Which is fine, really.
30.10.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@terrystiastny.bsky.social
Author of Believable Lies, a story of wartime propaganda and fake news, out in June from WH Allen. Discussing politics and more on Times Radio and Monocle Radio. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452994/believable-lies-by-stiastny-terry/
Which is fine, really.
30.10.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is a bit of a mouthful. AMW?
30.10.2025 19:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Has this happened to anyone before, barring beheading, abdication etc?
30.10.2025 19:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0(Canβt bear not to, even though kids are at uni & 6th form.)
30.10.2025 19:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 080p on a pumpkin, Β£20 on sweets for trick or treaters.
30.10.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Top line of the Connections grid at start today: βOnly Connect olive branchβ !
27.10.2025 14:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Laugharne is beautiful.
26.10.2025 17:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Donβt speak too soon!
24.10.2025 18:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Chill alternative hipster Thursday evening says Spotify
Yeah, thatβs me, she said, emptying the dishwasher and putting the milk bottles out.
23.10.2025 18:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Early try-on for her Halloween costume.
23.10.2025 10:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As someone waiting for people to reply to me who arenβt, I swear thatβs worse.
23.10.2025 10:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Probably just hand it in at a police station tbh.
22.10.2025 14:46 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lupin strikes again
19.10.2025 13:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now weβre talking #totp
17.10.2025 19:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I canβt even name them as I feel it will jinx them, but those two for sure.
17.10.2025 19:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, I have such a long mental list of people whose deaths will knock me sideways.
17.10.2025 19:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Order Jamesβs book now so that in the New Year youβll be able to understand how we got here!
17.10.2025 09:58 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thatβs for Thomas Mann! Thatβs for Matisse! Thatβs for Picasso! And thatβs for me!
16.10.2025 09:12 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0If this great thread has crossed your timeline as it has mine, then you might enjoy this clip from SOE agent Harry RΓ©e's interview with the Imperial War Museum. He describes his fistfight with a German of the Sicherheitsdienst, or SS Security Service.
Full interview: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Thatβs for Thomas Mann! Thatβs for Matisse! Thatβs for Picasso! And thatβs for me!
16.10.2025 09:12 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0We talk about this! (And donβt forget your Thomas Mann.)
16.10.2025 08:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh Canada! This week we're chasing Nazis from the Atlantic to the Pacific as we watch Powell and Pressburger's Oscar-winning 49th Parallel. Will @DuncanWeldon.bsky.social crash the pod simply to annoy @RobertHutton.co.uk? Will @terrystiastny.bsky.social be able to make peace?
16.10.2025 06:50 β π 26 π 6 π¬ 6 π 2If you read one thread on Bluesky today, make it this - amazing!
15.10.2025 15:47 β π 33 π 8 π¬ 4 π 1Very helpful of them to write the name in big letters on the ground!
15.10.2025 09:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes that βwho is their agent and are they answering calls on a Saturday night?β moment.
11.10.2025 20:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0His war diaries are amazing if you have time to go that far back. Politics interspersed with skinny dipping!
11.10.2025 20:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh, man.
11.10.2025 20:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reappointed PM at 10pm on a Friday night. Whoβd be in politics?
10.10.2025 20:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh yes, corkscrews are evil and confusing!
10.10.2025 19:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0