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John B

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Yes, that one. Australian. Saying things; around the place. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nobody's going to get any special kudos for supporting Mandela in 1988, but we remember the MPs and conservative commentators who were still calling him a terrorist then, and "not being remembered as one of those bastards" is probably worth considering

John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 15h

Paintings that go hard

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 15h

Angels as lorikeets

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 15h

Impressed by King John III of Poland combining a Kaiser moustache with an eshay haircut, possibly making him the worst scrub of all time

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 15h

What's going on here.

A gazebo thing with a window full of a large stack of soft toy geese

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 15h

Swiftly approaching the point in public consciousness where the main urbanist villain is no longer the 80s style greedy developer but the rich NIMBY who spent 80k/year on lawyers fees in a neighbors feud

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

it's funny how the vast majority of these articles find the absolute worst opponents

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 15h

My suspicion is that everyone involved in that part of the country at that time with those names would have been from German or Dutch backgrounds rather than working class Brit - I think most British descent Aussies would recognise "minge"

John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 1d

While she is a horrible bigot, I think you may be mixing up Poland (liberal government, right wing but largely ceremonial president) with Hungary (fascist-adjacent government)

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

The Gdansk trams announces their stops, including singing "Opera Bałtycka" to the tune of the Toreador Song.

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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 2d

"some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly" really sums up the problem with decentralized social media

there's data that has to be public in order for the network to be decentralized, but that same data can also be weaponized in anti-social ways

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 2d

Another great example of how farmers (people who own farming businesses) are a purely malign and destructive influence on society www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

www.theguardian.com

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING NEWS: Trump Admin Agrees to Arm Antifa and Give It Access to American Markets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 2d

The leader of Antifa in Portland, who goes by the codename "Bill"

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 2d

Their mixologists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2d

So THIS is such a good example of Arendt's banality of evil. This roundtable is all about (ostensibly) discussing their ideas, their ideology, etc. but none of them really care about any of it or think about it deeply, there's nothing really to discuss. It's just contentless noise. It's somnambulant

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think he serves a full term. He is visibly deteriorating, the Epstein shit isn’t going away, the economy is in the shitter *before* the AI bubble bursts, he’s surrounded by schemers and incompetents, and the best card he’s got is “ain’t it weird the starfish owns a few modest skirts?“

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 3d

He was right to do so www.bbc.com/news/article...

Les Misérables lyricist Herbert Kretzmer 'felt lack of credit', archive reveals

Herbert Kretzmer said his version was "virtually a new, rewritten show" compared with the French original.

www.bbc.com

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating perspective on this Soviet map from the WWII Museum in Gdańsk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 3d

Night in with Polish champagne and goose sausages, plus an enormous tomato (the entire dinner-plate sized salad contains said single tomato). The wine is genuinely very good, as perhaps less surprisingly are the sausages and tomato 🍾🪿🍅

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 3d

The title of this German guidebook to Gdańsk seems a bit off, kind of like publishing a British guidebook to Harare and calling it "Salisbury"

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John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, I see Big Tomato has got to you

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

I agree a lot with this and it gets to an older understanding of liberalism I've mentioned before. It is more primal and "no kings" is actually a great slogan for it. The problem is "a king can do whatever he wants to you."

Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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