Jake L
@jaykayell.bsky.social
Tall, funny, ADHD-er so am prone to conversational jazz. Had cancer once, wouldn’t recommend.
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Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
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No one comes out of this interview looking great - but I think it's an important guide to the colours of transphobia.
"Just a bit transphobic" like the interviewer
"Middle class activist transphobia" like Sarah Ditum
"All consuming obsession" like Graham Linehan
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
"Just a bit transphobic" like the interviewer
"Middle class activist transphobia" like Sarah Ditum
"All consuming obsession" like Graham Linehan
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
Graham Linehan won’t shut up | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
No one comes out of this interview looking great - but I think it's an important guide to the colours of transphobia.
"Just a bit transphobic" like the interviewer
"Middle class activist transphobia" like Sarah Ditum
"All consuming obsession" like Graham Linehan
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
"Just a bit transphobic" like the interviewer
"Middle class activist transphobia" like Sarah Ditum
"All consuming obsession" like Graham Linehan
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
Had a busy and expensive month. My current job pays me pennies for what I do and I’m applying for everything I can but in the meantime I’m gonna shake the tip jar here.
ko-fi.com/jaykayell
ko-fi.com/jaykayell
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Had a busy and expensive month. My current job pays me pennies for what I do and I’m applying for everything I can but in the meantime I’m gonna shake the tip jar here.
ko-fi.com/jaykayell
ko-fi.com/jaykayell
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I don’t know that it was a good sign in Britain, where the only police raid on a politician’s house that I recall was at the home of a popular leader of a national separatist party, ending her career. In a country and era that isn’t short of comical forms of political corruption.
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I don’t know that it was a good sign in Britain, where the only police raid on a politician’s house that I recall was at the home of a popular leader of a national separatist party, ending her career. In a country and era that isn’t short of comical forms of political corruption.
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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I'm Jim Trinca from websites
Seen a lot of posts about how Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry was released 37 years ago today, but I am not seeing much talk about this @jimtrinca.bsky.social cover from 12 years ago...
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I'm Jim Trinca from websites
Also, not to brag but I’m smelling really nice today.
Every so often despite the misery of this modern world, the state of this country and all the setbacks there’s been, I have the kind of week that makes me feel everything is going to be alright. You have to cling to hope in the face of despair otherwise what’s the point?
Keep clinging on.
Keep clinging on.
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Also, not to brag but I’m smelling really nice today.
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I am speechless
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I am speechless
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Watched Bladerunner again last night. Would have been so much better if they had gone with the original idea, that instead of origami unicorns, Edward James Olmos’ character had made balloon animals.
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Watched Bladerunner again last night. Would have been so much better if they had gone with the original idea, that instead of origami unicorns, Edward James Olmos’ character had made balloon animals.
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
Every so often despite the misery of this modern world, the state of this country and all the setbacks there’s been, I have the kind of week that makes me feel everything is going to be alright. You have to cling to hope in the face of despair otherwise what’s the point?
Keep clinging on.
Keep clinging on.
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Every so often despite the misery of this modern world, the state of this country and all the setbacks there’s been, I have the kind of week that makes me feel everything is going to be alright. You have to cling to hope in the face of despair otherwise what’s the point?
Keep clinging on.
Keep clinging on.
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Tim’s big simple idea here is “What if we just wreck the postwar settlement and then let people starve and die” and this time, when the disaster looms, just let them starve and die. Let’s face it, eventually one of these governments is going to pull the trigger once and for all.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tim’s big simple idea here is “What if we just wreck the postwar settlement and then let people starve and die” and this time, when the disaster looms, just let them starve and die. Let’s face it, eventually one of these governments is going to pull the trigger once and for all.
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Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
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"when I do it, it's homage"
Quentin Tarantino bashes ‘The Hunger Games’ for “ripping off” ‘Battle Royale’ on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast:
“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every f***ing thing she owns.”
“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every f***ing thing she owns.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"when I do it, it's homage"
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Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
The lengths the British government will go to please the Israeli government.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right
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The Times’ reporting on employment tribunals is routinely awful. The headlines are clickbait claims which the body copy often contradicts. In this case the issue was not the use of the word “fireman” but failing to challenge a campaign of persistent offensive behaviour. And he wasn’t fired. He left
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Times’ reporting on employment tribunals is routinely awful. The headlines are clickbait claims which the body copy often contradicts. In this case the issue was not the use of the word “fireman” but failing to challenge a campaign of persistent offensive behaviour. And he wasn’t fired. He left
Just heard Starmer talk about how he finds child poverty abhorrent. Shame he didn’t say much about it last year…
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just heard Starmer talk about how he finds child poverty abhorrent. Shame he didn’t say much about it last year…
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NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget…
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
The budget, the British press, and the long shadow of Benefits Street
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget…
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
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Leeds — Peter Mitchell, 1980s
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Leeds — Peter Mitchell, 1980s
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This is not *the far right* news. This is Sky, utterly mainstream, entirely and completely operating under the frame that "welfare spending is too high and needs to be cut". This is total received wisdom in the UK, even though it's not even close to true.
Ridge: "This is what I don't understand. I think you do believe we do spend too much money on welfare... I'm trying to work out why we've ended up with [this] budget"
Pressure e.g. this govt didn't want to scrap the two child benefit cap but they've been forced to
Pressure e.g. this govt didn't want to scrap the two child benefit cap but they've been forced to
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is not *the far right* news. This is Sky, utterly mainstream, entirely and completely operating under the frame that "welfare spending is too high and needs to be cut". This is total received wisdom in the UK, even though it's not even close to true.
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the timeline for this extreme shifting of views has basically been the same, the ways in which the Overton window has been yanked have been similar, it's often coming from the very same people - it's all vv blatantly part of the same phenomenon!
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the timeline for this extreme shifting of views has basically been the same, the ways in which the Overton window has been yanked have been similar, it's often coming from the very same people - it's all vv blatantly part of the same phenomenon!
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
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[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
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🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor continues freeze on housing benefit – missing a crucial opportunity to prevent homelessness.
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor continues freeze on housing benefit – missing a crucial opportunity to prevent homelessness.
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
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Love to live in a country which takes young people's safety online so seriously you have to give a random third party website your full ID to send DMs but should a young person be trans it's apparently open season for every embittered 50-something out there.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Love to live in a country which takes young people's safety online so seriously you have to give a random third party website your full ID to send DMs but should a young person be trans it's apparently open season for every embittered 50-something out there.
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Basically the UK judiciary is no longer truly independent. They're taking this judge off the case because he might rule against the government.
Starmer's sycophants need to stop threatening us with fascism under Reform: fascism is already here, wearing a Labour rosette.
Starmer's sycophants need to stop threatening us with fascism under Reform: fascism is already here, wearing a Labour rosette.
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Basically the UK judiciary is no longer truly independent. They're taking this judge off the case because he might rule against the government.
Starmer's sycophants need to stop threatening us with fascism under Reform: fascism is already here, wearing a Labour rosette.
Starmer's sycophants need to stop threatening us with fascism under Reform: fascism is already here, wearing a Labour rosette.