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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

V1.01a hotfix to solve “finger biting off” problem infrequently reported by users. This is a critical security update as can occasionally lead to complete crashes.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

In this thread I will describe recent leaders of the Tory party as Brooklyn 99 characters…

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

Which makes me realise they’ve basically elected Gina as their leader

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 2h

Thoughts on this anniversary of Oct. 7: 1) Hamas are monsters. If you saw the footage of Shani Louk's corpse being desecrated, or the photos of those old women lying in pools of their own blood at a bus stop and did not come away with the idea that Bad Men did this, then I don't know what to say

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

Sméagol; your friendly AI buddy who absolutely won’t turn on you and try to murder you in your sleep or lure you into giant spider’s lairs

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

“Hugo is icumen in” just popped into my head unprompted

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Robin @robinmcghee.bsky.social · 11h

Born a subject of the Habsburg Emperor, still alive on Sunday…

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 11h

(A division is a pretty good way, imo, of getting how few are left even from the last few years of the war - about 10-15,000 men at full strength so with casualties and replacements you’re looking about that order of magnitude still living in 1945; a large enough number to get a bigger picture)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 11h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz... Periodically checking the wiki page for last surviving WWII veterans, as of the last few months there are no surviving defenders of Poland in 1939, no living members of the French division that liberated Paris, no members of the LRDG & no Knights Cross holders.

en.wikipedia.org

Tadeusz Lutak - Wikipedia

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 12h

Two of my favourite films here

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 12h

> balanced than the second, where you had a driven sociopath with no real inner life beyond power)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 12h

The Republic was screwed regardless, but could the other members of the first Triumvirate have made it? (I suspect the combo of relative youth, loyal legions you’ve made rich through enslaving Gaul and not getting your head cut off in a futile escapade made him the favourite, but it feels more >

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 14h

Obviously the other Islamic tradition, but if Sayyid Qutb thought a late 40s church social dance in Colorado was proof positive of Western decadence imagine explaining dogging to an ayatollah.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16h

“Got called a terrorist sympathiser in the Telegraph earlier, lads”

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16h

A Jesuit, really but for exegeses of Marx not Aquinas.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16h

A man who has somehow never expressed an interesting thought in plain language.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 18h

I think it was the realisation that they were just going to pretend the Irish love interest never existed

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 18h

of the first season; we do not speak of the second one.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 18h

www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKF... nominative determinism in a case about a dodgy-sounding Covid support claim here.

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 18h

literally over the course of the final episode, iirc.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 20h

Because of that lack of focus it does have an invaluable 20-30 pages that deeply dig into the events that won Lt Robert Runcie (later famous in other fields) his MC and does a fascinating job on the politics that got him the gong and not the sergeant in another tank who probably did more

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 20h

Tony Colvin’s the Noise of Battle is the sadly not uncommon case of an amateur military historian trying to cram everything and the kitchen sink into his book on the Reichswald battle, much to its detriment; an editor would have done wonders to trim repetitiveness but…

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22h

Don't assume just cos he's a leftist that he'll make a good boyfriend. I mean it's literally called the Red Flag.

the sheet music for The Read Flag aka the same tune as oh tannenbaum, by Ernst Anshutz.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 22h

Off the top of my head - “here are five stories side by side, which one got the VC, which a MC, who got an MM, who got mentioned in dispatches and who got nothing at all and why?”

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Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social · 22h

Huge rockfalls in the Tofane group (WW1 battlefield in the Dolomites, 1915-1917) last weekend. The Austrian position of Tre Dita is visible in the bottom left of the first photo. Exploring these mountains is becoming quite hazardous. #TiTM

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 22h

I mean, there is an interesting exhibition you could make about the arbitrariness of how medals and awards are made and the small p politics and class and other factors involved but (I’ve never been) I suspect the Ashcroft exhibition avoids that completely

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tbf that was because it was like that when we founded it?

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve watched this about a hundred times www.instagram.com/reel/DeCzTqG...

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer, Jim Bakker both dying in the space of 24 hours. Now what other disgraced 80s celebrity with political ambitions could complete the trilogy?

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well they got a ghost writer in, clearly

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

RIP to the most famous graduate of the University of Oxford Delegacy of Extra-Mural Studies;

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British Voter @britishvoter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm a White English non-religious man from Epsom and Ewell, in my thirties. My top issue is the cost of living. In 2024 I voted Lib Dem. Today I'd vote Reform UK.

