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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1h

I was reading it to my sister only this morning!

Yes. I loved it.

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Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · 3d

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 4d

In a nutshell.

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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 11h

It's telling that people who argue that Bluesky is too unwelcoming never consider that others might be leaving twitter for the same reason

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

Ukraine has just hit the Saki and Belbek airfields in occupied Crimea.

#explodey

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely outrageous that a flagship BBC political programme's presenter won't interview a political leader. A public service disservice.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10h

Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls.

Except Zack Polanski.

She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.

They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1h

This is simply the EU enforcing its existing border controls by means of a new system, not a "threat to throw out second home owners". Again Brexiters believe that the UK should have border controls as regards the EU, but not the other way around.

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2d

Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 2h

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦President Zelenskyy has called on President Trump to impose secondary sanctions on Russia and urged European nations to intensify their pressure on Russia. -FoxNews

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1h

You aren’t strengthening your position by your misrepresentation.

You are weakening it & losing trust & respect in the process

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 2h

There's a good chance Arendt underestimated how bad Eichmann actually was. Some of the leaders in the Jewish ghettos and his own deputy have attested how much of a fanatic he actually was, that he participated in the burning of synagogues at Kristallnacht. Later scholarship, too.

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Lee caluan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @leecaluan.bsky.social · 3h

Throughout history we see ordinary people commit horrific acts and yet we are led to believe these people are evil. Eichmann's trial is a clear example of the fact that ordinary men can and do truly horrific acts. It's probably the strongest message of that trial and should be compulsory viewing.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

And in a way it's Faust. The ambitious and brilliant architect who made a pact with Satan that he might realise all his dreams.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

While watching it I thought repeatedly of Hannah Arendt's famous book subtitle "The Banality of Evil". The plain 70s set, the water in Speer's eyes - his carefully chosen words - the obvious fear lurking behind the awkward interactions that he might tell .. what... the truth?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

This is a truly remarkable programme from the BBC archives.

A 1971 interview/interrogation of Albert Speer the leading Nazi who apologised and as a result survived - by Michael Charlton, Hugh Trevor-Roper and George Ball whom he had last met at the Nuremberg trials.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Albert Speer, The Unseen Interrogation

Hitler's architect Albert Speer is cross-examined in an interview conducted in 1971.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 25d

The Emir of Exceptionalism's reply here is exactly what's wrong with FBPE.

Leaving aside
-we won't invite 65m people rights to treat our union as a hotel and work illegally, with no contribution,
Can you really see UKG giving uo border and customs controls to Europe?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

This is the distillation of DOGE: control and punish Democratic or progressive spaces. That's it.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida.

This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities

Blaise Ingoglia was handpicked by the Republican Florida governor to lead an assault on municipal spending

www.theguardian.com

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 5h

If I were a betting woman (I’m not) I would bet my fucking house on the odds that not one bloke in this photo could successfully tell us the opening lines in the Book of Genesis chapter 1.

Just sayin…

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 2h

Oh God. That nincompoop Nick Triggle.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 1d

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 2d

ARE YOU READY FOR NO KINGS?

SHARE Across social media to spread the word! https://social.demcast.com/toolkit/nokings-0549

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

Have you noticed?
Whenever the issue of rejoining either the Single Market, the Customs Union or the whole EU is mentioned, a number of supposedly "pro-EU" accounts immediately jump in as the first answers to tell people why it wouldn't be possible. They are never constructive, always destructive.

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