John B

Brother to dragons and/or jackals; companion to owls and/or ostriches. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.

[John B @johnb78]

I think it's time to move from "seldom" to "never" re this Nazi noncey hellsite. Would recommend Bsky, it's pretty usable if you block all tankies on immediate sight (their block is fully nuke, unlike the one here)

[Gerry STX @OsemudiamenOG]

The film was about him

In the film he got beaten for this, got thrown in jail twice and segregated in school for it.

It’s his story.

You want him to be excluded from his story?

[John B @johnb78]

I think it's time to move from "seldom" to "never" re this Nazi noncey hellsite. Would recommend Bsky, it's pretty usable if you block all tankies on immediate sight (their block is fully nuke, unlike the one here)

[John B @johnb78]

Mostly I'm in the other place now (same handle dot 🟦☁️), the fun to heart attack ratio here just got too wrong

[John B @johnb78]

Not great

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala: Stranded F-35B British fighter jet being moved to the hangar from its grounded position.

A team of technical experts on board the British Royal Air Force Airbus A400M Atlas arrived at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport to assess the F-35 fighter jet.

The F-35 jet had made an emergency landing at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on June 14.

[John B @johnb78]

A new rhyme:
If the M Godwin has one O, he is an internet hero
If the M Goodwin two Os does feature, he is a fascist-adjacent creature

[John B @johnb78]

@28481k @SnarkyPlatypus @cheshireb "list of things that do not currently suck in the UK" is Wikipedia's shortest page

[John B @johnb78]

— A bystander, Den Haag, 1672

[John B @johnb78]

@fictillius Chalk Farm

[John B @johnb78]

Taking some fan joy from this one

[Bruce Fanjoy 🍁 @brucefanjoy]

Watch me.

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

It’s more Louis Theroux’s great signature move – pseudo-naïveté knowingly utilised to get people to say exactly what they think, or exactly how things are

[(have-YER カンデイラ) for you for your cousin @candeira]

@johnb78 I met a retired economics professor last year who, in the span of 5 minutes, lectured at us:
- that the resource curse was real, look at Saudis who are rich without doing anything for it, bla bla moral hazard
- that estate taxes were immoral, he had paid enough taxes while living

[John B @johnb78]

@Dyllip Awesome thanks!

[John B @johnb78]

Sydney people: any idea what's happening on the corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool outside Museum Station? It looked like they'd nearly finished the bike lane infrastructure but they now seem to be digging everything up again...

[John B @johnb78]

@Dyllip The gas main bit makes a lot of sense of why such a large area was closed off - that would have been Tuesday 18th?

[John B @johnb78]

@retrobike_c16 @timcass28343283 Apologies to the council, definitely assumed it was some kind of fuck up rather than good news

[John B @johnb78]

This seems a bit odd - I could understand banning power banks flat out, and why they're not allowed in hold luggage, but surely once you've got one then using it is neither here nor there? If anything, safer than being in your big cabin bag in the bins... https://t.co/zH4x8LZjOK

[John B @johnb78]

A retired person living in a house they own outright with a guaranteed pension is not working class under any meaningful definition of the term, even if they own several cloth caps and whippets and only eat pie and chips (2/2)

[John B @johnb78]

Reminder: a young person living in urban rented accommodation with little chance of buying and working as a barista or call centre operative is working class under any meaningful definition of the term, even if they have an arts degree and think that Black Lives Matter (1/2)

[John B @johnb78]

Snatch all the bits you can, raid your money box for tuppences, and go deep in for this one, all of youse cunts https://t.co/4ArYjsTKcX

[G.S. Quay @hemingquay]

The figure we know as "JD Vance" was likely a historic person only in the sense that King Arthur was.

A political leader by that name probably lived in the early third millennium, but the figure that's come down to us in the sources is likely an amalgamation of traditions, beliefs, aspirations, and real individuals who were used to express the ideals of the right wing community.

[John B @johnb78]

It isn't even fully covered yet but apparently this was enough

[John B @johnb78]

The Metro and the Evening Standard will both go bust the instant that the Tube gets mobile coverage.