@ralphbrooker.bsky.social
Ex-British Army. Mountain bike. Nature. Animal welfare before food. Forestry maintenance. Modern Jazz. A bit of 🎹. Adrift in the outskirts of philosophical coherence. Francophile. Aspiring socialist. 📷 🏏 🏉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 (🖕Trump⛔️)
Pinned
Old Comrades…
Before ‘veterans’ became a thing.
Active service.
Before ‘veterans’ became a thing.
Active service.
Prepping for a Saturday morning dip.
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Prepping for a Saturday morning dip.
Sometimes you have to roll with the empirical data :)
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sometimes you have to roll with the empirical data :)
A Wilfred Owen masterpiece. Onboard, the nautical business. But from an idle Somme bank…
#Poetry
#Remembrance
#Poetry
#Remembrance
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A Wilfred Owen masterpiece. Onboard, the nautical business. But from an idle Somme bank…
#Poetry
#Remembrance
#Poetry
#Remembrance
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November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Pierre Boulez conducts Anton Webern’s 5 Movements for String Quartet.
#classicsky
music.apple.com/fr/album/5-m...
#classicsky
music.apple.com/fr/album/5-m...
5 Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5: I. Heftig Bewegt par Berliner Philharmoniker & Pierre Boulez sur Apple Music
Morceau · 1995 · Durée 2:53
music.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Pierre Boulez conducts Anton Webern’s 5 Movements for String Quartet.
#classicsky
music.apple.com/fr/album/5-m...
#classicsky
music.apple.com/fr/album/5-m...
Sainte-Chapelle
Île-de-la-Cité
(photo by friend PJ).
Île-de-la-Cité
(photo by friend PJ).
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Sainte-Chapelle
Île-de-la-Cité
(photo by friend PJ).
Île-de-la-Cité
(photo by friend PJ).
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"We often hear land described as “unused” — but to wildlife, no space is ever empty. 🌱🦊
Those quiet fields, overgrown corners, and wild patches are homes, hunting grounds, nurseries, and safe corridors for countless species."
via Cultivating Green Spaces
Those quiet fields, overgrown corners, and wild patches are homes, hunting grounds, nurseries, and safe corridors for countless species."
via Cultivating Green Spaces
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"We often hear land described as “unused” — but to wildlife, no space is ever empty. 🌱🦊
Those quiet fields, overgrown corners, and wild patches are homes, hunting grounds, nurseries, and safe corridors for countless species."
via Cultivating Green Spaces
Those quiet fields, overgrown corners, and wild patches are homes, hunting grounds, nurseries, and safe corridors for countless species."
via Cultivating Green Spaces
Supersax, a Bird solo tribute band, playing Koko (= Cherokee 🎶). Featuring Warne Marsh
#JazzSky
music.apple.com/fr/album/ko-...
#JazzSky
music.apple.com/fr/album/ko-...
Ko Ko par Supersax sur Apple Music
Morceau · 1973 · Durée 3:22
music.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Supersax, a Bird solo tribute band, playing Koko (= Cherokee 🎶). Featuring Warne Marsh
#JazzSky
music.apple.com/fr/album/ko-...
#JazzSky
music.apple.com/fr/album/ko-...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Pokrovsk. A strategic, existential turning point? It’s coincidence with the severe shake up of European 7/11 treatment of Russian loopholes in travel throughout Western Europe. The clampdown on dual Russian nationality for instance via Serbia especially. Travel freedom in the Tallinn enclave stopped
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Pokrovsk. A strategic, existential turning point? It’s coincidence with the severe shake up of European 7/11 treatment of Russian loopholes in travel throughout Western Europe. The clampdown on dual Russian nationality for instance via Serbia especially. Travel freedom in the Tallinn enclave stopped
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Quadruplets 😱 She will lose four babies in one go. She will be traumatized forever. 💔#DairyIsScary #DitchDairy 🙏
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Quadruplets 😱 She will lose four babies in one go. She will be traumatized forever. 💔#DairyIsScary #DitchDairy 🙏
I think it’s remiss of the BBC to have given Trump the opportunity a free swing.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I think it’s remiss of the BBC to have given Trump the opportunity a free swing.
