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Rev. Dr. John D'Alton

@revdrjohn.bsky.social

PhD history/theol of Jihad in Islam/Xnty Syriac and Arabic, academic dean, historical wargame designer, Orthodox Christian priest, IT consultant, Steampunk, SFfan, TCM, ex-TechnoDJ, anti-fascist, Gestalt psychotherapist.

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Raskin: "What we have is the Trump Justice Department organizing itself not around the interests of the survivors -- the people who were victimized by Maxwell and Epstein -- but rather organizing itself around protecting the perpetrators."

07.08.2025 00:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7296    ๐Ÿ” 2505    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 189    ๐Ÿ“Œ 129

Oh that settles that then we should all just go home

07.08.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 315    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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RFK Jr has been a liar for as long as I can remember.

07.08.2025 00:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9713    ๐Ÿ” 3719    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 540    ๐Ÿ“Œ 196

I read something this year (probably on here, for my sins) that, contemporaneously, no one knew the Roman Empire was falling forever, just that one day an important bridge collapsed and no one ever came to fix it. I think about this all the time.

07.08.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1036    ๐Ÿ” 303    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

FOX News is pure Russian sponsored programming.

07.08.2025 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4713    ๐Ÿ” 991    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 171    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

Hi yes hello, going to reiterate that this should not be legal

07.08.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1360    ๐Ÿ” 323    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

I keep thinking of how in Nazi-occupied Denmark, if a Nazi walked into a bar, everyone would pay up and walk out.

07.08.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 328    ๐Ÿ” 98    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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China warns Israel against 'dangerous actions' of occupying Gaza Beijingโ€™s reaction came after Israeli media exposed plans of Premier Netanyahu to push ahead with full-scale reoccupation of Gaza - Anadolu Ajansฤฑ

#FreePalestine
www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-paci...

07.08.2025 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.

From MSF www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

07.08.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Looking forward to this one

07.08.2025 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Palestinian Australian principal takes six months' stress leave after more than 100 family members die in
Gaza
By national education and parenting reporter Conor Duffy and the Specialist Reporting Team's Gemma Breen and Mia Blumer

Palestinian Australian principal takes six months' stress leave after more than 100 family members die in Gaza By national education and parenting reporter Conor Duffy and the Specialist Reporting Team's Gemma Breen and Mia Blumer

Start to imagine. ๐Ÿคฏ

07.08.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

It's clear that the Labor / Liberal duopoly uni-party is a danger to our democracy.

State premiers trying to stop peaceful protest is an absolute abuse.

QUOTE: "The child is left with nerve damage resulting in a leg that barely works."

So that's how our F-35 fighter jet parts were used.

#auspol

07.08.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#auspol #Israelians #RWNJ
#ProIsraelBoosterism

07.08.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just in! Gareth Ward โ€” convicted rapist and sitting MP โ€” has LOST his legal bid to stop his expulsion from NSW Parliament!

He was also ordered to pay costs

07.08.2025 07:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 360    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Penny Wong lies to Parliament about Australia supplying weapon parts to Israel Foreign Minister Penny Wong told the Senate on Monday, as per the video below, that Australia is supplying Israel with โ€œnon-lethalโ€ F-35 fighter Jet parts that Israel is using in Gaza to [โ€ฆ]

Penny Wong lies to Parliament about Australia supplying weapon parts to Israel kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/08/02/p...

03.08.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This government has betrayed the Australian people who had very rightly held the expectation that the rogue consulting firm PwC would be held to account for colluding with foreign multinationals to defraud our tax system. #auspol

07.08.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Letting PwC back into the fold of government contracting sends a message that you can rip off the system and face no real consequence under a Labor government. This decision is gutless!

07.08.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I'm outraged by Labor's decision to greenlight PwC, a consultancy firm which has proven to be untrustworthy & that has continuously refused to cooperate with government inquiries. ๐Ÿงต

07.08.2025 11:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 111    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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๐Ÿง  New Research Summary Out Now ๐Ÿ“„

"The Effort of Returning to Work with Long Covid"

๐Ÿ”— Link in bio or visit: shh-uk.org/the-effor...

#LongCovid #ReturnToWork #InvisibleIllness #ChronicIllnessAwareness #LongCovidSupport #WorkplaceWellbeing #DisabilityAwareness

07.08.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome Large study suggests peopleโ€™s genetics could โ€˜tip the balanceโ€™ on whether they would develop the illness

Scientists have found the first robust evidence that genes affect chances of #ME/CFS, a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been neglected and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community - @iansample.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

07.08.2025 10:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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8 'hotspots' in the genome linked to ME/CFS in largest study of its kind - Canada News Beep Researchers have conducted the largest-ever genetic analysis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a typically lifelong condition

8 โ€˜hotspotsโ€™ in the genome linked to ME/CFS in largest study of its kind

https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/51818/

Researchers have conducted the largest-ever genetic analysis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a typically lifelong condition thatโ€ฆ

07.08.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why I'm Saying No to Generative AI There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work

๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ From the ever thoughtful and smart historian @cjdenial.bsky.social

theimportantwork.substack.com/p/why-im-say...

06.08.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

I visited La Ferte in June. An extraordinary place, that I found to be much more visceral than the Atlantic Wall fortifications in Normandy. The temperature drop and atmosphere change as you descend the stairs was unsettling.

06.08.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is not a coding error.

06.08.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11856    ๐Ÿ” 4680    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 760    ๐Ÿ“Œ 332
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They keep asserting they're going to put AI in everything, including critical, dangerous systems. Meanwhile, AI is like, "sure, eat those yard mushrooms, the word strawberry has 88 Rs, I'm Mecha Hitler, here's Taylor Swift naked when you didn't even ask for it and she has eleven fingers lol"

06.08.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 920    ๐Ÿ” 204    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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The cult leader's hold weakens Trump's bungled Epstein coverup demonstrates that he's past his prime.

โ€œSo as his hold over his cult diminishes, and his political losses grow, he is likely only to get angrier and more willing to take out his resentments on his true arch enemy: the American peopleโ€

06.08.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 524    ๐Ÿ” 112    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

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