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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grand Listrac used to be the house red of SNCF and and very fine drop it is. Luckily you can still get it.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Seems a little draconian to ban a cute ass

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you live in Charente or western Limousin I would recommend this exhibition. In an exquisite venue.

Le Vieux Presbytère stands beside the Church in Sauvagnac 16310 Charente. The exhibition is from 1 August to 5 September Friday to Sunday 15 to 19h. Or by appointment out of those hours by telephoning Annette and Jürgen Meineke on 0049 160 94 98 11 35

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Some people put a bit of a strain on the "Nil nisi bonum" requirement.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You are in a long tradition. You may be familiar with Adolph Menzel's portrait of his foot in the Berlin Nationalgalerie (1876). Yours look healthier:

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I think they do it as well not instead of. We've had a lot of bridge failure in Germany recently: As well as a motorway bridge here in Berlin ( they noticed it was going to fall down) the more alarming Carolabrücke in Dresden.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Now, Now, they built this in the first century AD and it's still going.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A Punkahwallah! Though the punkah in question is much diminished.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Don't worry I have only one picture of a grating.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

If its good enough for Moses.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Kiki, Rica, Ríchar, Richi, Ricky all abbrevations for Ricardo, no dicks involved. And another thing, Dixon of Dock Green was called George, on your basis Otto (see below) would be a Dick. This is subverting the Dick, and the dick pic.

Fake dick pic. Otto Dix "self portrait as target practice"

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I am reminded of Isaak Levitan's famous picture of the Vladimirka. Yours is more positive, however, the Vladimirka was a route to the katorga, the earlier name of the Gulag.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Where's Dan Dare when you need him?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

On the way back to Berlin dropped in at the home of Karl Marx in Trier. Got a smile from a Chinese visitor when whistling a few bars of the Internationale. Herewith the chair in which Marx did much of his reading and in which he is said to have died. Also Marx "merch".

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Ekhart II and Uta: Naumburger Dom Sachsen Anhalt Germany

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Thanks for this. A refreshing change from the mix of anti labour partisanship from left and right. Articulate and realistic. I was getting a stiff neck so I used Libreoffice Draw to put it upright.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Mr Banks is a fan of things Russian he is inspired perhaps by the works of Komar and Melamid:

Komar and Melomid "absurdist" artists producing quirky art, they were thrown out of the Union of Artists in the 70's “for failure to adhere to the principles of socialist realism and for distorting Soviet reality”.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I am sure that has happened!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In case,on this day of particular religious significance, you were wondering how the devil spreads discord through the world, it seems he has his own transport company/

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We have nowt else in Berlin, undoubtedly forin, clever ruthless bastards often to be seen with other birds chicks in their beaks.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Osip Mandelstamm probaly died for this poem, The Stalin Epigram

Clarence Brown’s and W. S. Merwin’s Translation:
New York: Atheneum, 1974.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Bear with me .....I don't think its Bervera!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Mais ou sont les tamarinds et les autres ingrédients pour l’amour de Dieu ?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Cranes in Oberbarnim, taken with my shit 'phone

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Nature reflects the human world, go (Canada)goose go!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It seems odd that the BBC, a sophisticated broadcaster, did not grasp that the clothing issue was just a component of the confected ambush that the presser itself was; a usable pretext not an actual offence. If its alright for the Pope then it should do for a gangster!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses come in a range of colours Violets are arguably blue we can argue about this all day But I have things to do!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Also interested in small things,

Menzel's picture of his own foot in the Alte Nationale Galerie Berlin

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

What the Tories promised and what we got!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I hate to lower the tone but visiting a restaurant in Beijing we were confronted by this sign. I admired its directness and my son, who is a mandarin speaker tells me that this is explained by the fact that there are no euphemisms for shit in Chinese.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

little owls on barn roof in the Charente, Shit enough?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

DePfeffel lying in front of earthmoving equipment:

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Well we suspected it all along really, but perhaps it's just that Wm Blake's demiurge Urizen is at again.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

According to a 2020 survey of South Koreans, 83.8% of respondents reported to never having consumed dog meat before. Now Spam that's an entirely different matter!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

If its open to overseas contestants possibly Robert Fico

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In Berlin the car share company Miles has been faced with an outbreak of creative adjustment of their brand stickers to similar effect.

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