osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 18hPicasso's Piano Concerto Number 1, brilliantly solo'd by Eric Clapton, is the supreme visual experience. 030
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 18hAnything to do with the constantly changing military Supreme Command 1936-38? 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 20hFascism is about violence. Trump is certainly a fascist, he checks many of Eco's Ur-Fascist checkboxes. So, it seems many Americans approve of violence, done to Others. See also Israel. 010
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Again, imagine the reaction from "people who ought to know better" if, say, Corbyn had said this. 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What was the German reaction to this theft by their "allies"? 210
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 06/10/20262023-24 was the best Irish team we're ever likely to see. If we were ever going to win a WC, 2023 was it. Still have nightmares about that botched maul with 10 to go, a man up. 020
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's a rapid way of searching the internet and accumulating and reproducing known wisdom. So, it's probably good at scouring case law. Anything off-piste, new or bespoke requires human input, however. 000
Reposted by @osheaf01.bsky.socialOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero." via Amazing Maps 1928041114
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026youtu.be/xHtAgOEmiwM?...youtu.beJaws - John Williams - Royal Albert HallYouTube video by Matzik 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean, you're not seriously arguing all the children killed were combatants? That's a tendentious, utterly bad-faith argument. Over 1k children killed before their first birthday. Hamas members, clearly www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...washingtonpost.com60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began. 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I found it a very convincing exposition of the difference between the US culture of military restraint, as was - a culture European armies generally share - and the Israeli doctrine of unrestrained use of overwhelming force. As he puts it, shifting the risk onto civilians 010
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they blow up an apartment block and kill 300 civilians because Hamas might be there, who is at fault? 110
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wasn't querying genocide. I was querying the assertion that "Hamas is responsible for the civilian casualties." That article directly rebuts that claim, making it clear civilian casualties are always the responsibility of the armed forces. "Halfway through it" - is reading hard? 🤦♂️🤷🤯 200
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026War was pretty much over for anyone with any awareness at that point? 110
Reposted by @osheaf01.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974 47944781285
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Buy beer at Lidl or Aldi. Most of it is actually foreign 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sure, but war is full of contingency and luck. If the operational security of Overlord had somehow been compromised... If the Omaha landing fails completely, it's much tougher for the Allies, though they still win. 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Having 2 Panzer Divisions right next to Omaha Beach - say, 12th SS and Panzer Lehr - might, however, have really mattered somewhat more. 100
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Read this and then repeat your last sentence with a straight face. warontherocks.com/gaza-and-the...warontherocks.comGaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and ResponsibilityUrban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do 210
Reposted by @osheaf01.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Someone should note to Suella that if this idea of Englishness wins (along with all the other Hard Right ideas that come with it), then either... a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'. b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot. What a position. 6024051
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There's more sense in a mid-1980s "Socialist Workers" editorial. 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They could bill her $50m for all the use it would do. She's been in prison her entire adult life. 000
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The only reason we never joined Schengen is because you clowns are obsessed with Immigrants. Anyway, there'll be a UI before you're let back in to the EU. 010
Reposted by @osheaf01.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 30/09/2026I'm being told Article XXIV of the WTO GATT says the UK can rejoin the EU unilaterally and under any terms it wants with a one page memo... if Meghan Markle has the courage. Send post. Turn off notifications. Smash phone. Throw phone in river. Enter witness protection. Raise goats. 1623219
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Forever Immortal www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...reaction.lifeWhat Britain looks like after BrexitYou’re reading Reaction. 040
Reposted by @osheaf01.bsky.social𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026Republicans discover the microphone works both ways. 531836541
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Did they ever fire at anything? The Channel Dash? 100
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026He lives and embodies all 7 of the Deadly Sins, 24/7. 030
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There was, but it was still a Dutch conquest of England, Scotland and Ireland, and a most inglorious revolution. I'd liken it to the French far right, "Rather Hitler than Blum", in 1940. "We wanted rid of the Front Populaire, so let's pretend we're Germans, and goosestep up the Champs Elysées..." 010
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The whole British people (not Dutch!) celebrating a Dutch military victory over the French in county Meath - which they'll contemptuously dismiss as a "foreign state" in the next breath - 336 years ago, is objectively insane. 070
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Maybe history should be taught properly? www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...independent.co.ukHistory in the making: The Glorious Revolution of 1688-91 was really aIt is not often that crucial aspects of a nation's history remain almost totally hidden despite the efforts of generations of historians to bring to light what is important. But it can happen even in ... 140
osheaf01.bsky.social @osheaf01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...newstatesman.comA question of intentOn Israel and Gaza. 010
