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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Abida Omar, one of the mothers of traditional Circassian music in Jordan, playing the accordion. There's very little documented evidence of when this instrument came to Circassia, early 1800s is a good guess, but it quickly became a part of the culture www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh2u...

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abida 'omar circassian accordionist

YouTube video by Daw Shawgen

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nurse, "Do you have any problems about injections?" - Me, "Not after I pass out when I see the needle"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Girl, you always need a new hat. There is no passing a new hat by when you major carry it off

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lavrov you sort of expect. 100 years or so from now they will have to put him in a coffin with a blow hole so he can breathe but not bother anyone

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remain permanently surprised that Dmitry Peskov is still a thing

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know most eastern europeans will be like, "Well duh!", but you have know there are a bunch of westerners out there who want to be gopnik but just think it's all about wearing Adidas and don't really get the basics

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a reason you do not slav squat on your toes. It's because it's dangerous and you could break things or end up with long-term pain. You slav squat on your heels. Only.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just tax the industrial corps that own most of the farms for the price of putting toxins into water. Fine them if they continue to do it. They have the cash

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I get the need to appropriate funds to farming. Food sustainability within your own country is essential. But the amount of funding we give them is well beyond what is needed for an industry that is the very opposite of long term survival of our planet

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Farmers aren't what you think they are from history. These days they are generally wealthy owners of large tracts of land. We should treat them like we should any other polluter. Fine them when they fail. Not that small landowner farmers don't exist but it's a very small minority.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bring dance to a job interview and I always win * Don't start with the disco, lead into it ** Work with the audience, getting on top of the desk might feel threatening to some

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To most external historians, and to some degree within our own people, eastern and western Circassian are seen as different parts of the same thing. To me, they are different things of the same parts. If that makes sense. Kabard and western Circassian split at a juncture. Still the same in spirit

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 25/09/2026

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriev, known for documenting Stalinist repression and helping discover the Sandarmokh mass graves, has been hospitalized in prison with a suspected stroke, according to rights activists. He's 70 & serving a 15-year prison sentence on dubious CSAM charges. t.me/tvrain/111557

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Дождь | Новости

70-летнего историка Юрия Дмитриева госпитализировали из колонии с подозрением на инсульт Об этом сообщает ЗПЧ. По их информации, Дмитриева экстренно этапировали из ИК-18 в Мордовии в лечебно-исправи...

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Miss Etta James knows how to control a room with a single song www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRE...

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Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (Live)

YouTube video by EttaJamesVEVO

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I make these comments only as part of evidence in trials in the ICC against yodelers - I am merely here as an expert witness against them

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I guess it makes sense. You wouldn't want to be singing "ay, ey, woo" when the actual lyrics are "ey, ay, woo"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you know that when they write country and western lyrics with yodels in them in music scripts that they actually write the yodels. They don't just say *yodeling* They actually write, "Yodel, yodel, ey, ay, woo", so you know which yodels to sing.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The only other choice, that did flit through my mind, was, "Oh, you found the magic slippers of our princess. Now our family can restore their place in our kingdom of the fairies" But I didn't fancy the drug search.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have two choices. I lie and tell him my grandmother must have left them in there on her last holiday. I tell the truth and say, "Those belong to my late grandmother who passed away over three years ago. I have been using this bag ever since and just never realized they were in there"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One time I'm going through Glasgow airport and I get pulled for a bag search by security. The person asks me, "Did you pack this bag yourself?" - "Yes" - "Are you sure that is correct?" - "Yes" - He then proceeds to pull out of a side pocket a pair of fluffy pink slippers - "You're sure???"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think one of the worst parts of modernity is that we have come to a view that nature is something we are in opposition to, rather than being something we are from and should not fear. Nature can be awful, teeth and claws, but denying it is to deny ourselves.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you fall a tree you plant another in its place. If you eat of vegetable or fruit you plant another in its place. If you slaughter an animal for food you give thanks to its spirit goddess and ask her to give life again. You replenish what you take.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The symbols on the masks are clan symbols. They mark out a particular branch of a clan. Each generation or branch changes the symbol slightly to make it their own. In this way you can trace generations of clans.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love that masks in this. In Circassian culture every animal has a spirit god to protect it. That spirit god can recognize faces and knows human language. So hunters wear masks and speak a hunting language. In this way they fool the spirit gods of the animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKG9...

