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Ken Page

@kenpage.bsky.social
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Irishman in Brussels with bits left in Lisbon, London, Edinburgh and Dublin. I do geopolitical comms and advisory stuff. (Views my own, nobody else’s)

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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They still haven’t learned. Still taking a bits and pieces approach like they have leverage
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe there’s an evolutionary reason behind bullying at a young age
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Uh… huh. I’m old enough to remember the big revolutionary ‘metaverse’
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The UK looking at its Commonwealth members:
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For Europeans, this is €1.36 per litre
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Sterling Archer: Phrasing!
ALT: Sterling Archer: Phrasing!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We already knew Egyptian intelligence warned Israel ahead of Oct. 7 and the Netanyahu govt dismissed it. Now we learn UAE leader MBZ warned Bibi directly that Hamas was about to try something big. He dismissed that too. One of the worst security failures in history. And followed by so much awful.
haaretz.com
Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Are these killer whales out for revenge on humans—or just trying to play?” - Opinion piece: A Killer Whale www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Are these killer whales out for revenge on humans—or just trying to play?
Iberian orcas have been ramming boats off the coast of Portugal and Spain. But what looks like vengeance may have a more benign explanation
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/09/2026
164 countries at the UN have voted to encourage the use of a better - because more accurate - world map than the Mercator projection. You wanna guess which ONE country voted against? 😂 www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Soooooo…. this type of language is familiar. “"There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration," Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference…” www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
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Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says
Israel is "organised and prepared" to remove Palestininians from Gaza "by every way possible", Defence Minister Israel Katz told reporters Wednesday, adding that there was no alternative "solution" to...
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Henry Ford is long dead. We should stop caring what long dead people would think. Their opinions are irrelevant now.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
These images remind me of something, and I can’t quite put my finger on it…
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Serbia’s Justice Minister announces that genocidaire Ratko Mladic will be buried in the country with the highest state honors. It’s good that the Serbian government is doing this, so everyone can finally see the true, monstrous face of the Vucic regime. No illusions. www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/...
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Sramota koja se nikada neće oprati: Srbija će sahraniti zločinca Mladića uz najviše državne počasti
Ministar pravde Srbije Nenad Vujić rekao je da će presuđeni ratni zločinac Ratko Mladić biti sahranjen u Srbiji uz najviše državni počasti.
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Very interesting & mildly terrifying piece about the cash-free app-centred consumer paradise that is China, and how you can be barred from this Garden of Eden, cut off from buying anything, if you're a digital undesirable (via @raijimmaru.bsky.social) www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
chinafile.com
App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yes, why AREN’T America’s allies coming to their aid in international conflicts anymore 🤔
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And then, they put their fingers on your nose, and they say they just take it. They say they have your nose. And they show you a wiggling finger that looks like it. But they don’t take it really, because it’s a trick. Extremely cunning people.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda” This sounds like a terrible terrible parody comedy sketch
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
All I can think of is Eamon Dunphy for some reason…
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s Groundhog Day as Saudi ‘intervenes’ in Yemen against the Houthis. Again. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Saudi forces planning ‘major offensive against Houthis in central Yemen’
Yemeni sources say Saudi Arabia is preparing sea and possible land attack to break chokehold on oil exports through Red Sea
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Never thought I'd ever see this diplomatic alliance outside of a dystopian novel. "when the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending Volker Turk's term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights." www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
US walks out of UN Security Council meeting during France's remarks
The row sparked after the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending the term of the UN high commissioner for human rights.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ok. Can we call it a day with the AI stuff now please? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals
Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Please America. Stop. Please.
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 11/07/2026
Death (Trump) knocking on doors meme with blood out of the open doors for “Knicks in 4” and “USMNT”. He’s knocking on the door that says England
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Condoleezza Rice is still a fan of dumb, unnecessary, and illegal wars.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ah no this is awful news 😞 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
theguardian.com
Sam Neill, actor and star of Jurassic Park, dies aged 78
New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Trump says ceasefire with Iran is over” - www.ft.com/content/f2eb... All tactics. No strategy. As usual.
ft.com
Nato summit live news: Trump says ceasefire with Iran is over
Oil price extends gains after US president says that negotiating with Tehran is a ‘waste of time’
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“Elon Musk is the Henry Ford of our time” I mean… yeah I suppose. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Really feels like Trump bombed the shit out of a country and then surrendered
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is quite a win for Iran. Reconstruction financing of *at least* $300 billion A US commitment to end “all types of sanctions” including UN and unilateral US sanctions Unfreezing of Iranian assets Agreement via a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
predator handshake meme: the islamic republic of iran 🤝 ticketmaster entertainment, llc
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Ted Lasso's Skeptical Look
ALT: Ted Lasso's Skeptical Look
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Blunder? No sources in the article say it was a blunder. It’s only the journalist’s opinion that it was a blunder. www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
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EXCLUSIVE: Kallas' Israel 'apartheid' remarks deepen EU foreign policy crisis | Euractiv
Her latest diplomatic blunder is a comparison of Israel to apartheid South Africa
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trump's deal with Iran is 95% done. All that remains to be negotiated is Iran's nuclear program, the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the unfreezing of Iranian assets.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Extremists are only a recent phenomenon in Northern Ireland it seems
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ian Paisley drilling himself to the core of the planet at the moment.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s the once in a decade moment when the UK establishment remembers Northern Ireland exists, but its memory of why NI is the way it is is a little foggy. Normal service of forgetting about NI will resume shortly.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Footage has emerged that appears to contradict the Israeli military’s account…” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Video shows family’s car slowing before Israeli troops shot dead Palestinian baby
Footage appears to contradict Israeli military’s account of killing of seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal in West Bank
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/06/2026
A three panel meme of Fred Armisen in Parks & Rec as Raul.

Showing support for Palestine? Straight to jail.

Protesting about climate change? Jail.

Inciting racist riots? Believe it or not, straight to Radio 4 Today programme.
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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I don't dislike Naomi Long, but this is kind of nonsense. While Musk et al's online exhortations are unpleasant and deplorable, these pogroms are being driven by an organised group who have been a key and influential part of Northern Irish society for decades. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Disorder in Belfast ‘stoked by those who would struggle to find the city on a map’
Northern Ireland’s justice minister says online ‘bad faith actors’ have incited racism in city after knife attack
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Loyalists burning people out of the homes in NI again. Not a new phenomenon and not unique to immigrants unfortunately.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10/06/2026
Official statement from Real Madrid versus official statement from Atletico
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Yeah… don’t trust Big Tech with your sensitive and very personal health data please. Just, no.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Can’t WAIT to see the draft language that makes this a non-insane idea.
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Absolutely zero chance the Israelis took action without some form of green light from the US / Trump
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Ken Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“In December, the White House said it wanted to make social media checks part of the process of applying for the permissions.”
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