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Elizabeth
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Mostly in Belgium, often in France

📸 Jacques-Henri Lartigue | Véra, Bibi, Arlette, Cannes, May 1927
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telerama.bsky.social
Documentariste nourri d’autobiographie, Dieutre se rend à Bruxelles, ville natale de Chantal Akerman. Il évoque celle-ci à travers rencontres et souvenirs…
“Chantal A., Bruxelles” : le bel hommage intime de Vincent Dieutre à la chanteuse
www.telerama.fr
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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India's digital revolution has created a criminal dystopia. We follow the trail from scammers to victims. bloom.bg/48QTnts

📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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medmilmedicine.bsky.social
🎅 ‘Reindeer Wrangler’, one of the North Pole’s toughest jobs at this time of year 🎅 - 14th century, Macclesfield Psalter, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 1-2005,, f. 193v
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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dburbach.bsky.social
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED

There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph

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December 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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neglectedbooks.com
The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE THE Author regrets that in arranging the materials for this book the morals were unaccountably mislaid.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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pandamoanimum.bsky.social
Day 3 of my #AdventCalendar
[sound up]
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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mathieugallard.bsky.social
🗳️ sondage @Ipsosbva pour @lopinion_fr sur le potentiel électoral de Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, et leur potentiel cumulé en cas de "ticket" pour l'Elysée et Matignon en 2027 👇https://www.lopinion.fr/politique/le-ticket-bardella-le-pen-serait-il-gagnant
Le ticket Bardella-Le Pen serait-il gagnant?
Pour la première fois, un sondeur, Ipsos BVA CESI école d'ingénieurs, teste l'efficacité d'un Jordan Bardella en campagne pour l'Elysée avec une Marine Le Pen programmée pour Matignon. Ce ticket n'est...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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suchmayer.bsky.social
No paywall, no pop-ups, just sheer interview bliss, free to read for everyone: @willforrester.bsky.social goes deep with the peerless Solvej Balle (would make an "I could read this over & over forever" gag but it's also true!)
englishpen.bsky.social English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 16h
'Gosh, this is difficult – it’s so difficult to try and explain something that has lasted 40 years.'

In #PENTransmissions, Solvej Balle on time, morality, and searching.
pentransmissions.com/2025/12/04/d...
Dissolving Sugar in Water: A Long Conversation with Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle on time, morality, and searching.
pentransmissions.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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mims.bsky.social
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year

Thanks in no small part to DOGE cuts to USAID

www.wsj.com/health/for-f...
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
George Buday continued creating many illustrations for The Radio Times amongst other commercial publications while living voluntarily at Netherne Hospital, working from his studio in an old summerhouse in the grounds, which was apparently full of cigarette smoke & blaring classical music
A mid century woodcut Christmas card featuring Santa surrounded by snow scenes and holly and candles in black white and red
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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bcdreyer.social
Happy birthday to Jeff Bridges, for the love of gawd.
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
I Know What You Did Last Sumer
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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medericgc.bsky.social
Le mot marseillais du jour du calendrier de l'Avent 🎄 est sorti !
(mais cette fois, il n'y aura pas un moulon de posts :)
medericgc.bsky.social Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus @medericgc.bsky.social · 19h
Jeudi 4 décembre

MOULON !

Un moulon de personnes laissent leurs affaires en moulon.
Ou pour le dire autrement : beaucoup de personnes laissent leurs affaires en tas.
Moulon, qu’es acò ?
1/4
Fond blanc sur lequel est écrit en lettres rouges MOULON
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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emmapearson.bsky.social
Forget Spotify Wrapped, today it's all about SNCF's 🇫🇷 train 'rétrainspective' 🚂
(and it doesn't make impertinent comments about your age)
Message from SNCF - you've saved 835kg of CO2 compared to travelling by car Message from SNCF - you've travelled 5,930km by train this year
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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hotgpod.bsky.social
“Let others wage war; you, happy Austria, marry”, that is what we are told. The reality was very different – invasion, rebellion, execution…
New episode out today
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
I was right he did need a top hat.
A fancy pigeon strutting with a top hat on his little head, painted in acrylic over a maroon background
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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esqueer.net
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/LegalAdviceUK by user Fun-Blueberry-2147. The post describes that the user’s sister, who has schizophrenia, admitted herself to the hospital after believing someone was communicating with her through her smart fridge, which turned out to be an LED screen advertisement. The post explains that she spent two days under monitoring with medication adjustments and that the specific ad she saw included her name, making it especially distressing. The user questions the legality of such targeted or unsettling ads on smart appliances in the UK.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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dannydrinkswine.bsky.social
Robert Mitchum & Lauren Bacall photographed by Murray Garrett, 1948.
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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rhiggitt.bsky.social
This is such a sad story! An important collection that had been sent for digitisation (though why from Kent to Scotland, I'm not sure) 📜 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Museum staff 'devastated' after drawings worth £500,000 destroyed
About 1,700 military drawings from the Royal Engineers Museum were destroyed in the theft last month.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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cmonstah.bsky.social
“These are tools. I mean, modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
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December 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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neglectedbooks.com
The Library of Congress classification system lacks a category for "cocktail drinking as a sport." An egregious error.
Listing for the film "Perfect Understanding" on the Internet Archive. Relevant topics listed: Romantic comedies, romantic dramas, cocktail drinking as a sport, Gloria Swanson, Laurence Olivier, John Halliday, Genevieve Tobin, Nigel Playfair
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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gargarin.bsky.social
#Advent 3 : Grinches
A display of plush Grinches
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM