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It’s maybe worth noting that this guy used to be President of Doctors Without Borders so you know he’s fucking pissed at all those kids needlessly dying because of this bullshit

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Cough... Please leave your phone and Apple watch at the border.

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🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

This👇 This is how Ukrainians will see their President. Someone who like every single one of them won’t just roll over. Won’t just back down. Won’t accept aggression. Will fight back when necessary. Will defend the territory and sovereignty of Ukraine.

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"It’s not hard to imagine a president of Estonia or Moldova in that Oval Office chair, being berated by Trump and Vance. Or a president of Taiwan."

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There aren't words for how angry the US' behaviour makes me.

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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 5 days ago • 244 comments

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

submitted 5 days ago • 1044 comments

Some personal good news over the last week, in the bleak landscape that is (waves hands) all of this. 1/4

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Just a reminder that this is happening today and we'd love to have you along (via Zoom or IRL)!

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Conference announcement and call for papers: 'Challenges of conflict transformation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories', 12 June 2025. For scholars from the wider humanities & social sciences. Full details on presenting and attending here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #AcademicSky

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Today in 'Irony is dead, capitalism ate it'.

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Expect to see a lot more of this 👇 in the coming months & years. If Europe is at least pretending to have a serious conversation about life without a US security guarantee, then the same conversation has to be had about tech dependence on the US. Whether anything will happen is another matter.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

The current state of European-US security collaboration. youtu.be/NUC2EQvdzmY?...

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We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards. Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

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Condé staff work overtime to break news about Elon Musk’s government takeover at WIRED, develop new recipes at @bonappetit.bsky.social + cover the Grammys for Vanity Fair. We go beyond for our jobs, but Condé Nast is making us commute 4x/week just to check a box—& can’t even provide enough workspace

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

We were honored to welcome back alumni affiliate @nourhalabi.bsky.social last week. Nour shared profound testimony from her recent homecoming to Damascus & unpacked emerging journalistic practices in Syria. @asc.upenn.edu @bzelizer.bsky.social

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Literally no one has ever had to beware that no-thought-only-snacks precious baby.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Stupid Q perhaps, but why can't Trump just pre-emptively (or as an ongoing matter) just pardon DOGE for all its criminality? As far as recent precedents in the US appear, all of the basic building blocks for this are in place? Or am I missing something?

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If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds). www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

Just as a yardstick for "how extremist is Trump's executive order on South Africa," here are white Afrikaners distancing themselves from it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

"the Cybertruck of countries" is going to stick

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

I’m very excited (and a bit nervous) to be doing this…

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

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I'm sure there there are nuances to this, but it was not great to learn this AM that the NSDAP actually got less vote share than GOP back in the day. (The day being 1933)

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Maybe now is the end of the Cold War, and the 90s were just a clever long-game feint by Russia and friends. #somethingsomethingfukuyama

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

want to be a 'scientist' but don't want to waste time with 'thinking' - well now you don't have to! Get a chatbot to summarise stuff for you! Hey, it's probably going to invent quotes, and the servers are contributing to climate collapse, but it increases your drinking time, and that's cool with us

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I'd love to know when @wired.com are actually sleeping in between the endless scoops.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It's time to share some work here and rebuild a tiny circle of love and constructive criticism.🦄 So: recently, I've published this "Jungle".🌱 doi.org/10.1177/1464...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

./borf

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It's exhausting to have every new episode of the reality series that is the US drop while I'm asleep and having to catch up.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Or regular expressions, given the number of sticky bro fingers in the national codebases.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

For every “screw you, you America-hating swine” I’ve received the past few days, I’ve received 100x thanks and kindness. So thank you to everyone who’s shared @wired.com’s journalism and blessed us with kind words. We appreciate you endlessly. Anyway, back to work!

submitted 30 days ago • 334 comments

There needs to be broader recognition that the top-down, gatekeeped information system most of us grew up with is shifting towards peer-to-peer information systems, where we're no longer just consumers of information but creators and vectors of information. This especially affects Gen Alpha.

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 35 days ago • 3789 comments

I have legit had this exact conversation with my partner maybe a dozen times.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments