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Frontman of Hayseed Dixie. Singer of Country-Funk Soul-Punk. Working class elitist. Conservatively liberal. Opining and listening on music, philosophy, and geopolitics in English and/or Deutsch.
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And the UK leg of this tour is done. Mostly sell outs. People in the UK keep coming to see us play our very individual take on music and I keep doing it. Our support act for the tour, Kit Trigg, was excellent and these young firepissers are going to do great. Lovely fellows. It has been a privilege.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Last UK show of the spring tonight in Shoreham. Tonight's English sparkling wine is another one I've never had before, and it's amongst the better ones.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Jordan Peterson is another example of what I call a competency cosplayer. Informed people immediately identity him as an intellectual fraud, but uninformed people can fancy him an intellectual who flatters their unexamined prejudices.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Maybe. But it might also be the case that most Western kids 1) have never fought in a major war, 2) don't know anyone who has fought. Hence they are too far removed from war to realise the horror of it. I'm 55. My dad was in Vietnam, but he's dead. My kids personally know no war veterans.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wir sind so eitel, dass uns sogar an der Meinung der Leute, an denen uns nichts liegt, etwas gelegen ist. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Österreichische Schriftstellerin 1830 - 1916

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The calls for a common Eiropean Armed Forces, which can stand on its own and defend Europe with no US help, grow louder. And rightly so. This should have been done years ago.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"The White House is staking the U.S.’s global position — and thus its security and prosperity — on the bet that values, alliances, soft power and trustworthiness are unimportant." Piece by me in @themoscowtimes.com

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Excellent piece by @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social . Trump's decision to switch his support from allies to adversary is very dangerous for Ukraine & Europe, but also for the US itself. If Trump thinks Putin will show gratitude, rather than exploiting weakness, he's in for a shock.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Years before Hitler invaded the USSR, Nazi agents planted fake disloyalty rumors about Stalin’s top generals on Vienna phone lines they knew Soviets had tapped. They convinced Stalin to purge & shoot his own best generals before the outbreak of war. Imagine Putin’s FSB planting gossip today…🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Sláva Ukrayíni!

submitted 4 days ago • 181 comments

The Normalcy Bias is woven into our institutions – both formally and informally. We refuse to believe or minimalise threat warnings, assuming things will continue much as before, that it won't really be 'that' bad. This is a coping mechanism.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Which sounds better: 1) mint chocolate prawns (After Eight Shrimp) 2) ground beef apple pie (Shepherd's Apple Pie) 3) tuna fish ice cream (Yellowfin Gelato)

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Remarkable statement from a German author: The enemies of Europe - from Trump to Putin - all want people to vote for the AfD? If you don't see the light now, then you're blind. To quote Christian Lüth, AfD's long-time press spokesman: "The worse things are for Germany, the better for the AfD."

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Oh wow, Pistorius is really going for it ‘I had a speech prepared on the topic of the conference. But I have to react to the VP’s speech’.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

Well this looks promising. We'll all look forward to it!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This really gets to the heart of it: suing Musk in his official capacity to establish and challenge what the hell his official capacity even is.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Ain't this the truth.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Goddamn right.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

submitted 86 days ago • 562 comments

Somebody needs to tell these knuckledraggers that America is a hemisphere.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Clearly quantum mechanics and calculus are covers for fraud.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 15 days ago • 272 comments

If people voted directly for the German chancellor, none of the above would currently win.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments