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Jo Kibble (Political Animal)

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politic_animal from the Musk shop. Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · Jun 21

Where to find the Travelling Turtle Adventures

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 11h

If the train is travelling slowly enough on the way back, I will!

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 13h

Good to see the Giant Pumpkin of Leighton Buzzard is still there and still larger. It has now had its bird-protection canopy removed, presumably because unless they’ve introduced Andean condors to Bedfordshire recently, nothing is getting off the ground with it.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · Aug 31

For big vegetable enthusiasts who travelling on the West Coast Mainline anytime soon - there is an astonishing pumpkin growing at the south end of the allotments on the right hand side of the line (heading north) just before Leighton Buzzard station. It must have the diameter of a bicycle wheel. 🎃

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 1d

Important message for Sébastien Lecornu.

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend drinking tea, reading books, and eating a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Still (just about) can in Germany.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I can imagine some of the DB board would have taken some convincing that this would land!

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like someone in DB HQ had seen the old British Rail ‘We’re getting there’ campaigns before they went for this idea. Similar sort of ‘we know we’re far from perfect, we can laugh a bit at ourselves, we’re working on it’ concept. Frankly, GBR should do something similar when fully launched.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

As a DB sufferer/fan, I love these. Particularly episode 5 (because I can understand most of it!) where rather than admit the coffee machine is broken, the BordBistro guy comes up with reasons why each passenger shouldn’t have coffee (‘From a postcolonial perspective, coffee is problematic, nein?’).

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating: Germans love to complain about their trains never being on time. Deutsche Bahn plays for humor and sympathy by commissioning a YouTube sitcom (an Office on wheels).
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Boah, Bahn! - YouTube

BOAH, BAHN! Wir sitzen alle im selben Zug – eine Serie der Deutschen Bahn mit Anke Engelke.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

I believe so (I remember a story around 2016 of some people trying to set an EU flag on fire and couldn’t because of EU regulations on flammability.)

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

We have - happily - never got into that whole US debate on whether burning the national flag is free speech or not, but I’d be fascinated to know if Jenrick would walk into court with someone who took a cigarette lighter to the Union flags he was attaching to lamp posts the other week.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Call me crazy but I've got a sneaking feeling that putting the country in charge of a politician who likes to encourage people to publicly burn religious texts won't work out too well

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Gentlemen, you can’t fight over this. This is a Peace Prize.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Nice thinking.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Precisely that - he’s not good at sharing! If he never gets it, he can just have it as a grievance and claim he’s been nobbled by those damn Norwegians. But if he has to share, he’s always slightly behind Obama, who got one to himself…

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Oh boy yes.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Counter-intuitively, I think the thing that would annoy Trump most is if he did get the Nobel Prize - but as a joint award.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Me returning from picking up my prescription in the glorious not-so-distant-future (small box of aspirin not shown).

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely that too. Just not perhaps from the man’s legal team (unless of course they strongly advised him against the appeal…)

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

I think the legal term that is used for this sort of thing is ‘oops’.

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 2d

⚖️ Procès des viols de Mazan: la cour d'assises d'appel du Gard a condamné l'unique accusé ayant fait appel de sa condamnation à 10 ans de prison, soit un an de plus qu'en première instance.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

‘Specialist cleaning services’ clearly includes salt scrubs.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

That could work!

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. In fairness to survey designers, finding a single word that works across that many languages and cultures is always going to be a hiding to nothing, but it's a very odd choice for English.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Like couples who allow each other a celebrity free pass, you are allowed one [1] gayness.

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Luke Horn @lukebro92.bsky.social · 2d

"after thirty days at sea"?

Or maybe "if it's [insert name here]"?

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I guess there could be a belief that a very small number of people are 'born with it', so to speak, and the rest have all been turned by the pernicious media into the path of gayness.