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created February 23, 2025

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Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

No, to President Zelensky. Or to Obama a second time πŸ˜‹

31/8/2025, 5:35:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Wouldn't the Nobel Peace Prize Committee need to put Drumpfy's 🍊 name back on the list, as a starter, since they - quietly - removed it some weeks ago?

31/8/2025, 5:33:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Her blond hair dye is to he blamed ....

31/8/2025, 5:27:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Stephen Miller when he sneaked out of his coffin for the night.

31/8/2025, 5:26:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

'America' and 'cultural' in one sentence? Reaction from EUrope πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί: 🀣

31/8/2025, 5:25:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Good God, Joanna .... REALLY this utter trash on DB now? All these conspiracy theories have been flogged to death decades ago. Downvote for giving airtime to a sleazy 'author' who is desperate for a bit of media attention.

31/8/2025, 5:21:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I suggest they send Vance, Miller, Gabbard and all the rest of their regime to lead these mercenaries ....

31/8/2025, 5:17:30 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Else your assessment of the situation was spot on, as most of the time. Overwhelming opinion here πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί: Hungary can go eff off if they dislike EU rules, we all know they are Pootin's trojan horses. Although rather lame ones.

31/8/2025, 3:04:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

... and I made a mistake :) - Bulgaria and Romania were granted Schengen membership as of January 2025 after many years of vetoes by us members, they simply weren't trustworthy. Schengen, like the €, is not an automatic EU membership feature.

31/8/2025, 3:02:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

You are correct, I took the data from the German Department for Foreign Affairs .... where they are not listed as full members. Looks like to them both countries are of the same low priority as they are to me 😎. No, both countries didn't meet criteria.

30/8/2025, 4:04:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

2/ full membership. Schengen members are also the 4 EFTA members = Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Best greetings from Bavaria πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

30/8/2025, 3:07:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

1/ Hello Prof, just for the sake of clarity and precision: at timestamp 2:32 you state 'Schengen is all of Europe'. Sorry, that's false. 'Schengen' is the area formed by 25 of the 27 EU πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί memberstates, all minus Ireland and Cyprus, with Bulgaria and Romania not yet meeting criteria for

30/8/2025, 3:03:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

For a starter, I'd be content if they stuck to old Indian habits where the widow was buried with the dear departed .... alive or dead, can't remember. Byyyeee, Melania!

30/8/2025, 2:10:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Free Luigi!!! 😎

30/8/2025, 2:07:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

If only his mother had gotten an abortion .... πŸ™„. Or decided to become a nun.

30/8/2025, 2:05:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm always confused as to why he doesn't transform into dust in broad daylight. I thought that happens to his species .... πŸ§›β€β™‚οΈ

30/8/2025, 2:03:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Brilliant! Snatched for further use :)

30/8/2025, 1:58:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure .... the one who doesn't get sold down the river is a 'fucking dick'. And yes, I will continue to enjoy my life here in civilization πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅

30/8/2025, 5:59:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I never stated your TV spies more on you than other devices. Ignorance is bliss, apparently. Ignorance explains a lot of what's going on in your country πŸ™„. Greetings from civilization πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅

29/8/2025, 10:26:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Shady Dunce *IS* the terrible tragedy 🀣. The fat demented 🍊 one kicking it is a blessing. I fully expect people dancing in the streets. Remember when Maggie Thatcher pegged out? People celebrated, broke out the bubbly and sang 'the witch is dead'. Just saying ...

29/8/2025, 10:23:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh 'they' do 😎 - I might know, I work as a forensic data analyst for a US IT/internet behemoth. Our profession avoids producing data like the devil avoids holy water. Grin.

29/8/2025, 4:07:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Or give it to President Zelensky, and please do it soon as the 🍊 might kick it any given day. 😎

29/8/2025, 12:15:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

'if' should read 'of'

29/8/2025, 12:04:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Part 3: even if these companies and their employees were the most honest people .... the data can be hacked. There is only one kind if secure private data - those that are never generated!

29/8/2025, 12:04:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Part 1/ even if you had the most honest leadership .... the next government may be careless or deliberately abusive. Part 2: jist as dangerous: these data are stored on servers, in clouds, wherever: nobody but these companies' management controls these technicians to not steal your data.

29/8/2025, 12:02:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in the EU πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί - in fact we are permitted freedom of speech here, irrespective of Shady Dunce's utterly irrelevant as well as faulty personal opinion. 'Indian Ersatz-Couch' is indeed the predominant assessment of Mrs Vance's raison d'Γͺtre in our realms.

