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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 16h

In fairness a lot of people were trying to shoot Eminem in the late 90s. He recorded a whole track to release in the event Suge Knight has him killed.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Doctor. It hurts when I do this.” “Stop doing it then”

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Parliament doesn't routinely sit on Fridays and Monday sittings start mid-afternoon. Why? Because MPs 'leave Westminster' all the time and commonly work weekends in their constituencies. This kind of careless populist rhetoric helps nobody.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do get this, but I also think the opposite is true. The most famous example being Harrison Ford on Star Wars dialogue "George, you can type this s**t, but you can't say it!". That's also the case in academia.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A little personal news if anyone needs to reach me for professional reasons. For unprofessional reasons DMs are fine.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone loves China unless you have to share a border/sea with them

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“AI agents are not meaningfully agentic. They’re just programs and should be treated as such.” “Wrong. You can’t even describe frontier models without agentic language. Denying this qualitative distinction helps nobody in thinking about safety”

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is literally already the pricing model. I can show you my “meter” on Claude Code right now.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Look, just be glad he decided Harry Potter was the better victim for a rationalist re-writing or we would have ended up with Buffy the Net-Negative Person Slayer

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

C is for Columbo

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Distinct lack of animation. Bojack Horseman makes it but not Smiling Friends, Arcane, ATLA, Rick and Morty, etc.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Culturally I’m an ancient Roman” - lives on welfare - controlled by corrupt oligarchy - prays to pagan gods - legal right to kill his son

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Game of Thrones at number 6 given it got bad about half way through (it’s not just season 8 guys) is kind of crazy.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meanwhile SBF was playing League of Legends in investor meetings and most of the audience was like “look at this genius. He doesn’t even want our money. We should give him more”

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To be fair, while he has not put up an insulting plaque about Hu Jintao, he did have him dragged off stage by two goons at a party congress for trying to look at the wrong document. So I feel like he could.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wouldn't be surprised if The Sun knows what most police forces are up to before anyone else to be fair. It is sort of their thing.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also he’s wearing one black glove like Dr Stangelove

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Everyone, stop what you are doing. I've discovered there is a politician called Teresa May running for city council in British Columbia. And this is from one of her campaign videos. Never have two people with the same name had such different vibes.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Among other things, Turnitin is near-useless now. Plagiarism cases have dropped to near zero for obvious reasons. What they need is access to the proprietary watermarking of text Google, Anthropic etc. use. And what do they have to trade? Money obviously, but data could be quite the deal sweetener.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Never seen a drone with such strong "what you doing there, bud?" energy

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The headline makes this sound a bit like he actually published these. But all he was doing was uploading slop to SSRN. As Andrew Gelman says in the piece it’s more bizarre than dangerous.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you anonymously leak to someone who anonymously leaks that you were the one leaking anonymously

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love having the party system of Belgium with the electoral system of Canada. This will not cause any catastrophic problems.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It's more of a comment than a question"

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My review of “Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister” (in this month’s Literary Review - highly recommend if you love books).

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gonna have to start dubbing him over in an impression of his own voice like Gerry Adams during The Troubles

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So long as he didn’t write the dialogue I’m sure it’s fine

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“The military has counseled me that it’s ESSENTIAL to have a 250-foot-tall watch tower hidden in a tourist attraction in the middle of an empty highway traffic circle in an unpopulated area on the edge of the District next to a military cemetery“

Simpsons meme, featuring Carl, with a nonplussed expression, speaking to Homer Simpson: "That never, uh, happened, did it, Homer?"

(In the scene, Carl is seen seated adjacent to Lenny in the workplace cafeteria, with each of them with a lunch tray on a table.)

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This also really wasn't the case with nuclear weapons. Yes there were people with deranged ideas, but they weren't part of millenarian social movements. They were like, Edward Teller.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When apparent solipsism is actually eccentric extraversion

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He’s so hilariously bad at talking. What he’s trying to say is the scale of US actions around the world make it worse on net than a relatively small group of terrorists. But that is the opposite of what “pound for pound” means.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You can also think of the US judiciary as a sort of ablative heat shield for the rule of law. It works very well but over time, as more appointments get filled by lickspittles and toadies, it burns away and more cracks and holes appear. Eventually it fails catastrophically.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New correlation is not causation example dropped just in time for a new academic year. Straight to the slides.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This would be a lot funnier if it really was a joke and not, in fact, the way FEMA is actually being run.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To twist the question slightly, the most *influential* works of conservative art in the modern era are probably; The Turner Diaries, Camp of the Saints, Starship Troopers, and 24.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"How Westminster Works ... and Why It (Still) Doesn't". Really looking forward to hosting the fabulous @iandunt.bsky.social at the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social on 28 September. Come and explore what's wrong with British politics - and what we can do about it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-westmi...

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How Westminster Works ... and Why it (Still) Doesn't

Join the podcaster and journalist Ian Dunt to explore how Westminster is working today and how we can build something better for the future!

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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm delighted to see that @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social @manumidolo.bsky.social and Venetia Menzies and I have been shortlisted for investigation and scoop of the year for our work on Nigel Farage and Posh George! www.societyofeditors.org/events/media...

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Shortlist 2026 – Society of Editors

Society of Editors. Protecting the freedom of the news media

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Hello. Doing a PhD has given me depression and now I wish to inflict my pain on others"

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