Voter card. A map of England with a dot on Epsom and Ewell. About them, in their words: I own my home with a mortgage. I've needed to borrow to pay for bills and groceries this past year. I am a team leader in the private sector, working full-time. During the 2024 campaign, I displayed a poster. I've got GCSEs and that's as far as my qualifications go. I don't think of myself as belonging to a class, but if I had to choose, I'd say working class. News habits: I mostly follow politics on TV and on the radio, a few minutes a day. His views, from his survey answers, in four speech bubbles: When it comes to the party leaders, Nigel Farage is my pick and Kemi Badenoch is my least favourite. The economy is slipping a bit, I'd say. I feel more English than British. Women face a lot of discrimination in Britain today. Where they sit on the BES 0 to 10 value scales: economic, left to right, 0 out of 10, further left than the middle half of voters; social, liberal to authoritarian, 10 out of 10, more authoritarian than the middle half of voters.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was a devout 7th Day Adventist and then Jehovah’s Witness though; had a lot of chores to catch up on after Sunday

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tbf the author does mention this fact in a later chapter but it’s quite perfunctory

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’d love to know come to think of it what the market research came back with when he was clearly experimenting with running for president a few years ago

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And they were so close to making Zuckerberg into a real boy too

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Varg; besides which it was the death metal scene that was always closer to crusty punks

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(I’m honestly fine with ‘benefit of the clergy’ style arguments to be clear, you just need to have to be honest about what you’re defending)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art by Daisy Dixon

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Omitting this in a book about the value of transgressive and dangerous art is a bit of deck-stacking (it’s not, afaict, mentioned in the references either)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, yes, a lot of the black metal scene played up transgressive shock value for effect, but it’s an eye-brow raising rhetorical trick to not note that at least one of the people mentioned here is a no-fucking-shit actual neo-Nazi.

murder, and possible anımal sacritce (a decapitated hare was tound at the door of another burnt down Norwegian church earlier in 1992).
One figure in this original circle, Bård Guldvik 'Faust' Eithun, killed a gay man in the town of Lillehammer by stabbing him thirty-seven times. Eithun reportedly felt no remorse over the murder, claiming he simply wished to release some aggression. Another central figure, Kristian 'Varg' Vikernes
- founder of the band Burzum - stabbed to death Øystein 'Euronymous'
Aarseth - founder of the band Mayhem - allegedly over disagreements
about record contracts and the state of their emerging genre. Vikernes was sentenced to twenty-one years in prison, and on the day of sentencing, two churches were burnt to the ground in a symbolic show of support.?
As well as its core members murdering and assaulting each other, this scene - which was composed largely of young white men - was notorious for its shocking performances, sonic innovations, and espousal of mis-anthropic and militant Satanist views. One lead singer of Mayhem - Per
'Dead' Ohlin - would slit his wrists on stage, hoard dead birds under his bed to enjoy the stench of death, and adorn himself in 'corpse paint'. He eventually committed suicide aged twenty-two in a house in the woods near Kråkstad, leaving behind a note which read, 'Excuse the blood ..?. He was found by Euronymous, who photographed the corpse with a disposable camera and used the picture as the cover art for a forthcoming Mayhem album.25

Would the original scene have become as popular and influential if it weren't for its shocking past? In early black metal, the art itself was infused with the bloodshed that surrounded it. The genre's sonic characteristics were reinforced by its brutal origins: this music sounds violent, aggressive, and angry. Dead's macabre spectacle combined with his fast-paced howling music created a powerful expression of emotional pain and mental illness, among other difficult topics. This demonic theatre is part of the marvel of the genre - I can say this from experience after seeing the Swedish metal band Watain in a little backstreet venue in Reading, England, and being splattered with pigs' blood while the musicians screeched in front of a flaming altar of impaled fish-heads.
At the end of the day, these young men were accountable for their own criminality. Most black metal fans (including myself have not set fire to churches or stabbed anyone, and the genre today has substantially developed and mostly left behind its literal Satanic leanings to embrace themes of social justice and eco-activism. And yet, some lovers of the music are still vulnerable to its allure. In a 2016 interview, the vocalist of black metal band Carpathian Forest, Roger 'Nattefrost' Rasmussen, alleged that he knew of two or three cases where people had committed suicide because of his music. He admitted that Carpathian Forest may well 'make an impres-sion' on fans, but that ultimately 'people should do whatever they feel like ... kill each other, whatever, right?'26

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank God for fan-assisted ovens, that what i say

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ah yes, that and the local library's collections of SF anthologies.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

well, you can't say this isn't a not unuseful phrase to know to illustrate how to use 興味 or 'interest', Wanikani

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俺はエロゲに全く興味が無いふりをしている。

I’m pretending that I have no interest in hentai games.

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