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Rejoin. Historian. Likes Doctor Who, hockey, rugby & history & flags. Really should be writing. Quokka Facts. He/him. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
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devonianmatthew.bsky.social
Started something with Discworld I have never done before.

I am planning on running them all on Audible.

In publication order, from Colour of Magic to Shepherd's Crown.
devonianmatthew.bsky.social
You look like you are auditioning to be a new Time Lord.

The Historian would be an excellent title.
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davidandress.bsky.social
In the UK parquet is a type of wooden flooring; in France it's a public prosecutor. Fascinatingly, this is linked by three different etymological stages in French...
devonianmatthew.bsky.social
Mine too, that is how the Guardian puts its ID graphic.

Would have been helpful for a human to check!
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...
profaliceroberts.bsky.social
I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.
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mshooper.bsky.social
“ “If you want a job, go where the jobs are.”

“he told a broke, exhausted nation in recession that he was “wealthy and sorted”.

“ telling parents of poor kids that if they didn’t like the prison slop on offer in schools, make a marmite sandwich.”

“He’s a dead man walking.”
#nzpol
Christopher Luxon, like a modern day Marie Antoinette
Opinion: In his head, I think the prime minister is doing the whole tough guy bit.
www.stuff.co.nz
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paulvandermeer.bsky.social
BREAKING
AG Letitia James is launching a full-scale fraud investigation into Tr*mp’s entire property empire, every tower, every deal, every shell company.
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memoire2cite.bsky.social
RN4 rétro panneaux MICHELIN L'ancienne station service Total vers 1982 à l'entrée de Sarrebourg (57)
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peterjukes.bsky.social
For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here

desk-russie.eu/2024/09/08/n...
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
And THIS is why Bluesky is great 👇
michellacombe.bsky.social
Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack.

📹: y.krasinskyi
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jamestalarico.bsky.social
The most dangerous form of government is theocracy. 

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧
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muellershewrote.com
Back in the 90s when neo-nazi skinheads were everywhere, people wore colored laces in their Doc Martens to signify which side they were on. Red meant nazi, one black one white meant anti-racist, blue meant neutral, and green meant you like frogs and were anti-fascist. Been thinking about that a lot.
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bournemouth4eu.bsky.social
"Crucially, the [2020 Russia] report also revealed that our intelligence agencies had never been tasked with investigating whether Russian money or interference actually affected UK elections."
It’s time for a REAL Russia report" open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
It’s time for a REAL Russia report
Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.
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