John Flanagan

@johnflanagan.bsky.social

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Brit immigrant in Germany glad to have escaped the Other Place. Pro-EU; married to a wonderful man; BIR fanatic with ridiculously full spice cupboard. Proudly blocked by Ian Dunt. Sadly watching UK politics on its mission of self-harm. NO DMs 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

A picture of the Guy Fawkes-like masked character from the movie V for Vendetta.
The ancient Roman aqueduct at Segovia in Spain, which *still functions* as an aqueduct.
Former UK Prime Minister and national laughing stock Liz Truss poses for a phone call with the handset upside down. The pic is probably doctored, but after all Truss is the person who couldn’t display her own book to camera the right way up and also once got lost on her way out of a small lecture theatre with only two doors. Oh, and also nearly tanked the UK economy, so there’s that.
A sculpture by Wolfgang Mattheuer titled ‘The Step of the Century’ several made, this on from the Moritzburg Gallery in Halle. The piece satirises the conflicting yet similarly authoritarian nature of 20th century extreme ideologies.
A poorly-equipped Russian soldier poses beside what looks like a thinly-armoured golf cart.
Actors dressed as primitive-looking robots in a 1938 BBC adaptation of the 1920 Czech play ‘Rossum’s Universal Robots’, by Karel Čapek.
Mosaic details from the Church of Our Lady of the Admiral in Palermo
The disgraced former PM and congenital liar, Boris Johnson pretending to come back from a jog.
A cartoon from the New York Journal of 1902, depicting US atrocities in the war against the Philippines, with the order given by General Jacob Smith: “kill everyone over ten.”
The Norman Palace in Palermo, surrounded by a park area with palm trees.
Screenshot of a blocking notice on Bluesky from @yamaking666.bsky.social (probably a bot) after two days of utterly pointless arguing.
Redhills, Durham. HQ of the Durham Miners‘ Association.
The facade of an apartment building in Leipzig, Germany showing rich decorations and mouldings of mythical giants.
An ice hockey rink, just before the game.
A dragonfly is settled on a man’s index finger in a sunny garden. It flew away seconds later.
A promotional poster from the 2012 movie Iron Sky which posits that surviving Nazis found refuge on the moon. It’s not a true story, unlike the takeover of the USA by an actual fascist party called Republicans who pretend to be religious and yet are rabidly racist and unspeakably cruel.
David Low cartoon from 1940 ‘Very Well, Alone’.
Book cover of ‘American War’ (2017) by Omar el Akkad
A Fender Telecaster guitar on a stand, with a newly unwrapped effects pedal in the foreground.
Ben Jonson, Warren Oates, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine walk, armed and determined in one of the final scenes of the movie.
A water dispenser for a steam locomotive at a station in Germany.