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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · Apr 8

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John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 2h

a white cat is laying on its back on the floor and says `` hello . hello ... ''

ALT: a white cat is laying on its back on the floor and says `` hello . hello ... ''

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

“A small smile”. The kimono warn by the maiko has children themes, likely created on the silk base using the yuzen painting technique. Early 20th c, Japan. Image via A Davey of Flickr

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 2h

I've never heard him say anything truthful in his speeches or interviews

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 8h

The glories of a future civilisation prospering from Wind Power: J. Beale’s marvellously optimistic cover for September 3rd 1938’s Modern Wonder.

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 19h

Remembering #PennyMarshall #BOTD in 1943, seen here in the 🇺🇸American sitcom television series "LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY" a spin-off of Happy Days" with co-star Cindy Williams

📺 Paramount Television

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI — PELOSI: “Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”

(The unserious questioner is Alison Steinberg, who works for Mike Lindell — the my pillow guy)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 17h

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 18h

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A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective

In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China's invasion of Taiwan. For two days,

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16h

Andrew Cuomo has lost the Italian Jewish vote

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10h

1938 French socialist aid for Spain poster. "To send milk, bread, blankets, buy the socialist relief solidarity card in Republican Spain. 1 franc. Get solidarity cards from the local relief committee.".

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Mitch Smith @mitchmws.bsky.social · 8h

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8h

Caroline Lucas is wondering why Michelle Mone is still a member of the House of Lords

And most of us are wondering the same as well!

But if Mone is going to be removed from the Lords, there are others too who fail to meet the standard and should be removed as well

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 7h

His documented drug habit. As a war veteran with shrapnel wounds he would have received drugs for pain relief but I can't find anything about his drug usage prior to meeting Morelle

I take your point about leaps of style

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 9h

I have to believe we are going to win in the end. Transition is ultimately a statement of faith in that. I do not intend
to transition into a gas chamber victim.

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Mark Dignam MDANT @markdignam69.bsky.social · 23h

Tony Hart was born on October 15th, 1925… 100 years ago today.

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 7h

I've changed my mind

In 1920, he was writing his own speeches. They weren't gibberish

So, we have a proper question.

I suspect Hitler was off his tits when he wrote Mein Kampf. He would have had easy access to drugs in Landsberg prison

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 7h

Hitler's surely off his tits on amphetamine in that picture

Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 7h

A journalist from the obeiter beobachten, Stempfle, also had a hand in, um, polishing the prose

If there was a ghost writer, then I'd suggest him but it's written to a standard a professional writer could not consciously commit very well

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13h

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 9h

Donald "peace prize" Trump considers declaring war on Venezuela.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump says he's now "looking at land" strikes on Venezuela

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Des violons de l'automne @rogerday.bsky.social · 8h

It's a strange artifact

Hitler did not show any inclination for writing before or after

But maybe it's the sort of thing a would be political revolutionary of a new movement in the early 20th century *would write.

The grand daddy, this was his response I think to the Communist manifesto

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