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Lest We Forget

#flowers of the forrest #music #lone piper #rememberence #anzac day #anzac day 2024

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They went with songs to the battle, they were young,

Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

#lest we forget #anzac day #anzac day 2024 #the ode #ww1 #ww1 photography #third battle of ypres #australians on duckboards #the battle of passchendaele #AUSTRALIA HERE!!

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If you work with your hands for your livelihood

Some day you might have to choose

When the class war rages on the factory floor

If you don't fight you lose

#music #australian music #80s music #redgum #working class #union #unions #true then true now #coming to the end of our project #big company took over our company #no more crane crew needed #crane crew #cranes #industrial strife coming

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#music #farya faraji #madam la guillotine #the great terror #the french revolution #a new ditty to hum as I pass the great unwashed masses on the street

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"Having orbited the Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. Humans, let us preserve and increase the beauty, not destroy it!"

― Yuri Gagarin

#quote #yuri gagarin #cosmonaut #soviet space program #first man in space #legendary earthman #hero of the soviet union #history #cold war history #the cold war #humanity #we all inhabit the same planet

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After years of Greek, Roman and Byzantine histories, both in Podcast and Books, I took a step forward in time to Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast.

After 6 months of listening to the English, American, French, Spanish ReConquista of South America, Haitian and Mexican Revolutions, I have popped out bleary eyed and squinting into the 20th century’s 1920s.

I still have the Russian Revolution to go (and a few odd Cold War books) but I find myself missing the Ancient World.

#podcasts #mike duncan #revolutions podcast #mexican revolution #history #ancient history #rome #the french revolution was wild #i’ll be giving that another listen #english revolution #oliver cromwell #haitian revolution #voodoo #colombian revolution #simon bolivar #russian revolution #trade unionist #join a union #the worker #even in the 21st century #gig workers #the working class #there is no war other than class war #the dignity of basic human rights

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Ta Ta and Farewell….

#humour #australian memes #a succulent chinese meal #a run in with the law #i have had 1 or 2 in the last few days #when the eye of the state turns on you #coppers #love em or hate em

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INSCRIBED ON A TOMBSTONE

When you look on my grave And behold how they wave, — The cypress, the yew, and the willow; You think 'tis the breeze That gives motion to these, — 'Tis the laughter that's shaking my pillow!

I must laugh when I see A poor insect like thee Dare to pity the fate thou must own; Let a few seasons glide, We may lie side by side, And crumble to dust, bone for bone.

Go weep thine own doom! Thou wert born for the tomb, Thou hast lived, like myself, but to die; When thou pity'st my lot Secure fool! thou'st forgot Thou art no more immortal than I!

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Memento Mori

George Darley 1795-1846

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Graphic - Max Klinger 1857-1920

#poetry #george darley #mortality #moment in time #memento mori

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#friendlyjordies #patreon #join your union

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This is Democracy Manifest!

Get your hands off my Penis!

Very important update from reddit user u/SpadfaTurds

#memes #australian memes #suculent chinese meal #serial escapee #jack karlson

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Fried Pasta?

With Salt and Beer?

Shut up and take my Denarii….

#historical italian cooking #fried pasta #roman food #rome #roman #spqr #fried bread #salt #beer food #beer

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Solar Eclipse

#science #astronomy #solar eclipse #northern hemisphere #2024 solar eclipse

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We cross live now to Australia for the 2024 Solar Eclipse…..

#humour #science joke #science #astronomy #relativity #solar eclipse #as seen from the southern hemisphere

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Between Scylla and Charybdis (Odyssey) 2024

#marysmirages #ancient greek mythology #the odyssey #homer #odysseus #scylla and charibdis #a man not a god #we play with the toys the gods give us

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Holy Roman Empire trying to take what was not theirs then or in 1941…

A German MG nest keeps watch over the Aegean Sea - 1941

#humour #ancient humour #germania in the aegean #holy roman empire #not holy #not roman #not an empire #germania #aegean #belongs to the real roman empire #byzantines #history #world war two

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So we pointed out the US embassy had a slightly unorthodox twitter handle

and next thing we know

#humour #batshit-auspol #pine gap #entity #big brother

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#music #work music #ac/dc #end of shift #wind farm #repair crew #blades #what’s left of saturday #beers with the lads #for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother