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Recovering music writer, hardcore filmnerd, boxing fan and reader of those book things.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 6h

"False flags are way to common" only among the paranoid and delusional.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11h

Italian Neofascists of the 70’s and 80’s were very into Tolkien, specifically identifying with the Hobbits. The latest round of Musk / DHS discourse has a history harpers.org/archive/2024...

Leggete Tolkien, Stolti!, by Hari Kunzru

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 7h

An impressively well constructed thriller (remember those?). Harder is Canadian too which I only realized when I saw Alberta govt support in the credits.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

#nw Kurtis David Harder's Influencer.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 7h

These cases should be tossed at the first opportunity due to these very tweets.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 15h

Fawn Brodies biography of Joseph Smith is first rate history and literature.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 15h

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

#nw Kurtis David Harder's Influencer.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

You should bring it to the Bar Association.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

'lawyer'

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

Working lunch: Liverpool dockers, 1962, photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Cartier-Bresson is probably the greatest photographer ever.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Prime has video games??

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Every Canadian library had copies of Asterix and I absolutely loved them as a kid. The level of detail in each panel was hypnotic.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway deleting so as to avoid confusion.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Among other things they're offended that he knows the Haitian revolution happened.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Oh great, more idiocy to catch-up on.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Knowing basic world history is suspect to the NYT.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

There is already a fringe far right seperatist movement in Alberta that the moronic Premier is playing footsie with and is planning on having her own biased referendum on. This cuts the legs out of that, if this goes forward the regs prevent there being another referendum on the question for yrs.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

I would assume their English language schooling before post-secondary is superior to China.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I think the Chinese students understandably stick together more than other ESL students both because they can and because they're uncomfortable with their English.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple diet Cokes daily? Yikes.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

Not to body shame but this doesn't look like someone who lifts weights, or does any exercise, or gets much sunlight.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

Girard was a real thinker who Thiel is incapable of understanding, Schmitt was just trying to rationalize authoritarianism for the Nazis.

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