Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Christopher Cross is the most killed-by-video radio star 060
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. 416159823946
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 · 17/05/2026This overlaps with my strongest felt generational complaint that young people have not learned the art of getting stuff for free on the internet 010
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 · 20/04/2026This makes him sound like the groundhog on Groundhog Day 110
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: 514177337128
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 05/03/2026That perverse feeling of excitement when the bad thing you study happens 110
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 03/03/2026But think of how many Sun Tsu/Clausewitz style strategic geniuses he will have created 110
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
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I take this to mean that he literally, at that moment, believed he was a farmer 110
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
