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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h

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So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 11h

I detect a bit of a catch-22 in that reactive Labour strategy

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I guess that might be true politically with some MSs, but I kinda doubt it. Imv a UK saying with a sizable majority 'we should apply to join the EU on the terms set out in the treaties' would repair a lot of damage very quickly. But of course no one who matters in the UK is saying that

Is Trump the most pathetic human in history? Jesus wept

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Imv that needs follow ups. He'll get pissy with Norway now and try to punish them. So we need another country to kick him up the arse whilst he's bent over Norway. To then of course he'll turn to them. Then someone else kicks him up the arse. And repeat. A firehose of fuck yous

Silly to argue about stuff like that. The conditions for membership applicants are written down at great length in official documentation

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Is there a Nobel prize for pissy whinging?

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Yeah. Looks like the too big to fail plan is pretty much on track. They're putting us all in a position where if they go down they can take us all with them bsky.app/profile/nmwi...

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13h

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We're all drinking the kool aid, folks. Even the investors who don't like the stuff are struggling to figure out how to avoid it. 🎁:- as.ft.com/r/310cd6d8-3...

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 16h

Not to mention the frothing xenophobia of Reform and the Conservative Party, and indeed the media themselves. Almost feels like the reaction should be "oh super, the Greens are jumping on our racism wagon, welcome wokies!"

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 16h

What do people think about this abject systematic racism from the actual govt set against the stupid and wrong 'Zionism is racism' racism that the Greens just shat out from their nether idiots? Tbh I see a lot of parallels, but on the media we seem to be told nuh-uh, the Green thing is uniquely bad

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 17h

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It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 20h

No, apparently we let ourselves become Nazis and refuse to do anything to stop it.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shared some thoughts on the Trump administration’s boat strikes: “In the absence of an armed conflict,” Finucane said, “the term for premeditated killing is generally murder.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to … the Opposite of Trump

The world is watching a split screen: In one panel, humanity sees jurists such as Navi Pillay of South Africa, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize for her decades of struggling for international law, i...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay receives the news while at the Courtroom 600, Nuremberg Palace of Justice The speech is worth listening to. Video by Sec Gen, Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Robert Jenrick is not culturally British by my standards. Now what?

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Or, you win by 10-12 by talking like Ossoff. It's an open goal

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social! If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

What is the best name for these wackos? Y'al Quaeda? WISIS? or ???

Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Is there anything that says 'the country is in the hands of fascists' quite so much as a public execution?

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 09/10/2026

Tom Gauld cartoon (as ever)

Two panel cartoon - author saying how book is a cautionary tale about technology. Techbros CEO holding up book at meeting saying let’s build these cool things.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Protests have been met with unprecedented police brutality & mass detention: 1,949 on the 1st October, 90% minors. This exceeds daily arrest peaks during May 1968, Yellow Vests & 2005 & 2023. 215 injured kids. 15-year-old lost a hand; another an eye to a and another suffered a fractured jaw.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 08/10/2026

In June this year, I wondered, in my column for EUobserver @euobserver.com, whether the EU would be prepared to call out MAGA Washington’s interference in European politics the same way it rightly called out Moscow’s and Beijing’s interference. euobserver.com/222156/europ... 1/3

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Europe’s 2027 elections will show if the EU dares to call out US interference

What the string of elections Europe faces in 2027, from France to Greece, demands is a crystal-clear conceptualisation of foreign interference, stated without qualification: the illegitimate manipulat...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Call for Papers, Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 Mar 2027. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. To submit a paper, see the Summit's webpage and hit the Call for Papers tab: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Trumpofascist US: Oi Europe, let us propagandize you into fascism or else Europe: Ok

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Y'know, after the TrumpoGOP autocoup and attempted dictatorial takeover of the Republic (plus upcoming coup attempts), it would be reasonable for whoever manages to dislodge them from power to ban and dismantle the coup party. It's not obligatory to allow coups, in fact it is weird and undemocratic

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OTOH this looks like convergent evolution not importantly related processes. Like yes, nature has found a way to *systematically* be and make a priori unlikely scenarios - and that way is life, and latterly humans and our products which we call artificial.

Yes, yes they do bsky.app/profile/nmwi...

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/10/2026

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Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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One of the problems with evaluating Reform and pals is that their gameplan is not contingent on winning power, at least in the short-med term. To the extent they are causing division, political fragmentation, and rising far right sentiment and activism, they are doing fine. Farage happy to pocket ££

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/10/2026

Gonna go try this out at the shop

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it's wild how we've normalized the fact that the biggest U.S. cable TV "news" network is overt right wing propaganda, and the rest of the press helps them pretend to be legit

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Fox News' ratings margin hits widest point as it turns 30

Fox News president and executive editor Jay Wallace attributes the brand's durability to consistency in ownership and strategy.

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