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JudithFlanders
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Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.

She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
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Is it just me, or is this photo every secondhand car-dealer ad ever printed? ‘Honest Don has the Lowest Prices in Phoenix or Your Money Back! Come to Honest Don for Your Insurrection Special!’

Part of my disgust with the Trump train is its sheer banal tackiness.
Photo of Trump, hands pressing out in his ‘trust me, folks’ gesture, in what may be a parking lot in front of three cars.
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Best Final Sentence to a News Article:
A disgraced ex-soccer federation boss was pelted with eggs by his own uncle during a chaotic launch event for his new book about his World Cup downfall. Luis Rubiales, 48, the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, was seen on video promoting Matar a Rubiales-which translates as "Kill Rubiales" —when a man in the audience began shouting before hurling eggs at him. Rubiales dodged one but was hit in the back by another and then surged toward the assailant, who was detained outside and later identified as his uncle, according to Spanish media, reports The Telegraph. Rubiales became a global pariah after kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso, 35, without her consent during 2023 World Cup celebrations. He initially refused to quit and raged against "fake feminism," before eventually resigning. He was convicted of sexual assault in February 2025, a verdict upheld by Spain's High Court in June. It is not clear why his uncle would have wanted to pelt him with eggs at the book launch.
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Fox News on the Seattle election. Thank god every single child of Rupert Murdoch has gone into dentistry and refused an inheritance to avoid all suggestion of nepotism.
Incumbent Seattle mayor concedes to Mamdani-style 'socialist' who tapped her parents for money while running Katie Wilson stirred controversy on the campaign trail when she would not commit to removing homeless encampments By Alec Schertmel - Fox News
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I’ve never been much of an Elisabeth Frink fan, but I’ve got to say, Frink in Winter is great.
A photograph of two Elisabeth Frink larger than life-sized bronze heads, part covered with snow, making a very 1950s black-and-white jazzy image.
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I could be wrong but I think giffy might have succumbed to an AI fever dream.
A gif search bar with ‘Leonard Cohen’ typed in. Below, a range of gifs, mostly of ?podcast bros and one cartoon monster. Not a single Leonard Cohen in sight.
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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This is excellent on ‘the angry teenager in a man’s body’ who is Canada’s leader of the opposition. But this sentence is 🔥🔥🔥
"He's a very unique person in modern Canadian politics," he says. "There aren't many opportunities for someone with such a low level of education and such a mediocre life story to get so close to the position of prime minister the way that he has."
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Hi @politico.com I think you’re missing a comma or two in there. (Or that chief of staff job was REALLY big.)
"The majority of Virginia voters don't like the president, and many of them have a visceral hatred for him and his governing style," said DJ Jordan, a GOP strategist referring to Democratic voters who served as chief of staff for Jason Miyares, the attorney general who lost to a scandal-clad Democrat on Tuesday. Jordan was referring…
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I would like to pretend I'm better than this. But I'm not.
3 posts in response to this posted tweet: Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social • 16h Do the math. It don't add up Thanks to President Trump, we are indeed working on The 50 year Mortgage - a complete game changer. JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk • 4h I'm no statistician, but if you buy your first house in your 30s on a 50- year mortgage, and life expectancy is low 80s, isn't this just called — rent? Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social No, because you can gift it as an inheritance. Real Boomer brain thinking here to forget that other people exist in the world who will come after you and to whom you should feel a vague responsibility. JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk • 9s What a delightfully temperate response. This Boomer Brain remembers when 100,000s had zero to leave their kids as they lost e thing in the 2008 property crash. But as a boomer I was taught manners, so l wouldn't dream of qualifying your omission of that catstrophe or what it might be attributed to.
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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An illustration made to look like an old Nancy Drew book jacket. Nancy has a candlestick in her hand, kneeling in front of a trunk she is opening, maybe in an attic. She looks back over her shoulder. The book title reads: Nancy Drew Mystery Series. The Case of the Missing Fucks.
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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And here comes the best part.
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'By now his reputation as an abrasive and short-tempered officer was well established. He was in the habit of answering the telephone with the words: "Gunnery Division. Hill-Norton. Kindly state your business briefly; we're busy men here." An inadequate response would result in the telephone receiver being slammed down.'
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Gotta love the qualification of 'one of the' -- wouldn't want to stick our neck out too far.
No pulling our punches with the next bit:
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'Almost from the beginning of his career some considered him destined either to be court-martialled or to end up as First Sea Lord.'
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Gosh, from the man who palled around with Gaddafi, and called the IDF the ‘most moral’ army in the world? And as to his intellectual rigour…
More recently, Lévy was publicly embarrassed when his essay De la guerre en philosophie (2010) cited the writings of French philosopher Jean-Baptiste Botul. Botul's writings are actually well-known spoofs, and Botul himself is the purely fictional creation of a living French journalist and philosopher, Frédéric Pagès. The obviousness of the hoax, with Botul's philosophy being botulism. led to suspicions that Levy had not read Botul. and that he consequentiv miaht have used a ghostwriter for his book.
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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For no particular reason following last night's elections, and those Republicans who might think their districts are now a hot seat, here is the origin of the word 'gerrymander':
1881: In 1812, while [Elbridge] Gerry was governor [of Massachusetts], the Democratic Legislature, in order to secure an increased representation of their party in the State Senate, districted the State in such a way that the shapes of the towns, forming such a district in Essex [County], brought out a territory of singular outline. This was indicated on a map which Russell, the editor of the Centinel, hung in his office. Stuart, the painter, observing it, added a head, wings, and claws, and exclaimed, ‘That will do for a salamander!’ ‘Gerrymander!’ said Russell, and the word became a proverb. H. C. Lodge in J. Winsor, Mem. Hist. Boston vol. III. 212
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Their ‘careers’.
August 2025 Balmoral Castle The King and Queen this evening held a concert of music that was performed at the 2023 Honours of Scotland Service. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence were present. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh this morning departed from Heathrow Airport, London, for Monaco and were received this afternoon upon arrival at Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, France, by the Ambassador from the Principality of Monaco to the Court of St. James's (Mrs. Evelyne Genta). His Royal Highness, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation, and Her Royal Highness, Global Ambassador, with Prince Albert of Monaco, this evening attended a Gala Dinner at Yacht Club de Monaco, Quai Louis II, Monaco. Mrs. Angus Galletley is in attendance.
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I do not think this word means what you think it means. 1/2
‘Both Camilla and…the Duchess of Edinburgh have focused much of their royal **word highlighted** careers on…’
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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OK, peeps, in case you felt the @warburginstitute.bsky.social was not socially inclusive, I give you *drumroll, please* their drop-down menu for forms of address on their course payment page:
Please select Mr, Ms, Miss, Mrs, Dr, Sir, Lady, The Rt Revd Dr, The Most Revd, The Rt Revd, The Revd Canon, The Revd, The Rt Revd Professor, The Ven, The Most Revd Dr, Rabbi, Canon, Dame, Chief, Sister, Reverend, Major, Other Cllr, Rt Hon Lord, Rt Hon, The Lord, Viscount, Viscountess, Baroness, Captain, Master, Very Revd, MP, Professor, Prince, Princess
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Yep. They don’t care what he did; they care he got caught and it makes them look bad.

Joke’s on them: they already look bad.
Copy of a post with a photo of the Prince formerly known as Andrew. Reposted by Musa Okwonga Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social • 19m Can you even imagine what the other royals know about this doofus behind closed doors? Shit they pray daily never bobs to the surface? Feels like a pre-game more than anything. www.npr.org/2025/10/30/g… King Charles Ill strips Prince Andrew of his titles and evicts him from the Royal Lodge Buckingham Palace said the king's brother will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not...
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Oh, bless Americans’ adorable little provincial hearts. They still can’t produce a computer system that recognises non-US addresses:
Signature on a petition: Mark Klein Toronto Cana, DA
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Equivalent:
[newspaper clipping] Miscellaneous Dog attack - Lower Duck Pond, Lithia Park, Ashland. Police responded to a report of two dogs running loose and attacking ducks at about 11:20 a.m. Sunday. The officer cited a resident for the loose dogs. The duck refused medical treatment and left the area, according to police records.
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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My own duck favourite.
Miscellaneous Dog attack - Lower Duck Pond, Lithia Park, Ashland. Police responded to a report of two dogs running loose and attacking ducks at about 11:20 a.m. Sunday. The officer cited a resident for the loose dogs. The duck refused medical treatment and left the area, according to police records.
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Call me crazy, CTV News, but that headline is sociopathic.
Hurricane Melissa: No Canadians reported dead No Canadians have been reported dead as a result of Hurricane Melissa making landfall in the Carib...
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Also known as The Enron Method.
Reposted by Sam Kaislaniemi| Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social • 2h This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they're so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose. This is also known as a Junkie's promise. [Then a diagram shows the circular nature of:] / Hardware or Software / Investment / Services / Venture Capital Circles sized by market value Ambience Healthcare Harvey Al Anysphere OpenAl| S500B Microsoft $3.9T I Nebius CoreWeave OpenAl to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs. AMD gives OpenAl option to buy up to 160 millión shares. Nvidia agrees to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAl. Intell AMD " Nvidia $4.5T Oracle Spends tens of billions on Nvidia chips. OpenAl inks a $300 billion cloud deal with Oracle. Nscale Mistral Oracle Figure Al XAI Source: Bloomberg News reporting ALT
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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If you see this, quote with a vampire who isn’t Dracula.
Front cover of the 1847 penny-blood Varney the Vampire, showing the vampire with a human face but a skeleton as his chest, opening his arms wide, covered with a cloak, to encompass a sleeping woman.
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I actually found the intro the most 🔥🔥🔥:
‘…Jean-Pierre, who served for more than two years in her role, *which consisted of defending the Administration to the press* and explaining its policies, also *blames the Democratic Party because it "couldn't articulate the achievements of the Biden/Harris administration well enough.*’ (parts between asterisks are highlighted)
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Autumn is looking fine today!
A picture of three trees, covered in red and yellow leaves, with a bright blue sky behind them, and in the back a grey stone building.
October 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM