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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 30/09/2026

My latest oddly shaped thought… What if, instead of asking different AIs the same question, we had a “Ready Room” — letting the advocate, sceptic, analyst and pragmatist make their cases before we decide? Sometimes it helps to hear all the voices in the room. severalcatslater.com/never-mind-u...

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Never Mind Universal Translators, Can We Have a Ready Room?

What if AI didn’t just give us its best answer, but let us hear the strongest alternatives too? A case for a “Ready Room” that supports critical thinking rather than replacing it.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.

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The Economist @economist.com · 28/09/2026

The skins of missiles striking civilians in Kyiv this autumn and winter may be part Irish. One refinery has never been subjected to the EU’s sanctions on Russia bit.ly/4xPN4Qk Photo: Alamy

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 27/09/2026

The EU needs to learn to believe it’s worth defending. And act like it. Probably not going out on a limb to suggest they have not privately threatened to collapse other EU governments. www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/09/27/g...

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US Ambassador Guilfoyle threatened Greek Minister over LNG policies

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, allegedly threatened a Greek Minister over LNG policies. During a private dinner in March

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 20/09/2026

Yes, many Trump pardons may be coming. But remember: they only cover federal crimes. Other avenues remain, including: • State prosecutions • Civil lawsuits • Congressional probes • Foreign/int. cases, where jurisdiction exists A pardon isn’t a force field. www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

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Stephen Miller’s Wife Panics Over Legal Bills From Trump Probes

Katie Miller seems to be making the case for pardons.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 19/09/2026

Think about it. So much hardship facing ordinary people today comes back to three old men: Putin, Netanyahu and Trump. All seemingly determined to spend their golden years anywhere but a courtroom. And electorates put them all in power. History rhymes, eh?

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 15/09/2026

Explore space, absolutely. But the fantasy of escaping Earth instead of learning to sustain it gets things backwards. We won’t leave our social, political, and environmental problems behind. We’ll export them. Build a civilisation worth sustaining. Be like the WO. unherd.com/2026/09/spac...

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Space imperialists are galactically wrong

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 12/09/2026

This Revolut breach raises a question: are requests from some government domains effectively pre-trusted by banks? Authenticating the email is not the same as authenticating the legal authority behind the request. That distinction suddenly looks rather important. techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/r...

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Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests | TechCrunch

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 05/09/2026

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a first rate investigation of Reform’s dodgy dealings by C4 News. Would be good if other broadcasters did similar.

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Renew Europe @reneweurope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Europe can't let a single veto hold it hostage! With 11 EU countries now demanding an end to foreign policy vetoes, it's time to move past paralysis. To face global crises with a swift, unified response, we need qualified majority voting.

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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 (𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗹𝘆) - Too many people still hope they can wait out Trumpism for things to return to 'normal'. But the world is past that even if Trump departs after his second term. This isn't just a blip, and instead of hope we need adaptation for survival. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trumpism doesn’t die with Trump – we need to wake up to the facts

It is fanciful to think that the unpredictable, aggressive and often self-sabotaging US will revert to its old ways once its current leader has gone. But, as Keir Giles explores in his new book, the f...

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BEUC - The Consumer Voice @beuc.eu · 03/09/2026

Have you ever wondered why certain products cost more in your country than in neighbouring countries? Legislators call it “Territorial Supply Constraints”. We call them unjustified restrictions for retailers set by manufacturers that lead to price increases for consumers. Learn more ⤵️

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Are consumers denied cheaper products from other countries? - Consumer Corner

Have you ever wondered why certain products cost more in your country than in neighbouring countries? This may be the result of unjustified restrictions set by manufacturers on retailers, also known a...

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 29/08/2026

1000xRESIST AMA tomorrow at 11AM PT / 2PM ET! Ask us anything about the new Nintendo Switch 2 Edition! r/nintendoswitch

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 29/08/2026

You know, peole could be misreading the CIA Director’s visit to Moscow this week. What if… he was letting Russia know that Trump wants a quick little victory and is going to move on Greenland. Don’t be alarmed if we attack a NATO member. As to what you do while we do that 🤷‍♂️

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is great.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Russia is escalating a sabotage campaign against European defence factories supplying Ukraine, The Telegraph reports . Western intelligence says local criminals are recruited online and paid in crypto, giving Moscow plausible deniability while keeping attacks below NATO’s Article 5 threshold.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 21/08/2026

"This is a five-alarm fire. It’s freaking out all the data-watchers I’ve been pestering over the past twenty months, who are usually assuring me that the guardrails have held."👇

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 19/08/2026

In hindsight, I wish I’d bought a Fairphone instead of an iPhone. The further you get from Cupertino, the less useful Apple devices become. Android, from an EU company, repairable, with long-term support? Yeah, that’s increasingly looking like the winning package. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Fairphone's latest repairable phone is finally available in the US for $650

Fairphone sells components like the USB port and screen, all swappable with a single torx driver.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 19/08/2026

Greece’s economic collapse showed what can happen when official statistics can’t be trusted. Russia undoubtedly has the same problem; the US raises questions too. This is a fascinating, if not conclusive, way around it: use satellite data to measure what’s actually happening cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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When statistics lie: Using satellite data to track Russia’s wartime economy

Official Russian statistics report a mild recession in 2022 following the full-scale of Ukraine but suggest that Russia has since fully recovered. This column argues that data on nighttime lights emit...

