Hieronymus Bob
@hieronymusbob.bsky.social
I like to make things. Sometimes they are good.
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This is just anecdotal but I wonder if Rayban would be interested to know that the optician I was talking to the other day about frames told me customers have been worrying that Rayban frames will make them look like a pervert. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online
So-called manfluencers wearing smart glasses approach women and then post videos to TikTok.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 9:01 AM
This is just anecdotal but I wonder if Rayban would be interested to know that the optician I was talking to the other day about frames told me customers have been worrying that Rayban frames will make them look like a pervert. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When we pointed out the many flaws in the bill, supporters told us the Lords would sort them out
Now they're outraged to discover that's exactly what peers are doing
They want an assisted suicide bill at any cost
Now they're outraged to discover that's exactly what peers are doing
They want an assisted suicide bill at any cost
January 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM
When we pointed out the many flaws in the bill, supporters told us the Lords would sort them out
Now they're outraged to discover that's exactly what peers are doing
They want an assisted suicide bill at any cost
Now they're outraged to discover that's exactly what peers are doing
They want an assisted suicide bill at any cost
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I’m sure the Starmer Ultras will be along in a sec to tell me why I should be thankful for Labour’s new immiseration plan.
NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work
Long-term claimants of employment and support allowance could be moved over to a new, time-limited disability benefit – equating to cuts.
www.bigissue.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 AM
I’m sure the Starmer Ultras will be along in a sec to tell me why I should be thankful for Labour’s new immiseration plan.
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NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work
Long-term claimants of employment and support allowance could be moved over to a new, time-limited disability benefit – equating to cuts.
www.bigissue.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:38 AM
NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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I already have access to my own likeness
January 22, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I already have access to my own likeness
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I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
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Just fyi. On Friday, Lord Falconer, who's shepherding the assisted dying bill through the Lords, admitted that he thought it was fine if someone chose to die because they didn't have enough money for care
If you're left wing and support the principle, I really need you to look at the bill's details
If you're left wing and support the principle, I really need you to look at the bill's details
January 18, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Just fyi. On Friday, Lord Falconer, who's shepherding the assisted dying bill through the Lords, admitted that he thought it was fine if someone chose to die because they didn't have enough money for care
If you're left wing and support the principle, I really need you to look at the bill's details
If you're left wing and support the principle, I really need you to look at the bill's details
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#72: Shag a massive apple
January 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM
#72: Shag a massive apple
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The reason this is a war crime, incidentally, is that without it, combatants have a valid excuse to target and kill civilians – because they might be military in disguise.
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The reason this is a war crime, incidentally, is that without it, combatants have a valid excuse to target and kill civilians – because they might be military in disguise.
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
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Welcome to new Bluesky users.
Here’s how we do things:
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
Here’s how we do things:
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
January 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Welcome to new Bluesky users.
Here’s how we do things:
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
Here’s how we do things:
1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol
2. No flisking
3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology
4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on
5. No questions
Good luck!
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The best time for the government to quit X was August 2024, when its owner fuelled far right riots, the second best time is now.
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 1:37 PM
The best time for the government to quit X was August 2024, when its owner fuelled far right riots, the second best time is now.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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hey @rentouljohn.bsky.social here’s another answer to your clueless question
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 AM
hey @rentouljohn.bsky.social here’s another answer to your clueless question
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So many reasons I could not cut it in politics, but one is I would just laugh inappropriately too much. Imagine, you’re at a meeting of senior leaders and the CEO comes out with this crap.
Keir Starmer has this morning urged Cabinet to keep its nerve amid grim opinion polling (today’s YouGov put Labour in third place behind Reform & Tories)
“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
So many reasons I could not cut it in politics, but one is I would just laugh inappropriately too much. Imagine, you’re at a meeting of senior leaders and the CEO comes out with this crap.
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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extremely cool and good that the govt is making significant decisions based on obviously made up "facts" that they are too stupid to realise are made up
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
extremely cool and good that the govt is making significant decisions based on obviously made up "facts" that they are too stupid to realise are made up