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Timo Betcke

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Professor of Computational Mathematics, University College London. My views reflected here are my own.

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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 5h
Shouldn’t her pamphlet be called “The far-right way”?
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 17h
Never thought I’d agree with this narcissist wrecking ball. But childcare should be a societal good and by definition not means tested. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Badenoch says Tories want policies ‘for everybody’ as she defends plan to let millionaires get free childcare – UK politics live
Conservative leader defends plan to extend free childcare to high earners, as Tory conference begins in Birmingham today
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 20h
AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany
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Andrea Halbritter Leichte + Einfache Sprache FRDE @cotelangues.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Spätestens 1936 ermittelte die Staatsanwaltschaft #München gegen meine Oma wegen Hochverrats - sowie gegen 53 weitere Personen. Das Verbrechen meiner Oma war: Sie hatte, nachdem ihr Mann 1933 im KZ #Dachau ermordet worden war, etwas Geld von der Roten Hilfe akzeptiert. 1/
Junge Frau mit hochgesteckten schwarzen Haaren
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Germany’s AfD mourns the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline as an attack on ‘Germany’s energy sovereignty’ - with Russian gas. All you need to know about AfD.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 01/10/2026
The little shits who broke the country are afraid.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The man basically broke three omertàs for British politics yesterday - triple lock, Brexit, and electoral reform - and he's still in one piece. Yes, you get some bad headlines, but also some good ones, and a sense that you are willing to use some political courage.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Andrew Knight (Fella) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andrewknightfella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was wrong about Burnham... I have slagged off this man for years. But he's ticked two out of three boxes for me. The BIG THREE for me are; 1) Brexit 2) Russia 3) Trump Burnham is doing good on the first two far! (If he can punch Trump in the nose as well I will start building statues to him)
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ash Sarkar is helping Farage become Prime Minister. She said we shouldn't even discuss undoing Brexit. Brexit is the only thing we can point to as proof Farage has hurt millions of people. And she's defending it. Sincerely: FO
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Why is Femi attacking Ash Sarkar on Brexit?
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 29/09/2026
And then the 'superintelligence' will confirm for everyone that he is a pedophile rapist. thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Trump to sign order renaming AI as ‘superintelligence’
President Trump plans to sign an order Tuesday officially renaming AI as “superintelligence.” “We’re going to be signing a document today at about 5 o’clock, renaming artificial intelli…
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 28/09/2026
Let's replace Maths with hymn singing... Said none but a bunch of weirdos and fascists.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 28/09/2026
One of the people Labour considers to be dangerous terrorists.
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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The three far-right parties, Tories, Reform and Restore have about 50% together. All want to leave the ECHR and therefore the Council of Europe and blow up the GFA and TCA. It would be a worse crisis than Brexit
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We have a choice between telling future generations that we let Russia kill, rape, torture and plunder in Ukraine for longer than World War 2, or we can change our actions, so we can tell future generations that we sent the Russians back to Russia where they belong.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 27/09/2026
How the Tech billionaires are protecting one of their own. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 27/09/2026
Space Karen went through a lot of gender affirming treatment in his life.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 27/09/2026
It is the 21st century and the world’s richest and most powerful people are dystopian fascists who are high on Nazi ideology.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 27/09/2026
It is estimated that more than a million Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang have been disappeared into concentration camps under President Xi. But that’s not something a Nazi such as Musk would be concerned about.
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Michael Lühmann @herrluehmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brandmauer einreißen, Antisemitismus Edition. Shame on you, CDU! Kümmert Euch gefälligst um die Antisemiten in Euren eigenen Reihen! Und Herr Merz, ich erwarte hier sofortige Konsequenzen! www.deutschlandfunk.de/stolperstein...
Stolpersteinverbot im sächsischen Heidenau beschlossen
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Internationales Auschwitz Komitee @auschwitz.info · 24/09/2026
Heidenau: AfD und CDU wollen Stolpersteine aus dem öffentlichen Raum verbannen und das Gedenken auf den Friedhof verlagern. Ein durchsichtiger und schäbiger Versuch, die Opfer der Nazis erneut aus der Stadt hinauszuwerfen. Dass CDU-Abgeordnete der AfD dafür die Hand reichen, ist ein Skandal.
Drei Stolpersteine im dunklen Straßenpflaster erinnern an Alice David, Hedwig Eppstein und Paul Maximilian Eppstein. Auf den Steinen liegen rote Rosen. Alice David wurde 1942 durch Verfolgung und Entrechtung in den Tod getrieben. Hedwig Eppstein wurde nach Theresienstadt deportiert und 1944 in Auschwitz ermordet. Paul Maximilian Eppstein wurde nach Theresienstadt deportiert und dort 1944 ermordet. Foto: KGS für IAK Berlin.

