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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 7h

“I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane / They just call me one more deportee.” @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Only Recording of Woody Guthrie Singing the Protest Song 'Deportee' Has Been Released for the First Time

The singer-songwriter recorded the audio on a reel-to-reel tape machine in his apartment in the 1950s. Now, the previously unheard song has been restored using A.I. audio technology

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 11h

Exodus 8:4.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 12h

John 18:38.

Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 11h

#jesuisrésistentialiste #leschosessontcontrenous

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, indeed.

And two of my favourite absolute maniacs are On Here: @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social & @mbarber.bsky.social.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 12h

I once had this exchange with a border guard at Boston Logan:

"What do you study?"
"Political science at Harvard."
"Harvard doesn't have a Political Science Department."

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 12h

There's a Committee on Social Studies there, certainly.

(The Social Studies kids are funny.)

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 12h

Attn @eparpillee.bsky.social. #dugongs

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12h

when i was being examined for my senior coxing licence in Oxford, she asked if I'd ever been in a boat crash, I said yes, she asked what I happened, I said "a manatee tried to mate with the shell and it capsized then broke in half" and she did not know how to respond to that

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 17h

I love students so much

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 13h

Unsolicited Dickins & Jones pic

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13h

The murders in that episode are committed mere yards from where my cat Enkidu is buried.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13h

It is very earnest.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13h

It is a splendid poem!

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17h

A perennial favourite.

I reckon the bookshop was Galloway & Porter on Sidney Street in Cambridge. Showing my age there.

Poem by Clive James, published in te FT Weekend Magazine:

The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered.
Like a van-load of counterfeit that had been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy’s much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 14h

"My father's no different than any other powerful man. Any man who's responsible for other people. Like a Senator or a President."

"You know how naïve you sound?"

"Why?"

"Senators and Presidents don't have men killed."

"Oh. Who's being naïve, Kay?"

#DianeKeatonRIP

🚩 DIANE KEATON - THE GODFATHER (1972) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

YouTube video by Darwin Pictures

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 14h

Going to school on a camel would be brilliant.

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 5d

[1/8] L’historienne Josephine Quinn, professeure à l’Université de Cambridge, propose dans Et le monde créa l’Occident une histoire décentrée et mondialisée de l’Antiquité. Elle démontre que l’Occident est le fruit d’interactions et non d’une origine grecque isolée. #history #circulation #mobility

« Et le monde créa l’Occident », de Josephine Quinn : l’Antiquité décentrée et mondialisée

Dans un essai passionnant, l’historienne britannique propose une histoire antique et médiévale à rebours des préjugés les mieux ancrés.

www.lemonde.fr

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 1d

Lessons from Portland. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Portland's Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump

The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

www.thenation.com

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 16h

"Et le monde créa l'Occident", reviewed in Le Monde.

« Et le monde créa l’Occident », de Josephine Quinn : l’Antiquité décentrée et mondialisée

Dans un essai passionnant, l’historienne britannique propose une histoire antique et médiévale à rebours des préjugés les mieux ancrés.

www.lemonde.fr

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

What an excellent four year-old.

🎶 We will not bow to the masters
Or pay rent to the lords 🎶

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 1d

I was hanging out with a delightful 4-year-old who, coloring, commented that the rainbow has six colors. (I know about indigo; just stick with me.) I asked if she knows “that song.”

“Yes,” she replied, and began to sing:

“In 1649, to St George’s Hill…”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Oh fine fiiine fiiiine. But when *I* try to put on a play about surreal dreams involving Ralph Fiennes…

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Phil Rodgers @philrodgers.co.uk · 1d

Cambridgeshire county councillor Andy Osborn, who represents Roman Bank & Peckover for Reform UK, has pleaded not guilty after being charged with an election offence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cambridgeshire county councillor denies election crime

Cambridgeshire county councillor Andy Osborn is charged under the Representation of the People Act 1983.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Good cat! (poor thing!)

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

The hits of Lee Ann Womack may give us insight into Mr Trump's mind this morning.

🎶 She may be an angel who spends all winter
Bringing the homeless blankets and dinner
A regular Nobel Peace Prize winner
But I really hate her
I'll think of a reason later. 🎶

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, I love the right to protest. But I also love my ex-husband, and he's really quite awful."

Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 1d

MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d

I am all in favour of the election of owls.

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