Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

@ralphbrooker.bsky.social

460 followers 270 following 3.3K posts

Ex-British Army. Mountain bike. Nature. Animal welfare before food. Forestry maintenance. Modern Jazz. A bit of 🎹. Adrift in the outskirts of philosophical coherence. Francophile. Aspiring socialist. 📷 🏏 🏉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 (🖕Trump⛔️)

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · May 19

Old Comrades…
Before ‘veterans’ became a thing.
Active service.

2 21

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 54m

Loaves of cat!

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1h

Dostoevsky’s paradox (in lieu of The Grand Inquistor): “If someone were to prove to me that Christ was outside the truth, and if this {sic} was really so, then I should choose to stay with Christ rather than the truth”.
— Dostoyevsky, Letter to Natalya Fonzina, 1854. #Literature

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1h

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 2h

Imho, the most important production aircraft of WW2. Geoffrey de Havilland’s Mosquito. #Antifa

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 3h

#catsky

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 3h

Ironically the NRA is on its last legs if the reports are right.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 4h

Rhetorical question really but why are they carrying assault rifles.

MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 5h

I love what I keep hearing is "go fuck yourself," because well....

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 5h

Yesterday, ICE was met with a fierce resistance from the neighbors of the Chicago SW side. They were ousted from the streets without taking anyone.

1 2

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 4h

Isn’t there a ‘Which Feuchtwanger’ consumer magazine? :)

Reposted

Grumpy Philosopher @handle.invalid · 5h

University leaders aren’t offering any compromises so our strike continues. If you want help/show solidarity you can contribute to our fighting fund (we’re each going to lose 3-5 weeks pay & being threatened with 50% pay deduction for action short of strike): www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...

1 5 6

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 6h

Tiny boletes

Reposted

MarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 6h

THE TRUE PRICE OF PORK 👺

##EndAnimalExploitation

#LiveVegan don’t be complicit ✌️

2 14 19

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 8h

General sigh of relief. #Nobel

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

They literally hide their faces because it makes them feel like special forces. Off duty they get erections pooing in the woods.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

How quickly some ICE GOONS get triggered when you remind them they are children of immigrants

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

If the autumn and winter turn bad we’ll use at least half of that. Lost the oak in a recent storm. Cat inspecting the damage!! ;)

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

Aching now!!! 😫

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

Job done.
Fallen oak.

3 10

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

Colloidal.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

Patience is more important now.

music.apple.com/fr/album/pat...

Patience par Areni Agbabian & Nicolas Stocker sur Apple Music

Morceau · 2019 · Durée 7:42

music.apple.com

Reposted

Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social · 1d

I will never get over how stupid and awful and ugly this whole moment is.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

10 12 120

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

The timing of this ‘ceasefire’ couldn’t be more contrived.

Reposted

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 1d

This is an interesting post which points to the fundamental truth that the neoliberalism of the last forty years is no longer working. It does, however, try too hard to link it to “boomers” unless you could Hayek, Friedman, Nixon, Reagan and Thatcher as “boomers” open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...

Defeated by the real world

Why did neoliberalism, in its domestic and international components, fail?

open.substack.com

1 4

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 1d

French joke doing the rounds.
« Just three prime ministers til Christmas! »

1 2

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 2d

Bon appétit 😋

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 2d

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
— 1 Cor: 4.10 (KJB)
The fulcrum of so much Russian #literature