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 18/08/2026

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 17/08/2026

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Pamela in CA @pamica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This 100%

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you find yourself dooming, it's worth recalling that Trump has neither the legal nor (more importantly) the practical ability to effectively federalize & rig the midterms. But if you find yourself complacent, it's important to note he can cause a whole lot of chaos by illegally trying & failing.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

KASPAROV: Why can't NATO shoot down Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory? When Iran attacked Israel, the Americans, French, British shot down Iranian missiles. Why can one shoot down Iranian missiles flying at Israel but cannot shoot down Russian missiles flying at Ukraine?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Bessent epitomises everything that’s wrong with the current administration, even more than Trump. Smug, stupid and shielded from consequences by his money. Unserious on every level. 2/

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Geopolitics and Security Studies Center analyst Dionis Cenusa on the Ceuta crisis: “The timing chosen for this hybrid warfare operation was not accidental… 1/

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 30/07/2026

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 28/07/2026

Evidence has to withstand scrutiny. If your sources can’t be verified, your citations don’t stand up, or the provenance of your evidence is in doubt, you don’t have a credible case. Students fail exams for less. Democracies deserve a far higher standard. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

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Trump’s Primetime Election Stunt Backfires Horribly

There are calls for an investigation into a CIA document the president released, accusing China of interfering in the 2020 election.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 28/07/2026

One of the most interesting things I’ve read today. EU poverty figures are just annual snapshots. Follow people over four years instead, and almost 1 in 4 Europeans experience poverty at least once. Measuring who stays poor may matter even more than who is poor today. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Beyond the snapshot: How poverty really unfolds over time in the EU

Poverty is not a static condition but a dynamic process. Yet the at-risk-of-poverty rate, which underpins EU poverty monitoring, captures who is poor in a given year but says nothing about how long pe...

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 27/07/2026

Now this is thinking outside the box. Instead of endless arguments over short-term lets, what if platforms like Airbnb helped provide accommodation for frontline workers? Could a model like this help tackle housing shortages in Ireland, or elsewhere? en.protothema.gr/2026/07/27/h...

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Health Ministry agreement with Airbnb to sponsor accommodation for doctors and nurses, starting with five islands - ProtoThema English

Adonis Georgiadis said that “these homes will be available from the beginning of August”

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 26/07/2026

Assuming Iran has no access to Russian, Chinese, or commercial satellite imagery. That’s a bold assumption. Things really aren’t going well, are they? arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

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European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region

New delay on Copernicus satellite pics comes as US ramps up war with Iran again.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 26/07/2026

A fascinating Sunday morning read. It’s ostensibly about Neanderthals, but really it’s about memory, evolution, identity… and the uncomfortable question of what happens when a species meets a superintelligence. The historical record isn’t encouraging. unherd.com/2026/07/why-...

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Why we can’t outrun the Neanderthals

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 17/07/2026

I think it’s obvious that China and Russia work very hard at having talented politicians,like Trump, elected globally.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My wife says I remind her of James Bond. I’m not good at following orders, I’m emotionally dead, and she’d like to see the role go to Idris Elba.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 06/07/2026

Great to see how these networks work in real-time. Irish energy regulator was going to attend Thiel event in Powerscourt Hotel ino.to/Qaxalat

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Irish energy regulator was to attend Thiel event

She's influential in state data centre policy.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Adding to the weirdness around Mitch McConnell: His wife, Elaine Chao, reportedly traveled to China just three days after his heart attack. She is said to have met with met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing.

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Mitch McConnell’s Wife’s Bizarre Move After CPR Drama Revealed

Elaine Chao was seen on a trip to China three days after her husband’s hospitalization.

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/07/2026

Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson. www.wired.com/story/predic...

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Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 04/07/2026

We have work to do. Especially as the US is now funding groups across Europe to get the government’s it wants. US history is littered with attempts to do this, and the consequences are usually dire for those countries. The Europe needs to stop the rot, decisively. www.politico.eu/article/amer...

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America’s accountability crisis is coming for Europe too

While the immediate cause for fraying relations can be found in American politics and policy, a contributing cause lies in the continent’s weakness and self-delusion.

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Keith Drummond @severalcatslater.com · 21/06/2026

Okay, have just wrapped up ‘The Black Cross’ story that was added to Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Thinking I need to look up what is an Isu… 😅 Feels like they are closing the book on AC Shadows now. But would love to see more content set in Naoe’s Japan.

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