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Vincent Hannon

@vincenth1.bsky.social
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Visual artist, history, Classics, politics.

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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I can play piano and guitar to some extent, intellectual endeavour both. But I was musing this evening on which instrument speaks to me at the molecular (soul, in old money). And it seems it depends on the Movement. Flute, Oboe, Violin, Piano, Guitar. I may be too old for just one.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Thinking back to my pre-teens, I thought Piranha and Quicksand would feature more in my life. But I also thought the ending of the Vietnam War finished the US kicking off wars in places for the sheer sake of it.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Dirigisme; While it is hard to plumb any economic anything from Trump or those attached to him. But they, like De Gaulle, seem to have hit on aspects of Dirigisme.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I shared this today. It is my first wine in years. I became tired of the stuff at my current budget. My first sip I thought it was thin on the swallow, but I took a glass out and let it and the bottle sit a while and both improved. Not exactly complex, but unembarrissingly shareable.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Somehow the UK Labour party, by their ludicrous actions since moving the No.10, has wiped the utterly insane Tory activities since 2010 from the memory.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Gary Lineker stepping down from BBC sport is an error, and the BBC expecting a form of opinion omertà for presenters beyond news and current affairs is a foul impingement on free speech.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@notnebraskanice.bsky.social As requested on the tictok, a follow from Ireland. :-)
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I followed the launch of James Webb ST to commissioning at L2, and since. Reading and viewing the gigantic leaps occurring almost weekly. Calling a willie shaped rocked carrying wealthy tourists space exploration is ludicrous. We had many wealthy doing Good with their money, and now this.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is an acute observation. When a senior lawyer suddenly walks away from either an ongoing case or a secure job, that is often the greatest of legal red flags. Something big has happened.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We do what we can.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I saw Dutch Masters paging through the FTA. Who thinks Darts, I sure didn't.
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alisoncitrine.bsky.social @alisoncitrine.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
In memory of the late great Janey Godley can we all post this amazing picture of her, flood the zone as the yucky fella Bannon says Let's 'flood the zone ' #TrumpIsACunt #Janey
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
No one in their correct mind could argue the presidential tenure of Jimmy Carter was a raging success. Indeed squandered hope might better cover it. But he sure displayed more humanity in his little finger than the seven that followed him combined. Thankfully Biden will see him out, not trump.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Thought for the day.

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force.
Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.
Against stupidity we are defenseless.

Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed - in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical - and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.
For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one.
Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
"On Stupidity - Letters and Papers from Prison
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MicheleWitchyPoo🦋🤍🐾🦋🤍🐾🦋🤍🐾🦋 @michelewitchypoo.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
😝😜🤓🥳💪🏼💙🇺🇸🫶🏼
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Some very interesting artifacts found under the floor of Notre Dame. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
nationalgeographic.com
These are the surprising treasures archaeologists found after Notre Dame burned
After the fire, archaeologists were given unprecedented permission to dig under the cathedral. What they found astounded them.
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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Viewing the torrents produced over the last few days, you cannot help but be impressed. Ireland and the UK are normalised to rain. But what came down in a few hours is quite a few levels above the norm.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Probably the only time I was grateful for a MTG tweet.
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Vincent Hannon @vincenth1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
First post on this one. Hopefully we get a good run on it before some high-end nutjob buys the thing.
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