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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 32m

If these people are happy to say this sort of genocidal stuff on public TV, just imagine the depravity of their thought and comments behind closed doors.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 3h

The BBCs prime gossip columnist strikes again! "One senior Tory says" "in the words of one shadow cabinet member" "A senior ally of Badenoch says" "One shadow minister admits" "One former cabinet minister warns" I know journalism. And this ain't it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 6h

A few months ago, prevailing thought was that it would be hard, but Dems had chance to take the Senate by 1. Now there’s a non-0% chance they end up with 54-55 seats which is utterly wild.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nothing will ever top this from Herman Cain though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdpN...

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YouTube video by Herman Cain

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is being added onto my "weird political ads" example list for my curriculum.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lol at the alt text for the image: "Bunch of white men in badly fitting suits sit around a table"

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We just had a discussion on this in our editorial meeting of Internet Policy Review. It would be great to hear from other academic journal editors what are their policies around researchers using synthetic data. -> www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

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Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like when a child proudly proclaims "I can go potty all by myself now!"

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't Trump even knows what LLM stands for, let alone what a transformer or a token is.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just when you think Trump can't say anything stupidier than he already has, he comes out with a gem like this.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's also funny that these are deemed "controversial" stances. No. They are pretty normal.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haven't heard of the Beck candidate before. But this clip alone tells me all I need to know about him.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tony Stark wakes up. He’s still in that cave from Iron Man 1. It was all a dream.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So it’s a PR campaign to try and make stuff like the pervert glasses and ‘always listening devices’ seem cool? Yeh, no thanks.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026

Found a chart that goes through 2025. This problem has plateaued and isn't returning to pre-pandemic levels.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good to see the President focusing on the important issues facing Americans leading up to the midterms.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seems dodgy and something that certainly shouldn’t be allowed.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First time back in London for a few months. First noticeable difference is the number of AI ads on the Tube. Genuinely aggravating.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want to know what darkness feels like, scroll through Twitter for 10minutes….

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are figuring out where he can do the least harm.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now I'm just a simple-minded academic who has been following US politics and polling for over a decade. But it seems to me that Republican's may be in just a little bit of trouble for the mid-terms....

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think a politician saying they are willing to accept responsibility and accountability for potentially unpopular decisions might go a long way in today's political climate.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham doesn't have Obama or Mamdani levels of rhetoric or speech delivery. But he is certainly far better than any of the leaders we've had in recent years.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see that digital consent is brought up a lot this week because Meta's Muse seems to do a lot of actions without people's consent (insert surprised face) So I want to share again my open access paper about the myth of digital consent journals.oslomet.no/index.php/se... ->

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A feminist Critique to digital consent | Seminar.net

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good. But before anyone gets too excited, ain’t no way changes will be made in time for next GE. And depending on how that goes, who knows… (Lab/LD/G coalition would still likely put it through) “One option open to Burnham is to set up a new national commission for electoral reform”

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever you think Tracey is the scummiest of scumbags and cant get any more vile or pathetic, he manages to do so.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For those in the UK who’ve never heard of this pillock, he is well known in America as being one the most Islamophobic and racist representatives currently in office.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This not far from what Reform and the Conservatives want to do in the UK. People who spurn, mock and ban education in the humanities not only reveal their own ignorance, but do active harm to the moral, cultural and economic development of society. They are, for want of a better phrase, morons.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like "Were they always this stupid and deranged or did their brains legitimately break at some point?" is a question we will be asking for a long time to come. I believe the former. The thing that changed was that shame was no longer valued as a tool to police such wretchedness.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also next month, Joey Barton to moderate a panel in DC on US farming subsidies. And Tim Westwood and Noel Clarke will host a forum on education reforms. Come on America, what are we doing here?

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just had a quick look on the 'other place' out of professional curiousity regarding the events at fairford It's as bad as you think. It's all psyop, blame jews/immigrants and assorted other clear lies. Clear to see how people still on there are getting their brains poisoned.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Interesting CNN wanted to partner with outrage merchants Jubilee. (Says a lot about direction of CNN these days). 2. Also funny that Paxton is very clearly going to try and avoid debating Talarico for the entire campaign.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The polling is atrocious for her,” a senior Democratic strategist said. “She’s a lightning rod.” Umm. She's the 4th most popular Dem by YouGov and CNN has her as one of the popular Dems among Dem voters... Wonder who this Dem strategist works for....

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when the Metaverse was the "next major pillar of our business"? I wish Mark the same levels of success as that.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right before he his post mocking Tuberville, he had two posts criticizing Meta, the company that owns the social media platform that then incorrectly featured him a story about masturbation.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thing is, you know if pushed on this he'd just say "Well that's not free as we are paying for it through all the saving we are making by stopping waste, fraud and abuse in the system" It's so fucking insincere. But the media have allowed this sort of shithousery to become the norm.

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Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1. Wild that US tax payers paid for this. 2. You know how historians look back at the media produced by Goebbels in the 1930/40s? Well that is how they are going to look back at shit like this in a few decades time. Dark, grim and delusional.

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