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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 5h

The kind of stuff that reminds you why we shouldn't expect anything from Trump on Ukraine. He is an idiot

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 8h

Well, there’s a surprise:

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Who exactly are they asking to intervene on Palestine?

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 1d

More weight to @garius.bsky.social ‘s idea that McCartney’s The Frog Chorus (“We All Stand Together”) is the perfect anti-authoritarian protest song…

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

It seems that some people are fantasizing about invading Israel with WWII tanks. I'm surprised they haven't got propeller-driven aircraft as well. But in fantasy anything goes:

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA would like to replicate this with Trump:

"Each year more than 12,000 Germans from all walks of life sent Hitler letters of praise and sycophantic veneration approaching adoration." (Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949, p.289)

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

"Each year more than 12,000 Germans from all walks of life sent Hitler letters of praise and sycophantic veneration approaching adoration." (Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949, p.289)

Some Americans would like to replicate this with Trump:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was there, I have a soft spot for the 1950s. But this seems basically right.

“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”

(Franklin Pierce Adams, cited in Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, p.48)

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Afternoon on Afon Menai:

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

How do we recognize an Antichrist figure when one shows up? Could Trump be one?

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Twitter: where the crudest kinds of racist feel welcome and at home:

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · May 23

This racist stalker on X explains why he is confident in his sense of impunity for racist abuse on the platform. (He may be proved right about that, but let's see)

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe someone somewhere should burn the whole lot just to see what the response is.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Sunrise over the Carneddau and buried in the hedgerows:

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Some information about the Khasi language, which unlike most languages of Northern India is not related to English and other European languages but to Vietnamese:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasi_l...

Khasi language - Wikipedia

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

Elinor Bennett OBE playing two 19th century harps, and Khasi musicians from north-eastern India at Pontio, Bangor, last night:

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 1d

I suggest you read Cohen’s recent posts of the subject. But since I have no idea who you are, I am not going to pursue this with you. So goodbye.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

They usually deny their crimes for much more than 10 months. They have been lying about Bucha for more than 3 years, and in the case of the Katyn murders, they lied for nearly 50 years:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/w...

10 Months Later, Russia Admits Deadly Downing of Azerbaijani Plane

www.nytimes.com

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Does she think Brirain was spending the same sort of money on redefining what a woman is as China was spending on building five nuclear reactors? That seems unlikely.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

No doubt it's easy to exaggerate the bad effects of social media, but it doesn't follow that it has none. Musk and others who control social media are not trying to provide a social service. They're trying to have certain effects and not good ones.

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on how “tens of millions around the world have cheered on a doomed extremist project that has brought nothing but misery to Jews and Arabs alike.”
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

J.K. Rowling, ex-porn stars, the death of Jews and me

What I learned from an X storm

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

The far right have a lot in common with the far left, but their variety of fantasy politics is a lot more lucrative than the left wing variety:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d

A geographer in The Times on the colour of faces:
www.thetimes.com/article/c479...

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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 3d

I doubt whether Trump would object to burning the Quran although that can agitate and irritate crowds. But he didn’t get where he is today by striving for consistency.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 3d

Interviewers need to ask him if no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record are official Reform policies.

"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 3d

For all those who share the Jenrick view that you can tell at a glance how well or otherwise someone is integrated, here is a guy from Singapore singing in Welsh on S4C:
youtu.be/h1iDmNqOB_E?...

Irfan Rais - Trefniant o alawon gwerin Cymreig

YouTube video by Noson Lawen

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