Jack Stapleton
@jnrstapleton.bsky.social
Sustainability & Storytelling
📍Southampton, UK
📍Southampton, UK
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Just because you are unable to imagine how someone else’s mind works does not mean that person’s mind does not work like that
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just because you are unable to imagine how someone else’s mind works does not mean that person’s mind does not work like that
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
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This isn't a complaint, but it's weird how there is *this* Britain existing in parallel with *that* Britain. Our papers, our news media, is fucking trash. A picture of a small, grey, mean country that is only capable of hate. Then you watch, like, regular TV, or meet regular people, and it's...fine?
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This isn't a complaint, but it's weird how there is *this* Britain existing in parallel with *that* Britain. Our papers, our news media, is fucking trash. A picture of a small, grey, mean country that is only capable of hate. Then you watch, like, regular TV, or meet regular people, and it's...fine?
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Political commentary has a bias towards agency: toward an idea that the 2024 general election is primarily about “things British politicians did” rather than “the invasion of Ukraine”.
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Political commentary has a bias towards agency: toward an idea that the 2024 general election is primarily about “things British politicians did” rather than “the invasion of Ukraine”.
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Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak
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if you're being pedantic about the definition of pedophilia I'm assuming you are a pedophile
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
if you're being pedantic about the definition of pedophilia I'm assuming you are a pedophile
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The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
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Need to emphasize that if you tell me you use chatbots to do your job, especially if your job is something creative like writing, I am going to assume that you are probably bad at your job and also gullible and not terribly bright and you should assume I am not remotely alone in that
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Need to emphasize that if you tell me you use chatbots to do your job, especially if your job is something creative like writing, I am going to assume that you are probably bad at your job and also gullible and not terribly bright and you should assume I am not remotely alone in that
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My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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In 1982, 43% of fathers in the UK had never changed a nappy.
By 2000, this had dropped to 3%.
By 2000, this had dropped to 3%.
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In 1982, 43% of fathers in the UK had never changed a nappy.
By 2000, this had dropped to 3%.
By 2000, this had dropped to 3%.
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- I keep dreaming about rodents drowning in treacle, crying out for some cheddar.
- Mice in syrup holler 'CHEESE'?
- Hey it's not your fault.
- Mice in syrup holler 'CHEESE'?
- Hey it's not your fault.
January 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
- I keep dreaming about rodents drowning in treacle, crying out for some cheddar.
- Mice in syrup holler 'CHEESE'?
- Hey it's not your fault.
- Mice in syrup holler 'CHEESE'?
- Hey it's not your fault.
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Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:
Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees
Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected
www.ft.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:
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then perish 😀
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
then perish 😀
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Taking a long shower in the morning and sitting in your car when you get home from work are top tier stamina regen processes. Warm. Quiet. Alone. Nice. My thermostat. Mine.
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Taking a long shower in the morning and sitting in your car when you get home from work are top tier stamina regen processes. Warm. Quiet. Alone. Nice. My thermostat. Mine.
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I know what you're thinking and no, that's not how they rescued him.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
Child rescued after getting trapped in Co Clare claw machine
The young child is believed to have climbed into the ‘Cosmic Crane’ machine through a large slot from which the footballs are dispensed
www.irishexaminer.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I know what you're thinking and no, that's not how they rescued him.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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In addition to the normative points, I am once again tapping the sign marked 'net immigration to the UK in 2029 will still be, in relative terms, very high, and the government needs to have a position that allows it to defend what the Actually Existing UK looks like'.
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In addition to the normative points, I am once again tapping the sign marked 'net immigration to the UK in 2029 will still be, in relative terms, very high, and the government needs to have a position that allows it to defend what the Actually Existing UK looks like'.
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Noticing a semantic drift in “hostile environment” which serves to help no-one. It wasn’t “the vibe is anti-immigration” or “it’s hard to get a visa”, it was “the state will deputise the act of immigration enforcement to every layer of civil society”
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Noticing a semantic drift in “hostile environment” which serves to help no-one. It wasn’t “the vibe is anti-immigration” or “it’s hard to get a visa”, it was “the state will deputise the act of immigration enforcement to every layer of civil society”