Reposted by George Margelis David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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). 4156751559 5.7K
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Almost 15 years in the city, I never managed to adopt bicycles as a transportation option before electric ones became mainstream. 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Iran should have put "release the Epstein files" as the 11th point. 011 1
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026That's some sharp criticism there, sharp like the rays of a sharp sun sharply piercing through sharp clouds. 050 5
Reposted by George Margelis Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Recap: 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. 34593763013 9.4K
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Not to mention that if the USA's current justification for the war was applied in a nuclear context, we'd be living in irradiated wastelands since the 80s. It's exactly because we didn't think this way that we've survived. 010 1
Reposted by George Margelis 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!” 02196509 2.2K
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Truly "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". 020 2
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025The 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. 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Still I thought it was one of the best season of the programme worldwide 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025And yet it was not the lack of Brexit dividends that hurt Boris but partygate...and Trump is likely impervious to these kind of things. 000 0
Reposted by George Margelis Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Including judgments against Greece for death of a migrant, and against Serbia for extradition to an unsafe country 03310 33
Reposted by George Margelis Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Zelensky 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. 20970222 970
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Wookie 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?" 000 0
Reposted by George Margelis Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Just the most fantastic thread about the lovely Gene Hackman. Joyful. 094 9
Reposted by George Margelis Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 21/02/2025As 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. 3104 10
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Imagine trying to explain this to someone 20 years ago 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025With 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. 010 1
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The first Secretary of Education to have been a playable character in "WWF No Mercy" for the Nintendo 64. 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I'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 010 1
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Glad to see cool photographers joining this side :) 040 4
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024You 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. 010 1
Reposted by George Margelis Joshua S Campbell @disruptivegeo.bsky.social · 23/10/2024Milley 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...nytimes.comAs Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a DictatorJohn Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist. 721671 216
Reposted by George Margelis Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15/10/2024Here'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!" 381084431 1.1K
Reposted by George Margelis Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2024Laura 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...bylinetimes.comLaura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic FailureThanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse 1518084 180
Reposted by George Margelis Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/08/2024New 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...samf.substack.comUkraine's Invasion of KurskChanging the narrative 920372 203
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 20/08/2024Censor* Damn, we're back to the days of yore indeed (i.e. the "can't fix the typos" days) 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 20/08/2024this may be me being silly, but what would stop bots reporting legitimate account as bots to censure them? 300 3
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Watching 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 000 0
Reposted by George Margelis Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 18/11/2023This 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... 251418275 1.4K
Reposted by George Margelis John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 28/10/2023Other 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. 211539 115
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 10/10/2023It's not enough that the German antinuclear obsession limits Germany, it needs to spill out beyond the German borders too 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/10/2023So 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... 000 0
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/10/2023That's great news, tweetdeck really upgraded the twitter experience tenfold. What's the name of that app? 100 1
George Margelis @georgemargelis.bsky.social · 08/10/2023Hello fellow ex-twitters. Is there any way to create lists here? It really made a difference in the previous app 260 6