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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈

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Settling in on Canada's west coast. He/Him

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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
@englishhistpod.bsky.social Regarding the French Horn, from the intro to Flanders and Swann's song "Ill Wind": "I recently took up practicing the horn, or French horn as they call it, or German horn as the French call it -- not to be confused with the cor anglais." www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjA6...
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Flanders & Swann - 'Ill Wind'
YouTube video by notsyort
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is literally a #BirdOfTheDay, at least one of these guys (Stellar's Jay) shows up every morning, demanding peanuts:
A Stellar's Jay on our deck, scolding us for being tardy with the peanuts.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Another case of the Umbrella rule: if you see it, repost it.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@karileywrites.bsky.social
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.
Jaques Tati as M. Hulot, showing his usual lack of awareness of personal space, in Les Vacances de M. Hulot.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance, or you're eliminated.
Jake and the Dancing Bug from Adventure Time.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@maklelan.bsky.social‬ Today's episode reminded me that the composer Vangelis (Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire) wrote a soundtrack for a 1973 French TV series called "L'Apocalypse des animaux". I'm going to have to track down my copy of the album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nR2...
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Vangelis - L'apocalypse des animaux, (1973)
YouTube video by Nous_Geneticus beta
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
For reference, public urination is only a misdemeanour. So it's safer to go outside than in.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Quick! What kinda scientist would you want to be?
The Professor (Julius Sumner Miller) from the Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 22/12/2025
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands as if to bless.
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall;
By his dead smile, I knew we stood in Hell.
With a thousand fears that vision's face was grained;
Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,
And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.
"Strange, friend," I said, "Here is no cause to mourn."
"None," said the other, "Save the undone years,
The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,
Was my life also; I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world,
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,
But mocks the steady running of the hour,
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.
For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping something has been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
Now men will go content with what we spoiled.
Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled.
They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress,
None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Courage was mine, and I had mystery;
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;
To miss the march of this retreating world
Into vain citadels that are not walled.
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels
I would go up and wash them from sweet wells,
Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.
I would have poured my spirit without stint
But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.
I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now . . ."

"Strange Meeting"
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
One ever hangs where shelled roads part.
In this war He too lost a limb,
But His disciples hide apart;
And now the Soldiers bear with Him.

Near Golgotha strolls many a priest,
And in their faces there is pride
That they were flesh-marked by the Beast
By whom the gentle Christ's denied.

The scribes on all the people shove
And bawl allegiance to the state,
But they who love the greater love
Lay down their life; they do not hate.

Wilfred Owen
"At a Calvary near the Ancre"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/at-calvary-near-the-ancre?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
After the blast of lightning from the east,
The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne,
After the drums of time have rolled and ceased
And from the bronze west long retreat is blown,

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fill these void veins full again with youth
And wash with an immortal water age?

When I do ask white Age, he saith not so, —
"My head hangs weighed with snow."
And when I hearken to the Earth she saith
My fiery heart sinks aching. It is death.
Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified
Nor my titanic tears the seas be dried."

Wilfred Owen
"The End"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/the-end?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenched there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! and angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Wilfred Owen
"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/the-parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-young?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Move him into the sun -
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds -
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved - still warm - too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
-O what made fatuous sunbeams toil 
To break earth's sleep at all?

Wilfred Owen
"Futility"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/futility?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm,
Great Gun towering towards Heaven, about to curse;
Sway steep against them, and for years rehearse
Huge imprecations like a blasting charm!
Reach at that Arrogance which needs thy harm,
And beat it down before its sins grow worse.
Spend our resentment, cannon,-yea, disburse
Our gold in shapes of flame, our breaths in storm.
Yet, for men's sakes whom thy vast malison
Must wither innocent of enmity,
Be not withdrawn, dark arm, the spoilure done,
Safe to the bosom of our prosperity.
But when thy spell be cast complete and whole,
May God curse thee, and cut thee from our soul!

Wilfred Owen
"Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery
Brought into Action"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/sonnet-on-seeing-a-piece-of-our-heavy-artillery-brought-into-action?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death:
Sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland,-
Pardoned his spilling mess-tins in our hand.
We've sniffed the green thick odour of his breath,-
Our eyes wept, but our courage didn't writhe.
He's spat at us with bullets and he's coughed
Shrapnel. We chorused when he sang aloft;
We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe.

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against his powers.
We laughed, knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars; when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for Life; not men, for flags.

Wilfred Owen
"The Next War"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/the-next-war?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Bugles sang, saddening the evening air;
And bugles answered, sorrowful to hear.

Voices of boys were by the river-side.
Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.
The shadow of the morrow weighed on men.

Voices of old despondency resigned,
Bowed by the shadow of the morrow, slept.

( ) dying tone
Of receding voices that will not return.
The wailing of the high far-travelling shells
And the deep cursing of the provoking ( )

The monstrous anger of our taciturn guns.
The majesty of the insults of their mouths.

