Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 20hMy god, Jacob Reese-Mogg of all people absolutely crushing Tucker Carlson’s Russian propaganda babble, better than anyone I’ve seen before. I think it’s because Tucker just couldn’t NOT hold in respect and esteem such an unbearable and imperious tw**. 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The ending of Civil War, when the journalist says “wait! I need a quote”, but instead of “don’t kill me” it’s “we have the greatest economy in the history of our country …” 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Spare a moment for the Saudi foreign ministry first secretary in Moscow tasked with working out how to keep Russia from helping Iran aid the Houthis with this coming offensive, without spoiling Russia’s relations with Tehran which are also important for Russia’s frontline in Ukraine 🙃reuters.comSaudis plan assault on Houthis to break Red Sea chokeholdSaudi Arabia is planning an offensive against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, with options being considered including a coastal push to secure the Red Sea shipping route or an assault on multip... 001
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Obvious case of “cruel and unusual punishment”, which is plainly unconstitutional. And of course it was allowed but this utterly illegitimate Supreme Court.yahoo.comChrista Pike is alive and receiving life-saving medical care after surviving 2 lethal injections, attorney saysTennessee Governor Bill Lee said he had ordered a review of the incident after the inmate survived two doses of pentobarbital. 110
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Scratch that. After getting deeper into ME/CFS biomedical science I take this all back. The body is a ridiculous Hex machine from the Discworld, created by Ponder Stibbons and the other lunatics of the Unseen University. discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Hexdiscworld.fandom.comHexHex is an elaborate, Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg-esque, magic-powered computer housed at Unseen University (UU) in the city of Ankh-Morpork, in author Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The main str... 210
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Did you go to therapy later in your life?” “No. It’s not going to help.” Ok, this tracks with the guy who recently called Donald Trump “the second George Washington”. 021
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As an expert out of the Department of War Studies, KCL, why (other than living there) do I take such a professional interest in US MAGA politics? The answer lies in communiqués like this: 110
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is 💯 like the crescendo point of a Hitler speech. And, actually, no exaggeration. 191
Reposted by Dr Tom HillGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925311730
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sincerely grateful to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for his advocacy. An important thing I think is missing from his list of recent breakthroughs in science is DecodeME. This large scale, robust genetic research wipes away clean any remnants of the absurd claim it’s somehow a “psychological issue”.institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.ukX marks the spot where ME/CFS biology can be discovered | DecodeME : The world's largest ME/CFS study | Institute of Genetics and CancerScientists, people with ME/CFS, and their charities came together to create DecodeME, the world's biggest ME/CFS study – and its results are striking. 18,000 people with ME/CFS gave their DNA, enablin... 01812
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When you have ME/CFS and start to try and understand the scientific research on it, you can’t help but be in awe at nature The body is a stupendous piece of technology that causes trillions of random, autonomous physical and chemical processes to be reliably bent to the will and needs of a lifeform 110
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A reminder that obsequiously sucking up to Trump doesn’t work. 020
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Struggling with the alleged intelligence of the billionaires backing Trump (almost of all of them): -Iran has defeated him -Greenland has defeated him -Moms like Renee Good have defeated him (his ethnic cleansing goals have plainly failed, despite the suffering) -a reflecting pool has defeated him 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Aladwan is a British doctor who’s been criminally charged with support for Hamas. It’s a pretty good example of how falling into support for heinous groups with murderous agendas is frequently driven by belief in really whacky, reality-stretching (snapping) ideas. I bring this up because #MAGA 010
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From the mouth of the orange babe: “heritage” means preserving racial purity. No wonder this man’s ambassador to Belgium intervened to save the job of a man calling for a “Harvard department of Eugenics and Race Science”. The Wansee Conference American government. #disgust 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump’s UN speech is more than a humiliation of America. It’s a humiliation of humanity. 100
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“To the victor belong the spoils”. MAGA is just base barbarity. The last great power to try and make barbarity into a virtue got walloped in two world wars. 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not my field, but I would have thought an official statement entered into the record of the United Nations by the President of the USA - declaring he went to war without Congress - would be grounds for legal action against the admin. of some sort. Potential to be an article of impeachment, surely? 101
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think you can capture really well the experience of Trump’s second term with just 4 images of his own posts 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In the last few days both Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent held meetings with … YouTuber and quasi boxing brawler Jake Paul … because those are two cabinet members that aren’t dealing with major historic problems right now … 010
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The thing to never forget about this administration is they don’t want to save America money, they want to steal it. 021
