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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 5h

A Lib Dem with a spreadsheet has already calculated the precise details of the best man's speech

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 5h

Is this why you got murdered

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 5h

And generally having a great time gallivanting around Berlin, which had more spies per capita than anywhere else in the world. But second was Vienna which is very close to the Slovak border

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 5h

I'd assume something in the combination of Czechoslovakia turned especially hardline after 1968 and that border nations often had the more advanced spying networks in the Warsaw Pact

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 6h

You just know some people are going to record and drop videos all over X too

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 6h

If I thought I was so bad at politics that I might be outfoxed by Keir Starmer I'd become a monk before I told anyone

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 10h

Wow, this Keir chap is quite the political operator. Forensic, cunning, setting heffalump traps his opponents can’t help walking into. The party should find him a seat. Reckon he might be leadership material.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 6h

More chances for it in Belfast

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, you've voted under AMS. Time to move to Belfast

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 6h

When Stalin's son tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head but survived Stalin's first words to him were "Hah! You missed!" Maybe not the nicest bloke

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, if nothing else, changing your mind would just completely collapse your sense of self. Like what was it all for. Even Trotsky didn't argue against the revolution, just that its cause has been perverted

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah I don't doubt that they were true believers myself, but I'm kind of interested in why they believed

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 8h

To some extent I'd call Zinoviev and Kamenev the original core of Stalin's centrist faction, though they eventually tried to jump ship to the opposition when it became obvious that their turn was coming

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Well, an imagined Britain of the 1950s

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, you'd never go so declasse to go below £700k

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

I was talking about Finn. Dan is a man who lives in Hull

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Man who lives just outside Edinburgh: I live just outside Edinburgh

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, ofc. Though funnily enough if we did become a single earner household I suspect it would be me (lower earner, physical disability) rather than my wife

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Ok, but what if I don't want to live in a single earner household.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 11h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Less baseball posting? I'm in

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

His success as a businessman has always really been in branding first and foremost too (well and being a con artist). A lot of buildings with his name on he doesn't actually own, he's just licencing the name. A lot of his other businesses are basically just reliant on his image too.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Claiming to have not read the news but as minority leader instead

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Don't think it's a coincidence that he tweeted this earlier. He's clearly worried that AI is underperforming and that's affecting the economy but thinks that the issue is poor branding.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

And people say polling is inaccurate

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Ponta truly is King Shit. You never know what the maniac's going to get up to next

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, I totally trust these guys who missed predicting their own revenue stream by $20bn to predict what employment will look like in ten years

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. He was also quite vain and hey Stalin had made him foreign minister and Khrushchev had sent him flying down the ranks. Do think Molotov may have been under the delusion that Stalin would eventually see sense too RE his wife. Or that Beria, who he hated, was actually responsible

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Stalin's daughter basically characterised him as one of life's yes men. Said he was as subservient to his wife as Stalin

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

It is also fair to say that the Bolsheviks were not the most mentally well adjusted group in the first place and the purges somewhat selected for those most willing to go along with things

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Then he allied with Bukharin against Trotsky. Then when his position was strong enough he moved against Bukharin. Bukharin then allied with Trotsky but by then it was too late for both.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Another thing was just how systematic Stalin was. The post Lenin Bolsheviks divided into three main factions, a left bloc around Trotsky, a right bloc around Bukharin and a centrist bloc around Stalin. Stalin chose to position in the centre on purpose, realising it was the strongest position

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, though human beings are also very good at coming to terms with horrendous shit they did by telling themselves it was right, so I think it was probably that leading into self delusion too. Would you want to believe yourself to be a coward who sold out his wife

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

In fairness I think Bukharin probably knew exactly what Stalin was at this stage but was just trying one last hail Mary.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of the remaining leaders wound up being a mix of intelligent but psychopathic (Beria) or vain and incredibly thick, of which Molotov was the latter. Also something of a self protection element too. Objecting to stuff was a very good way of being next

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Sometimes I think these guys are just pulling these names out of a hat.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Now the Britain hatred makes sense

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12h

It's one reason why Starmer's gifts scandal was so damaging I think. Probably where he'd been strongest in opposition was condemning Boris's scandals so it just gave the impression he was a hypocrite

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12h

I think tbf again, he does probably get that on a certain level. He explicitly mentions play as something he wants to do with his child. But I think a lot of AI guys think books are dry things for knowledge acquisition and not much else

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 13h

But if you frame books as just an inefficient data holding device, as a lot of AI guys do, this is where it takes you

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 13h

I think in this case the guy does explicitly want to engage with his child, in fairness, but he is just thinking of a book as a way to teach vocalisation in this case, when it is so much more. My baby looks to play with the book, likes to interact with her while I read, and it encourages reading

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, though that will quickly discover that that's not actually possible

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 14h

A continual thing that is evident from AI bros discourse is they don't like the concept of books

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 14h

Even the PNL and USR do this to some extent. They're not wrong entirely to identify corruption as one issue, but obviously they slightly overstate both how easy that is to fix and probably how much can be recouped

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