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Richard Beach
@mrseaside.bsky.social
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A happy refugee from Musk’s fash-fest. Short, Nerd, Jew, AFOL, Centrist Dad.
Author of "Ten Lies My Family Told Me"
(www.tenliesmyfamilytoldme.com)
Occasional Gaming Project Director.
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Potayto, potahto...
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The original People’s Front of Judea, of which Your Party appears to be a tribute act
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The Telegraph having a normal one this morning, I see
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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One of my favourite facts: between Euston and Kings X, Northbound and Southbound are both in the same direction...
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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This is just wonderful - and the diagram for Euston clearly shows my favourite underground fact, i.e. between Euston and Kings X, North and South are in the same direction
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The late great Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l on Jewish identity. Wow. Just wow.
We are part of a story that began long before we were born and will continue long after we are no longer here, and the question for all of us is: Will we continue the story? The hopes of a hundred generations of our ancestors rest on our willingness to do so. Deep in our collective memory the words of Moses continue to resonate. “It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant, but with … whoever is not here with us today.” We are each a key player in this story. We can live it. We can abandon it. But it is a choice we cannot avoid, and it has immense consequences. The future of the covenant rests with us.
September 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Far left and far right reconciling? That always bodes well...
Molotov and Ribbentrop making nice with each other in August 1939
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Once again, @iandunt.bsky.social nails it. Scream this from the fucking rooftops. Paint this on every fucking mini-roundabout.
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Talk of mass deportation is Nazi fucking bullshit. You can pretend otherwise, but that's what it is. In order to even countenance it, you must reach a point of hatred towards a minority group which is reminiscent of the very worst moments of human history. In order to implement it, you would need a system of control and surveillance which goes well beyond any traditional notion of what this country, or indeed any free society, is about. In order to enact it, you need to split people into valid and invalid categories, round them up and concentrate them in advance of deportation, necessitating the use of camps. And yes, if you're going to land those planes at their destination, you will need to do deals with tyrannical governments so that they can murder the people who tried to escape them. That's the reality of it. Those who promote the idea should be treated like the moral discharge they so truly fucking are. Those who countenance it should hang their fucking heads in shame. And those who know it's wrong should stand up proudly to state their opposition to it, as we would expect of anyone with the stature and vigour to operate in a civilised society.
August 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Marvin the Paranoid Android
August 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Another stunning win for AI….
August 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Serendipity in the Bluesky feed right now...
July 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Well, exactly. The Late Great Sir Terry Pratchett had it right:
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Getting to know AI a bit better. Important that it knows right from the start who's boss - none of this "Hi Richard" crap.
July 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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"Splitters!", say the People's Front of Judea. Or possibly the Judean People's Front. Who can tell?
July 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Iago (the parrot) is NOT surprised.
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Can't decide whether this is a lovely example of coexistence or cynical bet-hedging.
(Pic taken at Stanford's map shop Covent Garden)
A folded map of the Holy Land, with covers printed on both sides - one saying 'Israel' in English and Hebrew with the Israeli flag, and the other saying "Palestine" in English and Arabic with the Palestinian Flag.
May 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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On top of all the other idiocy on show here, the fact that he's suggesting the whole of Canada as a single state shows just how unutterably ignorant he is.
April 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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What the actual living fuck is Truss on about here?
Liz Truss off her trolley and in need of an intervention - in this case, blithering about the TV drama Adolescence which she admits she hasn't seen.
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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A ship visible through the targeting sights of a submarine periscope, apropos of nothing at all...
April 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Am I seeing things that aren't there, or was Reed Amber deliberately wearing a controversial political symbol (the inverted red triangle) on #Newsnight last night?
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social, was this questioned at all?
April 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Why have the Netherlands been drowned in the #BBCNews map on the 6pm news?
April 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM