Ian
@ianpatterson.com
We live in a funny world: just making the most of it, one day at a time. Tweeter. Liberaler. Quiddler. Un buveur d’encre. A recovering frog after slowly cooking in Musks cauldron for too long.
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Ian
@ianpatterson.com
· Nov 17
Mt current wish list for @bsky.app new features - when they can find the time:
- draft posts, that work cross device. Let me save tweets and come back to them
- bookmarks
- ability to mute reposts selectively ie per account. Some people post a lot of RTs, but I dont want to mute them entirely
- draft posts, that work cross device. Let me save tweets and come back to them
- bookmarks
- ability to mute reposts selectively ie per account. Some people post a lot of RTs, but I dont want to mute them entirely
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🇰🇵 North Korea has more than halved the volume of artillery ammunition supplies to Russia in 2025!
This was announced by Vadym Skibitsky, Deputy Head of GUR, in an interview with Reuters.
The reason was the depletion of ammunition stocks in Pyongyang.
This was announced by Vadym Skibitsky, Deputy Head of GUR, in an interview with Reuters.
The reason was the depletion of ammunition stocks in Pyongyang.
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🇰🇵 North Korea has more than halved the volume of artillery ammunition supplies to Russia in 2025!
This was announced by Vadym Skibitsky, Deputy Head of GUR, in an interview with Reuters.
The reason was the depletion of ammunition stocks in Pyongyang.
This was announced by Vadym Skibitsky, Deputy Head of GUR, in an interview with Reuters.
The reason was the depletion of ammunition stocks in Pyongyang.
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🕯️Russia killed Natalia Khodemchuk, the widow of Valeriy Khodemchuk, the first victim of Chornobyl disaster.
A Russian drone struck the woman's apartment in Kyiv. Natalia was hospitalized with burns to 45% of her body. She died in the hospital this morning.
A Russian drone struck the woman's apartment in Kyiv. Natalia was hospitalized with burns to 45% of her body. She died in the hospital this morning.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🕯️Russia killed Natalia Khodemchuk, the widow of Valeriy Khodemchuk, the first victim of Chornobyl disaster.
A Russian drone struck the woman's apartment in Kyiv. Natalia was hospitalized with burns to 45% of her body. She died in the hospital this morning.
A Russian drone struck the woman's apartment in Kyiv. Natalia was hospitalized with burns to 45% of her body. She died in the hospital this morning.
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🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇱 Ukraine will join the EU in the early 2030s, — Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski.
"It's true that Hungary is blocking progress on this issue, but Ukraine already has candidate status," he added.
"It's true that Hungary is blocking progress on this issue, but Ukraine already has candidate status," he added.
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇱 Ukraine will join the EU in the early 2030s, — Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski.
"It's true that Hungary is blocking progress on this issue, but Ukraine already has candidate status," he added.
"It's true that Hungary is blocking progress on this issue, but Ukraine already has candidate status," he added.
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❗️In the occupied part of the Luhansk region, the Russian army mobilized the first group of Ukrainian men for the war against Ukraine, - OVA.
They promised that the men would guard infrastructure facilities, but they were all sent to the training grounds, and then to the front.
They promised that the men would guard infrastructure facilities, but they were all sent to the training grounds, and then to the front.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
❗️In the occupied part of the Luhansk region, the Russian army mobilized the first group of Ukrainian men for the war against Ukraine, - OVA.
They promised that the men would guard infrastructure facilities, but they were all sent to the training grounds, and then to the front.
They promised that the men would guard infrastructure facilities, but they were all sent to the training grounds, and then to the front.
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There’s a lot of evidence that diversionary war is not really a thing. But if I were Venezuela right now…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There’s a lot of evidence that diversionary war is not really a thing. But if I were Venezuela right now…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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GB News investor and Spectator owner Paul Marshall is in the running to buy the Telegraph now that the RedBird takeover plan has collapsed, the Guardian reports.
