Reposted by Jeff WhyteFoucault News @foucault-news.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Stuart Elden, The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft (2026)michel-foucault.comStuart Elden, The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft (2026) 033
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 25/08/2026J.D. Vance up all night reading Harold Innis’ The Fur Trade in Canada by candlelight, desperately trying to understand the Staples Thesis 120
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 25/08/2026youtu.be/MXnTbmPxv5g?...youtu.beKim Mitchell - Go For SodaYouTube video by KimMitchellVEVO 100
Reposted by Jeff WhyteRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 416159863947
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Animorphs book cover but it’s Andy Burnham turning into Kier Starmer 020
Reposted by Jeff WhyteBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/07/2026There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of centrists who bemoan "political polarization" and call for a politics that abandons the "tribalism of left and right." 1/ 7289120
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 06/07/2026[Scene: Island of Ithaca] Antinous, eating apple from Odysseus grove, suddenly run through with spear [Odysseus]: How do you like THEM apples? 020
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I broke down and tried buying an avocado in the UK again 040
Reposted by Jeff WhyteGerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026RIP Yves Lacoste. He created the possibility of thinking critically about geopolitics, wresting it from the right. 2137
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 17/05/2026My most conservative belief is that the man in a relationship should know how to download pirated movies and TV shows 110
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Watching the old Agatha Christie Poirot TV series and singing, every time he solves the crime, to the tune of the "ole ole ole" football song, "Poirot, Poirot, Poirot, Poirot" etc. 030
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I’m here to shut the fuck up and chew bubble gum… and I’m all out of gum 000
Reposted by Jeff WhytePaul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way 6253138
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 13/03/2026“Russia is providing Iran with military aide and we’re lifting sanctions on them” is a helluva grand strategy 020
Reposted by Jeff WhyteMaryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The US/Israel have hit 77 medical facilities in Iran. In a little over 1 week. Medical facilities receive some of the highest protections under int'l law. But for US/Israel targeting them is just another way of launching total war against civilians x.com/AryJeay/stat... 89963
Reposted by Jeff WhyteChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share: 514177357129
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Western Civilisation: the ultimate parasocial relationship 030
Reposted by Jeff WhyteSPIN Research Network @researchspin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026🪙 Join our SPIN Panel Session to hear more about the research underpining two chapters in our forthcoming SPIN volume. Ana Flamind on 'Secrecy and the Politics of Transgression' and Jamie Johnson and Owen D Thomas on 'Sense-Making at the End of Liberalism' 11 Feb | 15:00 | Online 🔗bit.lySPIN Panel Session 'Secrecy, Scandal, Transgression': Dr Ana Flamind, Dr Jamie Johnson, Dr Owen D Thomas - SPINSPIN is delighted to welcome three speakers to our first SPIN Panel Session of 2026. This will also be the... 022
Reposted by Jeff WhyteHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche... 1173250
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Greg Bovino is a more and better Pynchonian name than Steven Lockjaw 000
Reposted by Jeff WhyteMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/01/2026The complaint is difficult reading, but if you need a condensed timeline of events in Minneapolis... I think I missed this incident entirely: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132... 21379497
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 03/01/2026We need to start normalising the slur ‘toaster’ to talk about AI, like in Battlestar Galactica 030
Reposted by Jeff WhyteCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025honestly I think we specifically need to ban chatbots for this specific generation of extremely wealthy elderly academics 88710
Reposted by Jeff WhyteDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 17/12/2025The definition of these grievance conservatives to me is, guys who can't do whatever deal they claim only they can do, and blame everyone other than themselves for this. That's Sarah Palin, that's shitty stand-ups, that's Bari Weiss, it is a through line through all of them. They bring nothing. 317328
Reposted by Jeff WhyteThe Onion @theonion.com · 12/12/2025Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz 336178503087
Reposted by Jeff Whyteonion person @junlper.beer · 09/12/2025these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything 634281679
Reposted by Jeff WhyteCharlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share! ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess. This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... 45715
Reposted by Jeff WhyteBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/12/2025It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing 181097198
Reposted by Jeff Whyte🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content. 319106797932
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Come to my book talk this Wed (Nov 19) at 3pm GMT! I'll be talking about my research on the political history of 'psychological war,' how we came to think about 'wars of ideas,' and how psywar has often justified rather than replaced traditional forms of military violence. Details in link! 072
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 17/11/2025No two countries with Hard Rock Cafes have ever gone to war 010
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Did Hard Rock Cafe ever get around to saving the planet? 010
Reposted by Jeff WhyteElspeth Van Veeren @evanveeren.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Next Wednesday, join us for a talk by @jeffwhyte.bsky.social on his latest book - The Birth of Psychological Warfare (OUP). Of interest to those researching and studying US military conflict and history, propaganda, intelligence operations and post-truth politics. Join us! See link for details. 022
Reposted by Jeff WhyteFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Help fight the closure of geography at Leicester. Solidarity with all combatting this 162
Reposted by Jeff WhyteThe Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) 🏴 @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025lol 102141294339
Reposted by Jeff WhytePatrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 21/10/2025The Maine Democratic primary: 022
Reposted by Jeff WhyteBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 17/10/2025You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿? 8475601653
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 10/10/2025One of the best throwaway jokes from One Battle After Another was at the convent they take them to the "Pancho Villa Suite" 000
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2025media.tenor.coman older man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a table with a notebook and water bottles .ALT: an older man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a table with a notebook and water bottles . 040
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Very cool that the Labour government is going to criminalise protest then hand the keys over to Reform 040
Reposted by Jeff WhyteNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 04/10/2025Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right. 10484122
