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Great @financialtimes.com interview of @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social by @gideonrachman.bsky.social about the Hungarian elections. www.ft.com/content/7309...

US history note: the Benedict Arnold story, considered from Peggy’s point of view. open.substack.com/pub/sluttypr...

From Bret Devereaux again: On the Military Failures of Fascism "although fascists and near-fascists promise to restore manly, masculine military might, they have never, ever actually succeeded in doing that" acoup.blog/2024/02/23/f...

Dogs have been domesticated for at least 15,000 years, new archaeological / genetic evidence from Somerset shows. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

My grandmother’s memoirs, 1936 fromtheheartofeurope.eu/family-histo...

Just listening to @emilytesh.net @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social and Ariella Bouskilla on Diana Wynne Jones’ Deep Secret - I love the book anyway, but there is much more to it that I realised! www.podbean.com/ei/dir-ubf79...

I have been reassured that the deadline is 12 noon Pacific so actually there are 2-1/2 hours left. I had also thought it was 9 but apparently that either changed or it was an initial miscommunication. So if anyone reading this thought “too late!” - do it now, no delay.

That’s it for Hugo nominations! Best of luck to all, including especially the administrators.

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Crossclimb #697 | 0:42 and flawless Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ ⬆️ ⬇️ 🪜 lnkd.in/crossclimb.

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"A statue of Jefferson Davis still holds pride of place inside the Capitol a mile or two from where we are meeting. “I mean, are there statues of Adolf Hitler in Berlin?” Stevenson asks." My Lunch with Bryan Stevenson - one of the most remarkable people I've met. as.ft.com/r/03ca3d70-9...

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#ThursdayArt Some statues in Woluwe: 1) Morning, Patrick Crombé & Arthur Dupagne 2) Woman with Falcon, Anne-Marie Morelle 3) The Betrothal, Henriëtte Calais & Charles Verhasselt 4) Under the Same Heaven, Tom Frantzen and Epaphrodite Binamungu, a memorial to the victims of the Rwanda genocide.

My program at Eastercon next weekend. (Though Brussels time is shown correctly below, it won’t be “GMT+1”, it will be GMT+2, or officially CEST, Central European Summer Time, which starts this Sunday.) Hope to see some of you there, especially if you can come at the right time.

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Excellent (short) paper by the veteran Stefan Lehne of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on how to make the EU better at foreign policy - establish a European Security Council, and fold the European External Action Service into the European Commission. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

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Potterheads, I hope the nostalgia was worth crushing little girls' dreams you nostalgia fucking twats. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

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Another one of these spoof recruitment emails. This time it was sent in the name of a real person who actually works in that role (in Mexico) for a real (European) multinational company, and the link at the end of the email links to their real LinkedIn profile. But there are loads of red flags:

A bit of a timeline cleanse: Morecambe and Wise meet Harold Wilson. youtu.be/c9zxqBF1sSM

Tom Baker's message to fans, 45 years after his regeneration into Peter Davison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9vB...

I was struggling to understand my autistic son - until we watched an episode of Doctor Who

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Tremendously moving interview with Christian Delhasse, the driver of the Metro train that was bombed in the 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, ten years ago today. He feels personally responsible; he was physically uninjured, but his life was destroyed. www.standaard.be/binnenland/c...

I worship at the only church on Trafalgar Square and worked there as a verger for 3 and a half years. We never had (and currently don’t have) any objection to religious events of any other faiths on our doorstep

45 years ago today: the end of the Fourth Doctor era. youtu.be/A_6SDEHltc8?...

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