29/8/2025, 10:57:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

They should add a new one, as tribute to Mrs Vance: 'Indian Ersatz-Couch' 😎😈

29/8/2025, 10:46:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

For God's sake, Mr Miller, stop saying 'like' 3 times in any given sentence. You sound like a 15 year old who can formulate a coherent sentence. This habit is beyond obnoxious to any foreign listener to the point of simply switching off. It frankly devalues your conversations. Greetings from πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

29/8/2025, 10:44:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Mrs May, PLEASE, for heaven's sake: stop saying 'like' 3 times in any given sentence πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ. It's obviously a US American linguistic abomination that really, REALLY is that obnoxious that it makes one stop listening/watching. Check out your conversation and see/hear yourself! Greetings from πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

29/8/2025, 8:54:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

For fuck's sake, Uschi, grow a pair! Wann werden Ungarn et altera ENDLICH mit Artikel 7 des Acquis in die Wueste geschickt? Erklaeren Sie mir welcher rationale Grund die EU davon abhaelt! Und dann bitte ENDLICH von der EU aktive, wirksame Hilfe fuer die Ukraine.

29/8/2025, 7:27:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Why the eff Article 7 of the Acquis l hasn't been applied to Hungary and maybe the 2 other stinkers is beyond me. Lame EU leadership, frankly. Paralyze them since you can until they eff off voluntarily.

29/8/2025, 7:21:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

The EU πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί has no 'property' in Ukraine πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ. We need to better support as in provide them with better weapons for the most obvious reasons ....

29/8/2025, 7:19:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol. I know her resume partly is a concoction, she had to revise her alleged academic credentials. How one would apprehend 6 languages growing up in a Russian satellite state amazes me - I apprehended mine by having tri-national parents (πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§+πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅) and growing up in 4 countries (the above plus Spain).

29/8/2025, 6:52:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Will look it up later, work is calling my name now, it's 9AM here in central Europe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ.

29/8/2025, 6:45:30 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, some people indeed lack an inborn talent for foreign languages that others are blessed with. I speak 5 languages fluently and without (or minimal) accent (French, Spanish, English, German and Italian). My British Dad after decades in Germany still speaks with a British accent.

29/8/2025, 6:43:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a field I have zero expertise in or relations to, so I have to apply common sense, logic and stick to facts. I find it plausible that Pootin might have Epstein related compromat on Drumpfy and blackmail him. Epstein made his money by blackmail and similar himself.

29/8/2025, 6:41:18 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol. πŸ‘ I remember the fat 🍊 one recently mocking the German Chancellor's English language skills and complaining about his accent. Fun fact: Merz has a far better grasp of English than Drumpfy, despite his slight German accent. Maybe all forrinners should copy Melanoma's thick accent?

29/8/2025, 6:36:18 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I doubt the 'Krasnov' theory as in him actively working for them. He's 1) too daft, and 2) as a malignant narcissist, an unpredictable, unreliable loose cannon anyway. But he owes them, they financed him after bankruptcies when western banks refused.

29/8/2025, 6:29:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

One big mistake was to prevent Trumpers from downing this clogged pipe cleaner and the horse medication during the pandemic. IMO medical ethos and empathy applied the wrong way. They would have eliminated themselves by the ten-thousands. If an enemy is on his way to exterminate himself ....

29/8/2025, 5:40:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

All 'smart' devices harvest and market your data like crazy, you have zero control over them. IMO, one can live without this trash. Well ... I can. (Forensic data analyst by profession)

29/8/2025, 5:37:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't remember the title, there's a nice little (old) movie with Rutger Hauer and one of Tom Cruise's ex-wifes: they're prisoners, wearing ankle braces that force them to stay together. If they're apart more than 50 metres or so, they explode. Wait until Stephen Miller gets this funny idea 😎

29/8/2025, 5:35:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

And that is one smart decision, since those devices spy on their owners! The really smart solution is to avoid 'smart' appliances.

29/8/2025, 5:30:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

He's not wrong, though. I also can diagnose HIM with just one look: he's suffering from lunacy ..... and I didn't spend one single day at medical school. So, just throw him into a padded cell, based on my diagnosis.

29/8/2025, 5:24:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

She only married him in order to avoid winding up as leftover πŸ˜‹

29/8/2025, 5:20:03 AM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I herewith repeat my gratitude to God for Brexit and praise the creators of the Acquis Communautaire and the Copenhagen Criteria for deciding ourselves whether or not (the latter will be it) to ever come near our Union πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί. 65m of eejits on primary school intellectual level πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

28/8/2025, 4:51:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Still not got the logic of PUBLICLY calling out Lavrov as liar? Ask any 10 year old in your neighbourhood - s/he should have the brains to grasp it. Now excuse me, dinner will be served in 15 minutes and I'd hate to annoy our cook by being late. Excellent staff is hard to find these days.

28/8/2025, 4:45:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate stupidity. Your comment oozes stupidity. Re-read my explanation above why an official complaint makes sense πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ. I can't word it any more simple for you. Side note: dear God, thank you for having made Brexit possible by making les rosbifs stupid. Greetings from an atheist in civilization πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

28/8/2025, 4:24:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

My daytime job is forensic data analyst - that's why I'm good at thinking and logic. I suggest you refrain from posting utter crap then in the future? Just for a starter ....

