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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 5h

not at all unhinged, but going to take the opportunity to say that Jason Starr is a massively underrated writer.

Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 6h

ah, the pivot to porn

404 Media @404media.co · 7h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

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ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 7h

it's been obvious from day one that they just want the whole thing to go away and can't get beyond that.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 1d

ah come on, everyone knows itr was Eddie Waring

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell is a Young Adult author.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 1d

one of the reasons we'rte sliding into authoritarianism is that free speech arguments are always made in obvious bad faith.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

Do read this great article.

Future coverage of right-wing free speech campaigners should note:
- They are often more than happy to crack down on the free speech of their opponents.
- They may have ulterior motives, such as - in this case - the rollback of abortion rights.

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 2d

this is maybe more Farage, but still... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSRs...

Mr. Bad Example (2008 Remaster)

YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is not without wit or insight, and he's having his fun down here.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2d

A gift from his loyal ustashe?

(Obligatory Kaputt reference)

Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 2d

"Wait, I can explain..."

Wyoming Man Found With 30 Eyeballs In His Anal Cavity

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 2d

*as generated by that psychopathic narcissist Lord Longford.
**over a period of months. Houses would just randomly collapse, causing many uneasy nights in Trent Vale.

Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 2d

5 childhood defining events:

- Moors murders (not the murders but the endless controversy)*
- 1974, the political year. Strikes, elections, crisis, the lot
- first live football match (v Chelsea 1-1)
- mining subsidence causing local houses to suddenly collapse**
- punk! very exciting!

Phil Edwards @philedwards.bsky.social · 2d

5 childhood defining events:

- seeing my father carried out of the house feet-first*
- learning to read aged 4, apparently from the adverts on TV
- moving from S London to S Wales (I was 8; moving back 5 years later was also memorable)
- Aberfan (terrifying)
- falling off a cliff aged 12**

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 2d

5 childhood defining events

- Thatcherism/privatisation (direct effect on my family)*
- British home computer boom
- HIV/AIDS epidemic
- Ethiopian famine/Band Aid
- Fall Of The Berlin Wall**

*Falklands War/Miners Strike are downstream from "Thatcher in general" I guess

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 2d

homeless in Crumpsall Park. There yesterday, gone today

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 3d

This is a great little book, and is how i think about Kent on the rare occasions when i think about it

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 3d

Dig through the rubbish of seaside junk pits and pinball arcades, Seabrook suggests, read the shilling-shockers, and the pattern will reveal itself. English fascism hidden in the pages of John Buchan. A schoolteacher living in retirement who remembers William Joyce as a benevolent father.

Iain Sinclair reviews David Seabrook's All the Devils are Here

Backlisted has devoted a second podcast to David Seabrook's book on Kent, All the Devils Are Here . Iain Sinclair wrote about it for the Lo...

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 3d

one of my favourite pictures from when Stoke were good. Marco Arnautovic, a Serb from Krajina whose family fled to Austria and Xherdan Shaqiri, an Albanian Kosovar whose family fled to Switzerland. Together, in the Potteries.

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 3d

Albania score against Serbia. Massive roar from next door.

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 4d

i like the way all the goons are backing off

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 4d

yeah - 'Bess - punched in solar plexus - Barn'

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus H Fucking Christ on a horse with Charlie Kirk

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 5d

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 5d

Labour messaging is a disaster autonomous of bad policy. Remember how they spent their honeymoon period ringing the leper bell, then closing with the bracing message 'wanna kill yourself? We're here for you!'

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d

I am hearing that the public are not, as expected, going absolutely wild for all the talent formerly on the backbenches

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 5d

Besses o' th' Barn

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 5d

amazing really, years of smartest guy in the room policy from the dems and what it took in the end was the big bully leaning on the little bully.

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 5d

lads, get over yourselves. Give him the damn bauble and whisper in his ear that it would mean so much more if Israel actually stuck to the ceasefire and had less US ordnance to chuck around.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

"Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US leader."

Norway on Edge Over Trump Ahead of Nobel Peace Prize Verdict

Trump’s aggressive push to secure the prize, including public declarations he deserves it and calls to Norwegian officials, has intensified with a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and a possible pea...

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 6d

well they're certainly expandable

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 6d

'antifa' for Trump serves the same purpose as 'Trotskyism' for Stalin, a nebulous category to which anyone targeted can be consigned.

Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

Trump: 'We will be very threatening to antifa' reut.rs/434Lptl

Trump: 'We will be very threatening to antifa'

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that federal law enforcement will be "very threatening" as it goes after the antifa movement, which he recently designated as a "terrorist organization."

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