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Alan Pennie

@telston.bsky.social

Historical dilettante

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The US electorate decided to give these criminal lunatics a trifecta.

09.11.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meh British Railways.
I suppose it's better than the dreadful British railways of the early Noughties.

09.11.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"You can't have nice things" is such an appealing proposition.

09.11.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone who posts such an annoying gif deserves an instant block.

09.11.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Their divorce from reality is rather worrying.

09.11.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suppose it doesn't matter if you have a fixed canon when you can read it in many different ways.

09.11.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His Ideas were not uncontradictory.

09.11.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep.
A case of wait and see.

09.11.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Each generation rewrites the past to bring it into line with its own ideas.
Or something.
I'm also reminded of Harold Bloom's Strong Poet and creative misreading.

09.11.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

More joy in heaven over one Right - wing fruit loop who repented.

09.11.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suppose since Watson was so old there wouldn't be much need to update.

09.11.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very likely.

09.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let us know if you've found out what that is.

09.11.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The *Liberation Theology* revolutions.

09.11.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fretilin (Timor - Leste) were a bit like that, but because the movement was bloodily crushed by Indonesia it's hard to say how it would have developed.

09.11.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe he's just fed up.

09.11.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a bid for sympathy it may work out for them.

09.11.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's definitely an interesting case.

09.11.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I suppose it depends whether you think gutter racism counts as an ideology or not.

09.11.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah.
That's why I think Czechoslovakia is a doubtful case.

09.11.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Doesn't look like a deal is all that close.

09.11.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think it's ever happened.
The only possible case is post - WW2 Czechoslovakia.

09.11.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very annoying.

09.11.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's find a big barrel of waste oil to dump him in!

09.11.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems like a sensible thing for him to do.

09.11.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm rooting for Linda.

09.11.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps they should have approached actual Amis to see if he'd act in it.

09.11.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Paul Martin".
Hmm!
Could I bear to reread early Martin Amis?

09.11.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not the most enticing blurb.

09.11.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's *Sergeant Lamb of The Ninth*.

09.11.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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