Hard to see this being anything other than a disaster for public discourse in Britain if that goes ahead.
Hard to see this being anything other than a disaster for public discourse in Britain if that goes ahead.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
GB News investor and Spectator owner Paul Marshall is in the running to buy the Telegraph now that the RedBird takeover plan has collapsed, the Guardian reports.
Hard to see this being anything other than a disaster for public discourse in Britain if that goes ahead.
Hard to see this being anything other than a disaster for public discourse in Britain if that goes ahead.
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The Daily Mail has been relentlessly attacking the BBC over the editing of Trump quotes in a documentary and look:
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Daily Mail has been relentlessly attacking the BBC over the editing of Trump quotes in a documentary and look:
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
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One of many things that is utterly pathetic about corporate media in the US is its refusal to report simple facts about international law when they think powerful people in the US would be offended. It's cowardice, plain and simple.
just say it, reporters, it's not hard: '...the trump administration's open threats to use military force against a state that has not attacked it are widely seen by experts as illegal under international law...' there is very little to debate about that.
The country's largest aircraft carrier is expected to join thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force. n.pr/47XHvV3
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
One of many things that is utterly pathetic about corporate media in the US is its refusal to report simple facts about international law when they think powerful people in the US would be offended. It's cowardice, plain and simple.
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Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.
“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar.
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.
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Who the fuck goes in for an MRI and not know what part of the body was done?!?
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Who the fuck goes in for an MRI and not know what part of the body was done?!?
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A classic
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
A classic
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Anyone see the Northern lights this week?
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Anyone see the Northern lights this week?
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
Some pasta producers in Italy are set to lose a whole chunk of their global market when Trump imposes 100%+ tariffs on their products in a few months. Does that mean the RoW will get cheaper pasta?or more expensive too, as they have to spread fixed costs over smaller volume?
bsky.app/profile/the-...
bsky.app/profile/the-...
Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great again
Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great again
Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great again
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Some pasta producers in Italy are set to lose a whole chunk of their global market when Trump imposes 100%+ tariffs on their products in a few months. Does that mean the RoW will get cheaper pasta?or more expensive too, as they have to spread fixed costs over smaller volume?
bsky.app/profile/the-...
bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Lovely story about the Dutch shift from 65% support of blackface Zwarte Piet to 62% support for nonracial Piet makeup. Took 15 years of protest and dialog. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Na vijftien jaar pietenprotesten: zo veranderde de samenleving van mening
Sinterklaas: Zaterdag komt Sinterklaas aan in Zaandam. Al 24 jaar organiseert René de Reus het feest. Dacht hij vijf jaar geleden nog dat Zwarte Piet onmisbaar was, nu is hij tot inkeer gekomen. „Als ...
www.nrc.nl
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Lovely story about the Dutch shift from 65% support of blackface Zwarte Piet to 62% support for nonracial Piet makeup. Took 15 years of protest and dialog. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Is the right-wing establishment getting worried about the possibility of Torsten Bell becoming Chancellor?
At last, a fearless @thetimes.com enquiry into the Institute of Economic Affairs’ economically disastrous effects and Policy Exchange’s pernicious legacy of division? No, just an attack one of the few think tanks that did not shape Labour’s toxic inheritance.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Meet the elite think tank responsible for Britain’s decline
The Resolution Foundation wants to make life better for the poorest in society but its noble aims result in policy that stifles growth and penalises the rich
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Is the right-wing establishment getting worried about the possibility of Torsten Bell becoming Chancellor?
In UK at least it's usually Berlin that, when looking at post war German city reconstruction, gets the attention. Here's a video looking at Hamburg, and the plans for its urban road network - much of which will feel all too familiar. Including the abandoned routes left clear ready for roads.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In UK at least it's usually Berlin that, when looking at post war German city reconstruction, gets the attention. Here's a video looking at Hamburg, and the plans for its urban road network - much of which will feel all too familiar. Including the abandoned routes left clear ready for roads.
