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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 11h

This just went up in the European Parliament building. It's a whole aesthetic these days.

BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 12h

There's a stink of Trump coming off his corpse even now. The statue of Diana and Dodi he put up in Harrods 👇 A deep state conspiracy presented in gilded kitch. And he was very litigious - the dam broke on the sexual abuse stories only after he died.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Google here, prompted to recall Chirac - Le Pen, getting it 180° wrong. The Agnes Poirier column reposted below shares a hardening fatalism in the French commentariat about any kind of catch-all Stop-The-Fash candidate making it past the first round.

Checking the exact quote from Old Man Le Pen vs Chirac.
Google search fucks it. The sort of thing you expect from Google search at this point.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

scrawny woman: °clueless° owl: I am Emu. I am Rory Stewart.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trafalgar Square favourite. Painted in Florence. At the time any business England had with God went through Rome.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 Ian Dunt witnesses the second coming : iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very different from this, dated 1919, for which he was paid by the British Government, and which reflects a different sentiment both about the Victory and about all the Death as well.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Conference merch (genuine). Three of your English pounds. Buy now before they sell out.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not to be here, not to be anywhere, and soon. Nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's kind of jaw dropping. The article is about how they treated the art. I cropped out the gold relief of Bobby Jr. You do want to see it, but you'd also resent whoever shows it you. Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

Trumpist art installation in the Kennedy Center
Exploring exciting new territory in cognitive dissonance

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's a framed photo of Donald Trump crashing Chelsea's team celebrations at the Club World Cup, and it's up on the wall in the waiting room outside his presidential box in the Kennedy Center. I assume he'll have it back before they bulldoze the place.

NYTimes: "Workers renovated Mr. Trump’s three theater boxes in the center, installing gold plumbing fixtures and tearing up newly laid tile whose color was not to the liking of the White House."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Otto Dix 'Crater Field near Dontrien, Lit by Flares'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_(Dix_engravings)

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"(which was rather late for me) Between the end of Tony Blair's run And the rise of the BNP" Much as I love him, if he'd been born fifty years later I think the results might have been quite grim.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The bullying nasty side is the only side he's got.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very good piece by James Ball @jamesrball.com (who has a credit in the film !) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-a...

"One of the people I spoke to on background was a very powerful Silicon Valley investor, and I said, 'Give me your, you know, sort of thumbnail sketch or takeaway'... He said: "He's the most miserable man I ever met.

"Whether it's his childhood trauma, or his inability to please himself in some way... he just doesn't appear to be a happy man."

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Damage to American bases in Saudi and Kuwait. "We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face", says one deployed troop. Photos from *CBS News*. Losing Kronkite is one thing, it takes a special talent to lose Bari.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Coming next on 60 Minutes: phrenology. How a once-controversial science is making a comeback."

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

worked for shell oil before training as a rabbi

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I remember Liz Truss was very keen on the Laffer Curve and they seem to have kept in touch despite how things turned out.

A 2025 Liz Truss Facebook post.
L-R: Truss, Bessent, Laffer, Johnson

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You're right, he can't get to keep it. Terrible shame for James Orr that the way to sort this leads through him getting criminal charges. The case is separate, but connected, and the police keep expanding it.

"theologian, philosopher, political activist" says wikipedia

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good link, interesting watch, thanks.

AI slop.
prompt: "Homer Simpson tying a weedwhacker to his dog".
You're welcome.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lots of people were taking the piss back with 'fortress of solitude' jokes.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There was a superman theme to the marketing. They did a straightforward publicity stunt with it last year.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Caligula lasted four years as emperor. He died of blood loss from multiple stabbings. His own guards did it.

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Their reflexes were conditioned in childhood, when glorious battles were fought to ensure there's no such thing as Social Security.

give a wham, give a bam, but don't give a damn cos the benefit guys are gonna pay

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He gave us this 👇 as a throwaway paragraph in that Harper's article. An excellent read. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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BetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Alignment with incommensurable values. A useful perspective both on this man's job and on his assessment of how well he's been doing it.

Job title: 'Alignment science lead'
Duties involve turning alignment science lead into alignment science gold

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