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Louise Ankers

@louiseankers.bsky.social

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 17d

ISTR we did something this on Twitter when times were dark (like 2016, or 2020... and by no means limit yourself to only wholesome posts.. but if you can find one wholesome thing to post or repost a day, do it.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1h

Have you read Breakneck by Dan Wang? I've started it and it seems to be advancing a thesis that Americans are lawyers and Chinese people are engineers but also drawing a number of parallels between the two countries

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2h

Plus "financial advisers" this side of pond skimming pensions. You could probably write quite an influential piece on that

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 2h

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social your latest post on the 'Stack got me reading Do Not Go Gentle. I hope you're satisfied

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 3h

Wasn't she in a few think-tanks earlier in her career?

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 19h

It's class. It's always about training for class consciousness

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 21h

You are spot on that it must referred to as “the apparatus”. This is provided for under the same secret law which mandates that only Year 6s can sit on the benches in the hall.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 23h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 19h

But if I prefer that history..

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

100%

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Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly think that a cover of Sunday afternoon by them would be awesome. It'd fit beautifully into their signature style. And the harmonies would be great.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

I thought The Who are a bit more hard rock than the Kinks. But it's difficult as all are very much the genesis ...

They are all defo rock.

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Green Day should cover it then

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

Nirvana are certainly an influence and I know what you mean. But I think they are their own thing

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying to imagine a hard rock version of Dedicated Follower of Fashion.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

I am not sure Green Day are at fault here. I think it's editorialising by the Wikipedia editor

I think they just listed their influences and yeah I can hear the Kinks in GD. All of the Kinks. Look at Good Riddance.