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Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social |
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Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
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John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
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So to confirm, now we have near-final numbers: Every time 19 Tory MPs get a bit grumpy this parliament and stick their letters into the 1922 Committee... ...it'll automatically trigger a leadership contest.
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ᚇᚐᚍ ᚑᚃ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚚᚑᚈᚐᚈᚑ
@ciara2001.bsky.social
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Weird way of phrasing it when the biggest SNP transphobe lost her seat, but the Guardian is going to Guardian I guess
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Nothing. The King is dead, long live the King. (In practice I imagine there would be a hell of a delay and it’s possible Sunak might be asked to remain as a caretaker during the official period of mourning, but he couldn’t do anything then anyway. But on the other hand, maybe not…)
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Brigid Alverson
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My dad (physicist) had a joke about this: When Noah sent the animals from the ark, he told them "Go forth and multiply," but two snakes said "We can't. We're adders." So he built them a log table. (Logs allow you to multiply by adding, not really useful since the invention of the calculator.)
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M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig
@whatisaletter.bsky.social
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In meinem Auftragsbuch sieht es für den Rest des Jahres leider noch sehr leer aus. Wenn also jemand von euch eine Übersetzerin (vornehmlich Englisch>Deutsch) oder Lektorin (Englisch/Deutsch) brauchen sollte oder jemanden kennt, der eine braucht, wäre ich für eine Empfehlung dankbar. Gern RT.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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They aren't, you've misunderstood. Votes in parliamentary elections, i.e. to elect MPs, are private. The votes cast by those MPs in parliament are (rightly) a matter of public record.
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Ray Newman
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This is where I have a small, boring bit of advice, from my time managing a customer contact centre for a central government department: write letters to your MP asking them to raise issues with secretaries of state; make the letters unique, not copy-and-paste campaigns; be direct, not cranky.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Thanks - depressingly predictable, but also, I stand by my suspicion that it's unlikely to be the talk of the steamie in Orkney and Shetland.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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That makes sense (and is depressingly predictable), but I doubt it's going to have much resonance in Orkney and Shetland. Also, I've just googled him and it turned out he literally called for Sturgeon to be shot.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Not the main point, but odds on most of his electorate having the faintest idea what the "Bud Light incident" was? I can't remember and I'm a) Very Online and b) have close relatives in the US so sometimes read The Washington Post.
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Jonn Elledge
@jonnelledge.bsky.social
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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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She seems to think it is, given she mentioned it.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Stunning lack of self-awareness all round.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Reading between the lines: she was weird and unprofessional (there are references to “the whole office” being aware not only of her crush but of her getting drunk at work parties) and he… might have given her a funny look following a particularly awkward moment. Not seeing what he did wrong here.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Thank you.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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It wasn't intended to be an exhaustive list of everything he's done wrong. I'd be here all day!
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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"fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals"
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Prayers for a private intention appreciated. ⚓
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Mark O’Neill
@marxculture.bsky.social
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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It's still a bizarre way to answer the question, though. He's obviously neither thinking straight nor listening properly.
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Jo Kershaw
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*Calling* the election was arguably just making the best of a bad job, however just about everything subsequently has been done badly, including the way he called it (i.e. not telling cabinet colleagues, but apparently telling people who put on dodgy bets).
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Because, to be fair, the situation when he called the election was likely as good as things were going to get for him. Of course, he then made a number of unforced stupid decisions, but that's a separate issue.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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They're really aggressive with each other and other birds, though. They're nice to humans because we sometimes dig up worms or otherwise feed them, and they're not scared of us because they know we think they're cute.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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It wasn't "what's your favourite food?," though. He didn't even answer the question he was asked. "Well, it's going to be a long night so we're just having something simple and quick. Might have to be sandwiches, ha, ha." Or something.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Fair, tbh
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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“Do nothing, twiddle your fingers while drawing increasingly farcical and cynical dividing lines, overseeing fiscal events you know to be harmful, seeing everything you do as an outgrowth of the polls” needs to get a worse result than “govern to the last hour, don’t lay traps for your successor”.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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The spaniel, on the other hand, is happy, because it would do anything if it thought there was even the faintest chance it could con anyone into giving it an extra meal.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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He’s younger than Keir Starmer. You wouldn’t know it.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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That kitten is plotting murder, although it’s possible that it just doesn’t want to be dragged into this, and frankly who could blame it.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Very well said.
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Gemma Clark
@gemmaclark.bsky.social
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My letter in today’s Herald about the political establishment pandering to JK Rowling and her anti trans obsession while ignoring the majority of women and women’s issues www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2442...
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🌈Dr. Frizzle
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I have written a dissent that clearly says when a president is immune forgive me if it sounds too much like a list of instructions I was afraid for democracy and when a president does it, it’s not illegal
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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If all else fails, you can freeze it.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.
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e.w. niedermeyer
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"It marks the second incident in two months involving a Tesla’s near miss-with a train while utilising its driver assistance system."
You can tell Tesla is close to "solving self-driving" because they are down to the tough edge cases like *checks notes* trains
nz.news.yahoo.com/tesla-autopi...
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☀️ Starshine
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if he can live through the literal hell of the somme where almost everyone he knew died, ww2 and over a 100 million deaths between them and come away writing shit like this then i can try to fight off my own feelings of despair, which i won’t always be successful at and that’s okay. just try.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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It's quite common in Scotland, or at least it used to be. (Which of course fits with being able to find it in both Kentucky and NZ...)
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iucounu
@iucounu.bsky.social
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these Tory election leaflets are becoming increasingly desperate I feel
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Locopells
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The one slightly amusing aspect of the Trump Supreme Court immunity thing is watching all the Americans melt down about 'King Trump' as though there wouldn't be immediate consequences over her if any monarch ever tried to actually use any of the theoretical power they have...
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Pwnallthethings
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Doesn’t entirely narrow it down.
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Dave B 🇪🇸 (FrostyVeldskoen)
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Another picture stealer. They will still get pictures no matter what. This one was stolen from someones kind repost of my picture. Others from Insta, so many people have been affected. You know what to do!
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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And I don't know "Out of the Frying Pan", but that's very evocative
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Oh, I'd forgotten Somewhere in My Heart.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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What would you nominate for songs of summer? I think my top three would probably be "Baker St" (Gerry Rafferty), "Racing in the Street" (Springsteen) and "La Mer" (Charles Trenet). And of course "Soul Limbo" (Booker T and the MGs)
www.theguardian.com/music/articl...
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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Despair creeping in? Worried things ultimately won’t work out for you? Is Hell getting a bit too Hellish? Consider setting those worries aside and trying Grim Determination and focusing on helping who you can however you can Ask your doctor if Grim Determination is right for you
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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Somewhere, the ghost of George IV is laughing.
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Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com
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fwiw, not a single early modern king - INCLUDING THE FUCKING ONE THIS COUNTRY REBELLED AGAINST AT THE FOUNDING - would have claimed they enjoyed a status above the law the made the law but were always subject to it
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Eric Rauchway
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RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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It isn’t, though.
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