Being alive for the "find out" portion of history is really tiring when I wasn't doing the fucking around ๐ญ
13.06.2025 03:45 โ ๐ 544 ๐ 187 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 6@clbzyxxx.bsky.social
Northerner. History, Politics and Taylor Swift (not necessarily in that order).
Being alive for the "find out" portion of history is really tiring when I wasn't doing the fucking around ๐ญ
13.06.2025 03:45 โ ๐ 544 ๐ 187 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 6Donald Trump, "The USA wasn't involved," also Donald Trump, "the next attack will be even more brutal."
You realize it can't be both.
๐จ๐จ"It is hard to predict how this will end, other than badly. It will take years to rebuild Americaโs constitutional checks and balances, institutions, and international standing, but possibly decades to restore political trust." Excellent by @alexhh.bsky.social on the #LA military deployment:
10.06.2025 13:51 โ ๐ 171 ๐ 74 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 3From my undergraduate lecture notes on the Weimar Republic's collapse
10.06.2025 20:36 โ ๐ 728 ๐ 306 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 22Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.
10.06.2025 21:20 โ ๐ 7436 ๐ 1553 ๐ฌ 253 ๐ 108She did warn the Americans. They didn't believe it
#Trump
Omg if the JFK files were out whilst I was writing my dissy I'd have had a field day
19.03.2025 14:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We live in Britain, and there are now profound questions to ask our government. There's no conceivable bridge between Europe & this US administration. Whether we escape tariffs is a laughably parochial question. Yesterday is now an awfully long time ago.
28.02.2025 20:42 โ ๐ 1268 ๐ 270 ๐ฌ 30 ๐ 17Almost 20 European leaders, incl Emmanuel Marcon & Friedrich Merz, plus VDL, have posted in support of @ZelenskyyUa after White House showdown.
Notably, Keir Starmer has not. No 10 is referring reporters to PMโs comments this week on a just & lasting peace, with Ukraine at heart of talks.
Good grief, is there anything more vomit inducing than watching Keir Starmer suck up to Trump ๐คฎ
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20.12.2024 13:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This reminds me of the minidisco in Spanish hotels as a kid in the late 90s / early 00s!
This and El Treรฑ
I absolutely hate it when people walk really closely behind me. There's literally room to go round me, or tell me to speed up, whatever, just get out of my arse. fgs ๐ซ ๐ซ ๐ซ
25.11.2024 18:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In other news - onwards to Leeds to watch The Courteeners ๐ธ
21.11.2024 15:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Running through Birmingham New Street Station to catch a train, with a suitcase and my tights falling down was not my finest hour.
21.11.2024 15:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Gritty Gritty Gang Bang?
19.11.2024 10:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ omg, please no more rodents in the house
17.11.2024 17:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There's nothing quite like a good visualisation. This one beats a line on a chart.
17.11.2024 09:27 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every single appointment is more boggling than the last!
17.11.2024 09:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Instant follow!!!
17.11.2024 09:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Or Tuna if you have a cat
15.11.2024 08:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This X account has been given a grey checkmark, verifying it as an official government account.
It also only accepts resumes be DM's, which are solely open to verified X users who pay Elon Musk.
This level of corruption is staggering.
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse...
14.11.2024 20:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trump is reportedly expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services
14.11.2024 20:41 โ ๐ 474 ๐ 118 ๐ฌ 141 ๐ 416Morning Bluesky.
The EU needs to move fast.
German MPs have been briefed by the Federal Civil Protection Agency that if Ukraine falls within the next six months, millions of Ukrainians will head West. Official estimate: 10 million. Unofficial: up to 18 million.
Never take the autosave function for granted. Sometimes it just doesn't work and an hour's worth of work just โจdissapearsโจ
14.11.2024 13:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Weโre about to find out whether there are any patriots among Republican Senators, or whether theyโll make excuses for the foreign-backed demolition of our Republic that is now plainly underway.
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