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026👇lucid.substack.comA Reckoning for the Free Press in America, as a Weakened Trump Escalates His AttacksWhite House Press Bans, and a Dangerous Media Merger 000
Reposted by Dr Tom HillJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 20/09/2026The idea that national economic prosperity comes from founders "manifesting" it "through sheer force of will" is supported by no school of economics, but is sadly widespread in certain circles. Stable rules-based government, human capital, physical capital, natural resources. These build prosperity. 89018
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So triumphal that it needs to defend itself from invaders who’ve penetrated the capital city. 000
Reposted by Dr Tom HillImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886342301
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Entering yr 5 of long Covid/ME: Counting the secs to get to hour 36 of my latest fast Counting out the 19 pills of rx/non-rx daily meds Mixing heaps of creatine Walking to bucket every 2 hrs to plunge head in cold water to urge on parasymp. system *Etc* … Ad Infinitum to get a gap in symptoms 111
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This looks like classic Declare Victory and Climb Down 120
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So the result of Hegseth’s “accelerated AI use” order in January has been AI helping to: 1) accidentally kill 130 Iranian school girls 2) almost start a war with China. And the pay off? One of the most humiliating defeats in all of military history!cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 011
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think the biggest problem with AI is we have many bigger problems than AI. It’s going to kill us through the neglect obsession with it is causing. 020
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The tankies really do live in a cocoon of their own ancient dogma. The “Zionism is Racism” UN general assembly vote happened in 1975 for God’s sake. 120
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’d say America is about 5 years away from this, maxfashiontimes.co.ukMen Claim Their Penises Are 'Disappearing' And Now Women Fear For Their Lives As Mob Attacks GrowFalse claims that men's genitals can be stolen or made to disappear have fuelled mob violence across Africa, killing more than 80 people between October 2025 and July 2026. 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’ve gotta say, it really wouldn’t be a bad idea if the remnants of the league of democracies and free trade the US is leaving behind (the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, S Korea, Japan, the Philippines) all started manufacturing compatible ammunition …theguardian.comJohn Healey in talks with Canada about UK joining new global defence bankExclusive: Britain is understood to have been formally invited to become founding member of multilateral lender 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If only there had been some kind of check or balance available on this administration’s chosen health policy 010
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It’s fine, It’s cool You can say you didn’t vote for this but we know the truth … You can vote for Trump a thousand times But OOOH! it’s not gonna stop the feeling … #fucktheseguys 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Yet another billionaire who’s clearly a lovely bloke "He [Charles] unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death. 'Rest assured,' he hissed, 'we'll forget her soon enough'."bbc.comCharles said Diana would be forgotten 'soon enough', Earl Spencer claims in bookBuckingham Palace has not commented on the first claims from a book written by the brother of the late princess. 000
Reposted by Dr Tom HillNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My kids have measles, I can't afford gas or steak, I can't get a mortgage, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now there are signs outside the Smithsonian accusing the curators of political bias. 181397324
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is really damning of her voters, given the appeals for relief were kept secret: she clearly assesses her voters want her to support Trump and tarrifs, but also desperately want to evade the economic consequences. With such shitty voters no wonder we have such awful politics. 010
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was thinking more like a taxidermist’s first attempt at an enduring classic pose 100
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Great day for settling a very old score: I remember being told this claim during my Art History AS Level. And I remember repeatedly challenging my teacher that my eyes were telling me this didn’t work. And being told “no no trust us it’s true”. 000
Reposted by Dr Tom HillDr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“I’m sorry professor, I was having too much fun reading this book” - One of my students today I held class in the library stacks and had students looking for different topics in carceral studies. Some of them were legitimately so excited to show off their finds. Students still love physical books. 1377
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Everyday Christian America becomes more and more like the cult in License to Kill 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When you see how smug and out of touch Bessent is it’s easy to see how he became a close family friend of Charles and Camilla 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The AI data centers backlash is a massive, genuinely historic, opportunity for democrats to make inroads in remote rural communities they’ve been hitherto permanently shut out of by the culture wars. These are places no amount of campaigning would have given D-brand politicians even a hearing. Go! 000
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It’s worth taking in that the Russians are now halfway towards losing what the entire British empire lost in WWI. A war that ended Britain’s global position for good.news.sky.comHalf a million Russians killed in Ukraine war, British intelligence saysAir Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton, head of the UK armed forces, said the majority of the losses were incurred since January 2023 - in return for Russia gaining a mere 2% of Ukrainian territory. 120
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“We, the Nine Unelected Judges, in order to form a more corrupt and miserable Union …” 000
Reposted by Dr Tom HillAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953724813399