Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The absolute hatred I have for Deutsche Bahn. 7323
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026In return for what though?nbcnews.comCIA chief asked Russia not to share intelligence with Iran, sources sayJohn Ratcliffe raised the U.S. concerns with Sergey Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, during a meeting in Moscow that also covered other topics. 2134
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Russia has been threatening attacks on European military facilities involved in supplying Ukraine since November 2024. I don’t think Zakharova is saying anything that new today. 1194
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesHarry Rose @harryrose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Seeing a bit of surprise that the FT comes top here. But it makes sense -- young professionals who need/want to be informed and can often get a corporate sub. (Plus free student access is smart, surprised others don't do it). pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...pressgazette.co.ukWhich UK national newsbrands reach the most under-35s?New research based on Ipsos iris data reveals proportion of young amongst audience of major online newsbrands. 0105
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The ludicrous incompetence of Russia’s intelligence services and their proxies once again comes to the rescue. The risk, sadly, is not so much that one time they will get lucky, but that one time their incompetence will lead to an even greater loss of life than they intend. 0112
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A drone fitted with an IED would be a new development in (presumed) Russian sabotage in that it is unequivocally intended to cause the loss of anonymous, innocent life, (as opposed to just, “might do” or a targeted assassination) which does make it feel like some small rubicon has been crossed.as.ft.comDrone carrying explosives found at Leipzig airport, say German policeIncident appears to mark an escalation after two years of drone incursions at European airports 1114
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Quite apart from the fact that he looks like the subject of a story by The Onion, I continue to be baffled by how anyone gave this charlatan so much money. When this bubble goes it is going to incinerate so much capital. 191
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2026A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hydetheguardian.comA World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina HydeYou’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it all, says Marina Hyde 2011715
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesRobert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 31/07/2026“Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness might sound like a show to miss at the Edinburgh Fringe, but what it’s staging is much more entertaining.” @bryce.lol on blistering form as ever in the Alphaville substack open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/l...open.substack.comLaugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep aloneAlso: rent controls, gold hoarding, junk bonds, memory chips, baseball debt, enriched uranium, dead bacteria, and an ETF spaghetti cannon 0101
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This is insane. I really hope moderate European politicians don’t leave it up to the far-right to respond credibly to this. The system is not working and needs a decisive response.as.ft.comSpain says 49,000 migrants entered Ceuta enclave in one dayRecord influx into North African territory is nearly five times higher than at peak of Europe’s 2015 migration crisis 060
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesKonflikte & Sicherheit @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Russlands Luftwaffe ist laut RUSI für die NATO heute klar gefährlicher als 2022: mehr moderne Kampfflugzeuge, erfahrenere Piloten, größere Abstandswaffen, besser vernetzte Luftverteidigung & koordinierte Angriffe mit Hunderten Drohnen und Flugkörpern. www.hartpunkt.de/rusi-paper-r...hartpunkt.deRUSI-Paper: Russlands Luftstreitkräfte stellen heute eine größere Bedrohung für NATO als 2022 darEin kürzlich veröffentlichtes Paper des britischen „Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies“ (RUSI) kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die russische Luftwaffe aktuell eine höhere Bedr... 53716
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 31/07/202635 years ago today, seven Lithuanian officers left for work and never came home. In the early hours of 31 July 1991, Soviet OMON forces carried out the Medininkai massacre, killing seven unarmed border and police officers. 28136
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I kid you not: for the connecting rail tracks in Bavaria, Germany hasn’t even decided on the route yet, let alone started building them. 510425
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I’m just a simple Internet user, but it seems to me that the UK government shouldn’t use this man’s website for official communications, I dunno. 339993
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Casualties much higher than earlier reported in Berlin from the terror attack on last night’s pride celebration. 1 dead and 29 now known to be injured, some very seriously. The suspect also used a blade to attack victims, after running people down with a car. Appalling Islamist violence. 040
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is a very elegant way of describing someone who has zero touch with reality. 051
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesPhilip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Excellent piece from somehow who knows Japan www.ft.com/content/397c...ft.comJapan awakesWhy 1 per cent interest rates could shake everything up after a generation of deflation 021
