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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8m

Yes, a friend was rightly congratulating himself on not having fallen for a clever crop of the identifying features until I pointed that out

Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 26m

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

That and Harry Enfield’s Yorkshireman

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10h

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

I sadly don’t but for a man married to an Englishwoman you’d think he’d recognise the phenomenon

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

Chris Wickham’s Inheritance of Rome and Peter Heather’s Empires and Barbarians both of which violently disagree with each other over points of fine interpretation

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

Can a man not dream of gold?

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

Who it comes to mind was a particularly notoriously aggressive landlord

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

Was thinking mainly of Crassus and Pompey as well tbh

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

There’s “certain cheap parallels about collapsing republican virtue under the corrupting effects of unchallengeable hegemony” and “just plain copying Crassus”

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

relatedly, the reason this is illegal is because it would make the military beholden to the highest bidder, which we absolutely do not want, even if you like the idea of draining billionaires for it. it will not take them long at all to start giving the orders if they’re paying.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

it’s illegal, but, also, this didn’t happen, and if someone *did* tell him this, they were lying

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 9h

East German border guard shooting policy but the death strip is the Caribbean and the targeting profile is “men in boats”. No wonder they can‘t find even military lawyers used to signing off on the most dubious of drone strikes to approve this outright murder.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

“His curved nostrils gently flared as Carole slowly pushed the drawer shut”

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 9h

Would explain destroying all but a handful
of humans tbh

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 11h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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