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General Boles

@generalboles.bsky.social

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Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 7h

"Think we're on a winner here Trig, play it nice and cool son, nice and cool you know what I mean?"

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 6h

always a delight to have to explain the jokes 🙄

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Imaginary Gay Chart @imaginarygaychart.bsky.social · 7h

“Sympathy is a knife” by Charli xcx debuts at #1 on the Imaginary Gay Chart this week! From the 2024 Grammy-winning album, brat, “Sympathy” pulls the curtain back on Charli’s insecurities and feelings about being in the orbit of another artist experiencing unimaginable levels of success.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 7h

If only her man had had some willpower can I get an amen ladies?

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19h

Hillary Clinton was the original Sabrina Carpenter

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 7h

"Think we're on a winner here Trig, play it nice and cool son, nice and cool you know what I mean?"

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8h

Why is he... so sad?

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 8h

30km in and on for 2:00.16 for Kiplimo. It's getting real now

Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 9h

Don't look now, but there's several men on pace for a marathon WR in Chicago, including Jacob Kiplimo. Might even be the first legit sub-2 hours...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 9h

Like a mascot for a heavily gerrymandered congressional district

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 9h

No but the temp has dropped by about 7 deg since I last did a long run so difficult to compare

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 9h

nice

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 9h

blocked and reported

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 9h

I call him Runny

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 9h

Your map appears to be some sort of large headed cartoon character running

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h

since we're talking about The Other Place, one now pointless gripe I still have is that actually it could have remained a fair bit more pleasant and usable and useful if more people just used the non-algorithmic timeline and I'll never understand why they didn't just do it

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 9h

Nobody needs to think about this on the Lord’s day

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 9h

Are you training for a race?

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 10h

As a fan of even numbers this run pleased me immensely

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 13h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 1d

The piece went online a fortnight ago, but is in print today.
Here’s a gift link, if you’d like to read free:

Middle-class families are choking on the £100 ‘casual meal out’
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/96d6c66...