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Slideman

@slideman.bsky.social
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Scot in England; trombones, ancient and modern; languages, mainly European; woke.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why does Google Translate offer me both PT and BR Portuguese when I’m on line, but only BR to download? #portuguese #portugal #brazil
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here’s the @europeanreview.bsky.social piece on Yugoslav Tribunal interpreters that I posted about last week. europeanreviewofbooks.com/a-good-inter...
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A good interpreter is an invisible interpreter - The European Review of Books
In the interpreting booths of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, neutrality was the job.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t believe no one has ever thought of the idea of selling us hot food. I, for one, am both excited and, if I’m honest, a little apprehensive about the idea of warm food. www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
US sandwich maker Jersey Mike’s is launching an ambitious expansion plan in the UK, with its billionaire founder betting that “the cold and the rain” in Britain will push consumers to embrace the brand’s hot subs.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on the U.S.-controlled system for selling Venezuelan oil and assets: "Congress doesn’t have oversight...there’s just rogue bank accounts out there with Venezuelan money."
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Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Word of the day: Bildungsaufsteiger.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also, “Piddington” is surely what people from Auckland called the famed Peruvian bear cum psychopomp of death.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
78% of identified microelectronics in the Iskander-M ballistic missile’s navigation system are of US origin, according to the B4Ukraine coalition of civil society organizations Cutting off access to these components should be a key export-control priority 📷 B4Ukraine
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Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Phil Syrpis @syrpis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Donations apart… the immediate state of emergency; getting Parliament to sit 24 hours a day, 6 days a week; the threats to stuff the House of Lords, gut the Civil Service, and neuter the judiciary; and the policy of deporting immigrants en masse… ought to be ringing alarm bells.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is making it very plain that if Reform wins power they will permit no change or scrutiny to their plans from parliament, the judiciary or officials, under a state of emergency. Anyone who objects will be replaced.
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If they want the Bible to be taught in school, then I want science to be taught in church.
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Equal Under THEE Law 🪷🇺🇦 @equalunderlaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Have the day you voted for!
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶
A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Rethinking this
I just saw a TV reporter pronouncing it as 'aloo akbar' which literally translates to 'potatoes are the greatest'
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I keep thinking about all white male liars in positions of power right now, who everyone knows are liars, are lying in a way that materially damages other people and whom everyone is pretending aren’t liars. The contrast.
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Karel Peka @karelpeka.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Radoslav Vnenčák: Částečné zatmění slunce ve své největší fázi a moje milovaná Katedrála svatého Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha #viafb #cfoto #Prague
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Jeremy Rodell @jeremyr1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Stats on this (Census, British Social Attitudes Survey…), primarily about self-identity, not belief or practice. But identity is the issue here, so it’s a reasonable approach. Based on practice, >90% of us would be excluded (only about 10% attend a service at least monthly, far less weekly)
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Jeremy Rodell @jeremyr1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Around 50% of the country is non-religious, 10% non-Christian religious (mostly Muslim), 40% Christian, of which about half are neither Anglican or Catholic, many Pentecostal, or independent evangelical. 10-12% of Christians are non-white. By Restore‘s logic, 65% of us are non-British.
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Joe Egerton @joeegg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What is truly dreadful is that Somerset is a unitary authority so has responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults. It would be scandalous for such a person to receive safeguarding clearance.
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ruins, roots, that sort of thing
Ink/digital drawing, gnarly tree and ruined walls
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
That's a good one. But I prefer this (used in our book):
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Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My Scottish political contacts deriding #Sarwar ’s peerage.
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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If you’re picking fights with Canadians, you don’t have a friend in the world.
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Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Has anybody successfully, in one transaction, claimed Delay Repay from GWR for different lengths of delay on each leg of the same return train ticket?
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sharkastic.bsky.social @sharkastic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
With a bit of careful planning and a small number of martyrs we could jail the entire set of FTSE 100 CEOs
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Jamie @jammieshobbies.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It would be nice to see similar Grenfell related reckonings for CEOs and others holding responsibility. Not holding my breath mind.
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reminds me again of that story of a Japanese executive visiting the UK in the 90s, told that our Govt planned to make our universities more business-like. His response: why would you do that? Your universities are excellent and your businesses are crap.
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Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Agree.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/07/2026
I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.
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A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham can’t read your mean jokes about him. But I just spent 20 minutes talking to Mitch McConnell, and he tells me that he can.
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Lucy Nichol @lucynichol.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is a bit of a cringey desperate post but needs must….😢 I’ve just lost a couple of thousand self publishing a book - I’m a hybrid author (published traditionally and self published) and I decided to self publish my book I was most passionate about to have total control. BUT….
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Count Binface is actually less ridiculous than Farage.
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Wenn Du Deine Chefin lieber doch im Knast gesehen hättest, guckst Du so wie Jordan Bardella
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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Harry Rasmussen 🇨🇦 @harryrasmussen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Austin Clemens @austinclemens2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The US hasn’t been humiliated like this since last month’s treaty of Versailles
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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