Robert Macmillan

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1. The best antidote to revolution ever created was the differentiation between working & middle class.

To this day, to be "working class" is not understood by the 99% - aka the workers of the world - and those with the absolute power to halt operations & fundamentally bring about system change.

A wee rainy night 🥰✨️

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.

Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?

Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.

One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."

This is my fourth book. And the one I'm most anxious about!

Most reporting on the Sandy Peggie case appears to straining the narrative to turn something that was not by any means a ‘victory’, into one. Gee, I wonder why…..

Exactly.

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Of course, you’re amazing too @oliviadrennaned.bsky.social !!!

Other than sharing and spreading your message, is there anything non-US folks can do?

Which as I said, you look nothing like ! 😜

Today I got to meet the amazing @rukhsana.bsky.social !!!

AND @oliviadrennaned.bsky.social too!

Another niche request here, but does anyone with Italian heritage have any good stories/memories around the tradition of La Befana on the epiphany. I'm not clear how much the tradition was exported to the UK?

Show @togetheralliance.bsky.social some love and give them a follow.
Next year we march.

Downloaded 'Radio UK' alarm app last night.

Woke up to a robot very selectively funnelling google news into my subconscious mind.

All propaganda agenda items ticked off in 1 minute.

Dystopian & frankly terrifying.

It’s their heads that need a deep clean.

I also want to express my love for Dr Beth Upton. That woman truly has more courage than any of us.

She won her case like you won the general election.

Someone told me that the FIFA ‘peace prize’ has been named the Bellend d’Or.

Perfect.

Just a quick reminder, for those interested in listening, that Upon A White Horse is Radio 4's Book of the Week – and the first part will be broadcast at 11.45am today.

"At his funeral Norman MacCaig said that MacDiarmid would walk into his mind 'as if it were a town and he a torchlight procession of one.'" Such a beautiful line.

“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.”

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

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Sickened human rights chief reveals how poverty is destroying Scotland The head of the Scottish Human Rights Commission steps forward to say that poverty is robbing citizens of their dignity. She talks candidly to our…

‘Poverty is a human rights violation. We cannot realise our own human rights until we address tax’

I talk to Scotland’s human rights chief who says poverty is trashing citizens rights to food, warmth, education and healthcare. ‘It robs people of dignity’.

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They avoid it on the back page.