Cracking article, including on constitutional elements of Trump and Maga.
Contains wonderful line: “Regime change was the plan, but Trump finds it easier to change plans than regimes.”
Here are my top 10 dog mayors!
Did Op Rabelais ever get the go-ahead? I'm definitely there.
#BrokenNews
Fascism has a shallow playbook, and so Kirby speaks to past and present with this stuff.
I bought the transcript and cited OTR from it. That said I had also gutted my old Penguin, in fact the first book that was used in GDoS.
I was, tbh, being somewhat facetious. I presume there was some kind of concept of the much-laid NC being 'dashing' as in seducer. Anyway, a grim piece.
Don't ask him, he don’t give a damn.
‘Dashing’: perhaps a ref. to driving on speed? Or for that matter at speed.
Byron scholars (you pls @emilybrand.bsky.social), what do you make of this (these) 'piece'(s): letter 25 June 1818 ‘I could not be much fatigued having had a piece in the forenoon—taking another in evening at ten of the Clock’. Seen it cited for intercourse, but surely food is more likely?
New on the Writer’s Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @keironpim.bsky.social. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...
Two black and white photos of a soldier who has received a facial injury during World War I. In the first photo, his injuries are on display. In the second photo, he is wearing a facial prosthetic (mask) that covers his injuries.
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #InternationalWomensDay🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
Nada to vada in the larder.
Sounds like libtard talk, boy.
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
"Making it up as they go along"
The US has started a war with no idea how to finish it and there's a power struggle within the Iranian regime too.
Where does the war in Iran go from here?
samf.substack.com/p/making-it-...
I’m which case, belated thanks from an old customer.
In the end we managed to save a good few dogs but what a tough day!
A longer watch but this is the reality of what we see on a daily basis. Grab a coffee or beer and enjoy the weekend watch 🥰
youtu.be/sHOFjQS1NOU?...
Thinking Live on Iran with Janice Stein
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Image of the start of the latest blog post
Real war and culture war. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analyzing the Brexit imprint of domestic responses to the Iran crisis, the hypocrisy & sectarianism of Reform's response to the by-election and the questions it poses for Labour: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...
⚠️ REVEALED: Trump's Plan For Iran - a #BrokenNews EXCLUSIVE:
youtu.be/ku6N3vZL-mo
‘More misery…’ my admiration for you is ever greater. Shove it in and break it off.
Building a record of a country’s voice …
The Dictionary of South African English
(DSAE), housed at Rhodes University. The original citation slips, painstakingly organised decades ago, now underpin a dynamic online platform that tracks emerging terms and evolving usage.
Stable door etc but my browser (Opera, i.e. Chrome) offers setting whereby when it loads it also reloads all the previous open tabs. Maybe yours? But the unbidden update remains the vilest vile.
Leocadogan.com/cockerels26 (active link).
Think I might take the bottom left as ‘Mister Slang’. Started into Iain Ryan trilogy. Thanks for nudge.
Trump on Starmer: “This is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with.”
Metz & others (thinking): “This f’n narcissist thinks he is Franklin Roosevelt, but he is really just a demented old man who is a loose cannon and a clear & present danger to the world.”
Repost if you agree #BlueCrew
What. The. Fuck.
Re-up.
An obscenity.
