John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ (@wjpme) — Bluesky Profile

8 hours ago

Today’s mitzvah: picking up SOMEONE ELSE’s dog poo.

(I mean, I have a dog, so I feel implicated. It’s not a hobby.)

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1 hour ago

Check out this bird - Eurasian Moorhen Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

merlinbirds.org/species/comm... #BirdOfTheAfternoon

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1 hour ago

Check out this bird - European Goldfinch Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

merlinbirds.org/species/eurgol Afternoon #BirdOfTheDay

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9 hours ago

Check out this bird - Great Tit Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

merlinbirds.org/species/gret... Another one.
Prolific song for such a small bird! #BirdTwo

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9 hours ago

Check out this bird - Eurasian Jay Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

merlinbirds.org/species/eurj... #BirdOfTheDay Just one od these but picked up song despite it being amidst a flock of Carrion Crows!

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12 hours ago

Or @tds153.bsky.social just geg cats to advertise cars?

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1 day ago

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth. #NewYorkerCartoons

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19 hours ago

I’ve listened to a couple of big name podcasts recently and found myself thinking “Are they…pissed?” Is this just me or am I hearing early signs of a podcast-induced speech disorder?

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21 hours ago

New Yorker tote bag! A gift for being a subacriber. Nice!

@newyorker.com Delighted to receive this today as a new subscriber!

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21 hours ago

Only 1 country in the Middle East has nukes (it's not Iran)

Just before Israel & US attacked Iran there was an earthquake near Israel's Dimona nuclear plant.

Did Israel test their nuclear weapons?

Israel is the REAL threat to the Middle East and world:

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22 hours ago

In the studio tonight: Dan Lowenstein, Howard Jacobson and Thea Gilmore, singing live. Down the line: Philippa Gregory. Join us on Front Row at 7:15.

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1 day ago

Hele mooie app, een paar dagen geleden 's morgens in onze achtertuin 😃

#harbrinkhoek #mariaparochie #merlin #merlinbird

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1 day ago

Check out this bird - European Robin Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

merlinbirds.org/species/eurr... #BirdOfTheDay

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1 day ago

I’ve spent a lifetime studying this question and the answer is no.

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1 day ago

I've got a lecture on the history of sampling in music and genetics. I do a whole section on the Amen Break, and every year I have to explain what a B-side is.

(Also, need to remove the Puff Daddy slide now.)

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2 days ago

Huge thanks to the brilliant @patrickfreyne.bsky.social for these kind words

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2 days ago

LAUNCH | Few and Far Between by Jan Carson | Books Upstairs We are thrilled to be launching Jan Carson’s new novel, Few and Far Between. From the award-winning author of The Raptures and The Fire Starters comes a new, magically surreal novel about history, ide...

Really looking forward to the Dublin launch of #FewAndFarBetween April 9th @booksupstairs.bsky.social with the lovely @neilhegarty.bsky.social Tickets are free but please book in advance following this wee link booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

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3 days ago

In case you missed..more documents from the Epstein files were released on Friday 👇

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1 day ago

Uk Labour's instagram account shares an image of Sir Kier Starmer standing in parliament saying "It is my duty to judge what is in Britain's national interest, and that is the judgement I made. I stand by it."

Sign of where things are going that in a shockingly competent move Labour's social media team are actually straight up promoting the fact that he had this falling out with Trump re the Iran war. The British right wing press and party establishments may have fucked up here methinks.

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1 day ago

Headline from the New York Post

“Trump tells The Post there's no reason to panic over Iran war oil-price surge: 'I have a plan for everything' “

Calm down. He’s going to unroll Operation Baldrick.

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2 days ago

Trump is heading for a hard reckoning over Iran It isn’t a sign of Trump Derangement Syndrome to consider the Trump administration's Iran war video obscene

If you've had difficulty finding the right words @questingvole.bsky.social is here to help.

spectator.com/article/trum...

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2 days ago

Have eaten so much cheese this weekend I feel like Henry VIII

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2 days ago

How dare her!! 🧐🤨

"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

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3 days ago

Thanks so much Stu.

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3 days ago

The president wore a red tie and a baseball cap to a ceremony in honor of fallen soldiers.

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3 days ago

Will anybody (apart from the heroic Pedro Sanchez) call out Trump and Netanyahu for this illegal abomination?

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3 days ago

By voting for a serial rapist over qualified women--2x--millions opted to preserve an oppressive system of violent misogyny.

It was--& still is--an unrecognized Civil War.

Now the rapist has let that domestic conflict escape containment, starting a war to deflect from his crimes against ♀️ & girls.

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3 days ago

‘I Write This As A Warning To The World'. This headline in the London Daily Express on 5 September 1945 was the first cry of alarm that the age! of threatening nuclear catastrophe had dawned. Wilfred Burchett, who became the most famous radical journalist of his generation, wrote it and the accompanying story in the ruins of Hiroshima. He was the first Westerner of any kind to enter the city after the atomic blast.

The story of his efforts to reach Hiroshima is retold in this dramatic book. It shows how the politics of nuclear confusion was inaugurated before the ashes of the city had cooled. Burchett details the attempts by the US government to deny the effects of radiation sickness described in his reports. He reveals the pressure to silence him through deportation from Japan, and in a telling analysis he uncovers once more the political calculations that led Truman to drop the bomb. The other major character in this book is the population of Hiroshima itself. The survivors of the attack and their children have lived with the legacy of nuclear war for two generations. The author, a regular visitor to the city recounts their experience of callous treatment, medical neglect, social isolation and eventual reinvigoration through the Japanese peace movement.

Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983) covered every major war and revolution in the Third World from the end of the Second World War until his death. A personal friend of Ho Chi Minh, and a major figure in the movement againsti the Vietnam War, he was treated as an outcast by the government of his native Australia. He travelled constantly between Europe, Africa and Asia despite increasing ill health. This is the last book he was able to complete before he died.

From Shadows of Hiroshima by Wilfred Burchett.

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3 days ago

Hiroshima: a Generation Later
During the first five post-war years, I covered the emerging 'Cold War' in Germany, and, when I could no longer tolerate that, - moved from Berlin to Budapest to report on the profound socioeconomic and political transformations occuring in Eastern Europe. Still, Hiroshima's pulverized image continued to haunt me as each intensification of the Cold War revived the possibility of another nuclear holocaust. It could have happened in Germany at the turn of 1948/49 when the United States still basked in the certitude that it had the monopoly of nuclear weapons for many years to come. It could more easily have happened in Korea where the outbreak of a civil war in June 1950 was quickly transformed by Truman into an international conflict. Although the Soviet Union, contrary to all predictions, had already exploded its first A-bomb, the Truman administration was confident that with its huge bomber fleet and forward airbases, it retained a monopoly of means of 'delivery on target'.

Trump et al are totally shocking yet the USA is a country based on fomenting war for its own ends.

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3 days ago

Thank you gift for last week’s gig = a selection of delicious French cheeses. The bar is now set extremely high for all future gigs. (The goat’s cheese is easily the best goat’s cheese I’ve ever had)

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