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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

Rule 1: Troika always wins Rule 2: Never fight a comms war against Zelensky

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Now that I have made this Bluesky we all share my only social media home, I thought it would be a lovely idea to create a starter pack for Buddhism/Meditation/Yoga. Please feel free to suggest more accounts for this starter pack. go.bsky.app/Tmrt5io #buddhism #meditation #yoga #zen #mindfulness

submitted 37 days ago • 83 comments

Wonderful film, not to be missed if you are in Italy. Beautifully shot, brilliantly acted. You will be entertained and learn some fundamental Italian history.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 48 days ago • 78 comments

“It is for this reason that so many people in finance, after achieving their fortune, become obsessed with wanting to be the thing they know themselves to be: a philosopher king.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

As the old saying goes, England conquered Wales one village at a time. Because nobody would run ahead to warn the bastards in the next one.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

HAPPY ZARDOZ DAY EVERYONE!

submitted 60 days ago • 35 comments

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

submitted 87 days ago • 181 comments

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submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

"But the majority coalition that elected Trump is not a fully unified one. In fact, there are at least four clear cleavages within that coalition that will have an impact on the second Trump administration’s Latin America policy." @bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social on navigating Trump 2. Gift link.

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

Windows in one of the surviving watchtowers of the Maximian Roman Walls than once surrounded the city of Milan (Mediolanum). These walls date to the late C3rd AD and now form part of the Archaeological Museum of Milan. #WindowsOnWednesday AncientBlueSky 🏺

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

ninguém falou que na festa da democracia tinha tanta gente feia

submitted 147 days ago • 87 comments

Rhetoric vs reality in immigration policy: Meloni's government has considerably liberalised work visa rules over the last few years. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 147 days ago • 3 comments

On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building in Moscow. 18 years ago today. The newspaper and the independent reporting it represented are gone in Russia now, too. Also today, Putin turns 72.

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,908,307!

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

It seems pretty clear to me that the wind in the EU is behind the eastern economies at the moment, and that will have ripple effects out into the EU's political landscape that traditionally dominant players may find disorienting.

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

DO THIS IN LONDON

submitted 165 days ago • 9 comments

Linux Mint 22 is out. Downloads will be a bit slow. But there are approved local mirrors, and the ISO file is just less than 3GB. It's an offshoot from Ubuntu and provides LTS ("Long Term Support") — 3years. This guy has a good YouTube video on how to install it. youtu.be/_qZI6i21jB4?...

submitted 217 days ago • 0 comments

#OTD 15 July 1790 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

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