Sometimes we talk of ‘battle eyes’ or the ‘thousand yard stare’ of veterans of conflict. No poet converted that image to words better than Owen who was KIA seven days before the #armistice. What a tragic loss to English letters. #remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Sometimes we talk of ‘battle eyes’ or the ‘thousand yard stare’ of veterans of conflict. No poet converted that image to words better than Owen who was KIA seven days before the #armistice. What a tragic loss to English letters. #remembrance
2019. Bayeux, British & Commonwealth War Grave Commission. Taken in front of Hampshire Regiment casualty, KIA, 10/6/1944. First Reg to land at Arromanches. Lost the CO and 2i/c in quick succession, the assault was sustained to objective. #Remembrance #Antifa #Pilgrimage
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
2019. Bayeux, British & Commonwealth War Grave Commission. Taken in front of Hampshire Regiment casualty, KIA, 10/6/1944. First Reg to land at Arromanches. Lost the CO and 2i/c in quick succession, the assault was sustained to objective. #Remembrance #Antifa #Pilgrimage
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The Death Cruiser MAWASHI EXPRESS 👺
Moored at a dock in #Turkey
This horror vessel was underway from #Uruguay from October 11th till 4th of November..nearly 4 weeks 😱
They never show you the inside nor the suffering
#BanLiveExports #LiveVegan do the right thing ✌️
Moored at a dock in #Turkey
This horror vessel was underway from #Uruguay from October 11th till 4th of November..nearly 4 weeks 😱
They never show you the inside nor the suffering
#BanLiveExports #LiveVegan do the right thing ✌️
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The Death Cruiser MAWASHI EXPRESS 👺
Moored at a dock in #Turkey
This horror vessel was underway from #Uruguay from October 11th till 4th of November..nearly 4 weeks 😱
They never show you the inside nor the suffering
#BanLiveExports #LiveVegan do the right thing ✌️
Moored at a dock in #Turkey
This horror vessel was underway from #Uruguay from October 11th till 4th of November..nearly 4 weeks 😱
They never show you the inside nor the suffering
#BanLiveExports #LiveVegan do the right thing ✌️
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« L'année dernière, vous avez imposé par 49-3 les apprentis, qui sont à 75 % d'ores et déjà sous le seuil de pauvreté.
Quand il s'agit de lutter contre la pauvreté, ce n'est pas un acte de charité ou de bonté que nous vous demandons, c'est un acte de justice. »
@alexiscorbiere.bsky.social
Quand il s'agit de lutter contre la pauvreté, ce n'est pas un acte de charité ou de bonté que nous vous demandons, c'est un acte de justice. »
@alexiscorbiere.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
« L'année dernière, vous avez imposé par 49-3 les apprentis, qui sont à 75 % d'ores et déjà sous le seuil de pauvreté.
Quand il s'agit de lutter contre la pauvreté, ce n'est pas un acte de charité ou de bonté que nous vous demandons, c'est un acte de justice. »
@alexiscorbiere.bsky.social
Quand il s'agit de lutter contre la pauvreté, ce n'est pas un acte de charité ou de bonté que nous vous demandons, c'est un acte de justice. »
@alexiscorbiere.bsky.social
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⚠️ « Face à l'explosion de la souffrance au travail, il est urgent de revoir l’organisation dans les entreprises et de sanctionner celles qui se comportent mal avec leurs salarié·es. »
🗣️ @sandrousseau.bsky.social propose de conditionner les exonérations de cotisations aux souffrances au travail.
🗣️ @sandrousseau.bsky.social propose de conditionner les exonérations de cotisations aux souffrances au travail.
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
⚠️ « Face à l'explosion de la souffrance au travail, il est urgent de revoir l’organisation dans les entreprises et de sanctionner celles qui se comportent mal avec leurs salarié·es. »
🗣️ @sandrousseau.bsky.social propose de conditionner les exonérations de cotisations aux souffrances au travail.
🗣️ @sandrousseau.bsky.social propose de conditionner les exonérations de cotisations aux souffrances au travail.
Perhaps the only ‘collateral’ damage’ is to animals.The killing of civilians in war goes beyond ‘collateral’. Perhaps crimes against humanity: I mean we must have learned from previous conflicts. Animals are ‘simply’ collateral. That doesn’t make their death less significant. It shifts the adjective
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Perhaps the only ‘collateral’ damage’ is to animals.The killing of civilians in war goes beyond ‘collateral’. Perhaps crimes against humanity: I mean we must have learned from previous conflicts. Animals are ‘simply’ collateral. That doesn’t make their death less significant. It shifts the adjective
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Public Philosophy in Brighton, two weeks today.
Tickets (free) through this link:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bri...
Tickets (free) through this link:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bri...
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Public Philosophy in Brighton, two weeks today.
Tickets (free) through this link:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bri...
Tickets (free) through this link:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bri...
A beautifully woven, moving and disturbing, tapestry of life inside Stalingrad; inside the key factories that continued against all odds to produce war material; of individual lives caught up in the horror. #remembrance
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A beautifully woven, moving and disturbing, tapestry of life inside Stalingrad; inside the key factories that continued against all odds to produce war material; of individual lives caught up in the horror. #remembrance
Is having a downer on Society (as opposed to Nature) too easy a cop out? As if it were a zero sum game?
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Is having a downer on Society (as opposed to Nature) too easy a cop out? As if it were a zero sum game?
Some little while ago, I had a mood
When what we as ‘Nature’ seemed to me
So sympathetic, ample, sweet, and good
That I preferred it to Society.
— Wilfred Owen, A Palinode, 1915.
When what we as ‘Nature’ seemed to me
So sympathetic, ample, sweet, and good
That I preferred it to Society.
— Wilfred Owen, A Palinode, 1915.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Some little while ago, I had a mood
When what we as ‘Nature’ seemed to me
So sympathetic, ample, sweet, and good
That I preferred it to Society.
— Wilfred Owen, A Palinode, 1915.
When what we as ‘Nature’ seemed to me
So sympathetic, ample, sweet, and good
That I preferred it to Society.
— Wilfred Owen, A Palinode, 1915.
With Sweet & Sour, soya sauce, ground fresh garlic and coarse sea salt.
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
With Sweet & Sour, soya sauce, ground fresh garlic and coarse sea salt.