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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 7h

‘Prime Minister Benjamin Net-yat-nay-nyhoo’

Psst. His real name is ‘Prime Minister Acetaminophen’.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 7h

For those who want to hear the actual shipping forecast, last night’s: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Shipping Forecast - 11/10/2025 - BBC Sounds

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

www.bbc.co.uk

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 9h

Yes, I love that one too. They are both magical.

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 10h

Nice enough intro to the strange Brit love of the shipping forecast, but it fails to mention Carol Ann Duffy’s wonderful poem. (PS ‘Finisterre is the old name for the area now called FitzRoy in the forecast.)

Prayer

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

Carol Ann Duffy

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 11h

I don’t want to sound like a naive non-American, says the naive non-American, but are there, um, any, y’know, um, vegetables at a barbecue?

JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 14h

Why has no-one written a Latvian-set hardboiled detective novel called ‘Riga Mortis’?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

Aha. Missed it. Though I was attempting to comment on the Tories retrospectively dislocating their shoulders while patting themselves on the back, rather than on your post itself.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

Wait until the goons get to Brooklyn, and the resistance via interpretive dance begins.

Post from TrustedReveler:
LA: We will fight you.
Chicago: We will fight you.
PDX: We will make you endure week after week of improv theatre.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

'as we did in the case of refugees from Germany'?! The only reason the kinder on the Kindertransport were unaccompanied is because the British government wouldn't give the adults entry visas. So they died.

Way to rewrite history, Tory party.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

Sadly, they are Republican Compassion Pills, marked 'effective only if XX harms me or mine.'

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14h

More soldiers died of dystentery and typhoi in barracks in the Crimean War than in the field. This is what Florence Nightingale went in to clean up, not battlefield wounds.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 17h

JFC if nothing else the sheer stupidity of these people should be an international embarrassment. It’s like a permanent sophomore dorm room discussion. But at least there everyone has the excuse of being a) stoned and b) 18.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 17h

After the Golden Age comes the Silver Age, the Bronze Bronze, then a centibillionaire publicly ‘interprets a particular Japanese manga’.

Yes, we are all living the Stupid Age.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Read @adriandaub.bsky.social on Thiel and the antichrist

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Overall, the picture of Thiel that emerges in these lectures is someone desperately trying to disidentify from their own power. “You realize,” he tells his audience when interpreting a particular Japanese manga, “in my interpretation … who runs the world is something like the antichrist.” Here’s a man who, together with a couple of fellow Silicon Valley freaks, helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency he is obviously unsuited for, and who uses the awesome might of the US government to remake society and the world. A man who funds the companies that harness your data and determine who gets doxxed, deported, drone struck. Who funds far-right movements that seek to remake the very face of liberal democracy.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 17h

The only difference between him and the man standing under the underpass telling cars the end is nigh is their clothe— Oh wait. I’ve just seen a photo of Thiel.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 17h

It’s right up there with RFK Jr’s women having babies in their placentas. Clearly both are so entirely repugnant to women that they have no idea what bits we have and what we do with them.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Sorry. I forgot to mention the 1970s gay-leather-bar moustache. My oversight.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Do they look as stupid as an old man in a Stetson that has never seen a ranch, sunglasses indoors and a bunch of Liberace-style necklaces over an Italian grandpa undershirt? I. Think. Not.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Unsolicited ick pic

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Try learning Italian from opera. ‘Traditore!’ you cry as someone pulls across a pedestrian crossing without looking. And the only drink you are able to order is ‘milk punch’, and since no one, including Puccini, who had someone order it, knew or knows what that is, you end up with tap water. Again.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Beginning of Wikipedia entry. ‘Frank Fay (November 17, 1891 - September 25, 1961) was an American vaudeville comedian (the first stand-up) and film and stage actor. He is considered an important pioneer in comedy. For a time he was a well known and influential star, vaudeville's highest-paid headliner, earning $17,500 a week in the 1920s, but he later fell into obscurity, in part because of his abrasive personality and fascist political views. He played the role of Elwood P. Dowd in the 1944 Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is best known as actress Barbara Stanwyck's first husband.

Frank Fay was notorious for his narcissism, bigotry, and alcoholism, and according to the American Vaudeville Museum, "even when sober, he was dismissive and unpleasant, and he was disliked by most of his contemporaries". Although very talented, Fay offended most of the people he worked with because of his enormous ego. Former vaudevillian and radio star Fred Allen remarked, "The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane, holding his own hand." Actor Robert Wagner wrote that Fay was "one of the most dreadful men in the history of show business. Fay was a drunk, an anti-Semite, and a wife-beater, and Barbara (Stanwyck) had had to endure all of that", while according to actor and comedian Milton Berle "Fay's friends could be counted on the missing arm of a one-armed man." Berle, who was Jewish, claimed to have once hit Fay in the face with a stage brace after Fay, on seeing the teenaged Berle watching his act from offstage, called out, "Get that little kike out of the wings."Comedy writer Milt Josefsberg recalled that "Fay referred to other comedians as 'Jew bastards."Jack Benny didn't like Frank Fay personally or professionally: "When he appeared in vaudeville he rarely changed his act or polished it…His attitude toward the audience was, 'You people are lucky enough to see the great Frank Fay no matter what I do.’"

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

What is a non-vegan tampon? One coated in beef tallow? First it’s RFK Jr claiming women have babies in their placentas, now Farage implying we eat tampons. Have any of these rightwing loons ever met a woman?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Translation: Priceless historical archive being broken up and sold for scrap in lieu of stolen indigenous artefacts being returned to their original homes.

Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 1d

Collectors big and small welcome to bid in Hudson’s Bay auction: Heffel

Canadians who have always wanted to own a piece of the country’s retail history will soon have their chance.

www.ctvnews.ca

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

‘Objects.’ Marbles? Jacks? Feral cats? Are those ‘objects’ in the room with us now?

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 1d

Well known truth: buying books is a substitute for reading them.

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