Flaming June
@juneussell.bsky.social
I used to be a lot of things.
I have ruined many workplaces. Scouser in Bradford. Printmaker.
https://junerussell.co.uk
I have ruined many workplaces. Scouser in Bradford. Printmaker.
https://junerussell.co.uk
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On World Linguistics Day, I would like to reiterate my belief that, given 99.9% of people use language every day, it would be a good idea for some basic linguistics to be taught in secondary school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
On World Linguistics Day, I would like to reiterate my belief that, given 99.9% of people use language every day, it would be a good idea for some basic linguistics to be taught in secondary school.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
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Badenoch: "HIKING TAXES TO PAY FOR WELFARE!"
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Badenoch: "HIKING TAXES TO PAY FOR WELFARE!"
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
Er. Yes. You see, you take money from people who have money, and use it to pay for things for everyone and help people who have too little money. That's... the whole point?
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Big news, income tax is being charged this year.
(It has to be renewed each year or it ceases to apply. Because it's a temporary tax, introduced to fund the Napoleonic wars)
(It has to be renewed each year or it ceases to apply. Because it's a temporary tax, introduced to fund the Napoleonic wars)
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Big news, income tax is being charged this year.
(It has to be renewed each year or it ceases to apply. Because it's a temporary tax, introduced to fund the Napoleonic wars)
(It has to be renewed each year or it ceases to apply. Because it's a temporary tax, introduced to fund the Napoleonic wars)
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“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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Heads up, the last date for online orders from me will be Monday 15th December. Gifts and limited edition original prints from £5 to £140. (Free UK delivery over £30). Buy hand made work from a human artist person.
Shop
Click on the sections below to browse original artist prints, gifts and greetings cards to buy.
FREE UK delivery on orders over £30.00.
www.janeduke.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Heads up, the last date for online orders from me will be Monday 15th December. Gifts and limited edition original prints from £5 to £140. (Free UK delivery over £30). Buy hand made work from a human artist person.
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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He should be heavily taxed for using “Damascene conversion” to refer to doing up a house, nevermind its value. Saint Paul was not a successful property flipper
‘I own a £2m farmhouse - Reeves’ mansion tax is punishment for being well-off’
‘I own a £2m farmhouse - Reeves’ mansion tax is punishment for being well-off’
‘I own a £2m farmhouse - Reeves’ mansion tax is punishment for being well-off’
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
He should be heavily taxed for using “Damascene conversion” to refer to doing up a house, nevermind its value. Saint Paul was not a successful property flipper
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New substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-fiscal... The government's problem isn't merely how to raise tax: it's the more difficult one of reallocating labour.
The fiscal challenge
Reeves' problem isn't raising money: it's much more difficult than that.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
New substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-fiscal... The government's problem isn't merely how to raise tax: it's the more difficult one of reallocating labour.
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Right wing troll who pretends to live in places he does not is upset with Twitter for revealing his actual location. How's he supposed to con people if it does that? So not fair!!!
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Right wing troll who pretends to live in places he does not is upset with Twitter for revealing his actual location. How's he supposed to con people if it does that? So not fair!!!
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It's also vastly easier and cheaper for media outlets to produce culture war content than policy stuff.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's also vastly easier and cheaper for media outlets to produce culture war content than policy stuff.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Happy Doctor Who day!
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Happy Doctor Who day!
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Reform represents the voice of ordinary people, like me - the privately educated Leader, Richard Tice, the privately educated Deputy Leader, David Bull, the privately educated Chairman and Zia Yusuf, the privately educated Gobshite In Chief.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reform represents the voice of ordinary people, like me - the privately educated Leader, Richard Tice, the privately educated Deputy Leader, David Bull, the privately educated Chairman and Zia Yusuf, the privately educated Gobshite In Chief.
#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
I can’t even remember where this is.
I can’t even remember where this is.
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
I can’t even remember where this is.
I can’t even remember where this is.
Somewhere near Etna, Sicily #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Somewhere near Etna, Sicily #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
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Can’t decide what’s fucking with my brain more, half of BlueSky converting to Catholicism because the pope played a few bangers or everyone else losing their mind because Mamdani stood in the Oval Office and wasn’t instantly spray painted gold and hung out to dry.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Can’t decide what’s fucking with my brain more, half of BlueSky converting to Catholicism because the pope played a few bangers or everyone else losing their mind because Mamdani stood in the Oval Office and wasn’t instantly spray painted gold and hung out to dry.
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France invades the UK and occupies Kent and Sussex.
France and the US come up with a plan, excluding the UK, that enables France to keep Kent and Sussex.
F*ck off.
France and the US come up with a plan, excluding the UK, that enables France to keep Kent and Sussex.
F*ck off.
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
France invades the UK and occupies Kent and Sussex.
France and the US come up with a plan, excluding the UK, that enables France to keep Kent and Sussex.
F*ck off.
France and the US come up with a plan, excluding the UK, that enables France to keep Kent and Sussex.
F*ck off.
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will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
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I did read this in a cab on the M4 at half five this morning so I was primed to be grumpy admittedly, but seriously - who the fuck cares what Richard Tice, Karol Sikora and Lord bleedin' Frost think of the covid inquiry? How are they relevant? The decline of the Telegraph is quite incredible
it's not useful, it's the Mail. but that is how they've reported the covid inquiry report. it's better than the Telegraph which is "three of our columnists think it's a waste of money" for a thousand words before they even mention its actual findings. Get more news from the Beano.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I did read this in a cab on the M4 at half five this morning so I was primed to be grumpy admittedly, but seriously - who the fuck cares what Richard Tice, Karol Sikora and Lord bleedin' Frost think of the covid inquiry? How are they relevant? The decline of the Telegraph is quite incredible