Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 149 - I Was Never Epstein's Friend Edition

Dustin Du Cane

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Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 149 - I Was Never Epstein's Friend Edition
Grandson of a pimp, ho, pimp, pimo

I've been away for a week so we are delayed.

Phil at work

From Empires to Ashes | Substack
I’m Philip W. Blood. My new book-in-progress follows Germany’s downfall. Mapping the route from empire to extermination — using historical GIS to uncover how colonial conquest was transformed into industrial murder. Join me.
SubstackSubstack

And he's the grandson of a pimp.

Musk is untouchable

Keir Starmer's Government Says Elon Musk's X AI Chatbot Endorsing Hitler Is a 'Matter for the Company' "Their reluctance comes despite their recent condemnation of the BBC for showing chants made by the punk group Bob Vylan at Glastonbury" @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/07/09/k...

— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T12:56:54.315Z

Entry level concentration camp management job!

Bluesky
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Genocide

Yes. It’s a genocide.
It’s no repeat of the Holocaust, but it’s reasonable to view Gaza as a genocide underway.
Not all doomArthur Snell

Westplaining theft

Skyeton says EU firms faked frontline drone tests, plagiarized their materials, and walked off with billion-dollar contracts. “They promised a lot, just to talk more and sniff around,” CEO Knyazhenko told The Telegraph. euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/11/u...

— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T11:08:09.231Z

The forgotten war

Another forgotten war

No matter who wins, we lose

Tough women

Love this reference

Podcast: Talking About Excession by Iain M. Banks, on A Meal of Thorns - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A Meal of Thorns, from the fanzine Ancillary Review of Books, is one of the most exciting new podcasts of the last few years. A bimonthly critical book club in which host Jake Casella Brookins discusses a work of science fiction, fantasy, or something harder to define with a rotating cast of guests, it’s not just […]
Lawyers, Guns & MoneyAbigail Nussbaum

Emma's privilege of not needing AC to live

How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
The GuardianEmma Beddington

It's not only about you

And speaking of Russians, our (prescient) book is still out

Phil has a new book out now!

Also on Amazon.

Ben has new book out - two links

Trooping the Colour
Today Trooping the Colour gathers crowds of tourists; along with the pomp and ceremony it is an event filled with tradition that spans many hundreds…
Pen and Sword Books

Amazon below

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Phil

Dr Philip W Blood (@philipwblood.bsky.social)
Writes about the history of war - latest book ‘War Comes to Aachen’ - about a German city in the age of Total War. See my latest research discussed weekly in A Historian’s Diary on Fallout.Substack.com #skyhistorians
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Ben

Writer Ben (@benskipper.bsky.social)
I write about aviation, military history, contemporary social themes and occasionally agriculture (Erotic Tractors™️ a speciality). One of the Fallout Triumvirate. Your sensitivities are not my priorities, and vice versa.
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