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Mafalda Dâmaso

@mafalda.bsky.social
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EU cultural/audiovisual policy & cultural diplomacy scholar | Part-time Prof @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social | Co-chair @forumukeu.bsky.social | Assembleia @partidolivre.pt | PT/UK | 📍London | mafalda-damaso.com | Views my own

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 5h
Dinheiro americano e apoio ao Bolsonaro por parte do Zuckerberg. Se procurares no Instagram pela conta do Lula ela não aparece nas primeiras 10 recomendações mas a do Bolsonaro é logo visível. E há relatos que dizem que comentar em reels com a palavra Lula leva a que o conteúdo seja shadowbanned
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 7h
O melhor medicamento contra o pessimismo chama-se redes sociais progressistas brasileiras. Milhares de pessoas, algumas claramente em situação de vulnerabilidade, explicam o q fizeram naquele dia para virar votos e acabam sempre com “tamos juntos” ou algo semelhante. Parte qualquer coração de pedra
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 7h
Political scientists who understand Portuguese, check what’s happening in Brazil. The bottom-up mobilization against Bolsonaro is remarkable. People are going to their local markets w chairs & free coffee to chat about politics w undecided voters, etc etc etc. If it works, it will become a new model
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 20h
Talvez seja isso. Ia jurar que vi no FT mas não encontro
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 23h
Bastava olhar para os dados no Reino Unido e para o que aconteceu nos últimos 15 anos. Infelizmente, este governo parece achar que evidence-based policymaking é woke ou algo do género
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 23h
Isto é tirado na casa dele, certo? Vi umas fotos há umas semanas. Explica muita coisa.
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The pigeons are the real enemies!
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m so sorry, Anand. A sad symptom of a general lack of interest in serious thought about the UK’s role in the world among an elite that should know better. But one day the tide will turn
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lisbon pro tip: the Gulbenkian garden. You’re welcome
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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh Jesus H. Christ...
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unfortunately, that’s not where the UK is. Its approach continues to be negative, transactional, ill-informed and stubborn. 10 years after Brexit, and considering the quality of the British civil service, this is an achievement of sorts.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Georgina Wright (on leave) @georginaewright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another great piece by @samfr.bsky.social on the route back into the EU for the UK. That said, one thing that is massively underappreciated in the UK is the EU's own appetite to begin membership talks with the UK. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...
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The route back into the EU
Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.
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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remarkable shift in German industry thinking on China. From new BDI paper: “Even if de-risking entails costs, including in the form of counter-reactions, passivity would in the long term be economically considerably more costly & irresponsible from a security-policy perspective”
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StreamSCAPES @streamscapes-eu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can Europe compete in the global race for cultural influence? Drawing on evidence from @animamundieu.bsky.social and StreamSCAPES, @mafalda.bsky.social and Antonios Vlassis explore how the EU projects its soft power globally. 📥 More information: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #EUCulture #SoftPower
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they will be
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The world is in flames but at least we can all go down against the soundtrack of Barack Obama's summer playlist
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Falar tanto e não dizer nada é uma arte. Obrigada por estas análises
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Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh hey, remember when I said you might be legally liable for feeding proprietary information to your LLM, when the levee breaks on the data lake? Claude remembers. Claude remembers *everything.*
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The more I think about Carney's foreign policy decisions, the more I believe he views values as a luxury or a liability Values are at best, a nice-to-have, once economic fundamentals are secure. At worst, they're a risk and we get punished for them progressdevelopment.substack.com/p/that-davos...
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That Davos Speech: What We Missed
Do countries earn the right to a principled foreign policy, only once they've reduced vulnerability to retaliation?
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Beautiful. Life is full of surprises
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This will also have repercussions on the European level - Morawiecki, who has just been expelled, is the head of the European Conservative and Reformer (ECR) party, the party that brings together PiS, Meloni's FdI and other national conversatives across the EU.