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If one assumes Starmer will be gone after May, then the more they try to appeal to the right now, the more that leadership election is going to be about tacking back. (Especially if the Greens do well in London and other cities).
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If one assumes Starmer will be gone after May, then the more they try to appeal to the right now, the more that leadership election is going to be about tacking back. (Especially if the Greens do well in London and other cities).
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 15 (2018)
SOLD!
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sells for an eye-watering $90.3 million. It's the highest selling painting by a living artist so far!
November 15 (2018)
SOLD!
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sells for an eye-watering $90.3 million. It's the highest selling painting by a living artist so far!
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#TodayInQueerHistory
November 15 (2018)
SOLD!
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sells for an eye-watering $90.3 million. It's the highest selling painting by a living artist so far!
November 15 (2018)
SOLD!
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sells for an eye-watering $90.3 million. It's the highest selling painting by a living artist so far!
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A look into the bizarre world of Berlin's Ghost U-bahn stations.
After WW2, despite incredible damage to the cities network, it was all up and running again by 1947, even if some repairs (like replacing the roads over some of the cut and cover tunnels) took longer - with trains running. ...
After WW2, despite incredible damage to the cities network, it was all up and running again by 1947, even if some repairs (like replacing the roads over some of the cut and cover tunnels) took longer - with trains running. ...
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A look into the bizarre world of Berlin's Ghost U-bahn stations.
After WW2, despite incredible damage to the cities network, it was all up and running again by 1947, even if some repairs (like replacing the roads over some of the cut and cover tunnels) took longer - with trains running. ...
After WW2, despite incredible damage to the cities network, it was all up and running again by 1947, even if some repairs (like replacing the roads over some of the cut and cover tunnels) took longer - with trains running. ...
The absurd move of the EU Parliament each month from Brussels to Strasbourg, forced on the EU by the French is well know. I didnt know that its connected to what is the fastest train in Europe. Whilst normal direct trains between the two cities go by a conventional rail route and take 5+hours, ...
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The absurd move of the EU Parliament each month from Brussels to Strasbourg, forced on the EU by the French is well know. I didnt know that its connected to what is the fastest train in Europe. Whilst normal direct trains between the two cities go by a conventional rail route and take 5+hours, ...
Out of all the kitchenware brands, Le Creuset somehow has managed to craft a place where, although kitchen geeks will frown on 'unnecessary' gadgets etc in kitchens, you can almost never haver too much Le Creuset despite its lifetime guarantee. WSJ takes a look.
youtu.be/nJSmEqPXgEQ?...
youtu.be/nJSmEqPXgEQ?...
Why Le Creuset Diehards Keep Buying $400 Pots | WSJ Coveted
YouTube video by WSJ. Style
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November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Out of all the kitchenware brands, Le Creuset somehow has managed to craft a place where, although kitchen geeks will frown on 'unnecessary' gadgets etc in kitchens, you can almost never haver too much Le Creuset despite its lifetime guarantee. WSJ takes a look.
youtu.be/nJSmEqPXgEQ?...
youtu.be/nJSmEqPXgEQ?...
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I've never understood the numbering of platforms in French railway stations (letters, numbers, sometimes not in order)
And now I have watched a video about it... and I understand even less
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxq2...
Other than - typical SNCF - NONE of this is designed with passengers in mind
And now I have watched a video about it... and I understand even less
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxq2...
Other than - typical SNCF - NONE of this is designed with passengers in mind
Pourquoi les numéros de voies de cette gare ne se suivent pas ?
YouTube video by Aiguillages
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I've never understood the numbering of platforms in French railway stations (letters, numbers, sometimes not in order)
And now I have watched a video about it... and I understand even less
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxq2...
Other than - typical SNCF - NONE of this is designed with passengers in mind
And now I have watched a video about it... and I understand even less
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxq2...
Other than - typical SNCF - NONE of this is designed with passengers in mind