Reposted by Dagmar SeelandDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7069801907
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Because they’re mild-mannered, middle-class centre lefties. With empathy. Apparently, Empathy is toxic now. 1140
Reposted by Dagmar Seelandvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too 383137621
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandStephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s so confusing. I thought Farage was a huge fan of charity, meaning donations given freely by people with no expectation of anything in return.  0528
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026When can the good people of Clacton hope to see you on the campaign trail there, M’lord? 000
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Can someone from the new Treasury team now reverse the idiotic new requirement for freelancers and small businesses to produce quarterly accounts under MTD please? It’s hours of extra work & won’t bring in one extra penny in tax. As usual, the only winners are accountants. 000
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I thought there was a cost order prior to the trial which limited costs for the claimants to 4.1 million and to 4.5 million for ANL? www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/cost-bu...doughtystreet.co.ukCost budgets set in Prince Harry’s hacking claim against Daily Mail publisherIn a ruling on Friday following a preliminary hearing in November last year, Mr Justice Nicklin and Senior Master Cook said the costs budgets proposed by the parties were “manifestly excessive”&nbs 010
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived. 251039241
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again. 1583729800
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy Father's Day 🖤 997420346319
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage). 50845306
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026www.stern.de/politik/ausl...stern.deDer nächste britische Premier könnte Nigel Farage heißen. Schuld wäre Keir StarmerMit dem faden Keir Starmer sollte Kompetenz und Ruhe in Großbritanniens Regierung zurückkehren. Die Realität ist eine andere. Von einem schlechten Premierminister, der es gut meint. 000
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026“We are not fighting over politics. We are fighting for the soul of a country.” 010
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10/05/2026Want to know who is in Nigel Farage's inner circle? An FT deep dive: as.ft.com/r/6172c04b-c...as.ft.comThe court of king FarageAs Reform UK’s leader aims for government, he must juggle a growing crowd of admirers and influence-seekers 74316
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Does the swimming have to be done in mineral water? Also, I was wondering if you have time for a quick phone interview with stern magazine (German weekly) about the elections? 000
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandDavid Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue! 13685411849
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandMr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there. 724181
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 13/04/2026And the massive corruption. And the Russians. 010
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2026That’s very strange. Is this Thameslink? I bought e-tickets covering Thameslink on Trainline. I would take this up with them. 100
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I always buy mine on Trainline - does that not work on your line? 200
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandBarbara Cooney @barbaracooney.bsky.social · 05/04/2026At least one of our newspapers didn't whitewash Trump's vile and intemperate outburst. #Trump #DonaldTrump #Iran #StraitofHormuz 625677
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 03/04/2026That famous treaty they made entirely with themselves. That one. 68911
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman 287218437373
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Ok, I’ll give the English edition a plug then. 010
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Thanks for seeing us at the FPA last week, great briefing! Do you know if/when there’ll be a German edition, and what its title will be? I can’t find anything online. 100
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 20/03/2026 Not fighting a war with Iran would presumably have a similar effect. 310522
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026www.stern.de/politik/ausl...stern.deDer heimliche, unheimliche Einfluss des Tony BlairTony Blair ruinierte sein Image mit dem Irakkrieg. Das möchte er ändern. Jüngste zwielichtige Verbindungen legen nahe: Für den Ex-Premier heiligt der Zweck offenbar alle Mittel. 000
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2026“The markets have largely swallowed the fundamental underlying Trump idiocy, which is that he is the only pertinent person in world affairs. Plainly he believes this, but he is wrong. And he is discovering how wrong he is as we speak.” open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...open.substack.comThe world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nutsThe president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care? 000
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing. 931901700
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social Brexit a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce) b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%) www.cer.eu/insights/imp...cer.euThe impact of Brexit on immigration to the UKA new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin. 36482248
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I love Jeremy Bowen in "I'm too old for this shit" mode #wato 61258
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 04/03/2026It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis. It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons. 841267224
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/02/2026Watch this twice. Once for Hannah's speech and a second time for Matt Goodwin's face throughout it... 1116433
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2026He also somehow manages to look like an evil version of Mr Bean, as a German friend just remarked (apologies to Mr Bean) 020
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/02/2026a year is a long time in politics 682931708
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeksKaren Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i... 24471894174
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 21/02/2026this FT reporting team exposed a secret Russian smuggling team by using this one weird trick -- they all shared the same email address??? as.ft.com/r/aa78dec9-c...as.ft.comEmail blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring[FREE TO READ] Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter 68035
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2026It’s a mark of the poverty of thought of these characters that they have to take a brilliant writer’s imagination and use her novel as an instruction manual. And only after it became a TV series because they don’t read. They can’t even invent their own fascist dictatorship. 010
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2026All the men (and a few women, let’s not forget those) did, centrists and right-wing populist alike. It’s just that there are no consequences for the latter. It’s quite clear that Epstein had no preference re left/right/centre. He just hated women and wanted to burn it all down. 000
Dagmar Seeland @dseelandwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2026In Europe, the publication of the Epstein files above all helps right-wing populists. Which was probably the plan. www.stern.de/politik/ausl...stern.deAm Ende lachen die PopulistenDie mühsame Aufarbeitung der Epstein-Akten hat in Europa bislang härtere Konsequenzen als in den USA. Die Profiteure sind nicht die Opfer. 100
Reposted by Dagmar SeelandMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Name them shame them 5994001011459