canis

gardener, man of Kent, tradcore homo

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England in stone

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@Black_Kettle @AntigoneJournal For a café and multiple flexible 'study spaces'

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@judejon_ @jms_tny It happened once but they broke the mould in the process 😭

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@red_mutant_eyes This is so offensive

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@hellothisisivan Don't know if it's the same album but Topaz is also a brilliant 10/10 song

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RIP Joan Crawford, you would have loved the Videla H2Pr0 Flat Mop System

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@TwinkTheory

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@TwinkTheory Bryan wasn't a fascist, you're thinking of Diana's second husband Oswald Mosely

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@hellothisisivan My grandmother once saw him outside a fish & chip shop in Sandgate

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@MikeTilburn Some of my favourite KB moments, particularly Delius and the Wedding List. And the cover is exceptional

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@roryisconfused I remember the wolf hunt

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The best pop song about the Crucifixion? All in thirds: the triptych in which we contemplate the 3 crosses, song in 3 parts with 3-part aural structure of vocal going from L to R before resolving in full stereo. Though the the sun's eclipse seems final, Surely He will rise again!

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@OldRoberts953 @cult_edge What has Dusty done to deserve this?

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@red_mutant_eyes Deep cut, what a choice 👌

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Something almost sinister about this album. The folk horror cover, the threat that the Magical Mystery Tour is taking you against your will, I am the Walrus fever dream, Greensleeves in the All You Need is Love fadeout. Wtf guys

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Zero class

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Lily Allen wore a dress at her ‘West End Girl’ tour made of receipts showing things her ex David Harbour bought for other women.

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@teo_ess Don't read about the Dickens/Hans Christian Andersen one afterwards

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Pope son or royal daughter

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

The Medici family, a tale of Medieval social mobility:

-13th century: Family from a rural physician background ('Medici' = 'Medicine').

-Family turns to trade and does quite well for itself.

-Does so well that Giovanni de' Medici (1360–1429) founds a bank in Florence.

-His son, Cosimo, uses the family wealth to become the de-facto ruler of the Florentine Republic.

-Cosimo's political machine makes sure Florence continues to be ruled by his son and grandson.

-His grandson, Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449–1492), gets his own son appointed Cardinal; he will rise to be the next Pope, Leo X (the Pope who excommunicated Luther).

-After Leo X's death (and some other guy), Lorenzo's nephew becomes the next Pope, Clement VII (the Pope who vetoed Henry VIII's divorce, causing the foundation of the Church of England).

-Pope Clement VII uses his wealth and influence to arrange a marriage between Catherine de' Medici (Lorenzo's great-granddaughter) and the son of King Francis I of France.

-Francis dies, Catherine de' Medici becomes Queen of France (from 1547 to 1559), and mother of French kings Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III.

- The Medici lines continue to rule France, the most powerfull European Monarchy.

(Until it was abolished)

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Though to be fair the two most recent Dukes of York before Andrew were exemplars of stoicism, duty & patriotism

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Andrew arrested & 'commentators' are shrieking that it's the end of the monarchy, as if a Duke of York has never brought shame on their family or plunged the country into strife & turmoil