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Philip Ruff

@ruffphilip.bsky.social

Anarchist historian with a weakness for Latvia, good music and things that go bump in the night. Anarhistu vēsturnieks.

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Wondering what to get the kids for Christmas?

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Gary Larson is my favourite cartoonist. 😉

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🐾

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this is one of my favorite history books

06.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno with his daughter Elena Mikhnenko (1922–1993) in Paris, 1925. And Elena at Alma-Ata, 7 January, 1946. Exiled to the Dzhambul Region of the Kazakh SSR for five years as "a socially dangerous element", she was released from exile in September, 1950. 🌻

05.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 34    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you.

05.10.2025 11:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My wonderful daughter, Olive, is thirty-nine today - whoopee! Proud to be her Dad 😍

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Patricia Routledge has left the "Bouquet" residence, age 96. The name was BUCKET and she's kicked it! I hope comedy heaven has a swimming pool and room for a pony. RIP 🌹

03.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grandaughter Fiadh just dropped in to discuss Bakunin's theory of Invisible Dictatorship, but it ended up (as always) with me showing off how good I was at drawing Crocodiles. Fiadh thinks I should take the business of opening up The Floodgates of Anarchy more seriously... 🐊

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Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia Nathan Gill admitted eight counts of bribery between 2018 and 2019. He said he was tasked to make specific statements in return for money. #EuropeNews

Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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The "Liv head", a pagan idol depicting an ancient deity, was unearthed by a Salaspils farmer and brought to Riga in 1851. It was found anew in 2000, buried in the garden of Dom Cathedral, and is now exhibited in the cloisters. A replica is displayed in a corner of Livu Laukums. #Latvia

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Kate: Have you met Prince Andrew?

Agent Orange: Who?

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Misunderstood minorities N° 39 - Anarchists (1975) 💣

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Prisoners in Latvia banned from using modern gaming consoles On Tuesday, 16 September, the Government adopted amendments to the internal rules of the Remand Prison, which will also mean that detainees will no longer be able to use newer generation video game co...

Prisoners in Latvia banned from using modern gaming consoles eng.lsm.lv/article/soci... #Baltics Ping! @marijamdid.com

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"There is no free Ukraine without free Baltic countries. " Kharkiv, 1989.

(Collection of Museum of the Popular Front of Latvia)

03.06.2025 12:36 — 👍 53    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Just been delving into the box - for one aweful moment I imagined you wanted me to review them all! 😱 Thanks especially for the wooden icon of Peter the Painter. I shall offer human sacrices to it every night before going to bed. 🦉

06.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Designed by Les Prince.

05.09.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ping! @freedompress.bsky.social

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Special Branch report from August 1981, commenting on "The Anarchy Club" in Birmingham - an ill-fated project of The Christopher Davis Appreciation Society. #SpyCops

05.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, your handriting is really fekin aweful! 😬

05.09.2025 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So, the culprits are found. Call off the dogs! 🥂

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Somebody sent me a box full of anarchist books this morning, but no idea who it was. If it was you, please let me know who to thank.

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🐝

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The patient must be patient. 🧐

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Latgale in ancient times. Ansis Cīrulis (1934) #Latvia #Baltics

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THE ANTI-SOVIET FIGHTERS (1944-1953): the true story of armed resistance to Soviet occupation in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the "Brothers of the Forest". Tonight in the UK, on PBS America, 8:30PM, Friday 22 August. #Baltics

Trailer here: www.zed.fr/en/catalog/t...

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