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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 12h

Sacha Baron Cohen is 55 years old today. If you have never seen his Rudy Giuliani scene, check it out on YouTube. youtu.be/Cl4eVp3BnXQ?...

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 12h

10 years ago today, on October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan became the first and only songwriter to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature primarily for their song lyrics. This decision recognised his poetic lyrics and their profound influence on society in songs about civil rights, peace and social change.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 15h

There were more bots on social media yesterday than there were people at Trump’s Ohio rally.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 16h

A reminder that, for the first time in 24 years, international observers have not been invited to a US election in order to observe its integrity. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 19h

1,972 years ago today, on 13th October AD 54, Nero became the Roman emperor. During the great fire of Rome, which occurred during his reign, the Emperor was said to have been so unconcerned for the welfare of his people that a phrase arose which suggested that ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned’.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When you need new components for your burnt-out bot farm maybe you can buy new ones at Wildberries. Or maybe you can’t.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Does the Trump clan know what it means to ‘give evidence under oath’?

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Have any journalists asked Nigel Farage yet what he has to say about those who buy diesel fuel from Russia?

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dividing those who should be allies. It is the way they do things.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Game of Thrones was good to watch but most of us didn’t want to live in it.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Has bunker boy finished building his bunker yet?

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

24 years ago today, on October 11th 2002, former President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of work promoting peace, democracy, and human rights.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A weak (sic) is a long time in politics.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Gavin Newsom is 59 years old today.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kash Patel still hasn’t found Antifa HQ. He’s not very good at his job, is he?

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

None of the people in this video have the slightest clue what this man is talking about. Including the man doing the talking.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just in case you didn’t see Trump’s response to the fact that he didn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. He reacted exactly how we would have expected.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wasn’t there a back story about Krasnov?

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Public executions in the United Kingdom were discontinued in 1868. Charles Dickens had witnessed the aftermath of a double execution in London in 1849 and was appalled by the behaviour of the crowd. He argued that events such as this degraded rather than improved society.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nona Hendryx is 82 years old today.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jackson Browne is 78 years old today.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

17 years ago today, on October 9th 2009, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. There are only three other US presidents who have received this award.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Matt Damon is 56 years old today. Of Trump, he said in 2016 "There's no way we can let this guy be the [president]. To let that dude have the nuclear football, are you kidding me? That's dangerous. He's impulsive and rash, and doesn't seem to think deeply about too many things."

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Chevy Chase is 83 years old today. He says that “Trump makes George W. Bush look like Roosevelt.”

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump has promised to give US taxpayer money to the communists.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Does this mean that he’ll have to spend a bit more time in Clacton?

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On 23rd September 2026, the OSCE announced that the US had not invited its observers to monitor the forthcoming midterm elections. The organisation criticised that decision as inconsistent with America's international commitments. odihr.osce.org/odihr/667722

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ODIHR and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly regret the absence of invitation to observe U.S. mid-term elections

WARSAW/COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2026 – The decision not to invite the OSCE to observe the 2026 mid-term congressional elections in the United S...

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jesse Jackson would have been 85 years old today.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump is correct when he suggests that people are being paid to heckle him. They are to be paid $5000 each.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

150 years ago today, on August 2nd 1876, lawman, scout, and gambler Wild Bill Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Jack McCall shot him from behind. Hickok's death inspired the legend of the "Dead Man's Hand" - a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Come on peeps, don’t just post material that looks good. What is the source of this? Just because someone has put Alex Pretti’s name on a video doesn’t mean it is him. If this was really Alex Pretti it would be backed up by multiple sources. We’re done with being subjected to misinformation.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Charles I was born 425 years ago today, on November 19th 1600. Believing in the divine right of kings and authority over Parliament, he used taxation in the form of tariffs (customs duties) without parliamentary consent. Tried for treason, he was executed in 1649 as a threat to constitutional rule.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

65 years ago today, on November 14th, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to integrate into an all-white elementary school in the South U.S. Escorted by federal marshals through angry crowds, her courage inspired Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

At 10:58 a.m. on November 11th 1918, 2 minutes before the ceasefire of WWI, Canadian soldier George Price was killed by a sniper near Mons, Belgium. At 10:59 a.m., U.S. Private Henry Gunther, unaware of the imminent armistice, charged a German machine-gun post near Meuse, France. He was shot dead.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Richard Burton was born 100 years ago today, on November 10th 1925. Throughout his life he was a voracious reader. In his diary he recorded carrying a “book bag” everywhere, noting on one particular day that he’d read five books. He described books as his “first love”. museum.wales/blog/2306/Bu...

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Burton and his books

Richard Burton had many loves in his life but one of his less-known and lifelong was his love of boo...

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

95 years ago today, on November 2nd 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned as Emperor of Ethiopia, known as Haile Selassie, meaning “Power of the Trinity.” According to Ethiopian imperial tradition, he was a descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, through their son Menelik I.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

75 years ago today, on November 1st 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola tried to assassinate President Truman at Blair House to promote Puerto Rican independence. A shootout killed Torresola and a guard; Truman survived, and Collazo was jailed.

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Rob Smallwood @robjsmallwood.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

61 years ago today, on October 14th 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his dedication to tackling racial segregation and discrimination in the US. Through peaceful protests and powerful speeches, he inspired millions, advancing civil rights, equality and justice.

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