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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love that you know the old in-joke about Molise not existing.

Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That's a moving way to put it. I take confort that - in calling bullshit on St. Anselm - a medieval monk just went "just because you can imagine something very big it doesn't mean it's true", and that applies to the basilisk as much as god. Thanks, Gaunilo!

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nobody with an even passing education in philosophy would take the basilisk thingie seriously; and yet, the guys who tell us the humanities are useless seem to fall all the way for it...

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have rebalanced that by gifting my wife a chinese cleaver, so she is the one with the more threatening knife on the block.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

*checks t-shirt* Phew, I'm good today. I think there's a bit more to it than that.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

While I have often thought that some british and french train habits are beastly, this is - unfortunately - the Trenitalia experience I know.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh these are not the kids. The kids don't seem to care much about Harry Potter. These are adults.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The flipside is, it's the Odyssey. People *know* what happened to Troy. Nolan can leverage that, and he does.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is just every italian in every conversation on any topic?

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is silly - whether one likes it or not, there's a whole history of left-wing activism and thought, incl communist parties in Europe (often major parties), long independent of Moscow. Greens capture some of that today, but it's hardly the resurgence of something thought dead like Apartheid.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A problem is - in my incomplete understanding - how "final" sorting is. Italy (where I studied) sorts at 12, BUT access to uni is open, and I know plenty who did poorly in high school or went to a vocational route, only to change plans at 18, go to uni and become a brilliant student.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I have no idea how good the english translations of the novels are, but if they keep a tenth of the charm of the original, they're well worth a read.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The man is a hot mess, but he'll nab your killer and have a killer pasta in the meantime.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

When people talking about immigration being bad say it’s not about me, I don’t accept it. How dare they tell me not to have solidarity with my fellow immigrants

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Well, the article notes that they're supporting the appeal in court...

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Ok, I used a wrong shorthand. But MPs and Ministers during the Starmer govt expressed outright disdain of the higher education field; while steel was not just discussed as a small but critical nat'l industry. It's not unfair to think there's something ideological/identitarian at play.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is entirely true; but also, the rhetoric of the starmer govt on the two sectors and declarations by various labour ministers and MPs seems to show a deeper divide than that, to the point that reducing the difference to economics may be reductive.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Also he may have had additional habits that would contribute to poor heart health, considering the very persistent rumors that have been going around for years in certain minority communities.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

oh we can EASILY find areas of london where that barely buys you a one-bed; but no sane person would argue that's the standard for buying a house "in London".

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As someone who lives in london and owns a modest house, no, 1.5 million buys you WAY MORE than a modest house, come on. Make the argument you want, but that claim is taking the piss.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A sensible rewrite: "Giving legal and political recognition to people who are born in a country results in much lower crime than disenfranchising them". WHODATHUNK

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VERTIC @vertic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On 19 June, VERTIC researcher Roel Walravens delivered an address on regulatory frameworks for biosecurity governance in Southeast Asia at the Indonesian Biorisk Association (IBA) International Conference 2026. VERTIC is grateful to the IBA for the invitation and for convening the conference.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My mum was visiting us from Italy; I'd told her I had the alarm for 7AM. She burst into the room at 7AM sharp, when I wasn't even fully conscious yet, going "Good morning! you're illegal aliens now, Brexit won".

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

(No gov't wanted to fund it, in the end 🤷)

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A few years ago I wanted to do a project on benefits E3+3 promised to Iran before the JCPOA, and if they were delivered - solar panel plants, investment , etc. On first look, that vanished even before US left. It was intended to inform possible future negotiations: why would they believe us again?

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Also, having lived in a country where routinely it gets both very hot (40, so over "100" degrees), and pretty damn cold (below zero), I find the supposed progression of F completely useless. Oh is "in the twenties" supposed to be cold?

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Somebody commented that Esther Gay's multiple pronouncements on this were sounding increasingly like "this wouldn't have happened if the internet didn't turn her trans", and yikes.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Visited the Cathedral in 2017 - we entered during liturgy, and even as an atheist it was majestic and moving. This is heartbreaking. We were touring Kyiv with the colleagues who were hosting us for a workshop, who at the time told us of their time taking part in the Euromaidan protests.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

(to be clear, snotty twentysomething me has been wrong about lots of things. Not this, it seems)

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I remember studying Mearsheimer as a reasonable, respected academic, and thinking "this guy sounds like a maniac and a fantasist both". Turns out, maybe it wasn't snotty twentysomethings me being arrogant.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thank you for your reply! I see your attempt at sealioning, and I will absolutely not waste my valuable time engaging in "Debate" with you.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My VERTIC colleagues being rockstars as usual.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Might we? How did he stand up to far right demands on trans rights?

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

How? He absolutely caved in and joined the far right on demonising trans people + stripping them of their rights. He's done more to harm minorities in britain and to support far right battles than even Mahmood at this point.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

VERY weird to think that Streeting may "take on" the far right, let alone aggressively, considering that he's presided on one of the dossiers that the far right has relentlessly pushed on - trans rights - and he's actually joined in enthusiastically on stripping people of their rights at every turn.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The "shake" too! Manhattan Project lingo was kinda fun.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hey, I'm a real fan of your work. Now that you have joined the EHRC board, I'd like you to comment on the EHRC guidance on same-sex spaces that was published yesterday. This is the biggest step back on minority rights seen in Europe in decades, and people who have leverage need to fight it.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"Would a declining empire do THIS?" *sound of plates crashing*

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Perfect, I should get it for my wife! Also I've now done my first stew with the Rancho Gordo beans and they were great!

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hey, congrats for that and best of luck! I hope it helps.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Damn, I didn't need to become hungry for chorizo at 11AM.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Milan's a victim of the Milanese, by and large. They really wanna be the modern city of finance and industry and the future, and that image is unappealing compared to much of what other italian cities have to offer. But beneath that surface there's much to love!

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Naah, she wants him to go now because she knows that any managed transition to the party's soft left (e.g. Burnham plan) sees her out of a job, and she hopes for a putsch by someone who's still on the center/right of the party who'll keep her and her odious policies.

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Alberto Muti @albertomuti.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Quite curious as to the reply!

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