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TheBossRoss

@thebossross.bsky.social

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🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 friendly & wordy. Work-from-home knitter. Kind, not stupid. Ally of decency. Based in Germany. In love with Scotland. At home in more than one place.

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · Apr 19

In country after country, far-right populists offer easy solutions to often non-existent crises, fuelling xenophobia, jealousy, rage for votes. Once in power, they (ab)use their position, serve themselves, & keep people angry while solving nothing. Those who have not yet realised this don't want to.

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 4h

Well said, Sue. The embodiment of kindness.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 4h

... und im Leberkäse ist kein Käse.

Wenn wir das eine umbenennen, dann bitte auch das andere.

Auf das Gesicht von Markus Söder bin ich jetzt schon gespannt.

Screenshot aus einem ZDF online Artikel:

Eine Wurst ist eine Wurst. Wurst ist nicht vegan.
Friedrich Merz, Bundeskanzler

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 4h

😂🤣😂

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 5h

🙏 Thank you, Chris. Much appreciated feedback.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 5h

Just when I thought I couldn't love Bob Ross more, the people who guard his legacy go & do this in his name. 🫶

Local media plays such an important role in informing people. Rupert Murdoch knew this. It's why he owns 99.9% of all in Queensland & much everywhere else.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/u...

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts | CNN

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for public television stations suffering from cuts in federal funding.

edition.cnn.com

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent. I think it's easier to picture history when we've got actual pictures to look at.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 6h

Few things about MAGA & Fox News should shock us (when they do me, I like to think it's humanity in me reacting, rather than naiveté 😉) - but this (if true) is next-level, audacious, bare-faced fabrication of news. They don't play by the rules, we know that. Anyway, judge for yourself.

Post by The Frito Bandito on BlueSky:

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

[Below, several screenshots of people in various masked being interviewed on Fox and their eyes to bear a remarkable resemblance to one man.]

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, you're very welcome!

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 7h

Brilliant! Enjoy!

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly that. Nothing is easy.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent ... it's good fun !

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 8h

Ha! You're on a voyage through time!

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 8h

Completely hooked this morning by a website recommended to me. It's called oldmapsonline.org and you can time-scroll through the history of countries, call up information on old & even older states, browse famous people or battles big (& when you zoom in, small). Fascinating! Let me show you:

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 8h

And she does mention that, too. The constant concentration is absolutely exhausting. Nothing comes easy. Everything is an effort.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 9h

Let's not forget (to celebrate) what we're trying to preserve while we're fighting to preserve it.

A beautiful poem by Hussain Manawer, artist, Times Sunday Times Poet, & author

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 9h

She mentions that in her video.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 9h

One thing people who have never lived abroad can't know (& I say this without judgment) is how exhausting it is to be in an environment where literally everything around you is unknown, alien, unfamiliar. "Like you are 5 yrs old & learning how to do life again". Exactly that.
#GoodMorning, everyone

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 9h

Today's random #German word of the day is this.

📢 m.dict.cc/deutsch-engl...

Don't fuss - just #LearnALanguage !

Illustration of the German word 'das Tantam', meaning 'hype, ballyhoo, fuss'.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, his post on Truth Social a few days back was quite enthusiastic. Like a child, he was amazed & promised to disclose all files of the investigations into her disappearance. So now all agencies are made to jump.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 9h

French politicians need to realise that their enemy is LePen, not Macron.

This is the degree of her normalisation that the real possibility of her (party's) election is no longer considered an actual threat.

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 10h

... all because Trump watched a show on telly and for the first time in his life, heard about her ...

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 10h

It's a joke, Tony. A joke.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 22h

Well spotted. I missed that. 🤜🤛

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 22h

It will never cease to amaze me how in so many countries traditional parties follow the copycat strategy, with the same disastrous result, and literally not one of them wakes up and learns!

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 22h

The scheme has just been made permanent and Ireland seeks to increase the number of artists as well. 🥂
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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