Thea Kh-Turner🇺🇦🇬🇪
@theakhturner.bsky.social
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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Golconda - 1953
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20173
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20173
December 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Golconda - 1953
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20173
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20173
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Did a small stone from #GöbekliTepe represent the very beginnings of #writing? Did archaeologists really overlook such an important find all this time? - Spoiler: No, it doesn’t. And we didn’t.
On Irving Finkel's "controversial theory" at @lexfridman.bsky.social:
trowelandpen.com/2025/12/22/h...
On Irving Finkel's "controversial theory" at @lexfridman.bsky.social:
trowelandpen.com/2025/12/22/h...
Hidden in plain sight: Did archaeologists really overlook evidence for early writing at Göbekli Tepe?!
When Irving Finkel, esteemed Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures at the British Museum, who’s always good for some really great public ou…
trowelandpen.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Did a small stone from #GöbekliTepe represent the very beginnings of #writing? Did archaeologists really overlook such an important find all this time? - Spoiler: No, it doesn’t. And we didn’t.
On Irving Finkel's "controversial theory" at @lexfridman.bsky.social:
trowelandpen.com/2025/12/22/h...
On Irving Finkel's "controversial theory" at @lexfridman.bsky.social:
trowelandpen.com/2025/12/22/h...
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How time changes people, especially politicians. Rubio in 2014 was an entirely different person, a true republican.
Watch 👇
Watch 👇
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How time changes people, especially politicians. Rubio in 2014 was an entirely different person, a true republican.
Watch 👇
Watch 👇
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Truly, genuinely floored by this.
December 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Truly, genuinely floored by this.
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Portrait of Marga Boerner, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25854
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25854
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Portrait of Marga Boerner, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25854
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25854
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Alberto Giacometti, Apple on the Sideboard, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137809
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137809
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Alberto Giacometti, Apple on the Sideboard, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137809
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137809
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I've written a Substack about what I've been reading and writing recently – on the voters who make populism happen, and why Labour isn't speaking to them.
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/the-voters...
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/the-voters...
The voters who make populism happen
And why this government isn't speaking to them
maguirepatrick.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I've written a Substack about what I've been reading and writing recently – on the voters who make populism happen, and why Labour isn't speaking to them.
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/the-voters...
maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/the-voters...
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Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadygov is such an unbreakable spirit.
He almost died being on a hunger strike waiting for extradition, survived, protests every single day against the dictatorship in Georgia, has been fined by the regime up to USD 100,000...
1/2
📷 Dodie Kharkheli
He almost died being on a hunger strike waiting for extradition, survived, protests every single day against the dictatorship in Georgia, has been fined by the regime up to USD 100,000...
1/2
📷 Dodie Kharkheli
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadygov is such an unbreakable spirit.
He almost died being on a hunger strike waiting for extradition, survived, protests every single day against the dictatorship in Georgia, has been fined by the regime up to USD 100,000...
1/2
📷 Dodie Kharkheli
He almost died being on a hunger strike waiting for extradition, survived, protests every single day against the dictatorship in Georgia, has been fined by the regime up to USD 100,000...
1/2
📷 Dodie Kharkheli
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"[W]ater cannon deployed during protests in Georgia in November-December 2024, sprayed water mixed with bromobenzyl cyanide."
"World War I-era tear gas."
"[C]an cause burns, vomiting, shortness of breath and other serious long-lasting injuries."
#GeorgiaEurope #Protest #Weapons
"World War I-era tear gas."
"[C]an cause burns, vomiting, shortness of breath and other serious long-lasting injuries."
#GeorgiaEurope #Protest #Weapons
Georgia: Government's alleged use of toxic chemicals against protestors calls for international investigation and complete embargo on all policing equipment
The authorities have met allegations of chemical irritant use with a Kafkaesque mix of fear-mongering, reprisals, and outright denial.
www.amnesty.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"[W]ater cannon deployed during protests in Georgia in November-December 2024, sprayed water mixed with bromobenzyl cyanide."
"World War I-era tear gas."
"[C]an cause burns, vomiting, shortness of breath and other serious long-lasting injuries."
#GeorgiaEurope #Protest #Weapons
"World War I-era tear gas."
"[C]an cause burns, vomiting, shortness of breath and other serious long-lasting injuries."
