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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 6m

You have to in some areas, the grass doesn’t grow fast enough in winter

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 6m

Oh, I knew you feed sheep turnips and it wouldn’t surprise me if there were particularly varieties for fodder.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 11m

“Count as female” is puzzling me (an impersonator on the halls or similar, or is there something else going on?)

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 17m

Ah, yeah, that would explain “random waller.”

“Running about” - supported self by running errands for tips?

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 19m

Ha, snap!

But “gymnast to house painter” just sounds like someone who helps with the climbing/ scaffolding etc.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 20m

I’m puzzled by “drowner” and “turnip shepherd”, though I’m willing to believe that the first in particular is just one I don’t know.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21m

Or, indeed, that the census taker was being judgemental (“fifty-two years an imbecile” is fairly neutral given the language of its day, but I’m not sure “fatuous pauper” is).

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23m

Some of these are real jobs (though possibly sometimes the respondent has been trying to make them posher?) Others make you suspect the respondent may have been taking the mickey, which is always a risk when polling the British public…

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 36m

Yes (and if you’re looking for a thread that connects protests in the form of frog costumes, naked bike rides, and processions of the Blessed Sacrament, that’s probably it).

Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 8h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 44m

Yeah, I’m very sceptical about the online component!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1h

Idly wondering what a public health campaign on this would look like, and why stuff we tried for, eg, drink driving, isn't being used.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1h

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve no intention of going but it has the virtue of being interesting!

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1h

This is a really interesting thread.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 14h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1h

Facebook just served me an ad for an online yodelling workshop.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 2h

Also - it does make me wonder whether the current regulatory regime is adequate in that we have a foreign-funded organisation that is not donating directly but supplying assistance to a party. I’ve always thought think tanks were a massive loophole in the regulatory system.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 3h

As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 3h

As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, what a brilliant idea!

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

They’re not “essentially evacuated,” they are evacuated!

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

Yes

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, Fry’s/ Cadbury “Turkish Delight” is grim; no argument.

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