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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸

@ewanvalentine.bsky.social
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Senior Software Engineer in Defence/NatSec, Derby County, #NAFO enthusiast, lover of Metal and music.

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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If you're as obsessed with how Russian media infiltrates the West, then you have to listed to this podcast. It's one of the best, if not the best I've heard on the Tennet media scandal, and Russian disinformation campaigns in general
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
An RAF Boeing E-7 Wedgetail just flew low over my house 🤨
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Me: I'm going to sort my finances out this year and get in shape World: Here's two virus outbreaks, three new wars and another global shipping crisis
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What's next
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I'm still chipping away at: rightwingmapper.com I've added lots of new features, and lots of new data points. And it's proving to be an effective tool. I'd love to onboard a journalist to try it out and embed a graph into an article. Anyone interested? Please tag any suggestions!
rightwingmapper.com
Influence Mapper
Map influence networks and follow the money.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Got some Diazepam so I can sleep better with sciatica. And it's the first time I've never checked my smart watch in the morning, and it's like 'yep, perfect nights sleep, top recovery, full 8 hours'. Shame it's so dangerous and addictive
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is absolutely top tier stuff
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I actually can't be bothered with UFO's atm tbh
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fed a squirrel today because it was staring at me through the window, opened the back door, fucking thing tried to leg it into my house between my legs. They've gone completely mental
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
btw, I got the wrong date, I thought today was May 9th, I meant tomorrow...
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reform, for the next 2.5 years, will be an endless stream of countless councils they've completely fucked up out of incompetence and hubris. And they'll look like shit by the general election. I'd put money on it
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Reckon Kerch bridge is gone tomorrow
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Guide for none British Ukraine supporters on our local elections. Excellent: Liberal Democrats (center), Labour (center-left) - pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO, internationalist, pro-EU. Okay: Conservative Party (center-right) - pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO, semi-internationalist, divided on EU.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
1/ The war in Ukraine completely changed my political views over the years. I was a sort of edge-lord Libertarian, suspicious of government, suspicious of NATO, pro-Brexit, impartial to people like Farage. I was frankly delusional, but good at arguing. And the poster boy for cognitive bias.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This local election is going to be deeply depressing I fear. And it will show us how little time we have left to defeat the populist narratives in Britain. I hope our sensible politicians take this result as seriously as can possibly be taken.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sciatica is absolute torture
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
You know how we evolved from Chimps and Bonobos, imagine if there was a human equivalent that evolved from Orangs? A sort of big ginger autistic super intelligent human
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
There's a new Boards of Canada album out this month 🤯
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
There's an older lad in the gym, and his go to gym t-shirt is a Ukrainian flag sports shirt with a huge trident on the front. Really wanna give him a thumbs up for it at some point, or hope I'm wearing my Wild Hornets shirt on the same day he's in
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Quite something how well that speech went down in the U.S., seeing U.S. senators across the board finding some unity and inspiration from it. Kinda crazy, given they've been slagging us off for weeks 😂
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Our King 🥹
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
To be fair, it would be funny if the Argentinians tried anything. Would be an abrupt end to Milei
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
You can now fork existing maps to create your own: rightwingmapper.com also, there's an AI powered feature where you can scan an article and it'll auto-extract the linked entities from the text
rightwingmapper.com
Influence Mapper
Map influence networks and follow the money.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Also a design overhaul. I'm going to get a new domain name to reflect the fact it's becoming a general influence mapping platform at some point
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Releasing today: the ability to sign-up and request a journalist account, you'll then be able to fork existing maps and create your own! rightwingmapper.com
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You can now share specific views via a URL: rightwingmapper.com/maps/influen... You can now also embed specific views into articles etc. Whole thing now sits in a full database structure. Might be interested: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is how the AI bubble bursts I reckon. The AI companies realise engineers are absolutely blasting through free tokens forced to make it prohibitively expensive, cuts off a large section of the people who most find it useful. There's no way I'd upgrade to £100 a month or whatever the next tier is
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It has a domain name: rightwingmapper.com
rightwingmapper.com
Influence Mapper (prototype)
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Go check it out! rightwingmapper.vercel.app
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Started visually mapping right wing influence networks: rightwingmapper.vercel.app If anyone has any articles similar to: bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e... That exposes similar networks of influence, please let me know, I'll add it to the map!
rightwingmapper.vercel.app
Influence Mapper (prototype)
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Your doctor when you don't eat an apple a day
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Oh man, what a fucking breath of fresh air
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This change alone is one of the most important changes he can do. There's no bigger side that democracy is going sideways in a country when leaders start trying to break out of term limits. That's the one thing even Trump will only half-joke about or flirted with briefly
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Just had the god botherers around. Didn't even occur to me that's who they were, and I go off on one about NATO and the UN. Apparently the correct answer was Jesus
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Really feels like MAGA are dying on the other app, quite something to see`
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I predict that Israel will continue bombing Iran, therefor Iran will continue to block the straight, Trump will get annoyed at Israel for making him look bad. Then there'll be another cycle of threats, some more deadlines and the cycle will repeat.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Lost 1 stone 2 lbs in 5 months. Not bad. And I didn't have to quit weekend beers.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Kangaroo court... that he appointed
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Yeah... funny that.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
There's so many fungus gnats in my office thanks to my chilli plants, I now re-home spiders I find around the house to my office in the hopes they'll keep the population down. But now I'm worried it'll get over run with spiders, and I'll need a flock of wrens in my office.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is funny, because most world leaders and foreign govs tip toe around Trump and allow him to just lie about things. But Iran have nothing to gain from that, so we're seeing Trump be fact checked on his lies for once
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I've made a Project 2025 tracker: p2025t.vercel.app Could do with some fact checkers though... wanna make sure I've capture the current state of all of them correctly
p2025t.vercel.app
Project 2025 Policy Tracker
Tracking every major policy proposal from Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership (Project 2025) and whether the Trump administration has enacted them.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Trump: "amazing discussions with Iran, we can start winding this down" Iran: "We haven't spoken with Washington..." Jesus fucking christ. He's panicking his sweaty orange arse off.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If Orban magically wins this upcoming election, then Hungary just needs to be expelled or suspended from the EU, completely cut out of any meaningful involvement and funds cut off.`
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Just tried a slither of a Carolina Reaper I grew. I can now understand why ambulances are called.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"They can soon switch to paper mail, telegraph and horses. That’s the kind of civilization. Maybe Putin likes it. Maybe this is how he feels young again." I absolutely adore Zelenskyy
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My mate who lives in China spotted this on a busy motorway earlier 😂🥴
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
So let me get this straight. Trump lifts sanctions on Russian energy, they're raking it in, and now helping to fund Iran. Who are then blowing up oil tankers and raising the price of oil globally. What is this timeline.
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Currently hatewatching the Melania doc. And she's like "I have to manage to complexity of my life" and it cuts to her just choosing between a series of almost identical white shirts and talking about re-designing a bowling alley
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Ewan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @ewanvalentine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
American friends. I have a question. For whatever reason, the small to medium sized town I live in now has a Wendy's... What, in theory, am I getting?
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