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Ian Watkinson

@ianwatkinson.bsky.social

Jack of all trades, master of none. Revolting peasant. Citizen of a broken, corrupt state. Traveller, photographer, ageing dissenter, dismayed radical and passionate Deadhead

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Latest posts by ianwatkinson.bsky.social on Bluesky

I'd put money on it ... πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ

11.07.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Greetings on another platform Mannie. Don't let the bastards grind you down. X mental health is about as stable as Musk's. Although Grok4 seemed to have laid reality bare and true recently. We couldn't 'make up' this crazy world if we tried ... good to find you on here, thanks to @BoufantZak

11.07.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rubio hosts Quad meeting with Japan, India and Australia, directed against China The meeting, bringing together representatives of the four largest militaries in the Indo-Pacific, was a clear signal that the Trump administration will intensify military preparations and threats dir...

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

24.01.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday."

-- Erwin SchrΓΆdinger

19.01.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the "Smart Wall" The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan β€œsmart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far beyond ...

unlimitedhangout.com/2024/02/inve...

17.01.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...

29.12.2024 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œAnd now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

β€” John Steinbeck

16.12.2024 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Humans have linked emotions to the same body parts for 3,000 years 3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

β€œIt turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings… may be more universal than you’d think. In fact, people have been making very similar statements about their bodies for about 3,000 years.”

#scicomm

www.sciencenews.org/article/link...
πŸ§ͺ

16.12.2024 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Have European arms companies increased their profits due to wars? The world's top 100 arms-producing companies recorded profits of almost 600 billion last year, amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine and a generally tense geopolitical situation. #EuropeInMotion

Seems to be the only 'business' left that's profitable for the current industrial-
military-complex.

Capitalism is totally sick and deranged.

03.12.2024 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US Could Deal Death Blow to International Law Marjorie Cohn raises the prospect of the U.S. government invoking the 2003 "Hague Invasion Act" to extract Israeli officials from the ICC if they are arrested. ByΒ Marjorie Cohn Truthout The Int...
02.12.2024 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful and original

24.11.2024 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.’

Rosa Luxemburg

24.11.2024 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She was appalling. Now it's a real mess. Hah !

23.11.2024 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky ... 50% boring pictures of cats, dogs, cups of coffee and other anodyne irrelevance... Big yawn
X ... 50% boring Temu advertisements for anodyne useless things no one wants.... Big yawn

23.11.2024 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.”

Oscar Wilde

23.11.2024 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well... it probably is

23.11.2024 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-a...

23.11.2024 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky .... endless cat and dog twaddle photos. Jesus ...

23.11.2024 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are no words really.

23.11.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many of us 'out here' can see this happening behind the veils of dishonest politics and MSM hyperbole. Housing, health, trade, transport, education, food and "Freedom". All these empirical foundation blocks of a socialist democracy being sold down the river. We are royally fucked.

22.11.2024 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How America Is Comprehensively Fucking Itself Sinking in the historical quicksand, and making it worse by struggling

Great analysis, spot on

22.11.2024 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rofl

21.11.2024 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought there already was a caravan of criminals in DC ?

21.11.2024 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most people who do are very unlikely to admit it

21.11.2024 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukraine reportedly fires UK Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time The essential response of the major European powers to Trump’s election has been to plan to step up their own military aggression against Russia and to consider what it will take to make this a Europe...

We are governed by madmen. Utter ship of fools

21.11.2024 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Shoelace By: Charles Bukowski
20.11.2024 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Proterozoic Rocks xkcd.com/3008

07.11.2024 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3778    πŸ” 647    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 36

He is becoming more neckless ( and reckless ) with each passing day. Like some huge goitre. Hideous creature.

20.11.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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