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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 2d

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social Hi guys, just want to say how much I’m enjoying this season. I’m not a Patreon but am a paid subscriber via Apple and I would absolutely buy merch with ‘Take it easy’ - Friedrich Engels on it.

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 4d

As a Spurs supporter it obviously tickles me that this was a discussion on an Arsenal forum!

martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 4d

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 5d

Glorious. Along with the body building forum confused with the number of days in a week web.archive.org/web/20150105...

Workout Programs

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 5d

I just love how he refuses to acknowledge he was wrong and expects the whole world to revolve around himself, an American whose online persona is devoted to a war in Eastern Europe.

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 5d

Popes used to father illegitimate children so it’s a time honoured tradition

martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 5d

‘Why does this celibate man have so many baby wipes?’ It’s a mystery

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 5d

This reminds me of an election here in Australia a few years ago where right wingers were saying on Twitter they were voting Liberal (a Conservative Party here) and American right wingers were giving them abuse.

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 10d

Jim Jeffries said that? Fuck me that’s disappointing

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 10d

When Linguistics was dominated by the Psychological theories of BF Skinner, that all behaviour was learned, Chomsky’s theories of linguistic development were really important! Universal grammar is rubbish and his political ideas are… questionable

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 11d

He’s already (allegedly) a serial rapist and abuser so he’s on the spectrum

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 11d

I really wish Arsenal’s corners would be refereed like ours. Arteta’s head would explode

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 11d

What are they checking?

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, my one time in Vienna was 20 years ago and I asked for the Getränkekarte at a cafe and the waitress said in English ‘you realise that will be in German?’. I’d asked for it in German!

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 15d

Would you say they are a bit like witches? At black masses?

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 16d

Was anything Cromwell did out of step with European warfare of the time? The contemporaneous 30 Years War was brutal for civilians.

martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 16d

I think ‘Take it easy’ - Friedrich Engels is the best historical quote I’ve ever heard.

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 18d

Hasn’t she already had to rebuild her marriage after an earlier affair with a different MP?

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 19d

Is there a wider trend of this sort of thing that you could do an origin story post season episode on?

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 21d

People are often surprised when conservative politicians who say disgusting things in public are personable and charming in private. That is literally their job.

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 22d

Adaptors are very cheap

martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 22d

People who, finding themselves utterly out of place and at a discount in the world as it is, rashly conclude that they are exactly fitted for the world as it ought to be.

Timeless quote

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 22d

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social quoted Horace Greeley in his excellent podcast episode this week on the origin of socialism. Greeley identified a key obstacle as:

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martwah.bsky.social @martwah.bsky.social · 24d

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social where does the Horace Greeley quote come from? It is magnificent.

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