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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD

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PhD in History, fiction published by Sea Lion Press and original non-fiction research published by Historical Research. Lecturer in History and Politics at a Nid-Tier University.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · May 28

Royal Air Force Group Captain Adolph Gysbert Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, "Sailor Malan", South African war hero and Anti-Apartheid organiser and politician.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

East Germany apologia in the thread, yikes.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

The Greens have never taken FP/Defence seriously, and so handed over Party Policy on those issues to cranks.

It's possible to have a Green FP and Defence policy but it does involve actually having military forces.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

More people should read The Fate of Rome, which looks at the biological and environmental disasters that hit Rome from the 3rd Century onwards.

Flames on the side of my face. @artificialmcb.bsky.social · 4h

I had a friend who said the proper framing should be “germs, germs, even more germs, horses, more germs…”

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

Zach Polanski is may more thoughtful than the party he leads.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 8h

Say what you will, but I, personally, am gently impressed with how Zack Polanski is placing clear green water between himself and local Russophiles by going hard after Farage's Russia links. Of course I would like him to be more enthusiastic about defence spending, but Corbyn he is not.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 14h

An Ungentlemanly Act.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15h

Tired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s bad

Wired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s not only good but essential to democracy

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 15h

He's so fucking hot.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 17h

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not just bad morally, it’s also bad art. “Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones” has no point or purpose, it’s just a mad lib

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think they would have acted different if they were!

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 16h

guy who thinks the Soviet Union was a massive op to discredit nuclear power

🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 18h

Whoa

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 16h

Bastard sank the Devonshire and murdered her crew!

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 16h

NOISE BOYS ARE BACK BABY

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 16h

Harris winning the EC but not the PV is kind of a nightmare scenario itself ngl.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17h

of those three, the one that was most likely pivotal for the 230,000 votes that decided the EC is RFK, which is a nightmare

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 17h

it's hard to get mad at Kamala over anything except Gaza because otherwise the party treated her horribly and she nearly saved them from oblivion anyway

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20h

The other fun one is where people retcon the joe biden being forced out by leftist posters rather than like a bunch of dem insiders leaking to the times axios and other rags starting early spring 2024. like pelosi was leaking this shit by march and most of the ones pushing it early didnt want harris

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 16h

By the time Jamestown was established, Santo Domingo, the first and oldest Castilian-Spanish colonial city, was more than a century old.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18h

Not the point, but I love the vibe of knights in the Americas and just the transitional period from medieval to modernity in general.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 17h

God I wish Udall or Church has won instead.

Hubert Humphrey Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 17h

carter gets much less grace from me just because he had the obvious option on the table of 'sign what congress puts in front of you rather than fighting with them over healthcare' and also doesnt get enough shit for backing pol pot and suharto

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 17h

He basically took his whole "I'm an outsider thing" way too far.

Udall or Church would have been so much better (I wish Humphrey had run and won).

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 17h

I honestly don't under Carter's fight with Congress over HC.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 18h

The prenup and cheating stuff is very Gender.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

Dort is big mad that WaPo and the Atlantic won't bend the knee

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 18h

It's both shocking and unsurprising how big the leap down from 2 to 3 is. And 2 being 2 is only the result of historical & political circumstance, otherwise it would have been number 1.

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 18h

You're never going to guess the top 10 most populated countries unless you're constantly assuming you're forgetting countries due to being an Ignorant Westerner.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 18h

Is this a safe space to admit that I had no idea there were 31 million people in Madagascar

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 18h

Gay WW2 black fiction, lovely :)

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 19h

The US needs conservatives who accept liberal democracy and losing.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 19h

One of the reason AI sucks compared to human writing is the constant mental awareness that the AI doesn't understand that when a character has a mask on, there eyes still exist.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20h

the characters in narrative don't exist outside the story you're telling and the longer you drag out a story into serialized storytelling the harder it is to maintain the illusion that they do, which is why serialized storytelling shouldn't go on forever

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 20h

There was a point in 2024 where I think the international community would have been justified in sabotaging Israeli ammo dumps and munitions depots.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 22h

The funniest take on here today is probably "sure Netanyahu is a bad actor, but it's unclear how the US could have possibly put pressure on him". Imagine admitting you're less curious and creative than the Trump administration and framing it as nuance

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 20h

'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.'

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 21h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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