chris daly @chris-daly.bsky.social

cat fosterer; 🇺🇦

From the NYT obituary for Norman Bussel, a POW in Nazi Germany:
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Claire Leach @claireleach.bsky.social
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The algorithm hates certain things; shop links, words like ‘buy my work’ or ‘available for purchase’. If you’re able to help beat the pesky algorithm by sharing an artists posts it means a great deal. Here are examples of my drawings and my shop is here; claireleach.com/shop. 🎨
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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com
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Also, it's a very good podcast! Listen here, you'll only be sorry three or four times. Four times TOP.
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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com
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The internet is trash—we all know it.

What better way to PROVE it than by helping Long Shadow win a Webby Award?

Vote for LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET here: bit.ly/LSS4Webby

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Starting next week on BBC and iplayer:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n8qlr1
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Local history: John Palin aka 'Balaclava Jack.' One of Tennyson's 600.

He also served in the American Civil War with the Unionists, becoming a POW. He spent the last 32 years of his life in Altrincham, Cheshire.
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John Tusa (former head of BBC World Service) has launched a new podcast. He and all his interviewees will be 90 years old or more. The deepest pool of talent and life experience.
www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/u2y2p-39a60b/The-Best-Is-Yet-To-Come...-Podcast
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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master––that’s all.”
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Luke Harding's stark assessment: 'either Trump supports Russia or he doesn't really care what happens to Ukraine.' @lukeharding1968.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/feb/18/does-trump-really-care-about-peace-in-ukraine-the-latest
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from the 2002 obituary of anthropologist Grover Krantz:
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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
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My dispatch from frozen #Kyiv where residents on the left-bank of the Dnipro River live without heating & power. On Tuesday it was -18C. “Russia is trying to break us. It’s deliberate genocide against the Ukrainian people. People are dying," one resident told me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/13/everything-is-frozen-bitter-winter-drags-on-for-kyiv-residents-as-russia-wipes-out-power
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From the 2013 obituary for Peter Scott, cat burglar extraordinaire:
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Venezuela adds a new chapter to an old book:
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social
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File under, we never quite know what's coming next.

One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
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Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick talks about his cat Ricochet:
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@andynortondev.bsky.social Andy, there's a poignant and reflective piece in today's Guardian that I thought would interest you: www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/after-a-career-as-an-environment-writer-heres-what-i-have-learned
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@jamesbarr.bsky.social James, this might interest you:
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/28/palestine-36-review-annemarie-jacir
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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social
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As an entirely disinterested reader, I recommend this remarkable essay by my wife @lucindarose.bsky.social

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/on-my-last-leg
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@hookland.bsky.social A forthcoming documentary of interest to all good folk:

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/23/the-last-sacrifice-review-gruesome-murder-insular-village-folk-horror
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Telegraph editorial headline: “Recognising a nation that doesn’t exist can only be a foolish gesture.”

Hmm. By this reckoning, it was a foolish gesture to recognise the Baltic States despite their assimilation by the USSR or to recognise Kuwait after Saddam annexed it in August 1990.
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@philipwblood.bsky.social Philip, make of this what you will. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/08/nuremberg-review-russell-crowe-rami-malek
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So the idea is: if you can't beat the fascists, join them. www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/dont-scoff-that-migrant-plan-will-soon-be-yours-too-jf0zfl2xz
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No peace in Ukraine? Perverse framing by Mark Galeotti in today's Times blames not Putin's unwillingness to hold a ceasefire, but the 'Western unwillingness to admit publicly' his unwillingness. Go figure.
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Dear reader, you too could scratch a living penning lurid Trump fan fiction. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/16/trumps-astonishing-gamble-may-pay-off-spectacularly/
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@profchrisfrench.bsky.social Chris, this is one for you: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/13/chasing-the-dark-by-ben-machell-review-the-original-ghostbuster
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Sandra Grimes died at the age of 79. Her work was crucial in catching a Soviet agent who "caused more damage to the national security of the United States than any spy in the history of the CIA."
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@tim-weiner.bsky.social Tim, just in case you missed this review of The Mission (plus two related books) in the Economist: archive.ph/2wEHj
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@tim-weiner.bsky.social Tim, there's a superlative review of The Mission from the FT Weekend. It's archived at: archive.ph/AKjhi
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@snellarthur.bsky.social Arthur, this might be worth a watch: www.channel4.com/programmes/trump-moscows-man-in-the-white-house
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@tim-weiner.bsky.social A vital interview with Tim Weiner in today's Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/15/tim-weiner-cia-trump
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