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@marcwoodhurst.bsky.social

Musician and educator: lover of odd creatures, good ales, rare fruit and alphorns. Liberal, Anglican and internationalist. On the look out for hidden horns.

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Canadian Sentry
Lieutenant Alfred Theodore Joseph Bastien
1918

11.11.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The decision to sacrifice Ukrainians as disposable, second-class people for the sake of "avoiding escalation" has been an act of strategic idiocy. The consequences are now clear: Russia is more battle-hardened,its drone production is in overdrive, and its desperation makes it more dangerous,not less

10.11.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 366    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

Ds?

11.11.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Others have said it better, but can we remember that the BBC is a lot more than the News teams and, if it falls, a huge amount of our cultural fabric will be collateral damage.

10.11.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a reason that someone has an obsession with the interior design choices of 1775 era archdukes.

10.11.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to,

not because the voters want them to,

not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to…

they are caving because their DONORS want them to.

And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt

09.11.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5473    πŸ” 2255    πŸ’¬ 284    πŸ“Œ 188
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

10.11.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2430    πŸ” 828    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 48

The closures and defunding of local radio should have been both a giant klaxon and flashing red light in this respect.

10.11.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️

10.11.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 472    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 23
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Eight child abusers were jailed today.
8 child sexual predators who had been operating in areas such as Gravesend, Gillingham, Swanley, & Margate jailed for a combined 100 years.
This managed not to be the top story on repeat for BBC, itv or sky News.

I wonder why.
#bbcbias #itvbias #skybias

08.11.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 324    πŸ” 208    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 19
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Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings

09.11.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3073    πŸ” 1057    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 117

It’s not just education anymore; it’s civil defense.

Every person who can identify manipulation, cross-check a claim, or refuse to amplify hate is a node of resistance in this invisible war.

09.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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This is what’s happening globally right now:

Autocracies are waging an information war against civil society, using social media as their weapon platform.

09.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Because it also means that my friend Sasha, my friend Dania, my mom - all of them could’ve been still alive if NATO indeed did that .

But guess what.
they are all dead.

09.11.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks, Emma.

10.11.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love owls πŸ¦‰.

09.11.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œSMO" now is just 2 months shorter than the "Great Patriotic war" 1941-1945 against Germany. At the same time Soviets were almost in Berlin. Russia is around Pokrovsk, town 41km from Donetsk from where they started invasion almost 4 years ago. Thats the perspective.

09.11.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

Now, this raised a genuine question: have any of the deported β€œmissing” from those extradition flights already ended up enslaved in Russia?

09.11.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Extreme inequality rides in the vanguard of barbarism.

09.11.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Telegram-Repost des Kanals β€žDer ThΓΌringerβ€œ, 5.11.2025. Darin wird behauptet, es werde damals (2.WK) wie heute ein Krieg gegen das dt. Volk gefΓΌhrt. Die Briten hΓ€tten gezielt Zivilisten angegriffen. Bebildert wird das mit dem Foto eines SS-SturmbannfΓΌhrers.

Telegram-Repost des Kanals β€žDer ThΓΌringerβ€œ, 5.11.2025. Darin wird behauptet, es werde damals (2.WK) wie heute ein Krieg gegen das dt. Volk gefΓΌhrt. Die Briten hΓ€tten gezielt Zivilisten angegriffen. Bebildert wird das mit dem Foto eines SS-SturmbannfΓΌhrers.

Interessant, was die angeblich friedensbewegten Weimarer β€žMontagsspaziergΓ€ngerβ€œ auf Telegram als Zivilisten bezeichnen: einen SS-SturmbannfΓΌhrer. BlΓΆder kann man seinen #Geschichtsrevisionismus und #NS-Verherrlichung kaum offenbaren.

08.11.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We won’t

09.11.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The folkloric belief that catching twelve falling leaves ensures good luck for a year = the perfect excuse to just stand here and wait long enough for twelve leaves to fall #AutumnVibes #Folklore

07.11.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

If Obama has to speak at your events for you to win, you are not progressive enough. Rather than having Obama fly around the country maybe you should just put up progressive candidates. When the Democrats were progressives they controlled Congress for 60 years.

08.11.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Email the CEO at BT and ask them what the hell is going on. Elon Musk will have his hands on our communication systems?

07.11.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I think if people are aware they may decide to switch providers - it's all been kept hush hush

07.11.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@annekescott.bsky.social are these, just possibly, #HiddenHorns ?!

07.11.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
FIGURE 2. Petroglyphs, PMA/MR/2656, on a slab of Zagaje Formation sandstone from Kontrewers, Poland.

FIGURE 2. Petroglyphs, PMA/MR/2656, on a slab of Zagaje Formation sandstone from Kontrewers, Poland.

Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.

07.11.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 690    πŸ” 193    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 10

Labour: "We couldn't possibly begin negotiating with the EU to eventually rejoin. That would make the next GE all about Brexit."

Reality: "Yes, and so what? At the moment everything is about immigration, and you are LOSING very VERY badly indeed."

06.11.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 480    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 8
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I was a Minuteman III launch officer in the USAF. These launches are planned years in advance and 4 are conducted a year from Vandenberg.

This scheduled launch had nothing to do with current events or statements made from Trump or Russia this week.

06.11.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 369    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

That’s rather good!

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