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Шъхьэгуащэ

YouTube video by JRPJEJ

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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)

a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 18/09/2026

A rather alarming development in the case of Russian pro-peace parliamentary candidate Yulia Kuznetsova, who went missing after meeting voters in Moscow. She's resurfaced, saying a “difficult conversation” left her needing "psychological and medical help," but that she and her husband are safe.

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Юлия Кузнецова (Харченко)

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is why you never trust Rangers players Tavernier on joining joining Maccabi Tel Aviv "there's stuff that's happening around" - Yes, like the murdering of innocent civilians by a well-armed bunch of racist thugs

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm on the spectrum, so I do appreciate that sometimes I can appear blunt or even harsh. But please also appreciate that most of the time it's not because I'm on the spectrum. It's because you're wrong.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But I do not think anyone has every managed to do it like like Ms Sarah Vaughan www.youtube.com/watch?v=iokn...

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Sarah Vaughan - Maria (Live from Sweden) Mercury Records 1964

YouTube video by RoundMidnightTV

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ms Sarah Vaughan had the ability to take a simple song, take it into complexity, then return you to its simple beauty. Coltrane tried to do it with horns, Nina tried to do it with vocals, to take a simple thing like a flower and express the complexity of it in its own simple beauty.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks to my mother one of the first songs I got introduced to was My Favorite Things, by Ms Sarah Vaughan - Took me a lot of time to realize how complex and classical that voice and composition was. I still treasure it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusa...

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Sarah Vaughan sings "My Favorite Things"

YouTube video by The Billie Holiday Experience

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There was nothing good of his poetry. His romanticizing of Russian occupation of the Caucasus was sickening.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A lot of people speak English - Why? Because England invaded a lot of places. You wouldn't say to them, "Oh, are you English?" because they speak it. That would be insulting. Russia also invaded a lot of places and we're not all Russian

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am NOT Russian - I speak Russian (badly) - I read Russian - But I am NOT Russian. Why does everyone who happens to know the language get accused?

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Racism is inherent in western culture. It does us no good to pretend that it is some sort of invasive force. If you want to fight something it is important to realize it for what it is.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sweden practiced eugenic ideals of white nationalism against indigenous and migrant people for decades. They forcibly sterilized women they deemed incorrect due to race or medical circumstance. The idea that somehow white nationalism is "overtaking" Sweden suddenly is blind to its history.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Putin needs to be seen as a powerful leader, so Putin needs to be seen to be taking action. Ukraine will not be defeated, but if it ever were you can expect only that the empire will try to spread further

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If there's anything hundreds of years of history and genocides have taught us it's that Russia is a threat that needs to be countered

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People say AI will lead to the end of the human species. That's just another example of things we don't need any help from AI to achieve

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's a rock, Zoey. It's just a rock.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You go to sleep with fear in your heart, you wake up and the first thought you have is the waking nightmare that someone you love has died. Then it clears, and it is Ok, for just a moment. There has been no phone call to tell you of loss. The people you love are alive. The exhaustion of it is all.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

RIP journalist, activist & teacher, Kate Shanahan, whose funeral is today. We were arrested together in 1984, when US warmonger Reagan visited Ireland, but this picture (by Rose Comiskey) is from the following year, when we went to Tralee to protest against the witch trial of Joanne Hayes. ✊️

A group of women, with banners & placards, march through Tralee in 1985 to protest against the ongoing Kerry Babies Tribunal. Kate Shanahan, in a long black coat, is on the left of the picture, carrying the Women for Disarmament banner with Sue Russell. I'm on the right, in a shorter coat & scarf & carrying a camera.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And no, it's not age related. Don't ever suffer anything and think "it's just because I'm getting old" - Yes, there are things that happen as you get old, but you talk to your medical people about it. Again, don't be like me and the old people you know, go tell your doctor

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Go see a doctor. I have a bad habit of not visiting a doctor for recurring problems and it always just makes things worse when I end up going. Don't be like me, go see a doctor.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mladic is dead. I hope he suffered in pain.

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I wanted to see this but someone had just painted "Movie Theater" with a door on the side of a wall and I got hurt when I tried to run in

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"So like there's this guy OK and like he's like trying to get home but like there's no busses that late and Uber is like over 50 euros and it's like a 30 minute wait so he's like I'll just walk like and then he walks and it like takes a long time like a really long time"

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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Milo - "They should detain and deport immigrants" Also Milo - "But not me, I'm white. NOT ME!!!"

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