Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1hAfter the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944, a joke circulated: “All Germany was standing in mourning at Hitler’s empty coffin.” (From Victor Klemperer) 3185
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“I always have to remind myself of Hitler’s words, that he is not making speeches for professors.” Victor Klemperer. 0175
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialLakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day? 2249228163394
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA. 501429606
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I dunno why everyone gives vanilla such a hard time. It's lovely. There's nothing boring about it. 7865126
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down. 328111054314
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of humanity's greatest heroes 220961
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This was a personal one for me. I love him. Hope I did him justice. 121132
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The most insightful thing I heard about business was an academic saying that the corporate dream is that their customers should cheerfully hand over 10% of their disposable income for the rest of their lives. 1712950
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“The opposite of a democratic press is the disciplined press (Hitler speech in Danzig after the Polish victory)” Victor Klemperer. 13711
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150273940
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bonnie Greer was never anybody but herself. So unique. So indomitable. So unaffected by the crowd. A lover of complexities and no easy answers. We were emailing in recent weeks about Jason Arday – she had much to say which she wasn't able to in the end. A mentor who lifted us up. We will miss you. 220933
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialDr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As a sociologist, can confidently say, this is not an ethical experiment. 81266154
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Sorry if too much Victor Klemperer, but I love this. During the 1936 Olympics, Germany was visited by many foreign journalists so the Nazis dialled down on antisemitism etc. “Germany is supposed to be ‘like an open book’ - but who chose and prepared the passages at which the book lies open?” 2183
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Victor Klemperer and I seem to have formed very different attitudes to Rousseau. His reaction is incomprehensible to me (apart from the finding of contradictions which is fair enough). 2171
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“One has to persevere; perhaps the pleasure is yet to come.” Victor Klemperer having learnt to drive and bought a highly unreliable second hand car, causing him great anguish, in his 50’s in Nazi Germany. But perhaps a more general sentiment. 1205
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialEmathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from. 933861925
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hitler to Moses: But you can tell me in confidence Herr Moses. Is it not true that you set the bush on fire yourself? Victor Klemperer, reporting that jokes like this got people arrested and jailed for months. 0224
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialHelen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme challenge is #BirdBuddies ! Can you find two 'different' bird species sharing the same space!? Here's a lovely Dunnock and Wren perched together on a bramble stem 📷 🪶 🤎 Alt. #BirdsInGreen Any shade of green on a birds plumage 😊 Happy Tuesday everyone 🕊️👋 #Birds #ECK 4545582
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Victor Klemperer, writing in 1933, seeing his friends starting to go to Palestine: “I cannot help myself, I sympathise with the Arabs who are in revolt there, whose land is being ‘bought’. A Red Indian fate, says Eva.” 24914
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2026Just gonna share this again. 542153645095
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialshintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 4375286
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Reading Victor Klemperer’s diaries, 1933-41. Still in mid 1933, with Nazi atrocities unfurling, but he keeps going on about what a pain it is to keep having to ‘lay all the fires’ for heating and cooking at home. The things we now don’t need to worry about (braces for replies by off-grid dwellers). 1262
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Victor Klemperer, 1936, on those complicit with the Nazis. 76214
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...thelondoneconomic.comAndy Burnham 'plans to refuse interview and article requests' from The Sun - reportThis would certainly be a bold stance, it's understood that Andy Burnham is planning to 'grant no special favours' to The Sun newspaper. 1102
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Andy Burnham is reportedly refusing interviews and article requests from The Sun due to the paper’s past lies about Hillsborough 👏 observer.co.uk/news/politic...observer.co.ukHurt over Hillsborough prompts Burnham to block out the SunThe PM would become the first national leader since Labour’s James Callaghan in the 1970s to not co-operate with the paper 2540458
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 03/09/2026Gloria Steinem was an incurable hopeaholic and I am too. 01027
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem 10385241964
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/09/2026 6460911166
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 03/09/2026RIP to legendary historic feminist icon, woman’s rights activist and longtime journalist Gloria Steinem. We continue to lose the wrong people. 💔🙏 241067202
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/09/2026An Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem review – a fitting tribute to a feminist icontheguardian.comAn Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem review – a fitting tribute to a feminist iconThe activist’s memoir, due to be published this month, now stands as a posthumous testament to her remarkable life 114646
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I too mourn the destruction of the oak groves in ancient Britain and the theft of my potential to fulfill my destiny as a Druid.static.klipy.comGetafix's Silly Dab in Asterix and Obelix: The Big FightALT: Getafix's Silly Dab in Asterix and Obelix: The Big Fight 7756
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Pretty sad commentary on this website that this has 400+ reposts and AFAICS no one has pointed out that it is obviously completely invented. The "average person" (median world income) is up more than 3-fold (200+%). World GDP per capita also up a lot but by less. 2743472
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialUK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 30/08/2026LABOURLIST: Britain needs a second prefab revolution, with National Housing Bank investment supporting publicly, community- and co-operatively owned factories to manufacture affordable, energy-efficient homes where they are needed. - by Des Roselabourlist.org‘On social housing, we are in danger of pulling up the ladder’ 152
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.social(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is the question I always want an answer to. "Tell me which groups of people you think deserve fewer rights than you, and why." 092
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Anyone know where Woody Guthrie’s guitar is? 2724249
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible. 1563368974
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Gosh it's lovely 30787143
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Thankfully! #BookSky 1443049505
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It really tied the room together. 8412
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Billionaires are not your friends. 923476
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/08/2026El-Sayed: Now Mike, I'm just going to remind you: if you don't know how to say the name, keep the name out your damn mouth. Or just call me Abdul, But I got some opinions about his name.... 20063451438
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Must read by Robert Reich: The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan. "Corporate Democrats – such Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries – aren’t up to the task because they won’t bite the corporate hands that feed them campaign money." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan | Robert ReichWe’re seeing America wake up to the tyranny that’s engulfed us 626296
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026Here's a supercut from Abdul El-Sayed's first post-primary news conference:youtube.com🥊 Abdul El-Sayed comes out swinging 🥊YouTube video by Aaron Rupar 33737178
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialFlint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Do you hear that? That's the sound of a million scholars around the world rejoicing as people turn away from their phones towards books written thousands of years ago 711822
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Monday? Shan't. Won't. Can't make me. #MondayMotivation 📷️ Paul Browning 13646113
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, painter, poet, genius #WomensArt 121219159
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Expressionist painter Marianne Werefkin, The big moon, 1923 #WomensArt #FullMoon 5780132
Reposted by @shazzamclaughinham.bsky.socialNatalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026What great timing! Fans of I, Claudius definitely want to tune in to the new series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Thursdays at 9am from 30th July… 👀 #IfYouKnowYouKnow 915032
