Did you pack your bag yourself, sir?

"We know you can fire three rounds a minute, but can you stand?" Richard Sharpe

Brīvības pieminekli uzcēla par tautas ziedojumiem. - arī 18.11.1935 bija saulaina diena! #Riga #Latvia #Baltics 🇱🇻

Gottle o' geer!

Rīgas skats. Ansis Cīrulis, 1922. gads #Latvia #Baltics

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Lekcija "Pētera Šmita telpiskā pasaule" 6. novembrī plkst. 18.00. Apmeklējums bez maksas. Lekcijas ilgums - līdz plkst. 19.00! Latvijas Fotogrāfijas muzejs www.facebook.com/events/13543...

Bald baddie straight from central casting... 🧐

Big demonstration in Rīga against exit from the Istanbul Convention protecting women. 29.10. Latvijas tauta protestē ielās. 30.10. Izskatās drīzāk pēc rindas pasta nodaļā.

Yikes! 😬

Never mind the time, I don't even know what day it is... To be honest, it's all been a bit of a blur since 1986 🙄

Coming up to the anniversary of Rīgas sargi: defenders of Riga in the Latvian war of independence, November 1919. We've got the boat club covered, if they come back... #Lielupe #Latvia #Baltics 🏴‍☠️ (Photo, 2014)

Still waiting for the Transfiguration of Deaf Joe Lemon 🍋

Seriously, JD - you need to go back on the elephant tranquilisers before you hurt yourself... #No-Faux-King-Way-Jose

"We might not be the greatest pub in the world, but we had the greatest group in the world drinking here!" The Beatles at the Salway Arms, 31 Angel Lane, Stratford, East London, on 5 February 1967, during the filming of "Penny Lane". The pub was demolished three years later.

Wondering what to get the kids for Christmas?

Gary Larson is my favourite cartoonist. 😉

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this is one of my favorite history books

Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno with his daughter Elena Mikhnenko (1922–1993) in Paris, 1925. And Elena at Alma-Ata, 7 January, 1946. Exiled to the Dzhambul Region of the Kazakh SSR for five years as "a socially dangerous element", she was released from exile in September, 1950. 🌻

My wonderful daughter, Olive, is thirty-nine today - whoopee! Proud to be her Dad 😍

Patricia Routledge has left the "Bouquet" residence, age 96. The name was BUCKET and she's kicked it! I hope comedy heaven has a swimming pool and room for a pony. RIP 🌹

Grandaughter Fiadh just dropped in to discuss Bakunin's theory of Invisible Dictatorship, but it ended up (as always) with me showing off how good I was at drawing Crocodiles. Fiadh thinks I should take the business of opening up The Floodgates of Anarchy more seriously... 🐊

Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The "Liv head", a pagan idol depicting an ancient deity, was unearthed by a Salaspils farmer and brought to Riga in 1851. It was found anew in 2000, buried in the garden of Dom Cathedral, and is now exhibited in the cloisters. A replica is displayed in a corner of Livu Laukums. #Latvia

Kate: Have you met Prince Andrew? Agent Orange: Who?

Misunderstood minorities N° 39 - Anarchists (1975) 💣

Prisoners in Latvia banned from using modern gaming consoles eng.lsm.lv/article/soci... #Baltics Ping! @marijamdid.com

"There is no free Ukraine without free Baltic countries. " Kharkiv, 1989. (Collection of Museum of the Popular Front of Latvia)

Special Branch report from August 1981, commenting on "The Anarchy Club" in Birmingham - an ill-fated project of The Christopher Davis Appreciation Society. #SpyCops

Somebody sent me a box full of anarchist books this morning, but no idea who it was. If it was you, please let me know who to thank.

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The patient must be patient. 🧐

Latgale in ancient times. Ansis Cīrulis (1934) #Latvia #Baltics

THE ANTI-SOVIET FIGHTERS (1944-1953): the true story of armed resistance to Soviet occupation in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the "Brothers of the Forest". Tonight in the UK, on PBS America, 8:30PM, Friday 22 August. #Baltics Trailer here: www.zed.fr/en/catalog/t...

Happy Birthday to me - 73 today! 🥂

Incredible to think that it's five years yesterday since the death of my old comrade Stuart Christie. Salud, amigo! #AbsentFriends Photos: Yorkshire, 1975 & London, 1985.

Anarchist artist David Chichkan killed in Ukraine freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/12/a... @freedompress.bsky.social

Skursteņslauķi (Chimney Sweeps) - New Year 1907, on the job in 1920s and "Homage to Grīziņkalns", 2021. #Riga #Latvia #Baltics

Glen Baxter

Alberola aided the Castro brothers’ guerrilla struggle against Batista with help from the anarchist diaspora in Mexico---but disillusionment followed when the new Cuban regime aligned with Soviet interests, abandoning promises to support Iberian liberation. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/27/o...

HASTA SIEMPRE | Muerte de Octavio Alberola, 1928-2025, promotor de Defensa Interior. "La revolución es para dar ejemplo".En nuestra biblioteca tenemos una 1 edición de 'El anarquismo español y la acción revolucionaria, 1961-1974' Foto: @lalinternasorda.bsky.social www.todoporhacer.org/peso-estrellas

Octavio Alberola (1928-2025) has left the building. RIP, amigo! www.katesharpleylibrary.net/59zxfn [Photo: With Octavio in Paris, September 1985]

My life these days is exactly this.

Merry Christmas, 1953. Guess who? 👼