jonnelledge.bsky.social
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.
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adam why are you replying to a two month old thread please let us die
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yeah obviously not, I'm about to go away for a week without the dog and I'm already preemptively missing him, giving him up would be a non starter
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Sure! DM me?
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I dunno, people often assume i'm younger than I am because of boyish looks/full head of hair/pattern of immature behaviour. I got online in 96 I think
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Hope you're okay man. Rooting for you. xx
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the fact I have never previously heard of it suggests I may not be your guy sorry
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Much more likely to have fewer kids and for them to be less grown up
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always lovely when the people who want you to know why they're better than you show up to teach you a couple of things isn't it
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oh I just switched servers am on mastodon.london but barely use it, not least because the fediverse thing is insane
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God I don't even know what that one is sorry
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anyway, oblig. promo for thing I wrote about what the place had meant to me when it started to die
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The greatest favour he did was to change its name to X. It is literally a different place.
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I genuinely could not have imagined how rarely I'd check it now. I always assumed I'd be there till the death. But... there just isn't any reason to be. Because the thing that pulled me back wasn't a url, it was you people.
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Depends on mileau, i think. The overlap of nerd/wonk/hack twitter I inhabit is fairly present but I'm aware other groups didn't make the jump and that sucks
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He was quite bad at stuff which required a long view, I think. House price increases were good because they felt like a boom. He couldn't see how this would place the next generation in a materially different position to the last. Etc.
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quick question Paul was "invading Russia" a mistake about reforming local government structures or no
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The problem was putting the North East Assembly to a referendum. Napoleon wouldn't have made that mistake.
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That wasn't the bit I was referring to, but the book is written from the perspective of existing programmers, and they're worried about deskilling, as people with high status jobs often are
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Please feel free to get a drama school graduate to read out in the regional accent of your choice
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Dear BBC. I am very disappointed to see this tragic decline in the quality of such a long running institution as Points of View. Where once I could believe those writing in had written actual letters, in these straitened times, etc etc.
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That's true, but they also won't count because this piece was just a list of places I saw on signs from a bus between Salisbury and Basingstoke, and if that bus had gone via South Wales my mind would probably have been on something other than the place names
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it was in the era when I was going out dancing quite a lot yes
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well this may shock you Jasper but it turns out it's actually about drugs
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it came out when I was 11 and I'd not given it much thought since
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I think this is true but I don't think it's cynical. I think he genuinely has been radicalised and thinks he's the Tories' messiah.
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What happened to him? He was a Cameroon moderate ten years ago wasn't he?
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I imagine Tom is rude to you, yes.
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"Outer Britain" is a horrible term, and not that you should care but the reason I've never followed you back in all the years we've interacted is because of your complete inability to communicate without being inadvertently but quite fantastically rude
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I think some of it comes down to the size disparity. England as a whole can be unfairly benefitting while still containing vastly more people than the other three combined who are losing out. So people talk past each other.
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I think around half of the time a journalist I follow appears in my feed, it's not the OP but them refuting an unhinged response to explain that no, their analysis of further education funding was not in fact racist to bears.
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proper cackle at this
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Not remotely, no
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what do you think I meant by "apples and oranges", exactly? is it possible it was this kind of stuff?