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Chris Terry-Enescu

@cjterry.bsky.social

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Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · Jul 8

I decided to get one of those substack things people have and write about how Labour's victory is a reminder of how party strategy changes in a multi party, volatile environment. There's a bit about the 1977 Dutch election if you like that sort of thing

open.substack.com/pub/election...

The coalitionable, inoffensive, Labour Party

How party strategy in European PR systems can tell us about Labour's victory, and a journey through the weird and wonderful operation of Britain's electoral system.

open.substack.com

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 3h

I'm begging for existentialists to add an ounce of neurodiversity to their politics.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 2h

The ratio making it clear that people enjoy the post but do not want people to know it

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry, we're busy right now producing a future expat Romanian voter. (Who we're planning on naming Maia after Sandu, because of course we are)

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah in Moldova they have politics shaped by corrupt actors in hoc to Russia and in the US...

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 8h

Somehow, Street Sharks

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Oh yes. It's still overall poorer than the UK. But the gap is growing small enough that I question whether it can just be put down to the end of communism at this point. There are post communist countries (Poland isn't quite there yet) that are wealthier than the poorer Southern European States

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Though I think with the UK you can at least say that wealth growth has been, on the relatively objective measures, at best stagnant for a long time. The US is interesting to me because that's not true for them.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

Thing about this, I think, is it shows priced going up can still be a problem for people's evaluations of the economy even if wages are going up by more

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Find someone who loves you as much as Macron's PMs love resigning

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu appointed by Macron for the second time yesterday is already threatening to resign if “conditions are no longer met”. (France Elects)

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10h

Tbf if you're surpassing the UK on measures like this it's arguable whether it's still catch up growth

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah everyone knows you're ride and die for Curtis Sliwa

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

#BertieWouldHaveWon

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 11h

Party fears cost of Jim Gavin campaign may top €500,000 after a damaging week for Micheál Martin

Fianna Fail face huge presidential campaign bill after Aras fiasco

Party fears cost of Jim Gavin campaign may top €500,000 after a damaging week for Micheál Martin

www.thetimes.com

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Oh yeah, duh, obviously he's meaning 'the bubble that Jonn mentioned'

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

I tbf don't know if Andy was being sarcastic

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 11h

Compare it to a map of Fine Gael support at the 2007 election...

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12h

I hear you love Elon Musk, now, Jonn

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12h

I dunno what Jonn's done, but yeah it was incredibly easy to imagine where Labour might "find a gap"

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12h

I hope that's the real Lou Haigh

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 12h

You see this (unsurprisingly) a lot in the tech space - in particular the view that something must be inevitable if you put enough work into the “prerequisite”.

Eg: if we pour enough resources into developing LLMs, we will surely eventually create AGI.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 12h

Electoral volatility and fragmentation go brrr

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 12h

❗ Reform GAIN from Conservative

Yesterday's Bretforton and Offenham (Wychavon) council by-election result:

REF: 43.5% (+43.5)
GRN: 25.9% (+25.9)
CON: 20.1% (-35.4)
LAB: 4.0% (-25.9)
LDEM: 3.8% (-10.8)
IND: 1.5% (+1.5)
IND: 1.2% (+1.2)

Estimated turnout: ~36% (+5)

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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