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Não podemos confundir a interpretação que a comissão e alguns estados fazem dos tratados com o que lá está. Até a economia é uma economia social…! Ao repetir esse discurso, a esquerda faz o trabalho da drt e impossibilita a expansão da janela de overton. Recuso fazer o mm com o meu tempo. Boa noite
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Começou por ser apenas um mercado. Já não o é; ou seja, é bastante mais – por mais que haja quem tente colocar o génios de volta na garrafa. Os exemplos dados são prova disso
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Obrigada!
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Manuel Reis @manuelreis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
E usar a cidadania europeia como pretexto para acabar com a gratuitidade é o sentido completamente oposto daquilo que devia ser feito. A @mafalda.bsky.social explica melhor (neste vídeo que dava mais jeito que estivesse cá!): www.instagram.com/reel/Dax_tzF...
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Mafalda Dâmaso on Instagram: "Sobre as declarações da ministra da cultura sobre a limitação da gratuitidade das entradas nos museus em Portugal e o que isso revela sobre a posição do governo quanto ao...
3,196 likes, 136 comments - mafaldadms on July 14, 2026: "Sobre as declarações da ministra da cultura sobre a limitação da gratuitidade das entradas nos museus em Portugal e o que isso revela sobre a ...
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Manuel Reis @manuelreis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Não quer cortar a entrada gratuita, mas faz questão de falar do “prejuízo” que deu, “prejuízo” esse que terá sido causado pelo baixo aproveitamento da medida… A Ministra do Que Lhe Puserem Em Cima entrou na rotunda e anda às voltas a ver que saída lhe convém mais.
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Sim. Foi um acidente em slow motion
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In the same fashion as Christian grace, liberal democracy demands something audacious and a bit unnatural of us. It asks us to put away our will to power and vindictiveness, to accept defeat routinely and peacefully. It asks us to consider the other and to live with them.
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sic notícias
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tb o ouvi dizer que os custos de abrir escolas ao sábado se restringem à electricidade. Sem comentários
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Confrangedor. Foi mesmo como ver um acidente ao vivo
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Comentário random: a forma como o Henrique Raposo usa obras de arte para ilustrar a sua análise política de forma totalmente desligada do contexto original dessas mesmas obras é um bom exemplo da reprodução de uma certa elite que instrumentaliza a cultura como forma de distinção. Bourdieu 101
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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 07/06/2026
He has a point here. Not because the EU's policies are always good for humanity; they aren't. But because the idea of European integration—uniting people of different countries as equal citizens of a joint supranational democracy—is more humanist than the opposing principle of national sovereignty.
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Shyznogud @shyznogd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A maioria saberá que o @ruitavares.bsky.social tem um conhecimento profundo da situação húngara. Ontem à noite fez uma longa thread no twitter sobre o tema, como n me apetece linkar o twitter trago para aqui a coisa em imagens (ele vai desculpar-me o abuso, aposto)
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yet again, lefties have hled their nose and voted for a right-winger to save democracy from the far right. Contrast that to the large number of right-wingers who consistently chose far-right candidates over even centrists.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/04/2026
right I have wifi again - here was Budapest just now - at quarter past midnight!
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thank you, Hungary! After Artemis II, April is starting to save 2026
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"I regret to have to inform you that I cannot review work that is partially processed by a product that in my opinion fails to meet standards of scientific integrity that I need to comply with.."
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A piada escreve-se sozinha
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Relógio parado, etc
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
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Safaa Dib @safaadib.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Esqueçam Lisboa como cidade aberta a diversidade cultural. Esse tempo chegou ao fim. Moedas quer transformar Lisboa numa cidade de cultura popular de massas e não permitir qualquer pensamento crítico ou seja o que for que promova diferentes perspectivas.
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Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Que bom! Muitos parabéns
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Pedro Guerreiro @pedroguerreiro.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Uma NATO europeia com um posto avançado na América do Norte, o Canadá ✌️
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚨🚨 Grim news: Governments in five EU MS are “consistently and intentionally” eroding the #ruleoflaw, Europe’s leading civil liberties group has warned, while democratic standards are deteriorating in six more, including historically strong democracies. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...
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Five EU governments found to ‘consistently’ dismantle rule of law
Exclusive: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia actively pursue regressive policies, watchdog finds
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