https://www.auschwitz.info/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/presseinfo-einzeln/lesen/ein-schaebiger-angriff-auf-die-erinnerung-auschwitz-komitee-verurteilt-stolperstein-antrag.html
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Neil Bowen @neilpbowen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Americans appear to be far more concerned with the price of fuel and their wallets rather than the human rights abuses being carried out on their streets by ICE
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years ago, Mr Brexit left his wife because his drunk mate down the pub convinced him he would be totally free and spending his evening with dazzling models who were all desperate to date him. In the past decade, Mr Brexit has moved into a bedsit above a branch of Greggs,
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stop asking the Ukrainian president stupid, loaded, victim-blaming questions. There is nothing Ukraine can do for peace besides defeating Russia. Russia rejects peace and compromise and it offers only full occupation or complete domination.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 23/09/2026
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Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Europeans who endorsed Trump have no right to complain about high gas prices, as the man they endorsed and his policies led directly to them. These idiots and traitors got what they wished for. It’s their fault
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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Robert Misik @misik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bemerkenswert: die CDU hatte mit Angela Merkel eine Chefin, die sozusagen fett in der Mitte saß und große Mehrheiten holte. Funktionäre träumten von einem rechteren Kurs. Sie setzten sich durch und das Ergebnis ist flugs die Selbstabschaffung der CDU. Und sie haben es noch nicht mal verstanden.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 20/09/2026
Channel 4 said that the far left won Berlin. I don’t like “Die Linke”. But they are social democratic, not far left and have led state governments before. Think Corbyn style Labour Party if you want a British comparison. The far left is the BSW, a despicable pro Putin, anti migrant party.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 20/09/2026
Nazi scum largest party in second German state. At least, unlike Sachsen-Anhalt, they are unlikely to be able to form a government.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 20/09/2026
Had to remember a recent Rest is Politics Episode where Rory Stewart was advocating for the return of economically competent people such as David Gauke from the Cameron era, the same people who did austerity when interest rates were rock bottom and then lost the country to Brexit.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 20/09/2026
There is a literally a bunch of witnesses who accuse Farage of singing Nazi songs in the past. So, if their leader is an alleged Nazi lover, what does it say about the rest of his party? With respect to Putin lovers. Well. I guess, just look up Farages’s appearances on RT over the years.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 18/09/2026
Nothing can make me add Coldplay to my list.
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 18/09/2026
Why I am currently not going to the USA, even though I loved doing so until 2024. I don't want to visit a country run by a bunch of Nazis. Btw, for the same reason I have no plans to visit the German State of Saxony-Anhalt anytime soon.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 18/09/2026
This is what normalising the far right over the last 10 years by the political mainstream has led to.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
-What did you do after you quit the party of the centre left? - I worked for a company run by fascists and helped them gain leverage over the state's vital functions.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr. Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday. I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇
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The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’
The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our inst...
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 17/09/2026
Nazi pigs roaming the streets, murdering and disappearing people. The United States of America 2026.
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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026
Having worked on a similar decision tree process **twenty years*** ago, let me just say that the first step in addressing toxicity is to not give bad actors the benefit of the doubt. This starts by not allowing Nazis and anti-trans bigots on the platform at all.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“We are listening”. FFS, Labour, do you only listen to racists?
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Timo Betcke @timobetcke.me · 16/09/2026
Lots of naysayers who proclaim that nothing will come out of it. But sometimes big changes do happen when the time is right. And I believe the time is right.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Eat shit, Ed. You fucked up big time.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that any aspect of this is remotely legal simply erases any pretence that the UK maintains a democracy.
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