Jim Boo

Jim Boo

@jimb9.bsky.social

Yorkshire based nerd and engineer. Tea drinker.

192 followers486 following63 posts

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Cinema owners - perhaps don't wrap your sweets and confectionary in the noisiest fucking plastic wrapping ever to exist.

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If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

you.38degrees.org.ukSave Radio 4 ExtraRadio 4 Extra is a fabulous showcase of the BBC's phenomenal archive of radio comedy and drama, fields in which the Corporation is an undoubted pioneer, with a reputation for quality rivals woud envy ...
Richard Herring@herring1967.bsky.social

Not sure how much money closing Radio 4 extra will save. I am happy to forgo my £22 a year from repeat fees if that helps.

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I used to write for a kids tv show and we had a binman character who’d look through a celeb’s trash and you’d guess who it was (for example medals, running shoes = Usain Bolt) and we got through so many layers of compliance before being told he just couldn’t be called Gary Litter

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New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

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Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.

bbc.comPort of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks portQueues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.

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In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258 Please share. TY x

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Rather than allowing humanists to contribute to Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the BBC's current format requires all speakers to frame political and current affairs commentary through a religious or scriptural lens. Yet half of the UK is non-religious so why not let us speak?

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Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

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