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Daniel Read

@danielread.bsky.social
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Gentilhomme cambrioleur Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Warwick. Google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=u… Strategic Information Network: sites.google.com/view/strategicinf

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 18h
I get ELP for my birthplace. Just missed Craig David (whew) but why didn't King Crimson sell more records?
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 21h
And then they went on and had a child. Fell on hard times. They found a solution to their dilemma, however, from the most unlikely source.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absolutely not. I just thought it was funny that the Astronomer Royal of Scotland made this slip.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am not sure about the reasoning there. You need to know how many physicists have been named John and how many have been women before you can make this conditional statement.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had the same thought.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I loved the end of The Last Jedi with the little stableboy and the broom. That was a great direction for things to go. The force as something that just happens to ordinary people, and not only to a royal family. I am not sure I will ever watch another Star Wars film
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Britain First is planning a "Rally for Remigration" in Coventry where I live. Very depressing that some (unknown) venue has rented them a space. More depressing that this is happening at all.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I rarely laugh at jokes, but I made an exception.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not wrong, but it won't increase your chances of getting a job and might decrease them. There is a clear answer to what you should do if you want the job.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank you
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The UK is joining America's war to defend the Saudi's, but it has not given such support to Ukraine.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He is playing Thunderbirds or GI Joe or Action Man.
theguardian.com
Trump claims triumphal arch will serve as a ‘top grade military complex’ to store weapons
US president on Truth Social claims his new plan for the 250ft arch comes at the ‘strong request’ of the US military
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Only if service stations can coordinate on higher prices will that work. But then they should be (perhaps are) doing that anyway. Its hard to see how competition will fall if demand drops and the number of service stations remains the same.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rembrandt The Night Watch Trollope The Palliser Chronicles
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh no. But fortunately Ted Nugent and The Village People have space in their diaries.
bbc.co.uk
Ed Sheeran's support acts quit tour in support of Macklemore
The star said he was not responsible for Macklemore being dropped from the line-up after he made pro-Palestinian statements on stage.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Personally, it is just enough above my current income and wealth so that I will never reach it. My impression is that this is the general view, although for each person "my current income" varies. Remarkable consensus.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Some day I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this a gift on your son's wedding day.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 15/09/2026
Nadine Thomas, living with terminal cancer, said: 'We're not worried about dying, we know we're going to die. It's how we die... We are expected to suffer to our very last dying breath which is unfair, it's cruel, it's inhumane.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
West Country assisted dying campaigners call MPs vote 'inhumane'
Terminally ill people in the West Country say they will continue to campaign for assisted dying.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rousseau must have been the first
en.wikipedia.org
Reveries of the Solitary Walker - Wikipedia
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is very unsettling to read. I have been thinking a lot lately about how Milgram's work and Zimbardo's work, often criticised, still describe the world we see all around us all the time.
theguardian.com
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Elisabeth Holmes could play Vera Claythorne in And Then There Were None.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I just want to be assured that there will be no gorillas.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is literally what is happening. The Onion is using mental accounting as a joke, but it's not!
theonion.com
Trump Promises To Take $5,000 From Every American If Democrats Win Midterm
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One does not rule out the other. This should not be treated as an All Lives Matter moment.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Demonstrating the cruelty of the house of lords. Parliament voted for assisted dying and they left people like Esther Rantzen to suffer.
bbc.co.uk
Esther Rantzen says she is too fragile to travel to Switzerland to end life
The broadcaster and campaigner says she missed her chance to go before living with cancer became "unbearable".
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Forgetting where you were on 9/11 is a cognitive failure (minor); confabulating an absurd wish-fulfilment fantasy is a cognitive failure (major). It's the confabulation that needs explaining.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ultimate clickbait, falling for it.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So Katherine Hawley is in her own little world? Or is it the reverse? I will get the pop book.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I would like to know more about this. What should I read?
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
She is just elderly.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I expect this is to fund Cofnas.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just trying to play the devil's advocate. I really hate these guys.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I kind of agree, but if they were pro immigration and did the same thing what would we be saying?
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I hate these guys, but I don't think what they wear determines whether they are "protestors". I am worried about deciding whether someone is a protestor depending on whether I agree with them.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I expect one reason for the different response to these protestors and (say) Palestine Action protestors is the risk to police of intervening.
bbc.co.uk
Watch: Anti-migrant boat protesters block roads in Portsmouth
The government condemned "the intimidating and thuggish behaviour" of the demonstrators.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Google maps already calls it Space America.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think we should not be concerned about them not being arrested. They have the right to protest. But why are other protestors who did the same thing not being released right now?
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here's another young woman being attacked and beaten by old Reform men consumed by hate. #RefUKkers
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Got along for millennia without flint tools as well.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Turns out Nigel was at Pizza Express in Woking when all this was going on.
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Use the device to push the scooter to the nearest garage if you wish to avoid injury.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I notice that "pop" museums often have these kind of nonsense origins for words and expressions.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Do you happen to have life tables for a medieval peasant?
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This lengthy article lacks the most important number -- how many people appeal a decision compared to how many do not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Disability benefit: Two out of three NI Pip decisions overturned at tribunal
A woman who has multiple health issues says she was made to feel she was "telling lies" after being turned down for Personal Independence Payment.
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Perhaps reparations too?
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That scene, that movie!
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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Interesting example concerning the concept of profit.
bbc.co.uk
Victoria Beckham's company makes its first profit after 18 years
Beckham's fashion and beauty business makes a £7.3m operating profit after years of losses.
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