#GeorgiaEurope #Protest #Weapons
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A truly great hypothetical film, in which the popular response to demographic collapse is to create a police state that targets migrants for deportation
Children of Men was set in 2027. Maybe it wasn't a 'dystopian action thriller' but the anticipation of today. Yes, I'm talking about immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees.. whoever we are.
@ppfideas.bsky.social a podcast about it would be great.
@ppfideas.bsky.social a podcast about it would be great.
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A truly great hypothetical film, in which the popular response to demographic collapse is to create a police state that targets migrants for deportation
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Portrait of Karl Maylander, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25849
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25849
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Portrait of Karl Maylander, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25849
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25849
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December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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"It will be a while before Georgians - no matter political leanings - again find their comfort zones. The sense of new normalcy that the authoritarian shift promised to some has yet to arrive," - read in our Dispatch column about how one year of repression and resistance changed Georgia:
Dispatch – November 30: The Anniversary - Civil Georgia
The Georgian national football team had lost games before, but last summer, even a defeat was greete
civil.ge
November 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"It will be a while before Georgians - no matter political leanings - again find their comfort zones. The sense of new normalcy that the authoritarian shift promised to some has yet to arrive," - read in our Dispatch column about how one year of repression and resistance changed Georgia:
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Recommended
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Recommended
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Field of Flowers, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24900
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24900
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Field of Flowers, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24900
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24900
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The post is from Alexander Dugin in telegram, the Kremlin's chief ideologue, a self-proclaimed "intellectual," a prominent russian nazi, and a happy father.
The post was written today.
The post was written today.
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The post is from Alexander Dugin in telegram, the Kremlin's chief ideologue, a self-proclaimed "intellectual," a prominent russian nazi, and a happy father.
The post was written today.
The post was written today.
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What a shame that no one in the White House seems to read @ldfreedman.bsky.social’s analysis. They have a much better idea of what’s going on if they did.
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
On how Ukraine should respond to the US "peace plan" and looking at some new details that emerged over the last 24 hours.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/how-should...
On how Ukraine should respond to the US "peace plan" and looking at some new details that emerged over the last 24 hours.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/how-should...
How should Ukraine respond?
And more details on the "peace plan"
samf.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
What a shame that no one in the White House seems to read @ldfreedman.bsky.social’s analysis. They have a much better idea of what’s going on if they did.
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🧪 Curious about #Neanderthal intimate relations re: new paper on evolution of kissing? May I direct you to Ch 12 & 14 in #Kindred, & 2022 paper "Sexual Behavior in Neanderthals" I co-authored with April Nowell, Emma Nelson and Anna Maria Kubicka 😁
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3168157/1/Fi...)
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3168157/1/Fi...)
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🧪 Curious about #Neanderthal intimate relations re: new paper on evolution of kissing? May I direct you to Ch 12 & 14 in #Kindred, & 2022 paper "Sexual Behavior in Neanderthals" I co-authored with April Nowell, Emma Nelson and Anna Maria Kubicka 😁
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3168157/1/Fi...)
livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3168157/1/Fi...)
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Portrait of the Publisher Eduard Kosmack, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24949
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24949
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Portrait of the Publisher Eduard Kosmack, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24949
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24949
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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"The populist thrives in an environment where people act on their intuitions; so does the scammer. This doesn’t mean every populist is a con artist, but it does mean that they are likely to package their message in a similar way" on.ft.com/49j3ND2
By @timharford.ft.com
Vindicates a 2015 tweet! 1/
By @timharford.ft.com
Vindicates a 2015 tweet! 1/
How populism became popular
It appeals more to a way of thinking than to a set of ideas — but is it just wrong?
on.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"The populist thrives in an environment where people act on their intuitions; so does the scammer. This doesn’t mean every populist is a con artist, but it does mean that they are likely to package their message in a similar way" on.ft.com/49j3ND2
By @timharford.ft.com
Vindicates a 2015 tweet! 1/
By @timharford.ft.com
Vindicates a 2015 tweet! 1/
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If the Pope continues in this way I might just become a Catholic.
(Probably not, let’s face it. Still. Well done him. 👏)
(Probably not, let’s face it. Still. Well done him. 👏)
If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If the Pope continues in this way I might just become a Catholic.
(Probably not, let’s face it. Still. Well done him. 👏)
(Probably not, let’s face it. Still. Well done him. 👏)
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"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform."
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/
Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe
Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely to turn to the party, the evidence does not support this.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform."
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/