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Flavia Elphberg

@flaviaelphberg.bsky.social

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Those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat it. (Side Note: I am the type of person who has a FAVORITE Gentileschi "Judith Beheading Holofernes" painting, Make of that what you will)

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · Jan 17

Don't DEMAND a private chatlink with me; I'll block you. Especially if you try to make my husband's computer security worries sound like insecure jealousy.

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, I do. The only problem is - believe it or not - the Internet. It's how the propaganda gets out, goes global & is internalized before we can even tell the truth.

Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 2h

I always hoped I would, but now I am sure I won't. Sigh.

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, I know. It's such a LAYERED stack of garbage that it's unbelievable.

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 2h

SAME WAY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING TO OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS THREAD.

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 2h

What's effed-up is that you think your superficial views somehow entitle you to dictate what other people care about & pretend how other people feel/think.

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 3h

Israel was NOT founded "as a Jewish State" in the way that you mean. Israel also asked all the locals Arabs (who were definitely not Jewish) to stay. 40% of them did. All of them know they have it better in Israel than anywhere else in the area.

Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 3h

Of course, THESE all happen to be MEN.....

Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 3h

Good thing Israel is NOT that.

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 3h

YES. It kept SO MUCH of the original feel & yet was perfectly updated. I grew up wanting federal/Colonial, but now have morphed into what I call "comfortable Victorian".

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 4h

And he does it in such a *clever* way.... <spit>

Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 4h

Good. I still haven't forgiven him about healthcare over 30 years ago, much less Hilary's presidential run.

Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 4h

Not my *exact* style, but I do admire its beauty. OK, the sleeping cat pillow, I need TO HAVE....

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 5h

& it makes the more vulnerable people know that they aren't necessarily alone.

Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 5h

The only fear is their secret one that refuse to acknowledge: that they really are in no way superior, & in many ways *inferior*, without racism to keep its foot on the necks of PoC.

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Allen Dell @urgeoverkill.bsky.social · 1d

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 7h

Sigh. Thank you for telling me.

Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 11h

a little girl is hugging a blue monster from monsters inc

ALT: a little girl is hugging a blue monster from monsters inc

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 11h

DAVID ROSE - say his name!

#RACISM #RFKJR #CHARLIEKIRK

Billie Etchison @sybilte420.bsky.social · 1d

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 11h

UTTER SCUM

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 11h

A Russian train destroyed by Ukrainian drones on 19 August is still blocking occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast’s only rail line.

Militarnyi says logistics are now rerouted via road, complicating Russian supply efforts beyond Tokmak.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/12/t...

Two months later, Russia still can’t clear a single destroyed train in occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast

A Ukrainian drone strike on 19 August left a fuel convoy wrecked — and the only railway in ruins.

euromaidanpress.com

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 11h

Handcuffing the father.

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Lennart Jonasson @lennson.bsky.social · 12h

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 11h

Get the plates of the gestapo trucks as well!!!

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Flavia Elphberg @flaviaelphberg.bsky.social · 11h

To a *certain extent* it has always been this way, but Trump has allowed it all to *take charge*.

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