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Colin B.

@colinpb.bsky.social

Summoned the Gods and they all approved.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Bleak tidbit from Regime Change — Bessent attempted a Hitler-style shakedown of Zelenskyy as one of his first acts as Treasury Secretary

“Bessent’s proposal would require Ukraine to pay the United States 50 percent of future revenue from state-owned natural resources, including hydrocarbons and rare earth minerals. The document prescribed very specific commitments from Ukraine, but offered no security commitments from the United States. Even though the minerals deal had been Zelensky’s idea, part of the “Victory Plan for Ukraine” he had recently unveiled, he was shocked by Bessent’s terms. Zelensky explained that he was leading his country through a particularly violent phase of the three-year-old war, and insisted that he and his staff needed more time to consider the proposal. Bessent saw things very differently. He had traveled nearly five thousand miles to an active war zone to obtain Zelensky’s signature, and now Zelensky was telling him no. “You need to sign this,” Bessent urged. “The purpose of this is to show that there is no daylight” between the U.S. and Ukraine. Zelensky, furious, replied that the document was an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty. This was not the way international agreements worked—this was a shakedown.” Excerpt From Regime Change Maggie Haberman https://books.apple.com/us/book/regime-change/id6761716648 This material may be protected by copyright.
Tanita Tikaram@tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 6d ago

One thing I know for sure about UK media if you die & your work was characterised by disgusting racism broadsheets & broadcasters will dedicate hefty think pieces on what a great & complex contrarian you were . Actual victims of racism are rarely shown the same respect .

Clair Woodward@clairywoowoo.bsky.social · last wk.

I note that The Sea Shall Not Have Them is on telly, reminding me of when Noel Coward saw the billboard with the film's title and cast of Michael Redgrave and Dirk Bogarde, remarking "I don't know why; everybody else has".

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · last wk.

If you've never seen a bog body, it's a genuinely unsettling experience. This is Tollund Man, who died around 400 BC.

Tollund Man, a bog body found in Denmark dating to c. 400 BC.
Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · last wk.

New Past Lives: Bog Bodies. Bog bodies - human remains preserved to an extraordinarily lifelike degree by the acidic, anaerobic environment of a bog - bring us face to with the ancient past in ways that are both magical and disturbing. Who were these hundreds of people? pod.link/1852618120/e...

Paul Parcellin@paulpar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Townsfolk in a California hamlet harbor a dark secret, in "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955). One-armed World War I| vet John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy), a stranger in town, sets out to unravel the mystery. But the locals will stop at nothing to quash his investigation. #filmnoir

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ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · 2w ago

In northern Japan and the forests of China, you can see these flowers that appear normal but whose petals become transparent upon contact with water. Its common name is skeleton flower or crystal flower; its scientific name is Diphylleia grayi.

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