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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 7h

Good cat. Alert animal.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 7h

Another book on Rawls.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, son of Nathaniel Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England, once rode a zebra-drawn carriage to Buckingham Palace, to prove that zebras could be domesticated and should be legally permitted as transportation in London.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 8h

Nor even to some of them:

Ec. "does not treat the whole of man's nature as modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It's concerned w. him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth & who is capable of judging the comp. efficacy of means for obtaining that end."

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8h

In the superb Handel/Hendrix house in Mayfair. They let me dress up as both at once. As they point out, they are celebrating two immigrants to London

Me sitting wearing a blue frock coat with gold decorations.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 9h

Attn @josephinequinn.bsky.social.

Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · 9h

Important early modern Venice analysis

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10h

By doing so we did, in fact, make an art-historical discovery: although penises are rife throughout the rest of the palace, there are no penises on the walls, ceiling, or other art work of the Chamber of the Great Council.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 12h

The lessons from Autumn 2021 should be:
> Govts should address their severe weaknesses + have a coherent programme
> Pay attention to the cost of living
> Journalists should stop huffing the glue of conference speeches being meaningful

And not:
> Everything's probably fine, election's not tomorrow

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13h

Wolff contra Engels!

*** At a still further stage of evolution, all the natural and social attributes of the numerous gods are transferred to one almighty god, who is but a reflection of the abstract man. Such was the origin of monotheism... ***

1877: Anti-Duhring - State, Family, Education

www.marxists.org

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 21h

“I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane / They just call me one more deportee.” @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Only Recording of Woody Guthrie Singing the Protest Song 'Deportee' Has Been Released for the First Time

The singer-songwriter recorded the audio on a reel-to-reel tape machine in his apartment in the 1950s. Now, the previously unheard song has been restored using A.I. audio technology

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:4.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

John 18:38.

Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

#jesuisrésistentialiste #leschosessontcontrenous

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, indeed.

And two of my favourite absolute maniacs are On Here: @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social & @mbarber.bsky.social.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

I once had this exchange with a border guard at Boston Logan:

"What do you study?"
"Political science at Harvard."
"Harvard doesn't have a Political Science Department."

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

There's a Committee on Social Studies there, certainly.

(The Social Studies kids are funny.)

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Attn @eparpillee.bsky.social. #dugongs

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

when i was being examined for my senior coxing licence in Oxford, she asked if I'd ever been in a boat crash, I said yes, she asked what I happened, I said "a manatee tried to mate with the shell and it capsized then broke in half" and she did not know how to respond to that

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

I love students so much

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

Unsolicited Dickins & Jones pic

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

The murders in that episode are committed mere yards from where my cat Enkidu is buried.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

It is very earnest.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

It is a splendid poem!

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 1d

A perennial favourite.

I reckon the bookshop was Galloway & Porter on Sidney Street in Cambridge. Showing my age there.

Poem by Clive James, published in te FT Weekend Magazine:

The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered.
Like a van-load of counterfeit that had been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy’s much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

"My father's no different than any other powerful man. Any man who's responsible for other people. Like a Senator or a President."

"You know how naïve you sound?"

"Why?"

"Senators and Presidents don't have men killed."

"Oh. Who's being naïve, Kay?"

#DianeKeatonRIP

🚩 DIANE KEATON - THE GODFATHER (1972) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

YouTube video by Darwin Pictures

www.youtube.com

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Going to school on a camel would be brilliant.

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 5d

[1/8] L’historienne Josephine Quinn, professeure à l’Université de Cambridge, propose dans Et le monde créa l’Occident une histoire décentrée et mondialisée de l’Antiquité. Elle démontre que l’Occident est le fruit d’interactions et non d’une origine grecque isolée. #history #circulation #mobility