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Oxfords not Brogues

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Clear thinking, empathy, & right action maketh the man. That's the goal. Allowing Ukraine the rights of any independent, sovereign state is not a “concession”. It is an obligation. - P. O'Brien I often use memes. If you don't like it, tough.

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · Dec 4

We're looking at you, Magas, conspiracy nutters, & vatniks:

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction & the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
- H. Arendt

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 6h

Sounds like a job for 300-400 Texas national guards to me.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 8h

i hope this is not AI

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 11h

Johnson making up a straw man his kid will tell him NOT to jerk off to.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 11h

Looks like she and that kids are luring that ship onto the rocks so they can loot it.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 13h

The same folks who say Pritzker is being hyperbolic are the same folks who said Trump wasn't gonna follow Project 2025, and he shouldnot have been prosecuted for treason for Jan 6.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 13h

Judges need to start calling in ICE agents who did these assaults and bogus arrests and dress them down in public when they make their judgement,

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 13h

The air force is the most corrupt of the armed services - just lots of nutjobs straight out of the academy

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 16h

That seems like a basic effing question to ask and q policy to have.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 20h

Doulton’s headquarters & factory building, #Lambeth #London
Architect - R. Stark Wilkinson - 1878

High #Victorian #Gothic architecture, with decorative details of Doulton’s terracotta.

#Exeter born, Stark Wilkinson designed the Digby Hospital, #Devon in 1886.

#WallsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

A gothic corner building with turret, many windows & terracotta details.

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 17h

Any good books on R. Stark Wilkinson, or on High Victorian Architecture that includes discussion of him?

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 18h

I am sure they'd be more relaxed around Putin if they had food tasters and weren't so near big windows.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 18h

Texas National Chonk Troops

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 18h

Prime day is just prime suckers day for folks buying stuff Amazon can't move any other way.

Folks working jobs they hate to buy things they don't need. Durden ain't wrong.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

Dude has Hee Haw on dvd running 24/7. JFC.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

I *much* prefer Middle Eastern area (incl Ethiopian) and Indian vegetarian over US vegetarian dishes.

I'll take a falafal sandwich over a ham sandwich anytime esp. if it is made by a Syrian bakery. Not sure what it is, but every Syrian falafel sandwich I've had on 2 continents has been

a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

Alt: a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not “partisan” to defend science, evidence, and objective reality.

It’s partisan to attack science, evidence, and objective reality, to benefit your political “team.”

That’s true with climate science, with vaccinology, & with evidence-based city-building, all of which are being attacked.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 2d

Reading is Fhtagnmental

A woman with pale skin a greenish tint and green embellishment on her eyelids and lips. She has a short orange-ginger bob haircut and all she's apparently wearing is a heavy necklace chain suspending a large rough-cut green gem in a silvery metal setting. She's holding a heavy-looking leather and metal-bound tome open in one hand at chest height and seems to be pointing out a text with the finger of the other hand. Magical green letters of an unpronounceable language are floating up from the pages of the book, connected to each other and to the necklace gem by rough edged bubbles and umbilici. Her body below where it is occluded by the book shows the progress of the spell being invoked, as she transforms into a writhing mass of warped parts of hideous sea monsters: tentacles, teeth, spikes, claws, grasping mouths, and dead blue unblinking eyes. If you read this far you must agree with me that it is cool and gross.

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

MAGAts been reading their little book again:

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

LOL... "hand to hand combat" means ICE dudes wanking off to their own violence.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a helmet with the words this is the way behind him

ALT: a man in a helmet with the words this is the way behind him

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Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

Subtext: "We gonna get paid anyway so we don't care about other folks"

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

WTF are you using an 30 year old picture except to confuse people?

Why not use Vietnam era war pictures next time you talk about Afghanistan?

JFC. And yet you all wonder why respect for main stream news is at an all time low.

Oxfords not Brogues @tancred1098.bsky.social · 1d

Filming cops and ICE is legal. ICE are just fragile, angry, violence fetish men.

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