@badsocialism.bsky.social
PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
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@badsocialism.bsky.socialPeak Shatner tbh
@orko.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialI mean this is just a top tier meme/reaction image, I love it so much
@stephenkb.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialI think 'the Tiger in the Tiger Who Came To Tea is an analogy for your mum having an affair' is my absolute favourite 'this absolutely isn't what the author meant, the author has disavowed it, but it is just about plausible' way-too-serious reading of a children's book. What's yours?
@badsocialism.bsky.socialI ran into someone I went to school with who proudly announced he worked for the Home Office, who then had the gall to look offended when I said he's going to hell
@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialThis is absolutely horrific. I don’t know how Labour ministers can sleep at night.
@boxelderdust.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialThe yankees were *writing songs about this shit* man
![No. 20.
37
THE HIGH-TONED SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN.
[The words in italics are to be spoken, or given in recitatito.]
Down in the sunny Southern clime the curious ones may find
A ripping, tearing gentleman of an uncommon kind, —
A staggering, swaggering sort of chap, who takes his whiskey straight, And frequently condemns his eyes unto an awful fate, —
A "high-toned Southern gentleman," one of the present time.
He always wears a full dress coat, pre-Adamite in cut,
With waistcoat of the broadest style, through which his ruffles jut;
Six breast-pins deck his horrid front, and on his fingers shine Whole invoices of diamond rings, which would hardly pass muster with the
Original Jacobs in Chatham Street
for jewels genuine;
This «high-toned Southern gentleman," one of the present time.
He takes to euchre kindly, too, and plays an awfal hand,
Especially when those he tricks his style don't understand,
And it he wins, why then he stops to pocket all the stakes,
But if he loses, then he says to the unfortunate stranger who had chanced to win,
“It's my opinion you are a cursed Abolitionist, and if you don't leave these parts in an hour, you 'll be hung like a dog!" but no offer
to pay his losses makes;
This "high-toned Southern gentleman," one of the present time.
Of course he's all the time in debt to those who credit give,
Yet manages upon the best the market yields to live;
But if a Northern creditor asks him his bill to heed,
This honorable gentleman instantly draws his bowie-knife and pistols, dons a blue cockade, and declares that, in consequence of the repeated aggressions of the North, and its gross violations of the Constitution, he feels that it would utterly degrade him to pay any debt whatever, and that in fact he has at last
determined to SECEDE !
This «high-toned Southern gentleman," one of the present time.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:zdm2syaeearfhitv7dxkg3zu/bafkreigh2agjm73dwzltia2a73qeocyd6gpi4z6kelgxjxgg6lpnuybvqq@jpeg)
@badsocialism.bsky.socialOrson Welles, shockingly sober
@badsocialism.bsky.socialLET'S GO
@badsocialism.bsky.socialWatching my favourite war film with @drlaunisch.bsky.social. all three hours of it
@badsocialism.bsky.socialAll looks fab - especially that Mons game!
@wisewolfpainting.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialA random bunch of shots of just a few of the amazing tables at the Other Partizan today. See if you can work out which one was @joewargamer.bsky.social great table. I’ll give you a clue, it wasn’t the 2/3mm WW1 game…
@athul.acharya.ccReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialHoly shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
@stephenkb.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialYou could tell a good story that was heavily inspired by asking yourself what would happen if the story of Carrie collided with modern standards of safeguarding, social services and anti-bullying policies, to name but a few reasons why the original story is now best told as a period piece.
@sharonk.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.sociali feel like this is probably the least effective way to do foreign ops? like it's not like Russia murking a CEO ends up preventing production
@charltoncussans.bsky.socialReposted by @badsocialism.bsky.socialMerkel's reaction to the refugee crisis was moral and proper but she shared with Cameron an opposition to state power, investment and spending at a time when it was dearly, dearly needed.
@badsocialism.bsky.socialOkay so Prince 100% thought the Belgians would help him because of their colonial history didn't he
@badsocialism.bsky.socialTime and place for it
@badsocialism.bsky.socialAnyways one of the strange things about my knowledge of HP is that it is purely academic, and was, I'll admit, mainly a (successful) form of knowledge accumulation to chat up the sort of girls I'd meet at Model UNs in year 11 and sixth form. Caddish? Perhaps. Viable tactic at the time? Absolutely.
@badsocialism.bsky.socialOne of the things about the early books is you can subtextually see the adult conversations happening around Harry (this is most apparent in the 3rd film, which is the best adaption) but these don't work when the characters are meant to be teenagers and these sorts of chats don't go over their heads
@badsocialism.bsky.socialPhoenix is a 40 year old's idea of what a 12 year old thinks a 15 year old is like, with a reasonably interesting idea (everyone in the protagonist's life is trying to protect them from the danger that is about to come but in the process absolutely dick them around) just not done well at all