28/8/2025, 4:19:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't give up your daytime job - you'd starve as standup comedian. Subtlety, innuendo and sarcasm are not your forte.

28/8/2025, 4:16:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course the complaint won't change a thing πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ (did I claim so??), sending triple the amounts of weapons would do the trick. But the official complaint serves the purpose of publicly calling out Lavrov as the liar he is, claiming on TV that no civilians are targeted.

28/8/2025, 4:14:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Only exists in your little empty head, this request. Innit?

28/8/2025, 3:45:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Right he was. Remember that the UK blocked/vetoed ANY common EU military/defence for almost 50 years, out if fear this would diminish their (non-existent, BTW) 'special relationship' with 'Murrica? They even vetoed AFTER their referendum! Good riddance etc. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

27/8/2025, 10:22:20 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not EU policy to interfere with national stuff like referenda .... it's the responsibility of a nation's government to explain facts. Your πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ problem was that your government = Cameron was/is just a fact free British supremacist with delusions of grandeur.

27/8/2025, 10:14:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Robert, it doesn't look like dictatorship ... it IS dictatorship. The US no longer is a democracy.

27/8/2025, 10:04:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

2/ The chat host and his attitude this conversation is about is completely unknown outside if the US, now I'm curious and need to find out if I can watch it. On a side note: while far from perfection, journalism in general here in πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί is FAR superior to US 'journalism'. Greetings from Bavaria πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

27/8/2025, 8:19:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

1/ I always thought that you are one of us 'lefties', Mr. Wolff, and from a EUropean πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί (πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅) 'lefty', please take this as the compliment it is (hopefully, to you ). Always highly appreciate your 'beasty chats' with Joanna Cole, the last one about GM's 'deposition transcript' was beyond hilarious.

27/8/2025, 8:15:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't wait for the hillbilly to fall on his nose .... although his fall will be cushioned by his overweight, which includes his moobs that scare the living daylight out of me (when he's only wearing a shirt)

21/8/2025, 10:50:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn't it ZIG ZAG ZIG ZAG???

21/8/2025, 10:48:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Sooner or later the Mexicans will sue Drumpfy 🍊 for tarnishing the reputation of one of their traditional dishes.

21/8/2025, 10:47:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Trumpstein files!!!! 😎

21/8/2025, 10:46:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Waer mir aber lieber er hockte allein im Biergarten oder in einer Zelle. Mir unbegreiflich wie eine Partei diesen Vollidioten aufstellen kann als Kandidat πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

21/8/2025, 10:38:12 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

As for the last point: Trump isn't a president at all. He only holds the job title and resides in the WH. Like: a janitor calling himself 'doctor' and sitting in a MD's surgery doesn't make him an orthopedist, oncologist, etc..

20/8/2025, 3:30:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

You have a dictator NOW! There were no dictators in Europe in that period - read a history book πŸ™„. 'Baroque' is not a political term but refers to art and architecture πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ. While there were kings etc. there also were very different, other styles em vogue. Greetings from civilization πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅

19/8/2025, 2:40:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Plenty of gold used to be in fashion in Europe during the 'Baroque era', hence from ca 1600-1750 (long before the US even existed). Some famous churches spring to mind :), but they are decorated far better despite all this gold.

18/8/2025, 9:14:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

And we πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ always thought the Austrian hobby painter died childless .....

18/8/2025, 9:04:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

'Old Sparky'. Please google yourself, I dont want my account banned. πŸ™‚

18/8/2025, 9:03:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🀒🀒🀒

18/8/2025, 9:01:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate to disappoint your cute furball, but methinks it was named after the famous blue sky in Bavaria when we have 'Foehn' (sudden windfall of warm air across the Alps from Italy into the northern alpine upland) Greetings from a humom to 13 rescue cats

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18/8/2025, 6:47:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh dear! Les rosbifs did almost exactly the same exercise in 2020 after they finally buggered off of our EU πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί with their Brexit. Result was the same. Einstein <=> definition of insanity! (Only difference: didn't export legal (!) immigrants to San Salvador)

18/8/2025, 6:33:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Mr Kelly, as for your latest interview on 'Times Radio' regarding Ukraine / meeting today Monday August 18: at 12:20 ff you speak about 'fast tracked EU membership' for Ukraine ... there exists no such fast-track thingie, it's the Copenhagen Criteria and the Acquis Communautaire. No fudging.

18/8/2025, 5:50:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

We used to chat after tel/video conferences a bit, private stuff, you know like family, holidays, how the kids & pets are doing, holidays, the usual thing. These days I try and avoid it. Everyone complains, it pulls you down, one doesn't dare mentioning that life in fact is rather good & normal.

