Derek Bryant
@derekbryant.bsky.social
Curating things I think may be important
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People don't like to talk about the time when the trees of Whirlow Wood grew wooden people to send as emissaries to Barwell village. People don't talk about the Treaty of the Axe. The ongoing offerings. – Ruth Hyde #VOH
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
People don't like to talk about the time when the trees of Whirlow Wood grew wooden people to send as emissaries to Barwell village. People don't talk about the Treaty of the Axe. The ongoing offerings. – Ruth Hyde #VOH
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Rails thrum with trains that never arrive. Limbs made phantom by branch line butchery become ghost grooves for steam-powered spirits to move across the land. No aspect of what was once modernity is immune to temporal shading, is immune to being haunted. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have been very busy putting grass in their ears and sticks up their bum for fashion purposes. Scientists think that one influential chimp started the trend and, instead of the rest of the gang going, “mate, you look like an idiot”, they all just followed suit.”🤡
Why does the Maga elite love conspicuous cosmetic surgery? | Arwa Mahdawi
Mar-a-Lago face is suddenly everywhere – and there is a version for both men and women, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have been very busy putting grass in their ears and sticks up their bum for fashion purposes. Scientists think that one influential chimp started the trend and, instead of the rest of the gang going, “mate, you look like an idiot”, they all just followed suit.”🤡
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Groups of Italians & other nationalities, so-called “sniper tourists”, are alleged to have participated in the massacre after paying large sums of money to soldiers belonging to the army of Radovan Karadžić, the ex-Bosnian Serb leader who was found guilty of genocide & other crimes against humanity
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups of Italians alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.
More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by constant shelling and sniper fire between 1992 and 1996 in what was the longest siege in modern history, after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Groups of Italians & other nationalities, so-called “sniper tourists”, are alleged to have participated in the massacre after paying large sums of money to soldiers belonging to the army of Radovan Karadžić, the ex-Bosnian Serb leader who was found guilty of genocide & other crimes against humanity
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A group of moms from Chicago's western suburbs were arrested for staging a peaceful sit-in protest outside the Broadview ICE detention facility in Illinois.
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A group of moms from Chicago's western suburbs were arrested for staging a peaceful sit-in protest outside the Broadview ICE detention facility in Illinois.
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What I don’t understand is why people on Bluesky do this shit. They’re *clearly* posting stuff from a news source, but they refuse to include a link or a screenshot. I am very suspicious of accounts that train you to trust their posts like it was the word of god. Very cultish behavior. Beware.
Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What I don’t understand is why people on Bluesky do this shit. They’re *clearly* posting stuff from a news source, but they refuse to include a link or a screenshot. I am very suspicious of accounts that train you to trust their posts like it was the word of god. Very cultish behavior. Beware.
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
The delicacy and detail here
‘Autumn Wedding’
Artist : SR Badmin
The delicacy and detail here
‘Autumn Wedding’
Artist : SR Badmin
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
The delicacy and detail here
‘Autumn Wedding’
Artist : SR Badmin
The delicacy and detail here
‘Autumn Wedding’
Artist : SR Badmin
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was constructed 1937-1939. The stone built church 'has the only original entirely wooden spire in the UK, which retains its original wooden shingles & frame.' The interior walls are whitewashed concrete.
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
was constructed 1937-1939. The stone built church 'has the only original entirely wooden spire in the UK, which retains its original wooden shingles & frame.' The interior walls are whitewashed concrete.
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Described by Pevsner as a 'fascinating work marking the ultimate development of (A Randall Wells') individualistic stand of Arts and Crafts architecture' and elsewhere as 'bridging the gap between Arts and Crafts style and modernism,' St Wilfred's, Halton in Leeds
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Described by Pevsner as a 'fascinating work marking the ultimate development of (A Randall Wells') individualistic stand of Arts and Crafts architecture' and elsewhere as 'bridging the gap between Arts and Crafts style and modernism,' St Wilfred's, Halton in Leeds
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Probably 13th century stonework from the Cistercian Abbey at Rievaulx. It appears to show packhorses and a working mill. The monastery was one of the richest in the country, its wealth built on the mining of lead and iron, and the rearing of sheep and the sale of their wool.
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Probably 13th century stonework from the Cistercian Abbey at Rievaulx. It appears to show packhorses and a working mill. The monastery was one of the richest in the country, its wealth built on the mining of lead and iron, and the rearing of sheep and the sale of their wool.
