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Jon

@jonw67.bsky.social

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Liverpool, politics, theatre, wine, cricket, travel, Eurovison, family, republican (in the UK sense not US) - and more. Wry observations. General disdainment.

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 20h

...backwards.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 21h

Sheer comic genius from @realdomjoly.bsky.social, selling out a West End theatre tonight to mark 25 years of the legendary Trigger Happy TV. A truly brilliant evening.

And I love how gracious he was in thanking the team who worked with him. Real class.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 1d

Cape Verde's entire population is less than Sheffield's.

You can picture it now: England drawing 0-0 with them in the World Cup finals to get knocked out at the group stages...

Cape Verde 3-0 Eswatini: Blue Sharks reach World Cup finals for first time

Cape Verde become the second-smallest nation to reach the Fifa World Cup, qualifying ahead of Cameroon, after the islanders beat Eswatini.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 1d

Cool guy, obvs.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Totally agree about both sides.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, that magnificent series was barely fiction. Watched some of it again recently and it's still brilliant and depressing.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

And where is Netanyahu's credibility, given nearly two years blitzing Gaza in the interests of disarming and dismantling Hamas?

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

The joy at the return of the hostages is wonderful to see. But it has to be tempered with thoughts of the tens of thousands of innocents killed in Gaza, and the thought that Netanyahu could have ended this so many months before.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

When my wife told me she'd died, I leapt up, punched the air and shouted "Yes!" In sheer joy. Which was a little embarrassing, as we were in a Nandos at the time!

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Superb.

Being of a similar age to you but from Liverpool, I don't think I could have been quite as restrained as you in my language, mind!

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

AKA they're bullies with a shedload of money.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 2d

Scary.

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3d

Estonia has urgently closed part of its border with Russia following the appearance of armed "little green men," ERR reports‼️

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 3d

The poster was making a general comment, not specific to this case. Hence the "sometimes" in a tongue-in-cheek reply.

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 3d

Given the dodgy past of our museums' acquisition methods, I guess this might sometimes class as stealing stolen property...

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg is apparently a "legionnaire of the Antichrist", according to tech mogul Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel has apparently totally lost the plot, according to everyone else.

archive.ph

Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 3d

Quite wonderfully moving and uplifting. What courage.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
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