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Paul Martin

@jo95017.bsky.social
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Grouchy exiled Hullensian, unrepentant Wadhamite.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
AI tools are immensely powerful. The use of AI as a general purpose chat bot that is used like an encyclopaedia is the worst possible use of AI. AI is now, given good instructions from a knowledgeable user, capable of doing absolutely vast amounts of work extremely fast.
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Studios are pathologically averse to new material. Disney is the same. It's like watching dogs gobble up their own sick. The Return of Dog Food Legends of Carrot Chunk The Animated Adventures of Bile Semi-Digested Biscuits 2049 Sick Tales 4: Back Into the Mouth Vomit Days: A Sick Tales Prequel
Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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Mike 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @notkissinger.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
It really is the best word for this. A nation that defeated fascism during WW2 and won the Cold War, only to be felled by a game show host and parking lot lawyer. Humiliating.
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
(walking into an academic's office) wow! have you skimmed all these books?
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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Tired: interpreting the actions of SCOTUS as emerging from precedent and theories of jurisprudence Wired: interpreting the actions of SCOTUS as emerging from their status as competitive moves in a high-stakes game of Mornington Crescent
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I can at least understand why Trump's army of sporadic low-information voters were nostalgic for 2019, but for six figure pundits to be like "wow, could remember how stressful and chaotic a Trump presidency could be" I dunno
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We need EVERYONE to see this advert for a Head of Operations at the Palace (£40-45k). Otherwise we might get some kind of numpty in charge. Please share. If we get 50 shares we'll post a video of #CuratorRob playing a hoover like a didgeridoo. hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...
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Effortless people admin
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Dispatches from a country slipping into authoritarianism (if we don't come together to stop it)
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 10/04/2025
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 09/04/2025
Storm has acquired the book, film and television rights to Fall Into You and two other queer romantic comedy novels from fan fiction writer Dylan Morrison. 👇 #BookSky
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Storm Publishing makes three-book deal with fan-fiction writer Dylan Morrison
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Ros Wynne-Jones @roswynnejones.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The national conversation about masculinity sparked by Adolescence should include paternity leave. UK one of the worst in Europe, denying families support at a critical time. We spoke to some brave dads about effect on family finances & mental health. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Lost count of number of people who’ve told me a) they won’t travel outside of US for fear of not being allowed back in and b) foreigners canceling plans to visit US. Those in group a) are making plans to become b). In a few short weeks, America’s soft power has been flushed down the toilet.
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Paul Martin @jo95017.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A 🧵for future reference trying to put forward the pessimistic case for why US elections being state-run does not rule out significant democratic backsliding in the 2026 general election. The argument has been made that state control of elections provides significant reassurance. (1/11)
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Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A Polish friend of mine learned the only 2 facts about swans any Brit knows, then confused them and, gloriously, *forgot they were about swans*, so one day she told me: "Did you know that the Queen is the only person in England allowed to break your arm?"
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2025
Macron corrects Trump after he claims "Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back."
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The Starmer aide/AI stuff feels a bit canary/coalmine because this isn't letting electoral factors triumph over good governance or sinply doing something I don't like - things every government does - this is falling for a scam. There are people in Nunber 10 who are just idiots.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Most people are hugely underestimating how bad things are going to get politically and economically in the US in the near to medium-term.
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Presidential Perils @presidentialperils.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"One of the positive characteristics attributed to presidentialism is accountability and identifiability. The voter in casting his ballot knows whom he or she is voting for and who will govern should this candidate win." - Linz, The Failure of Presidential Democracy, 1994 nymag.com/intelligence...
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Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
There isn't much to practically anticipate at the moment but civil unrest is virtually locked in
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Changed my email signature to "And there's nothing any of you can do to stop me!" Mostly positive feedback so far
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
NEW on Wonkhe: A detailed national dataset on the disabled student experience paints a bleak picture of progress on enabling access to education. Jim Dickinson tries to find the light. buff.ly/3W7SI03
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Virgin BBC election night: you are probably not interested in seeing the actual counts of the election results Chad RTE election weekend: so as you can see it appears that in Carlow-Kilkenny, during the third round of the count around 300 votes from the surplus of the elected Fine Gael are...
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
BLOG POST: “What I came to realise is that you don’t ever really shed working classness. It’s baked in. It shapes your attitudes to life and your perspective on the world. In the negative sense, the scars are permanent.” ✍ precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/08/25/t...
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The self-loathing of the working class writer
I’d have been shy about calling myself a ‘working class writer’ a decade or so ago. Which is ridiculous, with hindsight – because what else am I?
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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
Tiffany Velour is a pampered society girl who inherited her uncle's private security firm. Jackie Fleece is a wisecracking ex-con turned private investigator. Together they take on the cases rougher fabrics can't handle. Coming this fall to ABC.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Look I'm sure the falcon can probably still hear the falconer
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 03/11/2023
Exec: so what are the names of the gross pasty nerd billionaire and his weird girlfriend? Writer: Musk and Grime Exec: and the embezzler? Writer: Sam Bankman-Fraud Exec: and the politician and his son who do organized crime? Writer: Don and Don Junior Exec: get the fuck out of my office
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
I played rugby for nearly 15yrs and I've got literally no idea what the rules are other than you can't pass forward and I'm sure I'm not the only one
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