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@jacksayspurple.bsky.social

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31. Lifestyle Journalist. Culture vulture. Nerd. Views are obviously my own. "This guy has written the best stuff I've ever read" - actress, Lea Michele, 2025 I'm also jacksayspurple on basically every other social media

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · Nov 13

Reintroduction post:

Name: Jack
Pronouns: He/Him
Location: London 💂🏻‍♀️
Interests: Gaming 🎮 (Nintendo and Pokémon), Doctor Who 🌌, travel ✈️, Greek mythology🏛️, books 📚, writing ✍🏻, theatre 🎭, hiking 🥾
Vocation: Lifestyle journalist 🕺🏻

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21h

There’s a lot to be upset about, and I don’t advise putting your head in the sand, but it is really bad for your brain to be mad all the time on a purely physiological level.

If you possibly can, take time to put down the mad.

It will help you think more clearly and remember why you’re doing this.

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 2h

I just watched a filmed called Lady at #LFF starring Sian Clifford as a delusion aristocrat and it was the most purely delightful thing I've seen in forever, her character, Lady Isabella is 2025's David Brent. Honestly, remarkable. I went in with fairly low expectations and had just the best time

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Fry is doing so much, if I was in that castle, he'd be getting my vote every time

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 1d

I said what I said. He knows where my lawyers are if he's got a problem

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 1d

The bizarre reputation laundering on Tom Daley in this episode of The Traitors... Tom was not a good competitor and what's more, he's quite thick IRL, so why are they all pretending otherwise...

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 7d

I won't be watching, I didn't even finish the last series because the last couple of episodes were too long and boring

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah I don't want that 🙃

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 8d

All episodes in the final season of ‘STRANGER THINGS’ will be over 1 hour

• Between 90 to 120 minutes each
• Budget per episode is $50M-$60M

(Source: puck.news/can-peter-fr...)

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

Lads, help urgently needed: a friend's hen do has unexpectedly diverted to London and they want to go to Magic Mike Live and it's so expensive and it'll be crap, does anyone have any other fun ideas we could suggest as an alternative?

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not worried about what Joe Wicks says about protein bars because I have never found anything that man has ever said to be worth listening to 😌

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 8d

When I type "FYI" I don't mean "for your information", I just mean "FYI"

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 11d

On a train where practically every single person around me is making multiple phone calls and I want to die

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 11d

Hearing Roses by Outkast at a karaoke for the first time and I genuinely can't believe these lyrics are real 👁️😵👁️

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 12d

Fucked up that Lucky Voice doesn't have girl, so confusing

Me and Patrick would have fucked that up

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 12d

I'm a cis man obviously, but I really don't want to have to bring my birth certificate down to the ponds every nice summer Saturday just to get in the door pls

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 12d

Policing people's genitals is literally impossible to do unless you're a massive pervert (as all transphobes seem to be)

Make your views heard, support your trans friends and support the poor staff who'd have to wade through limitless bureaucracy of implementing insane transphobic guidelines

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 12d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 14d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 12d

I know that basically the whole internet runs on Quite Thick™ men thinking they know better than you, but remind me never to make a TikTok about the Romans ever again 🙄

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 13d

Hmmm... not AS nearby. Somers Town Coffee House is good, and The Prince Arthur is probably cheaper

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 13d

We don't go to the pub outside Euston tbf

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 13d

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jacob @gaycob2.bsky.social · 13d

No one asked but the new Taylor Swift album is egregiously dull.

Not a single song making any sort of impression outside of being generic slow pop, they all blend together into a softly sung mush.

Also ‘Actually Romantic’ is unnecessarily mean spirited.

1/5

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 13d

An actually Actually Romantic sub-skeet

Louis🪿 @sket.bsky.social · 13d

Declared a Swiftie Ultra ! Wearing this badge with honour !

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 13d

OK 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 13d

Lol yikes the Swiftie Ultras are already out in defence of their problematic fave 🙄

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · 13d

After Charli releases a whole album about the awful way the music industry treats women and grapples with all her insecurities which resulted from that, I actually think it's pretty rancid of Taylor Swift to release a track like Actually Romantic

Mind you, Taylor is famously not a girl's girl so 🤷🏼‍♂️

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