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Jacek Olender
@jacekolender.bsky.social
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Heritage scientist, conservator, and philosopher. Local pub bore. European in the land of the free.
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Etc, etc...
The "always has been" meme with no additional text.
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I mean, yeah.
Historic GDP per capita graph, 1990-2024, with Poland overtaking Hungary around the time of financial crisis where Orban took over.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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What is the best solution for the miserable underfunding of R&D in Europe that leaves the EU woefully behind literally everyone else in the world, according to @ec.europa.eu and @erc.europa.eu?
An app. App that lets you find another 5%-success-rate opportunity. Great job all around.
Screenshot of an email from the ERC advertising their grant-searching app.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Sorry, but that meme is only in Polish.
Image showing polish tv chef and food journalist Robert Makłowicz preparing food in front of large hot pool full of people. Caption says: "Next I'll fry the beef and add it to the Slovaks boiling in the large pot behind me".
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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As per @mtsw.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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...by becoming even more racist.

(It's really funny how her entire account has comments and quotes disabled).
October 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Well obviously:
Coffee scene from the Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock, and Two Moking Barrels".
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I think that's the case - new applications plummeted across the board, but there are still students remaining, so the visa stats will lag for another year or two until they graduate.
Notably, the data does not distinguish between new student arrivals and existing students who need a visa to return to the US. Thereby, the 19% decline may in part reflect the reluctance of existing international students to leave the US over the summer, fearing they couldn’t return.
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Also, we kinda know who they'd vote for.
Wiki screenshot with the results and a map of the 1944 presidential election.
October 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I guess we have reached this stage of the regime.
Kim Jong Un at the hospital telling doctors how to treat a patient.
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Lucy Powell trying to prend she's not a fascist, like the rest of her lot.

"Values shine through". You bet they are
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Yeah, dunno about that one, man.
Musk doing a Heil Hitler gesture.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I often think abou this from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

www.the-reframe.com/sky/
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Historians study their motives, but there is a broad understanding: their motives don’t exonerate them. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Bit bizarre to see some old acquitances discussed in @404media.co. (I used to work next door to Spes Medieval Market and was flatmates with one of the founders).
Most of our masks are 350 newton rated fencing masks for example. The biggest pain points right now is: Jackets (which need at least a 350n rating), pants (usually a 800n rating) and gloves which have to be extremely protective clamshells. Margins on these goods are tight and much of the manufacturing of them comes down to overseas businesses: Spes (Poland) Superior Fencing (Pakistan) and HF Armory (Ukraine) Hf in particular makes what is agreed by many fighters to be the best in slot, for longsword, gloves the Black Knights.
September 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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It's one congressman, Michael. How much can it be, $10?
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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This, but for RFK.
@mtsw meme with koolaid guy, about how media like trump and want him to rule us like a king.
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Frame still from "Rosemary's baby".
September 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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North Korean news presenter
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Like have these people ever heard of sociology? Or even election polling?
August 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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This is literally in the abstract.
Our analysis sheds light on unresolved historiographic issues on the significance of the Great Fear for the French Revolution, providing a quantitative answer to the unresolved debate between the role of emotions and rationality in explaining its diffusion.
August 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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You can't even be outraged ad DEAD KIDS without some focus-grouped throwaway line?! What is wrong with all you there in Congress?!
Screenshot of the OP with the line "We owe it to our kids to pass commonsense gun safety reforms."
August 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Democrats cannot even be outraged without focus-grouped bullshit in their communications.

WTF is this?!
Screenshot from the OP reading "We owe it to our kids to pass commonsense gun safety reforms."
August 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Clearly, yes. Because how is this paragraph not a straight up quote from Daily Mail?
Mr Farage did not spare the bellicosity, warning the UK is “not very far away from major civil disorder” due to growing public frustration with unchecked illegal migration. While this approach will be routinely condemned by the established parties it will undoubtedly find favour among that section of society that believes government has failed lamentably to perform its first duty: the protection of the national territory. As recent polling for this newspaper has shown, immigration is the cut-through issue, beating the economy and the NHS. Politically it is a mother lode, promising an endless flow of attack opportunities against a floundering government.
August 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I mean...
Screenshot of a circle of "apocalypse" tanks from Red Alert 2 game.
August 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I guess we have to replace the American version of the @mtsw.bsky.social media meme with the UK and Farage.
August 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM