Margaret Kearton
@margaretkearton.bsky.social
Lover of history, classical music, environment. Translate to maintain the above. Based in Modena and nearby mountains.
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23rd November 2025 10.52
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
23rd November 2025 10.52
Brexit keeps on giving ... just discovered I can no longer enter the UK on my Italian passport - no ETA visa if you have dual citizenship. Madly getting my UK passport application together in the hopes of making it to the family get-together in mid December. Never ends.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Brexit keeps on giving ... just discovered I can no longer enter the UK on my Italian passport - no ETA visa if you have dual citizenship. Madly getting my UK passport application together in the hopes of making it to the family get-together in mid December. Never ends.
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11th November 2025 07.19
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
11th November 2025 07.19
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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
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And all the rest of you still active over there are keeping it going. Posting your substack? You're keeping X followers happy there. Intervening with your liberal commentary? Laundering the crazy content, convincing X followers that it's a normal platform.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
And all the rest of you still active over there are keeping it going. Posting your substack? You're keeping X followers happy there. Intervening with your liberal commentary? Laundering the crazy content, convincing X followers that it's a normal platform.
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It's not even released yet, but this is the funniest film trailer I've ever seen.
On an obscure note of no consequence, my Portuguese teacher alerted me to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aL...
On an obscure note of no consequence, my Portuguese teacher alerted me to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aL...
Fackham Hall | Official Green Band Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Bleecker Street
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's not even released yet, but this is the funniest film trailer I've ever seen.
On an obscure note of no consequence, my Portuguese teacher alerted me to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aL...
On an obscure note of no consequence, my Portuguese teacher alerted me to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aL...
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Experts are such a drag! You propose a nice simple answer to a big problem and they’re all like “that approach has been tried many times and invariably failed” and “the problem is more complex than that” and “what about the disastrous unintended consequences?” and blah blah blah.
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Experts are such a drag! You propose a nice simple answer to a big problem and they’re all like “that approach has been tried many times and invariably failed” and “the problem is more complex than that” and “what about the disastrous unintended consequences?” and blah blah blah.
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A useful reminder: A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom | Scientific American share.google/PItKvNJhK84F...
October 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
A useful reminder: A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom | Scientific American share.google/PItKvNJhK84F...
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15th October 2025 18.00
October 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
15th October 2025 18.00
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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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The strike in Italy are massive. There's at least 100 different ones across the country under the banner of "Stop the Genocide, We Are all Global Sumud Flotilla"
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
Sciopero oggi per Flotilla e Gaza, la diretta dei 100 cortei in tutta Italia
Si fermano i trasporti, la scuola e la sanità. Salvini avverte: “Se prevarrà il buon senso, ci comporteremo in una certa maniera. Se prevarrà la violenza sapre…
www.repubblica.it
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The strike in Italy are massive. There's at least 100 different ones across the country under the banner of "Stop the Genocide, We Are all Global Sumud Flotilla"
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...
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Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service
Sarah Mullally has been named as the first female leader of the Church of England as Downing Street announced the 106th archbishop of Canterbury nearly a year on from Justin Welby’s resignation over the handling of a safeguarding scandal.
This is the first time an archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen since the Church of England allowed women to become bishops in 2014. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
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30th September 2025 06.20
September 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
30th September 2025 06.20
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says
The UN aviation organisation has been captured by the industry, a report has concluded, leading to the urgent action required to tackle the sector’s high carbon emissions being blocked.
Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at the recent “environmental protection” meeting of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the report found. The ICAO is the forum where nations agree the rules governing international aviation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
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This is a shameful press conference, a rambling lying Trump running down his predecessor, egged on by a clutch of craven so- called journalists from both sides of the Atlantic
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is a shameful press conference, a rambling lying Trump running down his predecessor, egged on by a clutch of craven so- called journalists from both sides of the Atlantic
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18th September 2025 06.47
September 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
18th September 2025 06.47
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ouch
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
September 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ouch
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So it turns out this is really not a great time to read a book about how Augustus was able to grab every single rein of power and make himself emperor over a compliant populace and an ineffectual senate.
August 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So it turns out this is really not a great time to read a book about how Augustus was able to grab every single rein of power and make himself emperor over a compliant populace and an ineffectual senate.
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This is the Platonic Ideal of a Bluesky thread
August 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is the Platonic Ideal of a Bluesky thread
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27thAugust 2025 06.06
August 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
27thAugust 2025 06.06
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Now here's a bit of green ecclesiastical history I did not know: monks built the first public electricity scheme in the Highlands - and it was hydropower.
August 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Now here's a bit of green ecclesiastical history I did not know: monks built the first public electricity scheme in the Highlands - and it was hydropower.