon. And BY GOD it’s wonderful, crunchy prose.
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
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Checks TMS.
Oh
Oh
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Checks TMS.
Oh
Oh
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Excited to do a live taping of our @newyorker.com podcast with great colleagues @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social soon @harvardiop.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Excited to do a live taping of our @newyorker.com podcast with great colleagues @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social soon @harvardiop.bsky.social
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I think about this kind of thing constantly
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I think about this kind of thing constantly
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Not bloody quiet enough…
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Not bloody quiet enough…
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Covid Inquiry finds Cummings created a culture of fear and likely contravened the SPAD code.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Covid Inquiry finds Cummings created a culture of fear and likely contravened the SPAD code.
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Dominic Cummings has responded to the Covid inquiry declaring it "insider corruption" & "has enabled a vast rewriting of history".
Typical Tory, doesn’t like taking responsibility for his wrong doings.
#Covidinquiry
Typical Tory, doesn’t like taking responsibility for his wrong doings.
#Covidinquiry
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Dominic Cummings has responded to the Covid inquiry declaring it "insider corruption" & "has enabled a vast rewriting of history".
Typical Tory, doesn’t like taking responsibility for his wrong doings.
#Covidinquiry
Typical Tory, doesn’t like taking responsibility for his wrong doings.
#Covidinquiry
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It’s time for the super-rich to pay up, not working people. Will the Chancellor Rachel Reeves listen?
A 2% annual tax on net wealth above £10 million could raise £24 billion every single year.
Join us: bit.ly/TaxWealthNow
#TaxWealthNotWork
#TaxTheSuperRich
A 2% annual tax on net wealth above £10 million could raise £24 billion every single year.
Join us: bit.ly/TaxWealthNow
#TaxWealthNotWork
#TaxTheSuperRich
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It’s time for the super-rich to pay up, not working people. Will the Chancellor Rachel Reeves listen?
A 2% annual tax on net wealth above £10 million could raise £24 billion every single year.
Join us: bit.ly/TaxWealthNow
#TaxWealthNotWork
#TaxTheSuperRich
A 2% annual tax on net wealth above £10 million could raise £24 billion every single year.
Join us: bit.ly/TaxWealthNow
#TaxWealthNotWork
#TaxTheSuperRich
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I love “while not Olympian”. One of the ten greatest minds in history but modest with it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I love “while not Olympian”. One of the ten greatest minds in history but modest with it.
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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Waves in Margate: Bridget Riley Streak 3, Turner view of Margate in a storm, the North Sea.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Waves in Margate: Bridget Riley Streak 3, Turner view of Margate in a storm, the North Sea.
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I’m anosmic. I can’t (to save my life) smell gas. But the other night I had a vivid dream about a gas leak which I couldn’t fix. In the morning my wife came up from the kitchen (3 floors down) and said that a gas tap had been left slightly on all night. So, maybe I can smell after all?
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m anosmic. I can’t (to save my life) smell gas. But the other night I had a vivid dream about a gas leak which I couldn’t fix. In the morning my wife came up from the kitchen (3 floors down) and said that a gas tap had been left slightly on all night. So, maybe I can smell after all?
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2025! The traditional end-of-year collage! Available as a 1000 piece jigsaw, limited edition art prints and tea towels!
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November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
2025! The traditional end-of-year collage! Available as a 1000 piece jigsaw, limited edition art prints and tea towels!
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Fine with this
Stewart Lee: Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
I may seem like an unlikely candidate. But at least I understand that the first step to facing down the organisation’s malevolent opponents is to stop appeasing them
www.thenerve.news
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Fine with this
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What does it mean if you repeatedly dream about climbing a hill made of goats? Asking for friend (obviously)
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
What does it mean if you repeatedly dream about climbing a hill made of goats? Asking for friend (obviously)
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Had the most fabulous evening at Bank Square Books, Stonington reading my stories and talking about my work. Thank you so much to everyone who came and bought books and to the lovely, very welcoming bookselling team.
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Had the most fabulous evening at Bank Square Books, Stonington reading my stories and talking about my work. Thank you so much to everyone who came and bought books and to the lovely, very welcoming bookselling team.
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More detail in my book Nomad Century and I discussed last month here
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
More detail in my book Nomad Century and I discussed last month here
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...