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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 5h

There were two! The first one was S2’s Paradigms of Human Memory and the second was the one you referred to I loved that they explored so many genres - the bottle and documentary episodes are also great

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 5h

S4 of #TedLasso was joyful if somewhat contrived, though I think it works because the emphasis was hardly on Ted but on the returning main cast as well as the strong bench of new female characters. It was also helped by good pacing and a strong emotional punch in the last two episodes 💙📺

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 5h

Mostly well said while Holloway blames those in charge of City they could only have done what they did coz institutions meant to safeguard the game and league repeatedly messed up for likely self-serving reasons Unfortunately elite unaccountability is also part of the country

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 6h

Haha nice…my top episodes (not set!) probably include the paintball and fake clips ones

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 14h

The ISI is often portrayed as a shadowy power that has repeatedly undermined democracy to maintain the army’s paramount role, but Mishal curiously seems to have altogether elided over Shahid’s role in its founding

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 14h

… Pakistani army not to see the military as a route to power since the country should always be run democratically by civilians. It is no small irony that Shahid, who claimed that he urged Ayub Khan to restore democracy after the latter declared martial law, was founder of intelligence service ISI

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 14h

Engaging family memoir from journalist Mishal Husain, who focuses on her grandparents and their lives upended by the Partition of India, citing primary sources including from her maternal grandfather Shahid, whom is quoted as recounting Jinnah’s admonishment of officers in the nascent … 💙📚

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah then it’s probably a demographic transition, the rising inequality likely a manifestation of that

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What might account for this? Maybe it’s the result of growing inequality and a bigger number of rich folks in the state?

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Communies @communiess.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tickets are available! October 17th Virtual Doors Open at 9:30PST/12:30EST!

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CommuniCon 4

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah defo, so was losing Dan Harmon and then getting him back but expecting him to work with something already quite damaged

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Community - but I’ll caveat that S1-3 are highly rewatchable, especially S2, and though I find it difficult to watch S4-6 again I still have a lot of affection for the series. Have so much merch! Almost #SixSeasonsAndAMovie too!

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OMG this is a take! Defo agree on S4 (Lesbos?!! That’s a helluva stretch 😅) but it never invalidated the preceding seasons for me. I’ll just rewatch S1-3

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Probably coz it’s happening with 100% certainty so no point betting on it 🤣

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Would love it if it was so but aren’t TX and FL still the white whales of Dem aspirations at this point? And why group GA and OH - it’s the former purple while the latter has been trending increasingly red for decades?

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Presumably efficient in the sense that it wouldn’t have prosecuted rich folks like him for wrongdoing 🤷‍♂️

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fantastic debut season of #Lanterns - absolutely atmospheric, compelling characters and great writing. The most watchable superhero TV series in while 💙📺

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Defo expulsion. Plus asterisk against the trophies they won which have to be vacated

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Prof Eichengreen’s latest is a survey of internationally dominant currencies in history starting with Romans (curiously Chinese fiat - perhaps the first govt issued one and used on the Silk Road - wasn’t included) but he doesn’t draw a convincing link between them and the US despite best efforts 💙📚

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice read on Paul Dirac, a pioneer of quantum physics who led an eventful life despite a preternaturally taciturn nature. Especially enjoyed that Dr Farmelo brings to life Dirac’s garrulous friends who somehow managed to rub along with him - Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Oppenheimer, Feynman, Kapitza 💙📚

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The #LowDown is returning for a second season! And with Tommy Lee Jones in tow! 😍💙📺 youtu.be/CGd9GTmE3Hc?...

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The Lowdown | Season 2 Official Trailer | FX

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NYT prints full Trumpian column, saying Biden's supposedly "tone-deaf" comments on the economy are the same as Trump's batshit crazy lies cepr.net/publications...

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New York Times Pushes Trumpian Lies on the Economy

Biden’s economic team cited real gains in wages, jobs, unemployment, and investment, while Trump has made claims that contradict economic data.

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That is just mad. How can any other club go along with that?!

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amazingly it always their own jobs that are safe, for some reason. As if mindless pontification wasn’t something that gen AI already does pretty well

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hope there’re stops in Maine and Michigan 🤌

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Defo the latter 🫠 And I can see the current mess being spun in a similar way - “it’s those dodgy foreign owners that brought the league into disrepute” while conveniently overlooking the numerous domestic institutions that failed to provide oversight coz they wanted that 💰

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He 💯 only joined coz they promised him unlimited spending in a way that crushes his domestic and eventually European competition, something none of his previous clubs could undertake

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Loved the 2nd season of #LasAzules which has just concluded: while soapy at times, it was pitch perfect in its situating within the social and political milieu of the early 1970s, still haunted by the ‘68 protests and the state’s ruthless repression, and the show gorgeously recreates the period 💙📺

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem is more that the mainstream media takes them at face value and try to downplay the bad faith intentions rather than prominently shaming them

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see the logic but have to say it doesn’t sit right that a team that won 97 points shouldn’t be crowned champions instead. This is unlike say 2017/18 where Utd finished with 81 points, 19 behind City That being said make one rule and stick with it - either award the title to all runners-up or not

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enjoyable read with a great hook - what if your neighbourhood granny was a convicted killer? While generally a well-paced novel featuring a deliciously grumptious, grumpy protagonist, the redemption arc ties up a bit too neatly and some of the revelations seem unnecessary 💙📚

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fortress Maximus! Gosh what a name 😍

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Picked up some handy skills at Real, I see 😝🤦‍♂️

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah wish someone would drop an exposé on their dodgy dealings

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not surprised at all, they’ve been complicit in abetting his rise and return to office after all

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

… accountability is so diffused as to be meaningless. Davies makes a fascinating case - I particularly enjoyed his takedown of Friedman’s disingenuous views of the nature of the firm - but trying to tie this phenomena to the ascendancy of right wing revanchist movements like MAGA is a bridge too far

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thought-provoking read from lapsed economist Dan Davies, who resurrects cybernetics ideas long eclipsed by mainstream economics to show how the latter’s neglect of the former contributed to organisations, in trying to deal with ever greater complexity, becoming accountability sinks where … 💙📚

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Breaking Bad is so overrated, compared with The Wire which has a very diverse cast and stories

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lemme guess - probably Pep and Jose ahead of him? 🤦‍♂️

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah without eating into those margins and with rural voters it’s hard to flip. Which is why some Dem politicos felt that Platner could do it by having such groups identify with him, only that he turned out to be such a ghastly fella

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maine is Maine I guess. They don’t dislike Collins enough; given the racial makeup likely they’re more aligned with Reps on the culture war issues to disregard valence considerations

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Donal Ryan’s debut novel and its decade-later sequel are solid, if uneven reads - I liked the concept of first person narrations by the kaleidoscope of characters in an Irish village (including a little girl) but it flags sometimes as some personages are necessarily less engaging 💙📚

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean that’s good and all but it begs the question why vote for him in the first place?! Like all the terrible things he has done weren’t foreseeable from his first term in office. Just plain nihilistic, people are

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socrates80.bsky.social @socrates80.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Engaging, breathless debut from neurodivergent author Tom Newlands, centered on a heroine that sees all too much but is able to filter all too little. A hopeful, lyrical novel about a neuroatypical girl finding her voice and her way despite all too little support and understanding from others 💙📚

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