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Alun Ephraim

@alunephraim.bsky.social

History PhD student, bookseller, artist and problematic crank.
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And here we are: The Map. In a non-polarized GE (this was the first of those for a while!) you really need *both* the percentage majority and vote percentage maps to show a proper picture, so The Map is in fact two maps.
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Marc Bloch, 6th July 1886-16th June 1944
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This is quite a pretty county, really.
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Pan Galego! Not actually as hard to make as might be thought, but this is with the caveat, admittedly, 'if you're experienced at making bread' as the dough has to be very wet, amongst other things.
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A fun little game for people to play! Guess the year that the speech below was made in the Lords:
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Acting was better when it was full of weirdos like this imo.
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It's a crude measure I accept, but e.g. consider:
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Llyn Ogwen, doing its periodic Mirrormere thing the other week.
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The really striking thing about the Old Town in Caernarfon is the way in which the remnants of Mediaeval Caernarfon run right into the remnants of Industrial Caernarfon: pictured are the Castle, the old Slate Quay and the Maes (with DLG).
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Of all the old London dock complexes, the Surrey Commercial Docks (i.e. Rotherhithe) is the most fascinating and the one that most feels like a lost world: a watery warren (look at the map!) that expanded organically from the original whaling dock and which had its own distinctive work culture.
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Time for an extremely niche joke!
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Twitter is increasingly awful and unfunny, but every so often, every so often, you will still come across something that...
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the Johnson porn monitoring - really really common among evangelicals - highlights again that a lot of Americans are unaware of just how strange evangelical Christian beliefs and practices have become at this point.
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A good opportunity to introduce Bill to BlueSky:
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As per tradition, the Ghost of Ted Hughes costume for Halloween (i.e. 'I wear a wax jacket').
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Some maps of elections (1918-50) in North Wales. Originally posted on the other place, I thought it would make sense to place them here as well, given... anyway...
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Sketches from the Llŷn the other week. More to follow!
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