Rory Martin @roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social

Hudders fan. I work in a pub and a care home in Holmfirth and Mirfield West Yorkshire.

So the Iraqi Kurds were supported by the US, got murdered by isis and abandoned by the US. The Syrian Kurds were supported by the US, then murdered by Assad and abandoned by the US. Also some Syrian Kurds were murdered by Turkey and abandoned by the US.

Hey, Iranian Kurds.
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Nostalgia Victim @nostalgiavictim.bsky.social
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They like Trump and want him to win. This does not apply to JD Vance.
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Very annoying that Cillian Murphy's first entry into the 28 days later series in twenty five years is him being wrong about the Versailles treaty.
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@jlindy.bsky.social
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Upper class English people are... suspect as fuck.
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We all hope to find our perfect person; my second fiancé surprised me with this
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social
4mo
Here's a quick hit on why Trump's obsession with Venezuela's oil is a bit heavy and crude in a world where the US is a net exporter and the concerns are a lot more about peak demand than peak supply. responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-venezuela-oil/
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social
4mo
Any excuse to bring this up BTW
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
4mo
Still laughing at this. Cannot imagine a more self-discrediting argument for socialism than “under socialism, you should be able to gesture to your crotch, tell a customer to suck it and keep your job”.
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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com
8mo
actually what you have to understand is this is about, er, [checks "big book of defending racists"] a loss of civic pride
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Really mentally RW jokes in this week's pub quiz (the joke about greta thunburg in round 2 Q1, and the descriptor for Mary whitehouse (mother of woke)
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What I am hearing is that the crime that was Hausmann's destruction of Old Paris caused this.
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social
10mo
My translation is from English to Polish, the author was one of the kids born in the camp. Some relevant fragments:

www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-4973-9
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social
11mo
The median American voter:
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Jack Dickens @jackfdickens.bsky.social
11mo
An excellent essay by Duncan Weldon.

He explains why, in 1914-1918, the civilian-led, democratic states of Britain and France adapted more effectively to the conditions of total war than autocratic regimes in Russia and Germany, where the military came to predominate.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
11mo
If all you've got is an informal non-prosecution agreement, you don't want to be committing crimes with a statute of limitations that reaches beyond 2028
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Steve Rudzinski @steverudzinski.bsky.social
11mo
Doctor: Treatment is simple, go see Orville the clown. He's very funny and should make you feel better.

Pagliacci: ...What about Pagliacci.

Doctor: Pagliacci? I could not name a shittier clown.

Pagliacci: ...

Doctor: Just a total failure of a clown.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social
11mo
We appreciate your participation in LIBERALISM, an experiment in positive-sum economics by the University of Edinburgh. The experiment is now concluded. Please return to inter-state anarchy and subsistence agriculture, and report any further efforts to better the human condition. Thank you!
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"Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point."
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When you really love historical documents, especially postcards from the First World War. We present, Prof. Jonathan F. Vance. #westernu
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social
1y
I am afraid my crossover is tech and dad jokes, so I had to try this out on the new openAI image generation tool:
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me
1y
The MAGA movement is, in some ways, about selling the illusion that you also get to partake in the kind of freedom from consequences that a well-connected billionaire does
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This is cool but the fact that none of those fighters can operate from that carrier does somewhat illustrate the issue.
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Starting the European Union War Party. Federalise the currency and the armies, allow millions of refugees, hyperspeedify the accession of at least twelve new member states and use the resulting positive economic output for blatant warmongering at the expense of "Russia" and "America"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com
1y
Lots of people mocking me here for using the Philadelphia Phanatic's full name. Respect is dead in this country.
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I disagree, because America is unique in the way it deals with its failures.

It fixes themself, e.g. Union troops freed the enslaved people and Americans will vote out the oligarchs.

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they've tried everything else,”

Winston Churchill
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
1y
Europeans before playing Connections, and after.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
1y
Which, if so, why on earth are you using that predictive power to make calls about elections in one of the world's middle powers?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
1y
My broader feeling is, if you are making a prediction about the next UK election, you are saying you can predict:

1) the consequences of Trump's second term
2) how exactly the CCP will respond to 1)
3) whether there will be any geopolitical shocks and what their electoral outcome will be
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