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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

My talented cousin Noel Manche is an amateur water colourist (among many other things). He sent me this beautiful study of Maltese architecture. You can feel the Sun.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

A micro story Columbo arrived. “Where’s the body?” “Here, sir,” said the officer. Columbo looked. “See that hair?” He entered the bathroom. “It’s clean” the sergeant said. Columbo picked a false eyelash off the floor & puzzled. ‘One more thing’ he said ‘is there any coffee?’

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A micro-story Colin woke, head pounding. Bruised knuckles, cut fingers, then—blood. So much blood in the bed. He stumbled to the kitchen, made coffee. What happened last night? Where was the girl? Heart racing, he went to the bathroom.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Berwick-upon-Tweed sits at the mouth of a river separating England & Scotland. It is, apparently, the ‘happiest place to live’ in the UK according to the Guardian.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A micro-story In the year 2525, when man was still alive, none knew anymore why the Gulf of Musk, a vast desert framing a brackish lake, bore its name, lost to the Great Data Collapse of 2317. 95 billion Borgs ruled, blind to scattered human enclaves—until one woke.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Buy Greenland, annex Canada, bring peace to Ukraine, bring the world to its knees with tariff hikes (making billions & billions & billions). Art of the deal my hat. He’s weak. And there’s more than a sniff of insider trading.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

China has history too. The unequal treaties of the 19th century are burned into the national psyche, when China was repeatedly humiliated by western powers, Russia & Japan. That is not happening again. Guess which picture is from the US & which from China.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It’s all about cards, I think. Zelensky has no cards. Greenland has no cards. If you don’t have cards you’d better get some. Aces are best.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Fancy a move? How about Wytham Abbey, one of the most viewed properties for sale on Rightmove. Past visitors include Elizabeth I & Oliver Cromwell. The asking price is not given in today’s Guardian.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It’s wet in Wales youtube.com/watch?v=xZZT...

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Toxic pollution levels in Delhi making life unbearable & reducing life expectancy substantially for its 30m inhabitants. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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Pollution in Delhi hits record high, cloaking city in smog

Indian capital imposes emergency measures including closing schools and offices and barring heavy vehicles

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Dutch govt. in crisis over racist remarks following the Maccabi Tel Aviv rioting. The right wing coalition may crumble. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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Political turmoil rocks the Netherlands after Amsterdam violence

Ruling coalition in crisis amid claims of racist remarks and speculation government may collapse

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Where there’s a will there’s a err … fish finger 🫤. So the court has ruled in the case of a man who wrote his will on two food boxes, leaving £180K to Diabetes UK. An unusual case. www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov...

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Man’s will written on back of food boxes is valid, UK high court rules

Malcolm Chenery left estate to Diabetes UK charity when he died in 2021, writing will on fish and mince pie boxes

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Moon’s craters are arranged in a message sent to us by aliens, scientists discover. Giant crabs marching across N sea bed set to invade Britain. Mongolian locust swarm will devastate China rice crop destabilising world markets. Madonna becomes world’s oldest chess grandmaster. T or F?

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

There is a continuous, deep-seated thread of extreme racism running throughout American history & it’s very much to the fore in this election. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Trump fills Madison Square Garden with anger, vitriol and racist threats

Marking final stretch of campaign in New York, Trump and cabal of surrogates attack Harris and mock Puerto Rico

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

The date with destiny approaches. Will America choose a pliable lightweight or an incontinent felon? The most ‘interesting’ outcome will be a narrow Trump defeat. Then we’ll see whether the Jan 6 sentences had any deterrent effect. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Michelle Obama blasts Trump for ‘gross incompetence’ at Harris’s Michigan rally

At Kalamazoo event, former first lady and vice-president argue Trump has no credibility on women’s issues

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

The world of chess is in uproar (who cares, right?). The combination of computers & online play have led to destructive allegations of cheating, fuelled by a former world champ. who sees cheating everywhere & seems to have gone quite mad.

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I know it’s not in keeping with the spirit of the times but maybe everyone should just calm down a little. An American civil war might cause unpleasant ripples. www.thetimes.com/article/1cac...

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Quarter of Americans fear civil war after election, Times poll shows

A YouGov survey less than two weeks from 2024 election day reveals voters’ unease over violence

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Books I’m reading atm: - about the KKK - Mike Duncan on Lafayette - the Klondike gold rush - fall of Singapore, a favourite subject You?

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Clive Wismayer @clivewismayer.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Hi folks. Migrant from twitter. What’s it like over here?

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