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Not the former drummer with Roxy Music. Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews. Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?' Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · Nov 15
#Scotland
Sunlight on Glamaig, Isle of Skye.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 3h
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I look at the colonisation of, well, the whole world by European powers, and I ask (even though a lot of it was blessed by the Pope) whether it was not rather driven by rivalry over territory, resources, and riches at a time when naval technology and weaponry developed exponentially.
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Superficially, maybe. But was that what they were really about?
I look at the most costly battles in terms of lives of the last 200+ years - Waterloo, Gettysburg, the Somme, Stalingrad - and I ask what did any of those actually have to do with gods...
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 3h
Yes, but could they have possibly added a sideways nod?
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 7h
I'll see your wife's James Brown and raise her one Muddy Waters and one Ravi Shankar.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 8h
Tell you what. Let's all be a bit more James Brown.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zieX...
James Brown performs and dances to "Out of Sight" on the TAMI Show (Live)
YouTube video by James Brown
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 9h
True enough.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h
My generator apparently can't handle sepia. But at least I can play with the image afterwards.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h
I hope you don't mind my doing this. Please do say if it becomes tedious.
From my point of view it's giving me a few minutes of leisure at a busy time.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h
The generator I'm using - not going to shame myself by naming it - often chooses to ignore parts of a prompt.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h
I'm enjoying this. Beats working.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 10h
elmo from sesame street is making a funny face while sitting on a table .
ALT: elmo from sesame street is making a funny face while sitting on a table .
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
What about its political wing?
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
Not going to happen. And Netanyahu will die with his boots off too.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
The cast list reads like a who's who* of British acting of the era, but they attribute the story to somebody called 'Robert Block'.
[*very much who's Who in the case of Jon Pertwee]
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
Get him to hand it over, then say - nah, just kidding.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
"So basically... like... all your Joos and Mooslims... they all like autistic... amiright?"
The numbest nuts of all the numbnuts in the history of numbnuttery.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
Reform now stand at nearly the same %age in the poll that "Labour" had in terms of votes in the 2024 general election. It's good that the Greens are, at last, doing much better than they have in the past, but "rightwing policies" would take the House of Commons if there were a vote today.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
Getting an [obscene] bit like all the [unprintable obscenity] of a [unprintable] in Hemingway's [obscene] novel 'For Whom the [unprintable obscene obscenity of an unprintable obscenity] Bell [unprintably] Tolls'.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
Clicked "like" to register my presence.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
Normally I would expect something like that to come up with "system detected questionable content; try again or review your prompt" where I've been experimenting.
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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 11h
a man wearing a helmet and glasses has the words " very interesting " below him
ALT: a man wearing a helmet and glasses has the words " very interesting " below him
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