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John Paul Newman
@johnpaulnewman.bsky.social
Historian of Central and Southeastern Europe, Maynooth University. Find me in Dublin, Prague, Zagreb, Sofia.
So, Marshal Tweeto couldn't do any better than Borut Rončević for Minister of Education? You know the kind of guy. He teaches at a private faculty funded by public $. Ewww. How embarrassing. How many students there? Probably not many. They get it. Jean Monet Chair in what? Cheating the public? 😐
Honestly that could work quite well as a comic stage show - two of Indy’s hard-pressed TA’s bumbling around in the background whilst the action takes place elsewhere, wondering what the hell is going on.. same genre as Tom Stoppard’s ‘Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ ..
Mark Williams@mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 4mo agoI want a movie about the poor untenured archaeologist who has to cover Indiana Jones' teaching and do his marking while he fucks off to do 'fieldwork'.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Janša, aka "Marshall Tweeto," aren't you plenty old to retire? Janša's political "style" has been compared to Donald Trump's. Slovenia doesn't need him again; he's done enough damage. 😘
theguardian.com
History’s first recorded dumb Top 10 list :
Hadas Weiss@hadas.bsky.social · 5mo agomen gotta do something
100% this. Now, here’s a thread of my Top 10 dumbest Top 10 lists… 1/10
Hadas Weiss@hadas.bsky.social · 5mo agomen gotta do something
Those Dubai-based influencers knew what they were getting into …
BrokenBanker@brokenbanker.bsky.social · 5mo agothere is literally no group of people in society I am less interested in hearing from right now, than 'British influencers living in Dubai':
Also says the war is to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons even though he said he obliterated the Iranian nuclear weapons programme in the attack last summer 🤷♂️
TheRoadie.@roadie63.bsky.social · 5mo agoI just listened to Trump rant for 10 minutes about how we have an unlimited amount of weapons, even though Joe Biden gave them all away to Ukraine. We must be running out fast.
I mean he doesn’t actually have a heart, so there’s that.
Bryan Harnsberger@psychhype.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhy is Trump always angry and why hasn't he had a severe cardiac event yet?
Gianni Infantino sitting on Trump’s Board of Peace .
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 6mo agoFIFA President Gianni Infantino chumming around at the first meeting of Trump's "Board of Peace" — tasked with reconstructing the land American bombs destroyed. A complaint was just filed at the International Criminal Court against Infantino for aiding Israel's war crimes in Palestine.
‘I must admit I didn't think much of Andy Mountbatten Windsor first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. Also, he looked like a total nonce.’
Martin and Francesca Scorsese this week at the Klementinum library, Prague 📚 😍
Update on ‘state of the art’ section: ooof, you would not believe the absolute STATE of some of this art. Shocking. 🫣
John Paul Newman@johnpaulnewman.bsky.social · 6mo agoCurrently working on the ‘state of the art’ section of an academic application form 🎨 🖌️🧐
Currently working on the ‘state of the art’ section of an academic application form 🎨 🖌️🧐
Peter Mandelson will return in "AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY"
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl@bocadelperro.bsky.social · 6mo agoPost your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
Stevan Bozanich@stevanbozanich.bsky.social · 6mo agoPost your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
What the hell is going on with TV schedulers in the US? Why have they sandwiched tonight’s Bad Bunny concert in the middle of about four hours of steroidal blokes in helmets slamming into one another?! Idgi 🤷♂️
‘aroused controversy’
a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and a piece of paper in front of him .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and a piece of paper in front of him .
media.tenor.com
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6mo agoReports that Olympic ski jumpers are injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid to improve performance on jumps have aroused controversy
Logging off for some intensely cerebral academic cogitation and brainstorming.
