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yearofthemagpie.bsky.social
I'm against Oligarch-Controlled Social Media (OCSM). I'm for sharp, funny and thought-provoking content.
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submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

1. I admire Krugman, but I did not find this Paul Krugman takedown of @michaelpettis.bsky.social ideas all that impressive or convincing (as a great admirer also of Pettis, I was looking forward to learning something and hearing his ideas challenged!) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/rethinking...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone involved in arriving at this outcome deserves praise. Shows we can be honest about our history without getting caught up in symbolism www.deakin.edu.au/__data/asset...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting article referred to by Martin Sandbu in today's FT. open.substack.com/pub/navigati...

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Saw this amazing movie a few months ago, a good one to watch while Sth Korean attempted coup in the news en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/12.12:_...

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

A Russian spy ring was tasked with kidnapping and/or murdering my two colleagues, Christo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov, a UK court has now heard. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

submitted 171 days ago • 41 comments

Read this thread, from a heroic American under attack from an unhinged billionaire

submitted 172 days ago • 58 comments

@jvl.bsky.social just letting you know you will be added to AI imagery blocking lists with the image on your handle (I applied one to filter out all the junk, it blocked you as well!)

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

@markgaleotti.bsky.social thank you for turning up, paid off already since I was prompted to buy your book (🥵 summer holiday reading for down under). Had to go amazon as it's not at my regular bookshop (Abbeys) yet

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

@support.bsky.team hi. It would be very useful to be able to copy the entries of a #starterpack straight to a list (or create a new list from a starterpack). It would also be useful to be able to see who is on one of my lists (not just who I am is following). Thanks, great job, Stuart

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

10 years for practicing democracy! An utter travesty of justice. Hong Kong has been rapidly descending into just another mainland Chinese city. Even the lengths of sentences for government critics now resemble those of the mainland.

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

Good piece by David Lynch of the Washington Post on the drivers of US deficits. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 182 days ago • 1 comment