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Sdrgtr
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guitar player, singer(ish), technically a geek. #FBPE #blues
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Sdrgtr @sdrgtr.bsky.social · May 13
My band has made a video! Cover of Otis Rush/Freddie King classic I'm Tore Down. Hope you like it! youtu.be/z_a8WMsYZQA
I’m Tore Down by The Hurricane Blues Band
YouTube video by The Hurricane Blues Band
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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nickreeves.bsky.social
Please repost if you agree that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of Nigel Farage.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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europeanmovement.co.uk
We’ve teamed up with Miriam Margolyes to fight for musicians like Alex.

The UK/EU summit is a chance to fix Brexit’s mess, let’s not waste it.

Watch the video and sign the petition: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/music-petition
May 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
sdrgtr.bsky.social
My band has made a video! Cover of Otis Rush/Freddie King classic I'm Tore Down. Hope you like it! youtu.be/z_a8WMsYZQA
I’m Tore Down by The Hurricane Blues Band
YouTube video by The Hurricane Blues Band
youtu.be
May 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
NEW

How Trump's "shock and awe" approach has resulted in his government's litigation being shockingly awful

The US government is on the back-foot because it is not thinking strategically

By me

Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-tr...

Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How the Trump administration's "shock and awe" approach has resulted in its litigation being shockingly awful
The US government is on the back-foot in its own courts because it is not thinking strategically
emptycity.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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religionispolitics.bsky.social
‘Black Earth’ by Timothy Snyder was unforgettable
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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mandolineblue.bsky.social
Your attention please people 🥵 This is the highest weekly average of CO2 in the atmosphere in millions of years. Humanity just broke all the CO2 records.

430.3

Read it and weep. And please please retweet. Trump's sucked up so much debate oxygen. Climate change is a massive, accelerating disaster.
April 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Photomontage of Trump, Netanyahu and Putin and ‘Souls on the Banks of the Acheron’ by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, painted in 1898.
April 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Photomontage of depression era America, with Jeff Bezos and the crew of his latest multi million dollar Blue Origin space-jizz
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
An adaptation of Hogarth’s ‘an election entertainment’ from his ‘humours of an election series 1755.
April 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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mmaarrow.bsky.social
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Of Mice and Men pastiche. Featuring Putin, Musk, Vance, Netanyahu and Trump.
April 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
September 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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alonso-gd.bsky.social
I think liberals in the West need to understand that they have not stumbled across any kind of contradiction or hypocrisy in the Global far right. When they said “people have a right to free speech” they simply never saw racialised people as people to begin with 🧵
mrjamesob.bsky.social James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Mar 29
People in the USA & beyond are being punished, fired, defunded, deported, disciplined & silenced by Trump’s administration for their opinions & beliefs. In unprecedented numbers. I thought the ‘anti-woke’ warriors really hated this stuff? They all seem to have disappeared…
March 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
This is great by Rutherford on the new race science open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...
March 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
'Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn'

Snyder on the new US imperialism

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
March 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Original painting is ‘the poor peasant family’ by Anton Seitz. Starmer is taking their cow away. Rachel Reeves, Lord Bamford, Viscount Rothermere and Murdoch are amused.
March 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Trump playing golf with Netanyahu on his new Gaza course (the grass is cut away to reveal paintings of the bodies of Palestinian babies). Musk watches on with his son strapped to his chest, as a makeshift bulletproof vest. Vance and Hegseth emerge from the bunker.
March 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Putin and Trump FaceTiming each other. Putin looks somewhat perturbed, Trump is in bed (the actual one from George and Mildred for those that like to know these things), behind him are various posters of Putin in topless action poses.
March 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Shitehawks 2. Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ reimagined, with shit Tesla cyber truck crashed into the window. Musk and Hitler are inside , supping on ketamine.
March 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Car boot sale on the White House lawn
March 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM