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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · Apr 8

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John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow

YouTube video by JohnMellencampVEVO

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 8m

Benjamin Zephaniah was the best of us

Good luck in the next GE

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20m

genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a politician who isn't endlessly blaming my wife and my friends (online and off) for the ills of the nation. and that's why we will both be voting green

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 36m

British.

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 34m

Hitler never used to issue orders, and his generals filled in the spaces

Terrifyingly, Trump has expanded this MO by whole nations willing to fill in the gaps of his wishes

That's just fucking insane as Pakistan has nukes

Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 34m

On the way back from town, I discussed Pakistan politics with my taxi driver whose family is from Pakistan

Turns out that the recent Pak-Afghan problems are probably due to Pakistan wishing to suck up to Trump, who had recently stated a wish to regain Bagram airbase

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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 16h

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

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Shirls @holmfirthartist.bsky.social · 51m

This is outrageous.

The most important years of your life ought to be safe, secure, warm and dry. We are storing up so many problems for the future if all kids, not just the kids of the well off, don’t get a good start.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4h

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.

172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1h

Fresh video of gas lines in occupied Donetsk

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 3d

"Eight pieces of …" ( #jazzsky series 27)

SPECTRALITY

#3: West Coast Ghost (Charles Mingus)

Shafi Hadi ts
Jimmy Knepper tb
Gene Shaw tp
CM db
Dannie Richmond d
Bill Evans p

NYC, Aug 1957

CM had virtually abandoned California by 1957: a "lost", fleeting spectre. Contrast the busy "East Coasting"

West Coast Ghost

YouTube video by Charles Mingus - Topic

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 3h

Fuck the Home Office.

Fuck the Home Office’s comms team and all the assholes working in it.

And fuck Labour in general. Sometime in 2029 McSweeney’ll be waking up to <100 MPs thanks to his Megabrain.

@andraswf.bsky.social

Photo from @nandosigona.bsky.social via Facebook. I checked. It’s real.

Tweet (of course, where else to place this kind of content than on the social media platform of choice for racists) by the UK Home Office stating they are protecting British workers by increasing the fine for daring to hire foreign staff. Fuck this shit.

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Modernist Delights @modernistdelights.com · 6h

Exeter Switching Centre seen from Exeter Central railway station, 2021

📸 View HD images at modernistdelights.com/exeter-switch…

#brutalism #photography #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #exeter #iphonephotography #modernism

A railway station platform with a metal footbridge overhead, a large concrete building in the background, and a white sign displaying the number 15 near the tracks. The station appears empty and the sky is overcast.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

My childhood dream growing up in South London was different to other kids. They laughed at me, but I didn’t care

I now own the ancient woodland that could only be afforded by me because of my parents legacy

It is my immortal memory of them

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 11h

Russia’s Submarine Problem Is Much Worse Than Many Imagine

In case you missed it. Sorry there have been some traffic problems with the site yesterday

www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Russia’s Submarine Problem Is Much Worse Than Many Imagine - Naval News

The Russian submarine Novorossiysk, an Improved Kilo-class vessel, has been forced to limp home to the Baltic after a mechanical failure in the Mediterranean. While some reports exaggerated its plight, the incident exposes the Russian Navy’s declining presence in the region. Since losing its Syrian base at Tartus in 2024 and facing restrictions on movement through the Bosporus, Russia’s Mediterranean task force has largely collapsed. The Novorossiysk’s troubles highlight mounting maintenance issues and the broader erosion of Moscow’s naval reach in the Mediterranean.

www.navalnews.com

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 3h

I had a life drawing labelled "sexy suggestive"

I'm counting that as a win

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Paris Paname 😊 @parispaname.bsky.social · 3h

📸 Ed Clark.
Peintre de Montmartre
1946. Paris 18e

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 10h

I'm old enough to remember when people looked at me oddly because I used expensive SLR graphics cards and had cards in my laptop worth more than the laptop, just to use OpenCL for election and campaign modeling. Now you're all going to die from energy and water shortages because people want FapGPT

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 4h

Incidentally if you have a job or know of a job for someone with a foreign name, but a British passport, email me

Please

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 5h

Job search was always a struggle, this will definitely help...

evil matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 5h

The inevitable result of this will be any candidate with a “foreign” enough sounding name being auto-rejected regardless of their nationality. More so than they currently are.

This is by design.

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 24d

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!

“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side

Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...

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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 4h

Director General Ken McCallum gives threat update

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Director General Ken McCallum gives threat update | MI5 - The Security Service

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum gave his annual threat update at our headquarters in Thames House, London today.

www.mi5.gov.uk

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10h

Angel Viñas, among most erudite Spanish historians:
"I'm careful in my writings not to insult [...]anyone. When I point out Franco was a liar, a murderer and a crook, I demonstrate it with supporting documents. I have not seen so far anyone contradicting this with other documents"

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 9h

Gonna move back to Brussels brb, the house Saint Cyr is for sale for only 2 millie

www.christiesrealestatebelgium.be/en/property/...

A most gorgeous incredibly ornate art nouveau house with beige stone, brown wood and green metalwork

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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 7h

A man digging for worms in southeastern Sweden discovered a medieval hoard containing pearls, pendants, silver rings, and an estimated 20,000 coins. Archaeologists determined that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century.

Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm

A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.

www.livescience.com

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 11h

More and more Australians are seeing through the spin, and working out that Australia being a US base for B52 bombers, nuclear submarines, marines and spy hubs is making us less safe. Much less safe.

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 6h

Opus Dei "on the cusp of ceasing to exist"

A recent report hints at the imminent suppression of this abusive group

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Opus Dei "on the cusp of ceasing to exist"

A recent report hints at the imminent suppression of this abusive group

open.substack.com

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 8h

ICYMI yesterday. "Angry Robot Books has acquired Juliet E. McKenna’s The Riven Kingdom, described as a “fresh and gripping fantasy” that “blends politics, religion, and a battle for a dead king’s throne, perfect for fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series.”
www.julietemckenna.com/new-book-new...

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