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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Iran should have put "release the Epstein files" as the 11th point.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Recap: Hour 1: We hit them like they’ve never been hit before. Day 1: We already won this war. It was easy. Yay us. Day 5: We don’t need any help. Don’t bother showing up after the war is over. Losers. Day 13: Why isn’t the world helping us? There will be be consequences.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Truly "2+2=5" stuff from Alex Burghart here, who describes being inside the EU and making the rules as being a "rule taker" whilst being isolated and having to abide by others' rules a "rule maker".

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The West Wing used to be enjoyable in its idealism but watching it today, with Trump it gives me nostalgia vibes in the Greek sense... Pain from a past where I had faith in US politics.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Including judgments against Greece for death of a migrant, and against Serbia for extradition to an unsafe country

Screenshot of the press release summary of the two judgments. Full text in the link.

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Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky has led the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression for over 3 years. He has aged 30 years in that time. And there he sits in the Oval Office with two mindless gorillas threatening him and shouting utter nonsense at him. Never in my life have I seen anything so undignified.

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Wookie 1 to Wookie 2: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Imperials ever done for us?"

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just the most fantastic thread about the lovely Gene Hackman. Joyful.

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

As Dutch PM and #EUCO member for fourteen years he made sure the EU was kept weak and small and unable to "get its act together". The times they are a-changin' allright.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025

OpenAI right now

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Imagine trying to explain this to someone 20 years ago

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

With so many housing-related issues in the UK you may think it can't get any worse - and then your read this www.ft.com/content/cbcd... We need leasehold reform and higher density housing in the UK.

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm not against the new #jaguar logo, but I do think it fits better to a dating app for older women looking for younger men than to a car company

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Glad to see cool photographers joining this side :)

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

You can measure the popularity of a social network using the following 3 metrics from the "discover" tab A) number of academics posting, B) number of journalists posting, and C) number of OF accounts posting. Last metric clearly rising the last couple of weeks.

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Joshua S Campbell @disruptivegeo.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Milley first, now Kelly. Read the article, he said he wouldn’t speak out unless a threshold of danger was breached…and comments about using military on the “enemy within” pushed him over the edge. He even read aloud a definition of fascism to justify his argument. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/u...

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As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator

John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15/10/2024

Here's the full, chilling quote from Trump's former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, the retired Gen. Mark Milley, in Bob Woodward's new "War." "You have got to stop him! ... He is the most dangerous person to this country. ... A fascist to the core!"

Two days later, on Monday, March 6, 2023, I attended a reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.

“We gotta talk,” General Milley said as I approached him.

Milley was not in uniform but wearing a fashionable dark sports coat and plaid shirt. He had a freshly showered look and he seemed relaxed, though he stood barrel-chested with the ramrod-straight posture of an Army general.

Milley was still worried about Trump.

“No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” Milley said. “Do you realize, do you see what this man is? I glimpsed it when I talked to you back—for Peril, but I now know it. I now know it.”

Milley had shared with me his worries about Trump’s mental stability and control of nuclear weapons for the book Peril I coauthored with Robert Costa.

Milley and I continued to talk, proving it is possible to have a very private conversation in the middle of a crowded room.

“We have got to stop him!” Milley said. “You have got to stop him!” By “you” he meant the press broadly. “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.”

His eyes darted around the room filled with 200 guests of the Cohen Group, a global business consulting firm headed by former defense secretary William Cohen. Cohen and former defense secretary James Mattis spoke at the reception.

“A fascist to the core!” Milley repeated to me.

I will never forget the intensity of his worry.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, writes former BBC journalist Patrick Howse in @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/l...

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Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure

Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social on the Ukraine attack on Kursk. A great explainer on how the Ukrainians launched their dramatic incursion into Russia. And what it might mean. samf.substack.com/p/ukraines-i...

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Ukraine's Invasion of Kursk

Changing the narrative

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Watching Hancock argue that he should have overruled the "science" based on his hunch is the physical manifestation of someone being at the first peak of the Dunning Kruger effect chart and shouting to everyone how wise they are

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

This favorite amongst fake history accounts is circulating again. It's not old, not Japanese, and not an engraving. It's a digital piece by a Russian freelance artist from 2007: www.free-lancers.net/users/Origin...

A smooth-lined digital illustration of a beautiful woman slicing the hem of her flowing red robe so as not to disturb a cat which is sleeping on the fabric. A signature in the lower right corner indicates the work was created in 2007. Text above it reads "Old Japanese engraving 'a woman cuts the hem of a kimono so as not to wake cat'"

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 28/10/2023

Other countries have the same rise in graduate numbers without the same decline in graduate earnings, because they’ve created good jobs. When people say Britain sends too many people to uni, they’re saying we’re not a country where skilled people can expect to find skilled jobs.

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

It's not enough that the German antinuclear obsession limits Germany, it needs to spill out beyond the German borders too

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

So glad to be able to read John's incredibly threads without supporting a certain South African egomaniac. Now if only a certain member of the Enterprise were to find his way here...

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George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Hello fellow ex-twitters. Is there any way to create lists here? It really made a difference in the previous app

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