18/8/2025, 3:50:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I know. I work for the European headquarter of a US telecom giant and feel 100% of my 'Murrican coworkers are miserable. The dems/Harris voters for understandable reasons. The reps/🍊 voters .... who knows why? They got what they voted for 😈, even their own concentration camps.

18/8/2025, 3:45:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And his children? They are semi-aliens, innit? Birthright citizenship??? Gone.

18/8/2025, 1:55:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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remastered studio version it should read of course

18/8/2025, 1:54:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me Mum included in her will that at her funeral, the remastered version and any available live version of 'Highway Star' should be played as farewell. I feel there won't be many guests left at the end .... (We kids are DP fans as well, though)

18/8/2025, 1:53:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Highway Star is the best, though.

18/8/2025, 1:51:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, look, the Graun reports 50 year old news about the origins of SOTW.

18/8/2025, 1:50:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He didn't marry Melania for her cooking skills.

18/8/2025, 1:47:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If they serve mustard with it it must be that American invention, Pizza Hawaii, the one with pineapples πŸ™‚.

18/8/2025, 1:44:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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πŸ‘yes, 'Γ  la boollsheeette'. You know, we EUropeans πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί like to name things with fancy terms when we call a spade a spade. Sounds a tad more sophisticated, we all need a bit uplifting these days. (US politics are exhausting, to be honest. I love me some utterly boring EU grandees!)

18/8/2025, 1:39:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Translation: 🍊 is a douchebag and scared shitless in the presence of real dictators.

18/8/2025, 1:07:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

And North Korea!

18/8/2025, 1:02:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm convinced she's capable of signing her name onto a credit card.

18/8/2025, 1:00:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

The terminus technicus is 'word salad'. With some orange coloured dressing.

18/8/2025, 12:58:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

.... and the remaining 15% one can find in some speech Mrs Obama previously gave.

18/8/2025, 12:57:27 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

You do give them too much credit. Maggats are morons.

18/8/2025, 12:54:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

'Orwellian audacity'??? Nahhh, plain and simple stupidity of an uneducated moron.

18/8/2025, 12:52:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Translation: he doesn't want photographic/video evidence of his cheating

18/8/2025, 12:51:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

The kid has kindergarten vacation .... I look forward to her 18th birthday. 🀣

18/8/2025, 12:14:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh it was! He sometimes plays with a small band in small venues just for the fun of it, and afterwards has a beer with the audience. He stated he does so instead of practicing alone at home :).

18/8/2025, 12:13:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

has should read he's

18/8/2025, 12:10:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

I stick to rules. And according to the rules, the fat demented 🍊 loser dodged the draft by making up a disease when drafted the 5th time. Whether you like it or not .... has a coward and a loser.

18/8/2025, 12:10:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Have a good workday, mid afternoon here, I'm having a day off :).

18/8/2025, 12:08:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

As is the fat 🍊 oaf. Cohen lied on his behalf (and deserved jail for being stupid enough to lie for 🍊). During Drumpfy's first term: IIRC the WaPo listed ca 34000 lies in 4 years. Lies debunked by FACTS. Greetings from civilization πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅

18/8/2025, 12:04:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

What 'education'? 🀣🀣🀣 He's an uneducated moron. What about all others of the same age that were drafted and couldn't attend college?

18/8/2025, 12:01:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

PS I think Bonham had in his hands the drummer equivalent of the perfect pitch, he was PERFECT in terms of timing up to a nanosecond, but never like a soulless machine. If you want something crazy: search YouTube for 'estepario siberiani' 😈. I swear he has 4 independent brains.

18/8/2025, 11:32:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

And of course because he's one funny, down to earth bloke. Attended a drum clinic many a year ago which he taught in Amsterdam!

18/8/2025, 11:27:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Bonham was a force of nature, also in terms of physical strength. Copeland is good, but his band's musical direction isn't among my favourites (Led Zep, Deep Purple). I love Paice for his incredible variety, the subtle swing elements and a certain elegant groove others seem to lack.

18/8/2025, 11:25:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

The Jazz guy in our family is me Dad, and he's the only one. I'm familiar with it (long car rides as child πŸ™„), but Jazz doesn't evoke any sentiments. I'm a hobby drummer, so hard rock is my favourite choice: Paice, Bonham, Baker, and, yes, Sorum and a few more from the second tier.

18/8/2025, 11:19:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture elliedviolet.bsky.social (@elliedviolet.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, my bad. I heard of this bloke (under his real name Combs) and the allegations against him, but wasn't aware of his nom de plume 'Diddy'. Neither (t)his kind of music nor this kind of celebrity are my cup of tea 😎. I love hard rock, R&B, Blues, classical. Nah, meant: Putin used it up πŸ˜‹

18/8/2025, 11:08:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view