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Jo the Hat

@jothehat.bsky.social

910 followers 350 following 3.2K posts

Some flavour of neurodivergent. Some flavour of queer. Not normal about LotR, Leverage, Doctor Who, SPN. Cat person. She/her. [Banner is a pretty sunset over grassland. Avi is selfie of a white woman with short, salt and pepper hair, and Doctor Who shirt.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 10d

"He's some weirdo professor from fuckin' Canada. His thing is cryin' that a piece of ass in a magazine is why we ain't gladiators in Ancient Rome anymore or some shit. Weird dude, think his brains got scrambled when his kid fed him only T bones for like eight months straight."

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 7h

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 8h

I maintain, Daniel Craig's delivery of "the Nazi child masturbating in the bathroom" is the best line read of the century.

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 19h

Every time the horrible young Republicans group chat stuff is mentioned, I think of Jacob Thrombey. (I should really rewatch Knives Out. It's even a good autumn movie.)

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 2d

ME: ugh why does my back hurt all the time

ALSO ME:

Tim Robinson super slouched on a chair looking at his phone like a doofus

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 7h

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 7h

Mithqal wanted me to share this video of the joyful moment his nephew, released from Israeli captivity, was reunited with his family. Please share & give to help his family welcome him back & survive the aftermath of 2 yrs of Israel's genocide in Gaza, they need funds for food, healthcare, shelter.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 9h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 10h

I want to hope, but don't trust them not to be making it more transphobic.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12h

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.

Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)

The technology you use is a choice.

In many instances, the choice of platform or technology that a publisher makes can no longer be seen as neutral. Nowhere is that more clear than in journalism in the 2020s.

We are proud that The Up Front and all of our supporting digital infrastructure (like our email servers, data storage and collaboration tools) are either self-hosted and managed, or use trusted third parties who have policies that align with our values.

We reject platforms and technologies where our use would represent tacit support for — or tolerance of — the views of their owners or major funders where we disagree fundamentally with those views and the impact they have on the world.

We’re very selective in the socials we operate: we’re on Bluesky as our network of choice and use its atproto as our commenting system, curating a community of thoughtful feedback on our work and elevating other voices. We also have a LinkedIn page, because we understand its importance for our industry audience.

Perhaps more importantly, we don’t use toxic socials like Instagram, Facebook, Threads or X, which drive really unproductive behaviour in media outlets, journalists, readers and companies.

We choose our technical backend and partners carefully, selecting independent European vendors rather than US-based Big Tech, for ethical reasons, for data privacy, and because we care about supporting the good parts of the digital sector in the same way we know our subscribers care about supporting the good parts of the media sector.

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 13h

I understand and do not judge! x

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 14h

To be fair, when you commit to a world without 'the T', you're going to limit your vocab ;)

(I miss being able to tease them about their typos, but their brand is transphobia now, whatcha gonna do?)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15h

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 15h

I find French really hard and German really easy (picked up more German in one year than I did French in six years!). I will embrace my cowardice :)

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15h

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 17h

Just reading an essay in which someone anglicises Jormungandr as "Ermengand" and now all I can think of is this

The ancient ERMAHGERD meme with a girl looking excited holding goosebumps books with her hair in pigtails.

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 16h

Weirdly, I thought it closer to German (was doing German A-level at the same time)!

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 18h

Look, I had to do Jude the Obscure, as well. I've suffered enough.

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 18h

As well as Translations, we had The Knight's Tale. I'm not sure learning Middle English is entirely necessary for moving to the UK in the Year of the Luminous Lemur.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 20h

“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here"

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 20h

Friend: I'm just so confused.I don't know what I should do.

Me standing in underwear, dunking oreos in whiskey: Well , you came to the right place.

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 20h

I could use a hand with this. 🙋‍♀️

Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 1d

Vote Green.

Pass it on.

#VoteGreen

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
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United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you! 💙