Fergus Robson
@fergusrobson.bsky.social
Historian of France and teacher of history, fan of people being sound to each other and the planet.
Not a fan of far-right, racists, sexists and other such feckers.
An Clár abú/Stand up and Fight ❤️ Munster rugby
Not a fan of far-right, racists, sexists and other such feckers.
An Clár abú/Stand up and Fight ❤️ Munster rugby
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My Friends 💔 ,
My children Need your help 🙏
Our situation remains extremely difficult
We have lost everything our home, our safety, and our warmth.
My little children are freezing at night 💔
We urgently need $300 to buy warm blankets for them 🙏
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My children Need your help 🙏
Our situation remains extremely difficult
We have lost everything our home, our safety, and our warmth.
My little children are freezing at night 💔
We urgently need $300 to buy warm blankets for them 🙏
✅Verified by Molly
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December 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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This hasn't gotten much traction, but late last week, Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan announced plans for
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This hasn't gotten much traction, but late last week, Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan announced plans for
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
A) A social media ban for under-16s.
B) To achieve this, introducing mandatory digital ID requirements for all Irish users of social media platforms.
#speirgorm
#Ireland
#internetpolicy
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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I think peak western performative cruelty bullshit is Germany taking donkeys from Gaza but refusing to take any children.
I hope everyone in that western liberal fuckwittery experiment gets kicked in the head by one of the donkeys.
I hope everyone in that western liberal fuckwittery experiment gets kicked in the head by one of the donkeys.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I think peak western performative cruelty bullshit is Germany taking donkeys from Gaza but refusing to take any children.
I hope everyone in that western liberal fuckwittery experiment gets kicked in the head by one of the donkeys.
I hope everyone in that western liberal fuckwittery experiment gets kicked in the head by one of the donkeys.
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The Telegraph Telegraphing so hard it confuses The Onion
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The Telegraph Telegraphing so hard it confuses The Onion
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on.
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on.
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
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It's almost like violence is inherent to the right wing ideology.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's almost like violence is inherent to the right wing ideology.
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so funny to be in a country whose capital is a viper's nest of panoptical tech companies in business with the US security state and watch people freak out about a Russian ship spying on us
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
so funny to be in a country whose capital is a viper's nest of panoptical tech companies in business with the US security state and watch people freak out about a Russian ship spying on us
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type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
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The internet does not have to stay broken. Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION walks through how we reached this point & what steps can move us toward a healthier digital world.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The internet does not have to stay broken. Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION walks through how we reached this point & what steps can move us toward a healthier digital world.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
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All the people that are evil for money and power are losing it with people that are evil purely for the love of the game
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
All the people that are evil for money and power are losing it with people that are evil purely for the love of the game
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Im not owned! Dont put it in the newspaper that I got owned!
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Im not owned! Dont put it in the newspaper that I got owned!
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“Shabana Mahmood had been dozing in bed when Shabana Mahmood had burst into her room and pulled back the duvet... “Right,” said Shabana. “Get yourself dressed in this orange jump-suit. And don’t mess about. You’re due at the processing centre within the hour.”
Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Shabana Mahmood had been dozing in bed when Shabana Mahmood had burst into her room and pulled back the duvet... “Right,” said Shabana. “Get yourself dressed in this orange jump-suit. And don’t mess about. You’re due at the processing centre within the hour.”
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Two brave activists from People Against Genocide were arrested for shutting down Keysight Technologies, a key supplier of electronics for Israeli military drones. #FreePalestine
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Two brave activists from People Against Genocide were arrested for shutting down Keysight Technologies, a key supplier of electronics for Israeli military drones. #FreePalestine
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And what was Jeffrey Epstein's profession?
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
Karoline Leavitt claimed today that Trump was always "extremely professional" while hanging out with [checks notes] Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
And what was Jeffrey Epstein's profession?
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
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this, and the fact that airlines don't pay any tax on the fuel they use, are things more people should know
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
this, and the fact that airlines don't pay any tax on the fuel they use, are things more people should know
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On 11 November, 1965, Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence and its break with Britain. For the global far right in the 1960s-70s, Rhodesia became a cause celebre, seen as on the frontline (alongside apartheid South Africa) against communism and multi-racial democracy.
November 11, 2023 at 4:04 AM
On 11 November, 1965, Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence and its break with Britain. For the global far right in the 1960s-70s, Rhodesia became a cause celebre, seen as on the frontline (alongside apartheid South Africa) against communism and multi-racial democracy.