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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

Oh, it's enough to make a stone weep!

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 15h

I don't want oranges
And I don't like nuts,
And I have got a pocket-knife,
One that almost cuts.
But oh, Father Christmas, if you love me at all,
You'd bring me a big red india-rubber ball.*

*From memory of at least 50 years, so that tells you how potent it is!

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 15h

That Waiting for Godot is a riff on Madame Bovary: a novel where nothing happens, twice.

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 16h

*weeping great salty tears*

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 16h

Buyers “feel morally opposed” to purchasing the convicted trafficker’s former residence.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Mansion Takes Price Hit: ‘Not Famous in a Good Way’

Despite the sprawling acres and lake view, buyers “feel morally opposed” to purchasing the convicted trafficker’s former residence.

trib.al

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 8d

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?

YouTube video by New Economic Thinking

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 17h

Part 9 million in Meet the World’s Stupidest People:

*whispers* ‘We’re saving God.’

I mean, really, as a historian, I have to ask, what the actual fuck?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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andromedadurham.bsky.social @andromedadurham.bsky.social · 18h

Made some ghosts in pottery. Please note my girl ghost has had her nails done. Even the afterlife has a Saks.

Boy ghost with pumpkin and raised arms. Girl ghost with a bow in her shroud and blusher. Dog ghost with a brown muzzle.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 18h

OMG, the girl ghost is EVERYTHING.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 18h

That’s why we can’t leave the ECHR: rules against torture.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 18h

The Donald did promise us: Nothing but the *checks notes* stupidest and most perverted. And, it is worth repeating, stupidest.

Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 18h

A tale as old as time: Guy uploads his entire stash of 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy network so he can train an AI to "make better 'robot pornography,'" gets caught, gripes that the DOE (which is charged with maintaining nuclear secrets) is "spying on him a little too much."

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

www.404media.co

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 18h

The real anxiety is that someone this stupid had any kind of clearance at all.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 20h

Wodehouse, of course, is the tried-and-true back up, but for more contemporary reading: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 20h

Slightly off-centre, but all opera should be performed by puppets, à la Salzburg marionettes.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

As my 90yo neighbour huffs when people say things like this: ‘I bet she’s never even read Marx.’

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

*puts on copy-editor hat* I see no use of the passive voice in @dieworkwear.bsky.social ‘s post. Shame that the parents of the angry poster (sorry, have no idea who he is) wasted all that money on his education.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

Yes, I would: 20-plus years of reading/viewing as an adult, of course you’re still finding new things. My point wasn’t good/bad, just that I’d entered a stage I never expected.

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

It’s where my great-grandparents came from, and my grandfather always called it Reval!

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

That has a curiously Victorian ring to it, like women signing their full name in letters to their husbands. But she didn’t preface it with HM, as her idiot progeny used HRH, nor add after KG, KMG, etc., etc.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

Would I get two points for Tallinn plus Reval?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

And let us not forget: the dukedom and the KG were earned the hard way: by being born to it.

The raping of trafficked teens, however, is all his own hard work.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

What makes this indisputably true is the signature: ‘A, HRH The Duke of York, KG.’

The pompous moron is close enough to Epstein to sign an email with just an initial, but so filled with ludicrous self-importance that adds ‘HRH The Duke of York, KG’.

If he weren’t a child rapist, it’d be hilarious

Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 2d

NEW

Prince Andrew to Jeff Epstein in 2011: “We are in this together”

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

…but it was and is true: Curry still is the most charismatic performer I’ve seen in 40 years of theatre-going.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d

I reviewed Spamalot in the UK &my editor tried to change a sentence where I wrote Curry was the single most charismatic actor I’d ever seen, adding ‘in this play’. Me: No. He is the most charismatic actor I have ever seen. He wouldn’t let me say it…

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