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At 5am on 11 November 1918, an armistice was signed and hostilities on the Western Front ceased at 11am. Although the peace treaties that would formally end the First World War would not be signed until 1919. Celebrations, that day in the West Riding were often led by the women
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
At 5am on 11 November 1918, an armistice was signed and hostilities on the Western Front ceased at 11am. Although the peace treaties that would formally end the First World War would not be signed until 1919. Celebrations, that day in the West Riding were often led by the women
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It’s no secret that many of us are disgusted that the BBC has failed to wholeheartedly support Israel’s genocide or the Epstein client list 👇
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/were-prete...
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/were-prete...
We're pretending the BBC is left wing so Trump can coup it like a Latin American country
In the biggest national scandal of recent days, the BBC accidentally veered from its usual practice of smearing the left and slightly misrepresented someone on the right.
www.normalisland.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s no secret that many of us are disgusted that the BBC has failed to wholeheartedly support Israel’s genocide or the Epstein client list 👇
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/were-prete...
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/were-prete...
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India's 'anti-terrorism' force is leading the probe into the blast that killed 12 people in New Delhi on Monday.
Indian police invoke ‘terror’ law as Modi alleges Delhi blast ‘conspiracy’
India's 'anti-terrorism' force is leading the probe into the blast that killed 12 people in New Delhi on Monday.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
India's 'anti-terrorism' force is leading the probe into the blast that killed 12 people in New Delhi on Monday.
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Turkiye and Azerbaijan have indicated that there are fatalities after a C-130 cargo aircraft crashed on Tuesday.
Turkish military plane with at least 20 on board crashes in Georgia
Turkiye and Azerbaijan have indicated that there are fatalities after a C-130 cargo aircraft crashed on Tuesday.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Turkiye and Azerbaijan have indicated that there are fatalities after a C-130 cargo aircraft crashed on Tuesday.
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The Houthis' maritime campaign has killed at least nine mariners and seen four ships sunk.
Yemen’s Houthis appear to pull back from Red Sea shipping attacks
The Houthis' maritime campaign has killed at least nine mariners and seen four ships sunk.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Houthis' maritime campaign has killed at least nine mariners and seen four ships sunk.
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West Berlin, 31 July 1960. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publ.). #Berlin
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
West Berlin, 31 July 1960. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publ.). #Berlin
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Istanbul's jailed Mayor Imamoglu faces 142 criminal charges in corruption probe
Istanbul's jailed Mayor Imamoglu faces 142 criminal charges in corruption probe
Ekrem Imamoglu, a prominent opposition figure widely seen as a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was arrested in March along with several municipal officials who were accused of running a criminal organization, accepting bribes, extortion and bid-rigging. He has strongly denied all allegations.
www.lemonde.fr
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Istanbul's jailed Mayor Imamoglu faces 142 criminal charges in corruption probe
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Macron and Abbas announce joint committee to work on Palestinian constitution
Macron and Abbas announce joint committee to work on Palestinian constitution
The French president also warned on Tuesday that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would be a 'red line' and would provoke a European reaction.
www.lemonde.fr
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Macron and Abbas announce joint committee to work on Palestinian constitution
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He just stole this idea from Iain M. Banks' Culture books without acknowledging what Banks tells us time and time again is the reason that the Culture is able to function as a post-scarcity society: Communism.
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
He just stole this idea from Iain M. Banks' Culture books without acknowledging what Banks tells us time and time again is the reason that the Culture is able to function as a post-scarcity society: Communism.
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I confess to some mild curiosity as to how it is that Labour Cabinet ministers agreeing to push through a series of measures over the last year condemned as overtly racist by everyone to their left could not see that they were just buttering their own faces for the leopards.
Absolutely disgusted to hear about the racism Wes Streeting mentions here directed at school children who were visiting Parliament.
He has taken the post down, rightly, to protect the children.
But it's wrong that he had to do it.
Disgusted with so many people in our country. Racism is never OK.
He has taken the post down, rightly, to protect the children.
But it's wrong that he had to do it.
Disgusted with so many people in our country. Racism is never OK.
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I confess to some mild curiosity as to how it is that Labour Cabinet ministers agreeing to push through a series of measures over the last year condemned as overtly racist by everyone to their left could not see that they were just buttering their own faces for the leopards.