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Jonn Elledge

@jonnelledge.bsky.social

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#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6h

LITERALLY THE NEXT POST IN THE THREAD SENT LESS THAN A MINUTE LATER. I KNOW THERE'S A MISLEADING HEADLINE AND A PAYWALL BUT HAVE YOU ALSO HAD A DEBILITATING ACCIDENT THAT PREVENTS YOU FROM SCROLLING DOWN AND READING THE SECOND POST IN A THREAD, LIKE WHAT'S THE DEAL HERE

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

Before you all yell at me, my answer can be summed up as "fuck, no".

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1m

I'm explicitly not saying you should!

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6m

Because I'm not gonna yell at an under resourced editor from whom I hope to continue getting work on a weekend, that would be neither helpful nor kind

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14m

Didn't realise they'd put that headline on it, thoughtlessly used it when promoting the piece while rushing to leave the house, covered all this many times today

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 28m

I replied with something I thought would be comprehensible as a comically exasperated tone, because you were approximately the 200th person to do that. Evem if that hasn't happened to you I'm sure you can imagine how that frays on your sanity after a while.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 30m

You know what? sure. that wasn't my intention, and i haven't seen anyone dog piling - i just thought it was an enjoyable mad thing you posted - but fair enough I've deleted. Can we leave this now?

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 33m

I didn't do that? I screenshotted a stupid thing you said to mock it to illustrate the insane things people were saying in my mentions and cut your name off before doing it.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 53m

I snapped slightly because you were being rude, then apologised. That's it. Please stop with this madness.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

Before you all yell at me, my answer can be summed up as "fuck, no".

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

The column is about a report which documents ways in which X is still shaping political debate in Britain.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

This is extreme behaviour, I really think you should consider logging off and hugging someone you love.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

The specific report examined in the report about the impact social media, especially X, are having on the *British* government. I cannot stress this enough that I am not American and the column is not about America.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

Yes i learned it was a mistake to engage with you when I should have muted. I am not making that mistake now.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

I've said several times now: Yes, I made a mistake there, I was doing it in a hurry before going out for the day and didn't think enough. I'm sure you can sympathise, we've all done it.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

Because I did not write it imagining that headline, which I didn't write.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

There's no reason for anyone to read anything they don't want to, but it remains true that I didn't write the headline

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

I could, but doing so on a weekend is likely to piss off someone who can decide whether to keep giving me work, so I'm sure you can see the problem

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

The piece does not say what you think.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

I don't disagree - that isn't what I wrote

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

I didn't write the headline, I was asked to write about the Montford Report and whether that suggested we'd made a mistake, to which my answer was "absolutely not"

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

yeah, as I've said: I did it in a hurry when I was trying to leave the house, I wasn't thinking, it was a mistake.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

Ha! I did once interview the guy in charge of the tube map and complain about that

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

And the people who write the headlines - not, in this case as in most others, the writer - are concerned about clicks and not concerned what it'll do to the writer's mentions for the day

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

I didn't write the headline.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2h

LOVE that piece.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3h

It isn't my take, the article concludes "no"