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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley

@bobborsley.bsky.social

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Retired academic (theoretical linguist). University of Essex/Bangor University. Lives on Ynys Môn. Has lived in Essex, Poland, Edinburgh, Warwickshire, etc. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/borsl53905/bob-borsley

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 7m

Do these journalists know they are talking nonsense? Or do they talk nonsense without realising? It’s pretty appalling either way.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 9h

Morning on Ynys Môn. The first picture is where the village football team used to play. Now just grazing for sheep. Sic transit gloria mundi (as Boris Johnson might say):

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 11h

Loyal servant of a regime that has been brainwashing its subjects to love the leader and hate the neighbours for years (and locking up or murdering those who resist) complains about others being "brainwashed":

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 12h

Local support act Eve Goodman and Sera. Also very good:

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 12h

Scots Gaelic singer @juliefowlis.bsky.social and her band in Pontio, Bangor, last night. Very good. (At one point the audience were successfully persuaded to join in the chorus of a Scots Gaelic song.)

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Eryri afternoon:

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Memory of the Second World War and genocidal Nazi crimes is now as distant to Zoomers as memory of trenches at the Somme and Verdun was to my Xennial generation born in the late 1970s and 1980s.

The battle against myths of Nazism can no longer rely on lived experience of its catastrophic realities

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.

A Halloween parade float with the gates of Auschwitz

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

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Listen to Eamon Carr's new poem about Ukraine

Looking for some stimulation this weekend? Horslips legend Eamon Carr's War Cabinet, Sinnott's Bar, Dublin should get you thinking.

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

A poem from 3 years ago about Putin's war on Ukraine:
youtu.be/ce2kxoLm614?...

War Cabinet, Sinnott’s Bar, Dublin - Eamon Carr

YouTube video by Killian Ginnity

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Morning on Ynys Môn. A bit damp:

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Why not in one of the hotels that are no longer to be used for asylum seekers?

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 2d

#ArtDD2025
Avocet

Today I've been trying to see how little paint I can put on paper but still produce a bird😀. Here's one version.

@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

Black and white wader, black top of head, few black patches on top of wings and tail, and black beak. Rest is white but depicted only by a bit of shadow.

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

It's good when anybody defects from Reform, but it is more than a little odd that someone could only just have discovered that Farage and co. are all "rhetoric and slogans". And defecting from Reform to the Tories, who in their current form are only minimally different, seems rather unserious:

Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 2d

Post is by James Buchan who defected from Reform to the Tories in Dartford Council. Pretty damning stuff...

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Even if you’re relaxed about 2 or 3 of his gruesome features, he’s got plenty more.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Who are you?

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Goodwin will probably say it’s false consciousness (or the woke mind virus, which is far right for false consciousness).

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Dusk on Afon Menai:

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

"Girls have started playing on the streets with boys, which you never used to see happen. They want to be a Jemimah Rodrigues or a Deepti Sharma.”
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Women's World Cup 2025: Could India's semi-final win redefine women's cricket?

Jemimah Rodrigues' epic 127 leads India to one of the greatest World Cup wins - and provides them with a chance to change the women's game as we know it.

www.bbc.co.uk

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Some news from my part of the world. Includes "Arthur Askey and Tommy Handley - the Ant and Dec of their day":
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC Bangor studio changed by the Blitz celebrates 90 years

Amid the Blitz in 1940, the BBC moved some operations to one of its newest operations in Bangor.

www.bbc.co.uk

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Had a visitor this morning. But it didn’t stay long. Probably didn’t think much of our grass. Wonder if there will be a negative review on Tripadvisor:

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Morning on Ynys Môn:

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Should be an Olympic event:

Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Sep 27

Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Sultana parrots the Kremlin line on NATO and gets a ringing endorsement from Nick Griffin. Putin’s Soviet predecessors would be impressed by the sheer number of useful idiots he’s been able to amass in the West:

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Might as well aim to run Manchester United.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

The UK’s ancient and creaking system of government isn’t all bad @nickcohen.bsky.social:
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