James Barišić 🇭🇷

Dear NON-Newbies,

If you want this to work, over the next few days, when you see someone announcing they've just joined (often from the other place), make the effort to engage a few of them. Remember that they're walking into an empty room and it's up to us to make this a better option for them. 👍

Hello X-Twitter newbies,

Some things:

1) This is not Twitter.
2) The vibe is different - embrace it.
3) The chase for followers isn't a thing. Because of 1 and 2 above, you need about a tenth of what you had on Twitter for an even better experience.
4) Trust us - we've been here a while.

Enjoy! x

Look, this is a very negative way of seeing things.

These jobs weren't lost.

They relocated outside the UK. 40,000 people in other countries now have jobs thanks to the boundless generosity of Brexiters - and we will never not be grateful for that.

a bald man wearing glasses and a blue jacket is pointing at something

ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a blue jacket is pointing at something

Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social

City of London chief says Brexit 'disaster' cost 40,000 finance jobs www.reuters.com/world/uk/cit...

City of London chief says Brexit 'disaster' cost 40,000 finance jobs

Britain's departure from the European Union cost London's financial centre about 40,000 jobs, the Lord Mayor of the City of London told Reuters, a far deeper impact from Brexit than previous estimates.

Inheritance tax UK

Plebs: 40% on everything after the first £325,000 due immediately.

Farm landowners: 20% on everything after £3,000,000 with 10 years to pay interest free.

Monarchs: £650m inherited. 0% on everything over £0.

Welcome. This is not Twitter.

Spread the word.

In all my years of working in politics, I have never understood how someone could go to vote and not know who they are voting for until they get into the booth. I am about to do that.

Voting is a civic duty. I will vote. I just don't know who for.

By the time I have voted in both rounds of the Croatian 🇭🇷 presidential election, I will have travelled 2,500km. It will take me 4 days in total. And cost a stupid amount of money.

If you're wondering why I bother, it's because I don't want to wake up to find #GeorgiaProtests in Croatia.

The detention on The Breakfast Club took place 40 years ago today, March 24, 1984.

I want to be wrong but this feels like a massive trap is being set for the state of Palestine by two people who could not care less about the existence of Palestine or the people of Palestine.

Netanyahu's genocide cannot be ignored. He must face trial.

#FreeGaza #FreePalestine

Well, that didn't take long! A truly wasted effort in Moldova for Putin - lost the referendum and the presidential election.

Maia Sandu is re-elected as President. 🇲🇩

James Barišić 🇭🇷 @james.barisic.fr

Looks like it's gonna be a shit start to the election week for Vladimir Putin as his candidate looks like he's heading for a loss in Moldova.

My favourite so far...

This is my first coffee of the day. Not a great success, to be honest. I'm going to try again now with a cup underneath.

Your occasional visual reminder that money cannot buy taste.

Top 10 reasons why the pictures of Angela Rayner at a rave are great:

1) Look who it's upsetting
2) She's having fun
3) Err... that's it

If you can't take another human enjoying themselves doing something that is perfectly legal and impacts nobody, you have a serious problem and should get help.

French TV channel TF1 are reporting that a Russian attack submarine is in distress off the coast of Portugal.

@chadbourn.bsky.social @maks23.bsky.social

www.tf1info.fr/internationa...

Un sous-marin d'attaque russe en perdition dans l'Atlantique avec 82 marins à bord | TF1 INFO

[VIDÉO] Un sous-marin russe est victime d'une grave avarie au large des côtes portugaises. Le carburant se déverserait dans la cale. L'appareil, qui compte 82 marins à son bord, risque d'exploser. - ...

Timeless.

Following the heartbreaking news that Rishi Sunak didn't have Sky TV as a kid, I have set up a JustGiving page.

Please give generously and also help spread the word.

Thank you.

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www.justgiving.com/page/rishi-s...

Rishi Sunak's Sky TV Fund

Help James Barisic raise money to support The Trussell Trust

If you want to be shown more of what the owner's algorithm wants you to see, go to Twitter.

If you want to see more of what you choose to see, stay on Bluesky.

That's not how you spell 'diarrhoea', Laura.

Dear all,

Some years ago, over on a site called Twitter, I shared a story about the odious Jacob Rees-Mogg. He used to be an MP.

I am going to cut and paste the story into this thread for you to enjoy. The story is 19 tweets (what they used to be called) long. They're numbered. Let's go...

0/19

Today would have been Janey Godley's birthday.

What better way to remember her, especially on this Inauguration Day, than sharing one of her finest moments.

Don't be shy with that share button.

#RIPJaney

ONCE TRUMP HAS GONE CAN WE ALL AGREE THAT ANY POSTS WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN CAPS FOR ANY OTHER REASON THAN TO INDICATE SHOUTING IS PROOF THAT THE POSTER IS UTTERLY BARKING AND NEEDS HELP OR BLOCKING OR BOTH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. JMB

Here's that thing again.

You never hear that a sex offender has been arrested and it's a "white British national" (Ian Watkins) or "a white British national of Czech descent" (Ghislaine Maxwell).

You only get these precisions if they're a non-white British national.

Funny that.

#EverydayRacism

Reply to @james.barisic.fr

.@Jacob_Rees_Mogg can say what he wants about Sir John Major but, the bottom line is this: John Major is a member of no elite. He came from nothing, worked his way up & he has more natural class, sense & style than JRM or his ilk could ever hope for. And that will always be true.

19/19