Wilfred Owen
"But I Was Looking At The Permanent Stars"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/but-i-was-looking-at-the-permanent-stars?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons
No mockeries for them from prayers or bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, --
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them at all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of silent minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Wilfred Owen
"Anthem for Doomed Youth"

https://sites.google.com/view/jhgr-11-11/anthem-for-doomed-youth?authuser=0
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
[Pogo, Churchy, and Porkypine are in a punt, looking pensive]

Porkypine: Y'know, it seems to me this is all backwards... We, ever'body, ought to keep our big mouths shut all the whole year long so's we'd have time to think of two minutes' worth of somethin' to say on the eleventh day of November.

Pogo, 1953/11/11
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Subtly downgrade a band Mumbling Heads
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/12/2023
Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato
Photo of Revy Photoshopped onto a transgender flag
She's pointing back and looking shocked
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
The last words of Dominator Bot 13, aka Beep Boop, in the Wander Over Yonder episode "The Bot":

"I Am Beep Boop"
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Don't take life so serious, son... It ain't no how permanent.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Repost time. :)
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If you don't click through to the thread: Jordan has put together this excellent image. I may have to make it up as a sticker for my laptop...
A simple black-on-red stencil image of Max Eisenhardt, aka Mageno, the Master of Magnetism, with the caption "Magneto was right".
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@99pi.org The discussion of how taxes shaped architecture reminded me of the Orpheum Theatre here in Vancouver, BC. The grand theatre entrance is on Granville Street, which was the big market street in the city a century ago when it was built. But the entrance is only 7.5m wide (about 24 ft)...
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Remember the scene where Sean Connery kills the political officer before launching his bid for freedom in "The Hunt for Red October"?
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
An @mtsw.bsky.social observation I think about a lot is that future generations absolutely will not believe that Immortan Joe predated the Trump presidency
@whitehouse on twitter: DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I’ve been haunted ever since the moment I noticed this
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trump keeps talking about "America First", but how can he be taken seriously when he outsources his MAGA hats to China and his gulag to El Salvador?
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Matty! @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Counterpoint: there was no rationale for citizens united, and Elon Musk is literally everything its critics warned about coming to fruition.
Headline from The New Republic

Elon Musk Is Demolishing the Rationale for Citizens United
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters
Punch it, Chewie!
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BixByte @bixbyte.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. But there was a time when even the suggestion that you might want to call yourself a king would get the Senate to stab you a couple of dozen times.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Fun fact: Trump's "Gulf of America" proclamation defines the Gulf of America as the "US Continental Shelf area bounded to the northeast, north, and northwest by TX, LA, MI, AL, and FL, extending to the maritime boundary with Mexico and Cuba". Which describes 23% of the Gulf of Mexico.
The "US Continental Shelf area bounded to the northeast, north, and northwest by Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, extending to the maritime boundary with Mexico and Cuba" covers ~350,000 sq miles, out of the ~1,530,000 sq miles of the actual Gulf of Mexico. Even the US territorial waters of the Gulf are less than half of the total area.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
America’s absence is China’s opportunity.
Alt text: A Twitter post by Brinda Adhikari features a photo of a white SUV with the “China Aid” logo and Chinese characters on its side. The post states that an epidemiologist friend working on malaria in East Africa took the photo and sent it to her. The tweet questions whether China is filling the gaps left by USAID’s absence and urges fixing existing problems instead of creating new ones. The vehicle is parked in an area with other cars and greenery visible in the background.
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Duo Vandal @duovandal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If I lose followers over this, why the fuck were you following me lmao Get bent
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Bill Weir @billweircnn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Canadian MP Charlie Angus while vowing to call Trump's trade war bluff on CNN just now, "This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."
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Thomas Smith @seriouspod.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I mean just holy fucking shit at this point. Shocked but not surprised. But shocked. We should all be.
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The Star Wars Underworld @theswu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#Andor continues to be relevant.
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just in case anyone following me might be interested... @nstra.bsky.social is making a documentary about my late friend, Canadian electronic musician Nash the Slash, and need donations to finish the film. If you're interested at all, consider donating at gofund.me/5c91fecd.
gofund.me
Donate to Nash the Slash Rises Again!, organized by Colin Brunton
NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN! is a documentary feature film about the late ground-breaking ele… Colin Brunton needs your support for Nash the Slash Rises Again!
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Every time Trump's "annex Canada" idea comes up, I think of when my partner & I were sitting on a bench by Vancouver's Inner Harbour, and a majestic Bald Eagle flew overhead to land on the roof above us. Five seconds later it reappeared, flapping desperately, pursued by two furious Canada geese.
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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 25/01/2025
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
So, #PaulKrugman gets it right. Donald Trump wants you to die. And you can say hey, this is about establishing control, exercising power in a new Administration, blah-blah-blah. The end result is human suffering and yes, death. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
paulkrugman.substack.com
Donald Trump Wants You to Die
The attack on public health begins
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James HG Redekop 🏳️‍🌈 @tzoq.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@erindees.me Here are the space pride things I was showing earlier.
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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
H/t George Conway — it’s perfect 🤣 from Olivia Julianna:
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