Ian Simmons
@iansimmons1960.bsky.social
Curator, Fortean Times news editor, science communicator, author of Haunted London and the forthcoming Little Book of London Lore, cognitive dissident and discontent provider. Also, Grumpy Quaker socialist with cat - all opinions are my own
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I’m re-reading the very excellent Rosewater series by @tadethompson.bsky.social 👍
Ossoff said of Representative Mike Collins and his white supremacist and far-far-right ties: “It’s not just that you’ve hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office,” but you’re supporting policies that are “robbing your constituents to pay your donors.”
Jon Ossoff Just Delivered Maybe the Greatest Debate Zinger in Ages
Yet again, the Georgia senator showed in Thursday’s debate that he knows how to throw haymakers. Until someone else proves otherwise, he’s the front-runner for 2028.
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#SpookySunday Dating from the 13th century, the Lamb Inn, Norwich, has a benign ghost - said to be former landlord John Aggas, murdered there by his brother-in-law in 1787. Children staying at the Lamb have told of a kindly man who sits at the end of their beds and recounts ghost stories to them ...
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...
Lisounours@lise-l.bsky.social · 2d agoIls étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
1937’s utterly gorgeous Penguin Books building in Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Several decades after Penguin moved to central London, this lovely, historic Art Deco gem was pulled down. Which was just wrong.
*Speaking of mathematicians and musicians, did you ever listen to "math rock"? You can kill the mice in your kitchen with math rock, if you own some good speakers www.musicianwave.com/math-rock-ba...
The 10 Best Math-Rock Bands Of All Time - Musician Wave
Math rock is a subgenre based on complex guitar riffs, unusual harmonies, abrupt changes in style and tempo, and odd time signatures. While many math rock bands feature vocals, the subgenre is mostly ...
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People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.
This is incredible. I tell people that France is the place for me because of the cheese and wine and cigarettes and art and bad attitude but it's also because this kind of behavior is French as hell too.
Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · 5d agoThe mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
This is very good from Rob Rinder. The comments are a complete binfire, not sure why there are so many horseshoe Greens on a Nazi's site, but there we are.
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
It seems the Green 'zionism is racism' is massive own goal. While I am trenchantly opposed to the Gaza genocide and Netanyahu and Co, over the years 'zionism' has meant so many different things that defining it so bluntly ends up as basically an antisemitic dog whistle
"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, in one of my books I make fun of the author for being a sanctimonious fake."
#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
One got assassinated within months of saying he would investigate Israel's illegal nuclear program. The other got voted out of office after 4 years to be replaced by Reagan "America has never flinched from the commitment to the State of Israel" I wonder who was behind both?
don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit
No more Merick Garlands. No more tolerating the intolerant. No more Nazi nonsense.
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
