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Loukas

@Loukas@mastodon.nu

Journalist, teacher, Londoner, Stockholmer.

Editorial worker at Freedom news.

Writing about autism, ADHD and disability.

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Greens biggest party in Stockholm city.

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With 87% of the votes counted it looks even worse for the Swedish far-right than the polls suggested. They're down almost two percentage points, and are behind the Greens. https://valresultat.svt.se/2024/

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Watching the EU election results come in.

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The people most obsessed with WW2 in Britain aren't the generation that lived through the war. They're the generation that lived through the first tranche of post-war war films in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Something that's interesting about 'left unity' is it's easier when times are bad for the left. It's easy to agree on stuff when all you're doing is defensive work.

It's when there's surges of activity and power that gaps appear. Groups fight to be the ones who attract all this new energy - left parties get elected and then start to repress what they see as irresponsible demands and actions.

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Boris Johnson' child.
Noun (uncountable).

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I just closed a tab that I'd had open for several days so please bear with me during this trying time.

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Many people vote because they think it will create the world they want to see. I don't think that. I vote just to momentarily smack the reins of state power out of the hands of fascists.

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found this massive kelp frond on the beach and carried it around, ate a few bites, took photos

Loukas,
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@seachanger it's so cool it's clean enough to eat.

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Thank you to everyone who helped me work on my mystery of 'Baron' Nieroth today. I got a lot further thanks to you.

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TIL that—as of 1954—an original van Gogh painting hanging in the bedroom of a woman working as a telephone operator and sharing a Manhattan apartment with two others would be enough to raise suspicion that she had another source of income but not enough to suggest that she was wealthy.

[Extra credit for identifying my source.]

Loukas,
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@JamesGleick Breakfast at Tiffany's?

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In my copy of the Swedish register of the nobility (1983) it lists the Nieroth family as one that was never admitted to the Swedish House of Lords, and which only survives overseas. https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/112580647029314206

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Looking in the database of the House of Lords I find this guy. The last widow of this family died in 1898. Could he be the father outside wedlock of our 'baron'? https://minerva.riddarhuset.se/att/nieroth-3/

Loukas,
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In the Swedish census for 1880 we can see the family of a Eugene August von Nieroth. He was born in 1813 and lives with his wife and, strangely, a young man who also has August as a middle name... https://sok.riksarkivet.se/folkrakningar?Efternamn=nieroth&Folk1860=true&Folk1870=true&Folk1880=true&Folk1890=true&Folk1900=false&Folk1910=false&Folk1930=false&AvanceradSok=False&page=1&postid=Folk_120112340&tab=post#tab

Loukas,
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Hmm but this person is still alive in the 1910 census and 'baron' was listed as dead by 1896.

Loukas,
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Here, at any rate, is the death record of Catherine, 'Kate' Sawtell, an artist who was independently wealthy and who the 'baron' stayed with in Bloomsbury. We know it was her, because another record says she owed property in Newport, Monmouthshire, where she died.

Loukas,
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So in 1892, when according to the Swedish pastor's diary she visited the baron in Middlesex hospital, she was 56.

Loukas,
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Newman street, which is indeed off Oxford Street, is where they lived together. Number 23 is unfortunately a modern building, which usually means it was hit by German bombs. It's next-door neighbour gives us an idea of how the baron and Kate lived.

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(🧵)I have a mystery. Who wants to help me solve it?

In the archives of the Swedish church in London they mention this person who claimed to be an aristocrat. He was a resident in a hospital on their account.

But this noble house was not part of the Swedish order any more, and I wonder if he was an imposter.

I think the text says

Nieroth A. ? Von

"Litteratör"
Kallar sig "Baron" (nyligen var in? baron Nieroth ? far? ? ej i äktenskap
Exit? journ? [Dates]
Död

Can you read any better?

Loukas,
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@nemorosa Jaaaaaa!!!!

Loukas,
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(NB this is where the thread continues https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/112580743647249100 )

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This year's EU parliament election in Sweden is unusual, because it could have a major effect on national politics. If the Liberal Party gets less than 4% and fails to get a seat they may have an internal crisis and cause the government to collapse. This poll shows them just above that level.

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It looks like someone from a Cyprus embassy has accidentally forwarded me an email. An email to help someone with a computer problem, ironically.

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"If Britain had to adopt the euro as a condition of re-joining the EU, how would people vote if there was a referendum tomorrow?"

Stay out: 41%
Rejoin: 39%
Don’t know: 11%
Won’t vote: 9%

  • Omnisis polling
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It would be a condition, so this is the real level of rejoin sentiment.

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