Reposted by Sam Gad Jonesauonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Russian shadow tanker CAROLINE BEZENGI is breaking up in a nature reserve of the Omani coast. All the beneficiaries whose coasts she passed last year thanks their lucky stars. Odds are against them though, there are about another 1000-1500 running around the world. Tick, tock. 5288117
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association. 15568202026
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026In your 40s you need a hobby. I collect Jan Marsalek memojis. 081
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Every Marsalek story contains multitudes but my favourite part of this one is that he claimed to own the cloth used by US special forces to wipe Osama bin Laden’s brow (and the prayer beads he clutched) as he expired. A prized relic in Marsalek’s military snuff collection at his Münich palace. 131
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/07/2026The head of an ethical fintech backed by Standard Chartered and marketed as ‘people and planet first’ previously sought to set up a $2.75bn weapons fund with the Wirecard executive later exposed as a fraudster and spy. ft.trib.al/X6S3eSj 510535
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026One particularly crazy thing about this story - which I think says a lot - is that everyone in AI, including the people at the company which was hacked, are just kind of like ‘oops… this is cool!’ 071
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesBartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t... 044
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesSzabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026🇭🇺♟️Chess legend Judit Polgár, featured in Netflix’s Queen of Chess, is the ruling Tisza party’s pick for President of Hungary. If she accepts, she'd become Hungary’s first Jewish president, succeeding ousted Orbán loyalist Tamás Sulyok—whose father was actually a Nazi. Quite a symbolic change. 516651
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The ̷F̷i̷r̷s̷t̷ ̷A̷g̷a̷i̷n̷s̷t̷ ̷T̷h̷e̷ ̷W̷a̷l̷l̷ ̷ Axel Springer Award winner for 2026 everybody! And what a selection of honourees he joins. 030
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesThe Economist @economist.com · 16/07/2026Blame passengers, lobbying, history and geographybit.lyWhy Berlin’s airport is still completely hopelessBlame passengers, lobbying, history and geography 041
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesNaught Followers @naughtfollowers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Agree with all of this — The Piano is obviously and without question a feminist masterpiece — and I think part of that is Sam Neil’s superb portrayal of a man unable to even recognize his own emotions; tortured by his own inadequacies. It’s not central, but it’s an important part of the narrative. 011322
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026So many gems in this insightful and meticulously researched piece. I love the line about the French ambo in Kyiv, telling fellow diplomats he intends to wait for the Russians to arrive (the French having refused to believe until the last an invasion was likely): 1106
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesAtlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with 360159493256
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I wont stop him." <stop stop he's dead gif> 471130247
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026New joy unlocked: reading about Count Binface - Graf Mülltonnengesicht, comte Face de Poubelle, il conte Binface etc etc - in European papers. 1636072
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Can’t really work out whether this stuff is comic or vile or some weird blend of the two.as.ft.comMeta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every momentMark Zuckerberg’s hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded 2236
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social 6496153
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words. 892176343
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026We need Greenland in order to be able to project force beyond our borders and deter our adversaries. To get Greenland we will withdraw our 80,000 troops from our most important beyond-border force-projecting military bases in the western hemisphere. 0104
Reposted by Sam Gad Jones👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Well done FIFA, you're back to being only the second worst international sporting authority. 23712
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026And here to discuss the study with us now is its lead author…static.klipy.comSmiling Cat Wearing GlassesALT: Smiling Cat Wearing Glasses 050
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It might happen! 1528874
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I see Polanski has already said the Greens will field a candidate in Clacton. They’d be thrilled if Farage won so long as they doubled their share of the vote to 8 per cent. 2102
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Well this story got even darker. The cross-dressing would-be assassin was paid by a Ukrainian military intelligence officer and… 0143
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesLeftback @leftback.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Statement part 1static.klipy.comFather Ted Speech: Moving On To LiarsAlt: Father Ted Speech: And now we move On To Liars 1143
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This kind of stuff from a bank to its clients/the market should honestly be criminalft.comThe space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan StanleyYou miss all the moonshots you don’t take 030
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 07/07/2026What the hell is this? They should have lost by 30. 101913186
Reposted by Sam Gad JonesBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgiumnbcsports.comBelgium beats, then trolls, U.S. team on Monday nightEven though it was tied, 1-1, after Malik Tillman scored another goal on a free kick just outside the penalty area, it never felt close. 586185383877