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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Brilliant! Many thanks, the honky hissy flappy alarm that saved Rome!🤣🙏

Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Your valuable, entertaining, yet mildly worrying search for 'quack' made me wonder about the 'honking' of the alarmed geese that saved Rome that time and whether there was a Greek word for honking. But then I worried if that's the right English word for goose noise 🤷‍♂️

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Oppressed beneath the weight of their own corruption and of military violence, they for a long while preserved the sentiments, or at least the ideas, of their freeborn ancestors.” —Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Wars are extremely hard things to justify. It is intrinsic to what they are that they tend to death, destruction, and misery. Given this and some knowledge of history, one's default attitude towards powerful people purporting to do the world some great benefit by war should be extreme scepticism.

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 06/03/2026

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Always have been.

"Wait, ends and means are woke?"

"Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation."

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Jesus. Another boarded up unit. This is all so fucking wasteful. Running everything for the benefit of speculation rather than commerce is so destabilising. All the pointless destruction of stuff that made things feel normal, even the dull shit. The knock-ons always unforeseen, chaotic.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Unregulated inequality has turned the American dream into an oligarchic nightmare. Extreme wealth concentration is incompatible with democracy because economic power always translates into political control. It’s time to regulate the billionaire class

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Almost everyone can read faster than anyone can brief

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/01/2026

Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. wapo.st/45BXc3S

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

You blew straight past ‘this Saturday’?

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It is dangerous. iirc the British Army stopped using them, I want to say in the early to mid 1980s, following a fatality. You'd think that the instructor would be very motivated to check that the firer had an empty chamber, but it's hard to get away from Murphy's law all the time...

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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 02/06/2025

Prisoners of war (POWs) are captured members of enemy armed forces in international armed conflicts and are protected under the Third Geneva Convention. They must be treated humanely, always. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/63329SlOzJ

Four things you need to know about prisoners of war (POWs) and the rules of war 1. For the most part, they are members of armed forces who have fallen into enemy hands. 2. Their status is only legally recognized in international armed conflicts. 3. They must have access to medical care, food, water, clean facilities, and, in general, safe living conditions. 4. The III Geneva Convention allows the ICRC to visit POWs, interview them confidentially, and check their treatment and conditions. But we cannot force our entry: access depends on States granting permission.

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Yes, proper infrastructure would really help. I always try not to cycle on roads where I would drive; but it's not always possible to avoid cars, and cycling amongst them is a bit cringe, sadly

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I came to say this, bike fitness comes quick, but an e-bike is a really solid choice (and less sweaty)

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

And the wonderful merlin app for identifying bird calls. So enriching, I hear birds all the time now, when I previously would have blanked them

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The little man who lives in the crisps:

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OTD Military History @otdmilhistory.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The frame from now until the end of time has to be “Us vs The Useless Billionaires.” No more of this “but muh good billionaires” shit.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Make America El Salvador Again.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Daily star cover 🤔

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Educational and entertaining - the beeb at it’s best 🙏

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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In a world of Kid Rocks and Carrie Underwoods, be a Woody Guthrie.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/01/2025

Someone favorited this post, which was one year ago this week. Let’s we if ChatGPT has improved since then! 1/2

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Part of me is like, "This whole masculinity business is innately bad and dumb and destructive," thanks to my feminist mom, and part of me like like HOW ABOUT YOU TRY CULTIVATING ANY MASCULINITY *YOURSELF* FIRST YOU DICKLESS TWERP and tbh both feel accurate somehow.

Zuck talking about masculinity while looking and acting like an unbearable twerp.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This week, the right basically gave up the territory on patriotism. From the mainstream right to the furthest extreme, it encouraged a foreign billionaire as he joked about invading the country and actively tried to undermine its democratic process.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Bloomberg reports that a Ukrainian defeat would cost the US $808 billion more than providing aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Ma’am, all true, but the print is Gilray’s ‘the plumb-pudding in danger’ from 1805. I hate my pedantry 😢 but please keep up the fight 🫡

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 29/12/2024

Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory? Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

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Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum

For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I was lucky to do college in Cardiff. Wales is a jewel; lovely people and stunning countryside. Even wet slate rooftops in the rain. Magical 🙏😊

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I’m constantly insulted on this platform

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Touché! But it’s an ‘I ain’t sitting in that’ vicious circle

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/12/2024

Turning half the planet into data centers just to reinvent the concept of imaginary friends

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Russia no longer has an army; they’re just a crime syndicate at this point

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I’m driving home for Christmas, I can’t wait to see their faces

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Good luck and best wishes to you all 🙏

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

best coup-de-main of WW2? *cough* Eben-Emael? Unless you are using 'best' in a moral sense, in which case Eben-Emael is the worst, because nazis

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

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Nigel Heppenstall @matabeleant.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Wow that’s stunning! Was it very hard to repair?

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