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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

That is true. Feels like we're in the doldrums, but it's not existential. Hope whatever needs to happen happens so the Ospreys find a way back to some stability and certainty.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 18/03/2026

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Edinburgh fan here. I feel your pain.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A List of Complaints from 1926 🧵

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/01/2026

Board of Peace - Season 1

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

@katie0martin.ft.com Number 10 on the list, congratulations! Unhedged getting some royal recognition 😊

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Literally clutched defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

When you get a chance you should do a starter pack of Nerve jouros for people to follow.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Rewatching season 1 & 2 ahead of this dropping, brilliant show.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

When the "town square" becomes a permanent Nazi rally, time to stop going to the town square.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

As an antidote to the constantly dreadful news, have some philosophical concepts:

35 Philosophical Concepts That Don't Exist in English (But Totally Should)
1-10: Concepts About Self & Identity
• Ubuntu (Zulu/Xhosa) - "I am because we
• Shinrin-yoku
(Japanese)
"Forest
are"; the idea that our humanity is shaped
bathing"; a meditative appreciation of nature.
through community.
• Lagom
• Tatemae &
Honne
(Japanese) - The
(Swedish) - Not too much, not
too little - just the right amount.
contrast between a person's public face • Kalpa (Sanskrit) - A cosmic unit of time; (tatemae) and their true feelings (honne).
often
used in Hindu and Buddhist
• Janteloven (Scandinavian) - The cultural cosmology.
belief that no one is better than anyone • Memento mori (Latin) - "Remember you else; humility over individualism.
• Ikigai (Japanese) - Your reason for being;
must die"; a reflection on mortality and the value of life.
the intersection of passion, mission, $ 21-30: Emotions, Relationships & Human vocation, and profession.
Nature
• Duende (Spanish) - A mysterious, soul-stirring emotional
• Kaukokaipuu (Finnish) - A longing for
power,
often
distant places you've never been.
experienced through art or music.
• Kintsugi (Japanese) - The art of repairing * Jayus (Indonesian) - A joke so badly told
that it becomes funny again.
broken pottery with gold, symbolizing • Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan) - The look beauty in imperfection and healing
shared by two people who want to act
• Zanshin (Japanese) - A state of relaxed
but hesitate.
alertness
and
focused awareness, • Forelsket (Norwegian) - The euphoria of
especially in martial arts.
falling in love.
• Gezelligheid (Dutch) - The warm,
collective comfort of being with loved • Humorebi (Japanese) - The sunlight that
filters through the leaves of trees.
ones.
• Mokita (Kivila, Papua New Guinea) - The
• Wabi-sabi (Japanese) - A
worldview
truth everyone knows but no one says.
centered on accepting transience and • Ya'aburnee (Arabic) - Literally "you bury imperfect beauty.
me"; a declaration that life without the
• Sprezzat…

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.

Patriotism is about caring for your fellow citizens – all of them,
not just the ones who buy peerages. It is about decently funding our
national institutions and investing in our collective futures. It involves
delivering a full and enriching education for the next generation, and
providing decent care and respite for the elderly and vulnerable.
It’s about ensuring we have a capable and well-founded health
service, a justice system that is open to all – and which applies equally
to all. Patriotism is about ensuring equality of life chances, and the
possibility of a home and a family. It recognises that it doesn’t matter
what colour, faith, gender or sexuality you are: every person in Britain
is equally British, and division demeans us all.
But simply being British isn’t enough. We live on this planet with
billions of other people, and we have to make it work. So patriotism
is building sound and convivial relationships with our neighbours
and allies. It is tackling global climate change in congress with the
entire world, not seeking ways to screw our rivals and condemn our
grandkids to a terrifying heat death.
Patriotism is about crushing corruption and fostering decency,
rather than the other way around. Those things are patriotic. Not
flags. Fuck your flags. Flags are just the wrapping paper around those
things, and nothing more. Yet increasingly they’re wrapped around a
hollowed-out nation.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

As a Scotland fan, it's nice to be on that side of the equation for a change. Cracking game from both sides. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Seems like some tension between the 'fines committee' and those being the fined.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The butterfly effect - from harmless podcast joke to potential global nuclear winter in just a few short weeks.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Lucky insomniacs. Only three more sleeps until Christmas.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Breaking : British & Irish Lions team named. Big names in, a few big names missing, all in all an impressive looking squad, can't wait for the tour to kick off.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I saw them live years ago, a tour co-headlining with Capdown. They were awesome then. Wish I could've got down for these shows.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Liz Truss being inspiring

Philip Cross: What Pierre Poilievre can learn from Liz Truss

The former British PM ran into heavy opposition from the civil service and the Bank of England. A prime minister Poilievre likely would, too

By Philip Cross

Published Aug 20, 2024

https://financialpost.com/opinion/philip-cross-pierre-poilievre-liz-truss

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss loses seat in Tory wipeout

Britain's shortest-lived leader kicked out of parliament in shock result.

July 5 2024
https://www.politico.eu/article/former-prime-minister-liz-truss-lose-seat-tory-wipeout-uk-election/

Canada's conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse

The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.

https://www.politico.eu/article/pierre-poilievre-mark-carney-canada-election-conservative-liberal/

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I had the same 4 listed too, despite nothing I follow or interact with pointing towards these as being something I'd be interested in. Guessing it's a work in progress.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Financial markets 2, Lettuces 0

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Wife and son just landed a brilliant April's Fools on me. I'm living with evil geniuses.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Surely something like % of GDP would be a more fair comparison?

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Here’s to another relaxing Sunday.

Day of Rest

Blessed Sunday, day of rest,
a day on which to catch your breath
and put the busy world on pause,
while cracking on with all the chores.

The hoovering, the weekly shop.
The housework, laundry, washing up.
The futile war on disarray –
Sunday, such a restful day.

A chance to let yourself unwind,
to spend some precious family time
when on your phones or arguing
about the state the bathroom’s in;

to shake off last night’s beer and wine
by being made to run the line
at your youngest’s football game,
while getting yelled at in the rain.

Long may the reign of peace prevail
so you can answer work emails
and start the coming week less stressed –
blessed Sunday, day of rest.

Brian Bilston

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God @thegodshow.com · 26/02/2025

Wyoming Republicans have banned so-called “compelled speech” regarding pronouns. No one, they proclaimed, should be forced to use someone’s preferred pronouns. And yet, when Senate Chairman Tim French was addressed as “Madam Chairman”, he was not pleased. Not one bit.

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Wyoming Bans Pronouns, Madam Chairman Objects When It Applies to Him

SMITE!

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

And the Habana "winger slow to turn" story too. Great.

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Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Amen. The Six Nations should get heat for making a stupid decision, but ultimately this all comes back to 14 years of a Conservative government breaking down the country and selling it off for scrap. The BBC is criminally underfunded, and live sport is the most expensive sector in modern TV.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Welcome to the misinformation age.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

There's a programme on Channel 4 tonight where Jessie Inchauspen (a.k.a The Glucose Goddess) brings her insight on how managing glucose in the body links to a range of positive health benefits, inc to skin conditions. Might be completely irrelevant, or it might be pretty insightful. Worth a watch.

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Ian Marcus @ianmarcus.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

From a work perspective, the end of year slow-down is a myth.

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