ido @ido.bsky.social · 07/09/2026having pleasant premonitions of the AfD taking power nationally just as Germany's vastly beefed up military and intelligence-gathering capabilities come on stream 0110
ido @ido.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Really think UK urbanist discourse needs a more sophisticated lens of analysis than complaining about what was genuinely one of the grimmest areas in London becoming, ultimately, significantly more welcoming www.theguardian.com/cities/2026/...theguardian.comHow Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken 0161
Reposted by idoEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 16/07/2026In August 2024 Rodri and Álvaro Morata were rightly banned for one match for singing “Gibraltar is Spain”. Now the Argentine players who celebrated with the “Falklands are Argentine” banner must be barred from the final. 6628247
ido @ido.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Edvard Munch………. roald dahl…………… odin………….. Harald Bluetooth……….. magnus carlssen..... your boys took a hell of a beating!!!!!!!!!! 070
ido @ido.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I hope the Norwegian commentators are working hard on an updated version of this commentary if they win on Saturday www.youtube.com/watch?v=urVj...youtube.comBest soccer commentary ever !!YouTube video by Football.Fussball.Voetbal. 294
ido @ido.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Love this. As if there hadn't literally been pogroms against non-white people in NI and massive anti-immigrant protests in Ireland. But yeah, guess the 'Celtic nations' will be massively alienated [in contrast to England] by an anti-immigration UK leader. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 173
ido @ido.bsky.social · 03/07/2026So funny that Merz's Big Labour Market reform involves such monumental unheavals as.. allowing libraries to open on Sundays 1100
ido @ido.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Friday was an all-time temperature high in Germany, a record broken on Saturday, and then beaten today. This reality does feel a little discordant with the political debate, which is almost universally about just how far to retreat from net zero. 110328
Reposted by idoKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/06/2026Not that I don't trust Mr Banker but I had to check this was true and.... Christ on a bike, the brass neck on this fella share.google/UGToAwIdibgp...share.google'Red Ed Miliband' as Chancellor would be a disaster for Britain – Kwasi Kwarteng'Red Ed' is undoubtedly the most fearful of a frightening bunch, the former Chancellor writes 1224551
ido @ido.bsky.social · 27/06/2026They despise us. It's really as simple as that. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...politico.com‘More people die in the winter’: Wright downplays Europe’s deadly heat waveThe U.S. Energy secretary made his comments as the EU warned of life-threatening dangers from record-high temperatures. 060
Reposted by idoDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I get endless cold-emails selling me something. Was wondering how many of them are human. The answer turns out to be: none. Updated my LinkedIn profile yesterday. 10 monastic messages today, of which this was the best. 2036373
ido @ido.bsky.social · 09/06/2026It is genuinely insane that days before the SpaceX IPO Elon Musk's attention is on inciting a race war in a country he doesn't live in 829969
ido @ido.bsky.social · 30/05/2026It's a day ending in Y, which means it's time to for a national newspaper to print some boomer's opinions on the housing market, and today's a doozy: 230
ido @ido.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Why does a random cycling quango have a veto on building decisions? www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPlans for Salford tower blocks put on hold over travel concernsConcerns are raised about the level of 150
ido @ido.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Michael O'Leary is so good at PR. Month after month gets mountains of free press. Truly the greatest to ever do it. 040
ido @ido.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Remarkably clear-sighted comments www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...thetimes.comSir Mark Rowley: Jews are at centre of ‘ghastly Venn diagram of hate’The Metropolitan Police commissioner has spent years warning of a growing tide of antisemitism, feeding on ideas becoming more embedded in society 140
ido @ido.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Recently rewatched Chernobyl and came across this documentary. It's quite astonishing how closely the series tracks the archival footage www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXI...youtube.comФИЛЬМ "ЧЕРНОБЫЛЬ. 3828"YouTube video by Telecon documentary 020
ido @ido.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Once again thinking of this illustration for a TV report on the first McDonald's to open in the USSR 072
Reposted by idoCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026It’s a hard thing to say but it’s now obvious: Britain has an antisemitism problem. How deep, widespread and violent it is is something I am not expert enough to know. But I’ve been around here long enough to know that Britain now has an antisemitism problem that didn’t exist when I was younger. 1819627
Reposted by idoSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I've never been one of those "it's getting too dangerous for Jews to live here" people but this is getting really fucking scary. Not that there's anywhere better to go. 2140166
Reposted by idoStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result. 642191475
ido @ido.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Beyond surreal for a *Green* party to be advocating for fossil fuel subsidies that would directly harm the poorest people in the world. 1223973
Reposted by idoGlobe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 25/04/2026to paraphrase gandhi. what do I think of social media? I think it would be a good idea 0111
Reposted by idoshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous. 101167023378
Reposted by idoWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/04/2026It's truly amazing to watch the spectacle of the American presidency turn into this sycophantic circus of a tinpot regime. 914034
Reposted by idoThe Onion @theonion.com · 23/04/2026Ashamed Meta Employee Just Tells Everyone He Works As Guard In Private Prison For Disabled Children theonion.com/ashamed-meta-employee-… 295937971
Reposted by idoido @ido.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Made myself a fancy photography portfolio. Nuts what Claude can do. idovockphoto.comidovockphoto.comIdo Vock — Photographs 151
Reposted by idoNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 22/04/2026well *that* is a lede www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... 9873201
ido @ido.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Made myself a fancy photography portfolio. Nuts what Claude can do. idovockphoto.comidovockphoto.comIdo Vock — Photographs 151
ido @ido.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Doesn’t matter if you’re in business or international relations. The guy cannot be won over with golden statuettes or bon mots. He will fuck you over and humiliate you for the sake of it. 071
Reposted by idoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2026Trump: "You want to see a stock market go down? Let a couple nuclear bombs be dropped on us, then you'll see a stock market go down. So the stock market has not gone very much at all. It's gone down a little bit. Much less than I thought. And frankly the gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought." 4041478395
ido @ido.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Dropping bowling balls on US cars is a great idea, we should start doing that www.ft.com/content/2e68...ft.com 010
ido @ido.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This is the gratitude Europe gets for helping America with its forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 0487
Reposted by idoSimon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: 465231447589
Reposted by idoGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I've had a lot of conversations with national security-focused colleagues in recent weeks, and come to believe we are wildly underestimating the chance Trump goes nuclear against Iran. I think it's about three percent — which is an astoundingly high chance. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-a...doomsdayscenario.coIs Trump About To Nuke Iran?The fact we can't say "no" for sure should terrify us. 50563203
ido @ido.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Is it good when the Jewish space lasers lady is calling you nuts? 1338
ido @ido.bsky.social · 05/04/2026don't envy my colleagues working in daily news who have to write the web headlines today/print headlines tomorrow. 340