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Rejoin. Historian. Likes Doctor Who, hockey, rugby & history & flags. Really should be writing. Quokka Facts. He/him. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · Aug 16

Started something with Discworld I have never done before.

I am planning on running them all on Audible.

In publication order, from Colour of Magic to Shepherd's Crown.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

zeteo.com

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 21m

Durov forgot to mention Russia and the UAE (both of which he is a citizen of), as well as many major countries, including China and India.

Why does he keep attacking the West and only the West?

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10h

Sigh

They were actively recruiting Hungarians working in Brussels since donkeys years, I'm glad y'all caught up with the past fifteen-twenty years

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

Bombshell investigation shows that Hungary's Russia-alligned Orban regime has been running an espionage network in Brussels, recruiting and infiltrating among the highest levels of foreign governments.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 11h

Say it

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 11h

Of all the many versions of the Time Scoop from 'The Five Doctors', my favourite is the 4K Claudia Winkleman edition.

#DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 11h

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 11h

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 13h

I was not expecting this evening to include a conversation with four Govanhill teenagers about the doctrinal status of "filioque", but it did and I am oddly cheerful about this.

People will surprise you if you let them.

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 11h

"Pro Life"

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 12h

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taurusmom.bsky.social @taurusmom.bsky.social · 1d

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 12h

Another day ends, and

Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail!

SLAVA UKRAINII!

youtu.be/YGjicPkxb0s?...

National Anthem of Ukraine | Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre

YouTube video by LNOBT

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16h

These aren't "new" checks. Just the old checks, but (supposedly) done more efficiently.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 15h

Bloody hell

Devon & Cornwall has seen between 25-30% increase in hate crimes - transphobia, religious & racial offences (& that’s just the reported ones)

Fecking outrageous. Fecking Farage et al

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 15h

So he's saying 'Vote Reform, make your kids education a nightmare of industrial action as he wrecks it?'

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not the teachers that are convincing kids that you’re racist, Nige, it’s your actions, words and policies.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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Lost in History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 15h

Got what she voted for. Doesn't like it.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Using my kids as a shield from criticism after I voted for mass deportations and revenge on woke. Trump said it out loud on the campaign trail. And even if you didn't know the specifics, you know who he is. And I'm sure you'll still vote Republican in the next election.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 16h

“As a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party and I’m very disappointed in you,” a Virginia woman named Samantha fumed at Johnson, who was taking calls from the public.

“Because you do have the power to call the House back. You did that -- or you refused to do that just for a show.”

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 18h

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 20h

How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin.

www.nytimes.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 19h

Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch, who want Britain to abandon any pretence of taking global warming seriously need to see this.

I hate to say "in fairness to Margaret Thatcher", BUT as far back as 1989 she (a trained scientist) gave this warning to the UN General Assembly...

youtu.be/B-M6O8OyTZ0?...

Margaret Thatcher's Historic Speech on Climate Change | 1989 Address to United Nations

YouTube video by ITN Archive

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 19h

God it feels like Bush is president again. I remember people getting into fights at games because someone refused to stand for God Bless America.

Time marches on and we learn absolutely nothing.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 21h

Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are freaking out after photos emerged of Super Bowl singer Bad Bunny sitting during “God Bless America” at a New York Yankees playoff game.

MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Sits for ‘God Bless America’

The singer is causing anger among Republicans for his actions during a baseball game.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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John Petrie @johnpetrie.bsky.social · 21h

Despite some misgivings, this is the best reason yet for having digital ID

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'We got what we voted for. It was crap'

European Movement Sussex @emsussex.bsky.social · 21h

The fishing community in Hastings with a bleak verdict on the EU Reset: “We gave away access to waters and we got absolutely nothing back.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet?

Struggling fishers in Hastings say the industry is dying after a deal giving away access to its waters made a tough job impossible

www.theguardian.com

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