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Sean Jones KC

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King’s Counsel, gobshite. General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook. Trustee of FRU Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal Pl

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 6d

Announcing @billablehour.bsky.social's very first Halloween T-shirt by the fabulous @soengery.bsky.social. Links in the reply. Also available in extra Goth.

As usual, all proceeds go to @savechildrenuk.bsky.social /1

A young woman in a sunlit and bewilderingly inappropriate field, wearing the new Billable Horror T-shirt

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 5h

Pride flag in a Frinton cafe, presumably to ward off their MP.

Counter in a cafe. In the top left hand corner hangs a pride flag.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 5h

I stopped posting, deleted my messages and moved here. I feel fine.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 5h

Can’t say I felt any temptation to move back.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 5h

The pseudo-stories sound like narratives: “A man took a boat onto the lake. He would learn an important lesson”. But what followed made no sense. There were fistfights but the characters changed from moment to moment. It was like a translation from a culture with a different idea of what a story is.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 5h

Paid my regular account-preserving trip to Twitter. My TL was not the firehose of virulent racism it was last time. It was almost all video. About 10% were videos suggesting black people are criminals. 20% were videos suggesting women are stupid. The rest were weird AI generated pseudo-stories.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 6h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 18h

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Julie Irwin @jdirwinbooks.bsky.social · 2d

If I have to look like that you can forget it.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23h

Yes, Only Fools and Horses. Trust me.

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 1d

Who better than Vladimir Putin to opine on who deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

That’s why I cant work out whether it is now more or less likely.

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

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U.S. Navy Cruiser Escorts Special Operations Ship Off Venezuela

As the Trump administration ramps up pressure on the regime of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, open-source marine traffic watchers have been clos...

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

Does this make it more or less likely that the US will now attack Venezuela?

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

The most tedious thing on earth is someone having a big toot on the racism dogwhistle and then everyone on every channel spending time debating bad faith exculpatory readings. Yes, of course they didn’t say the bad thing overtly. That’s why it’s a dogwhistle.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 2d

Buy Gail's stuff
It's ace

Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 3d

Spiral slipmats are back in stock.
Be quick though. I can’t keep up with demand!
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

I realise, with discomfort, that my own style is very similar.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

Reading a book by someone I admire on a subject that fascinates me, but their style grates. Every noun has at least one adjective, every verb its adverb. Paris, for example, is a “seething melting pot of boundless ideas”.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

That is entirely down to the wonderful Holly Rust. She’s amazing

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

Hi! What a joy to have you here!

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

Well done Thom. I’m sure you’ll have already acquired your humblebrag licence from billablehour.org

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

I’ve only just spotted that @thomdyke.bsky.social is here. This place has ever more juice.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

I’m not saying those who oppose the President’s will should be in jail, but I’m not saying they shouldn’t be.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 3d

I LOVED this book. You will too, I promise.

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

It's #buyastrangerabook day!

@seanjones.org has bought a copy of We the People : A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore for me to give to someone.

blurb in second image.

If you'd like it, get in touch.

UK only.

Blurb for the book.

On the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era. The US Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world - and one of the most difficult to amend. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified.

Tellingly, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without amendment, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential power.

Leading Harvard historian Jill Lepore captures the stories of generations of ordinary people who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend their nation. Recounting the history of America through centuries of efforts to realize the promise of the Constitution, we witness how nearly all those bids have failed. We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitution was never intended to be preserved, but was expected to be gradually altered.

At a time when the risk of political violence is all too real, it hints at the prospects for a better, amended America.

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

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