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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Very much here for any moves to throw off the Norman yoke.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They’re the Deep State, innit?

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Clearly not! Not contemporary at any rate.

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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 26/08/2026

every time a new plan/policy/reform is launched, it should be obligatory to begin with an extremely detailed explanation of why all previous visions and plans for the exact same thing remain unimplemented

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It was set up with war surplus funds to give ordinary people access to the country. Bought loads of land and set up at least three youth hostels. Downgraded by the Tories and redirected to buying stately homes and their furniture. I am perpetually outraged by this

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It barely qualifies as an argument, perverse or otherwise.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair.

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels.

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And if you’d decided NOT to buy the ticket, you’d have received five emails asking you if you were still going, whether you’d forgotten to press buy, etc.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At last, an anti-science campaign we can all get behind.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Surprised to see this kind of reductionism from you of all people! 😜

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Or you could say that consumers’ revealed preferences at the moment of purchase turn out to be consistently different from (and un-influenced by) their revealed preferences at the moment of use: and only the former actually matter to airlines’ profits.

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Brake, the road safety charity @brakecharity.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Calling all teachers, schools, nurseries and youth groups! Sign up now to take part in Road Safety Week this November. We'll give you all the tools you need to get involved and teach children of all ages more about staying safe on our roads. 👉 www.brake.org.uk/road-safety-week

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also, if free will is an illusion, what do phrases like “we should make sure” even mean?

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just in our movies? More massive puppets in every part of our lives I’d say.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is a key test for me too. If this disgraceful decision is not overturned for Afghans and the other nationalities singled out (quietly if they like, but overturned) then it will be clear Burnham is as amoral and craven as the last lot.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’ve always thought of national policies as having the same status as the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Detailed priestly prescriptions for how to control something that doesn’t happen and, even if it does, can’t be controlled.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Here and being actively marketed by commercial agencies. To pick an example based on SEO (ie top hit on Google): savanta.com/virtual-pers...

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Virtual Personas - Savanta

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Imagine what it feels like for a qual researcher like me, who actually has to *talk to people*… oh, wait, apparently I can just ask AI pretend to be those people. Feel much better now.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Example of the Fundamental Editing Error: feeling you’ve not added any value unless you’ve changed something.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congratulations - such a vital project, and (at the risk of sounding sycophantic) such a great choice for a Senior Fellow. That title though: at the very least you’ll need a velvet couch and some acolytes to fan you with ostrich feathers.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'd go further: if we native English speakers expect English to be the lingua franca (ha!) of most of the world, everyone who uses it gets to influence how it evolves. Phrases that aren't standard English, like "quite some" and "allows to", are then no longer really "wrong" at all.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I guess you’d not be able to write a long methodology section with lots of numbers in it, though. (Cynic? Moi?)

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@emmet.quiddity.ie Views on this paper? Maybe I too am just a Luddite, but I’m struggling to convince myself that all this guff about AI computation and manufactured quantities amounts to any kind of advance on what decent qual/discourse analysis has been doing for donkey’s years.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It’s the power of alliteration. England isn’t broken: it’s… engorged?

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Thanks Fauzan. Yes indeed, there are many real families, including my own acquired one now. I agree, we should all remember that and offer direct support where we can. Thanks for sharing this opportunity.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’ll be happy to see a sponsorship scheme in place. I’m not happy to see a Home Secretary who just crowed about denying Afghans and others the chance to study here using one to cling to her position. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mahmood announces new refugee sponsorship route into UK

The home secretary says "capped safe and legal" routes would help to restore confidence in the asylum system.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It’s less his symptoms than the symptoms of those of us around him who are addicted to him.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Excellent. You might also have mentioned/fumed about the deep roots of this mindset in Oxbridge - eg everything getting renamed with “-er” at the end.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Oh my God. My one-person campaign for Mercian restoration could finally take off!

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It’s how we’ve always thought of you.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I always notice. 😁 All good here thanks? Your end?

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ohhh. So basically yes then, it is as opposed to leaving it to chance.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hmm. Don’t think we have that one. “Design” as opposed to… leaving it to chance?

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Rants much enjoyed. You too may enjoy swearing at the introduction to this: www.behavioraleconomics.com/be-guide/the.... Apparently we need “Behavioural Economics 3.0”, so we can “understand people as dynamically evolving organisms who are shaped by their life histories.”

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New: The Behavioral Economics Guide 2026

The latest BE Guide — featuring leading perspectives on behavioral science and biology, AI, public policy, tax compliance, financial decision-making, pricing, and more. Essential reading on where beha...

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Although their track record of understanding the few sci-fi novels they have read is not good.

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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I suspect this in part traces back to a widespread and ill-considered attempt by agencies to sell qualitative methods as revealing “motivations”. Eg the “quant tells you what but qual tells you” bullshit that I’ve seen too often.

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