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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Toshiro Mayuzumi [黛敏郎]: Nirvana-Symphony

YouTube video by Rique Borges

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 32m

Don’t ask people where they were then. Ask them where they are now.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1h

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 2h

The tragedy is that it looks AI generated.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

Massive news for Leeds.

Tom Cruise, Taylor Swift, David Beckham, Barack Obama, Kylie Jenner, and Justin Bieber may all not be coming to your city on Monday... but I am .. and I promise not to sing.

So come along if you're free.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 18h

I have a demi-urge to sic my own backward dog on the Yaldabaoth o' yer

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19h

"In the U.S. the risks of stepping forward pale compared to those faced by dissidents elsewhere. Surely it’s not too much to hope that some heretofore timid Americans could find inspiration from the example of María Corina Machado and 'refuse to stay silent.'”

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The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare

This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 23h

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t understand why he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The #GOP clearly thinks it is peaceful to rape children.

And peaceful to drag people from bed.

And zip-tie kids.

And throw people to the ground.

And invade cities.

And prosecute your enemies.

And react violently to protest.

#NoKings

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

María Corina Machado win Nobel Peace Prize.
Venezuela’s most influential opposition leader receives the award.
TRUMP: You were never in the running!

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

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America is better in service sectors and litigation; with AI, it might be able to generate even more lawsuits. China has far superior training data on manufacturing, it might grow even better at producing electronics, drones and munitions.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

The Lord G created men with foreskins. Later He told his chosen people to cut them off because Lord G figured out that removing the foreskin makes a man equal to a woman.
Lord G learnt that when he flew down to earth with a tray brim full of wooden foreskins.
Full disclosure Me:
no FS
+ = woman.

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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 1d

What Goes Around…..

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British during the Revolution—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement. Andrew Lawler on the journey of the Black Loyalists:

The Black Loyalists

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite Beatle song is She said, she said.
My favourite Lennon solo is Across The Universe.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 1d

What's one of your favorite Lennon solo or Beatles songs? 🎶
Remembering John Winston Lennon today, he would have been 85 years old if he was still with us. Born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940, his songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney is still the most influential & successful of all time. 👇

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 2d

Race and the Conservative New Order. Really good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social, highlighting the similarities between history graduate Robert Jenrick's language and Oswald Mosley's: davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/not-anothe...

"Not another white face"

Race and the Conservative New Order

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece by @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social in support of the ECHR: exactly the points I and others in @soclablaw.bsky.social have been making. labourlist.org/2025/10/paul...

Paul Nowak Column: 'The Left has a political and moral duty to defend the ECHR' - LabourList

In his barnstorming regular column TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak says all MPs have a moral and political duty o defend the ECHR.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 2d

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"Humans are easily fooled AI companies cannot always explain how their models produce the results. Software engineers, like aeroplane designers or bridge builders, he said, had a duty of care to ensure their systems did not cause harm or fail. "

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3d

Incidentally English graduates are in demand by tech companies who need to translate what they do into understandable language for their business customers in particular.

But why let facts get in the way of a stupid soundbite?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

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Museums have a special resonance in China, a country where the government within living memory campaigned against tradition. Exhibitions, now odraw vast crowds. visitor numbers surpassed 60mn on the May Day public holiday alone.

jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

Only Correct

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matthew zeitoun | filmmaker @matthewzeitoun.bsky.social · Feb 11

If you got 6 minutes; watch my short film.

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“The Glance” a short film by matthew zeitoun

YouTube video by Zeitoun Pictures

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

I took it for a Pete Townsend tribute act.