super shiny (& squeaky wheeled) new Metro cars on Line 10 in Paris compared to the graffitied, worn-seated, manual door-operated, weary old models this is progress but still i will miss the old cars 🥹

spotted today for the first time—the new Metro cars on Ligne 10

grieving now for my lost youth when i first boarded the old cars with ads for Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street hanging from the ceiling 😔

#Paris #Metro #PlusCaChange
#transportation #travel #France

Will Diapershitter Donald again say those who suffered concussive injuries are just whiners complaining about a headache? #PlusCaChange

#Mug, #canvas, #shirt. The more corrupt the state/government, the more numerous the laws. Tacitus said that, 2000 years ago.

#pluscachange #law #politics #history

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Reform UK names Robert Jenrick as pick for chancellor Leader Nigel Farage says Reform is

Bloke who helped his mate dodge tax as a Tory is named as Shadow-shadow-shadow-shadow-shadow-shadow-shadow-shadow chancellor in Westminster elite showbiz event www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🙄 #PlusCaChange

Weekend in Scotland........ STV interviewing Offord from Reform about immigration....... #PlusCaChange

A 2500 year old letter from a soldier named Hananyahu, deciphered through super-modern multispectral imaging, begins with “If there is any wine, send” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #grunts #invinoveritas #dogsofwar #pluscachange

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer: Why this mysterious Klimt painting sold for $236m Hidden for decades from public view, the artist's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it so valuable?

That Klimt portrait will now disappear, valued only for the money paid for it, not understood or appreciated by the buyer, and as hidden from view as it was when it was looted by the Nazis. #PlusCaChange
I would be delighted to be proved wrong. #BBCpm
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

The Sad Predictable Day Everything about the Granite Curling Club public hearing was predictable

Read the Municipal Board decision that the Granite Curling Club effectively has a veto on putting housing on the city owned parking lot adjacent the club. Here's what I wrote about this project back in February when it first went to #winnipeg council. #pluscachange open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...

Thank you for your heartening words, Birgit, and how satisfying for your friend! However, I anticipate neither fame, nor fortune from what is a very niche project. #pluscachange #writerslife

Meanwhile, the EU Commission is busy working on the next rule of law country report for Slovakia due in July 2026... after rewarding local autocrat with €799M last October on the basis of a reality-denial assessment #PlusCaChange

www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video) Cause for concern

8 Min video Tim #Snyder on Stephen #Miller & #Stalin similarities. #Trump #Lenin #PlusÇaChange open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/stalinism-a...

I mean, it's not like one of them has already refused to undergo antisemitism training for conspiracy-lite comments about 7 October.
Oh, one has you say. #pluscachange

Mass Russian drone and missile attack kills 14 and injures 48 in Ukraine's capital Authorities say a mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital has killed at least 14 people and wounded 48.

Russia killed more people in Kyiv last night. It sent 600 drones and 31 missiles.

Russia doesn’t give a shit. All your words and condemnations are meaningless.

(AP) #Ukraine #Russia #pluscachange

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In Middle School I wasn't allowed to stay up to watch SNL, so I learned all the Murphy/Piscopo/JLD/Kazurinski/Hall bits from my classmates at school. ("I'm Gumby Dammit!")

Fast-Forward 45 years and now I get all the latest "brain rot" memes from my kids' dinner table reenactments.

#PlusCaChange

The UK’s productivity gap: what did it look like twenty years ago? - Economics Observatory How to boost UK productivity growth has long been a central concern of economic researchers and policy-makers. A report written twenty years ago highlights the continuing challenges of achieving that ...

How to boost UK productivity growth has long been a central concern of economic researchers & policy-makers; my report written over 20 years ago highlights the continuing challenges of achieving that ambition, @econ-observatory.bsky.social #PlusCaChange?

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En zo volgt ook hij intussen mooi de Belgische traditie om het Élysée te volgen. #PlusCaChange

#mrmanhattan #pluscachange #economiccrisis #watchmen

Even Alan Roden can't save them.

He flies out to left in his first #MLB at-bat and #Bluejays have gone nine up and nine down to start the game, trailing #Orioles 5-0 as we move to the 4st.

#PlusCaChange

The Other Place: "Haa haaa, never happened"
This Place: "I think you are overstating your case, as I have never witnessed this thing (which would not impact on me in any case). I am choosing to ignore all the people corroborating your claim, because obviously I know better." #PlusCaChange

YNYSLAS. The houses at this place had at least three feet of water in them. The poor people were in a terrible plight. The ballast was washed from the line, and traffic was stopped. The Company have done all that could be done to lessen the inconvenience to the public, by carrying passengers by road from Glandovey to Bow- street.

Transport for Wales, eh? We all complain about the inadequacies of the train service in Wales, in mid- and west- Wales in particular. Tracks flooding and collapsing.

But Rail replacement buses are nothing new. This from the Cambrian News - 2nd Feb 1877! #History #pluscachange

I will vouchsafe that both the idiom you quote and the actor you name will be unknown to at least 75% of the population.

I got a quizzical look from someone when I mentioned Spike Milligan the other day. #PlusCaChange

I don't know if Convicted Felon was actually booed in New Orleans, but he was loudly booed in my living room by my 7-year-old grandkid. When my son came to pick them up, he said, "When I was your age, it was Mike Harris we were booing!"
The more things change...

#pluscachange

A relevant and insightful analysis.
Unfortunately, it got Luigi Barzini Jr arrested.
In 1940.
By Mussolini.
But somehow seems familiar.
#PlusCaChange

Well. That sounds like a lot of #conservatives today. #poli #pluscachange #cdnpoli #fascism

I remember when he and his wife made @vogue.globo.com.web.brid.gy she the cover #pluscachange

And 2 more ex-Tory MPs next week, too, #pluscachange

There was a USENET era joke (and it might have just been among my friends - it was decades ago) that was something like "what's with all the f** pictures?"

#PlusCaChange

🎧 New podcast episode:
Listen again to Worship Talks - Sunday 30th July 2023 - The kingdom of heaven

#AllAreWelcome #ListenAgain #WhatDidWeSay #PlusCaChange #Podcast #1YearAgo ⛪🛐🙌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbmDSwDO0rQ

🎧 New podcast episode:
Listen again to Worship Talks - Sunday 23rd July 2023 - Part 1

#AllAreWelcome #ListenAgain #WhatDidWeSay #PlusCaChange #Podcast #1YearAgo ⛪🛐🙌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDqLtp7pMA8