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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 17m

I'd vaguely heard of Dugin, but had not seen this specific Russian plan.

"The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from the European Union."

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 34m

And hidden in plain sight but ignored

* Ukraine should be annexed
* The UK should be cut off from Europe
* Create instability in the US

"The Foundations of Geopolitics"

Planned 28 years ago by Putin's "brain", Aleksandr Dugin

Foundations of Geopolitics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 12h

I've been over at my friend Amy's. Her very Christian neighbours have named their Wi-Fi network 'Jesus Loves You'. Her other neighbours have responded by naming theirs "Satan's Information Hole'.”

Notebook

Tom Cox

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

He's definitely a Pope for our times isn't he...

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

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

apnews.com

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Based on the first episode this is going to be very good. And of course an important and intriguing story to bring to a wider audience.

Plus David Tennant and Toby Jones demonstrating their uncanny acting skills.

www.itv.com/watch/the-ha...

www.itv.com

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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 12h

In a previous life, I helped to make a continuity database for long running radio serial The Archers. After the event. I was told it was the only thing that kept it on air through lockdown. I’m sorry

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 12h

These are Halloween outfits yes?

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 15h

OMG

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h

Russia pays Europe’s saboteurs in crypto, says Polish official on.ft.com/48ZgCC2

Russia pays Europe’s saboteurs in crypto, says Polish official

Warsaw’s national security chief says Moscow is also using a shadow fleet to launch drones into European airspace

on.ft.com

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 16h

Got mine today thanks to your post here. (The vax, not the broccoli etc)

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, it's interesting to get the inside story on an industry, especially when we use the product.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 20h

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 18h

And Cameron.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Interview with Cory Doctorow by @zoecorbyn.bsky.social

(TIL we are deep in the enshittocene era)

#TheNerve

www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

‘The platforms got worse because we let them!’: Cory Doctorow on his fight to save the internet from enshittification

The author and cyber-activist argues that the tech giants have ruined life online. The only thing that can save the virtual world now, he tells Zoë Corbyn, is its users

www.thenerve.news

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Based on the first episode this is going to be very good. And of course an important and intriguing story to bring to a wider audience.

Plus David Tennant and Toby Jones demonstrating their uncanny acting skills.

www.itv.com/watch/the-ha...

www.itv.com

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Weird dream, but could just eat that (the one in the picture, which I assume doesn't include Bowie sweat)

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes, tell him we're all desperate to read it (all)

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

It's where the action is.

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, I wondered why he was just saying it now, assumed it was to add weight to the Bondi questioning last week.

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

He's definitely a Pope for our times isn't he...

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

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

apnews.com

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Surprised this hasn't created more of a stir...

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

Michael Wolff: I've seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein's girls. Here's what's in them.

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 2d

Readers of Private Eye will be interested to hear there's an opportunity being talked up here for Musgrave and Corney (backed by Houchen) to become billionaires, if the decision goes their (AI datacentre) way.

(£)

www.thetimes.com/article/ad1c...

Ed Miliband’s split with Starmer over a £100bn mega-project

A bitter cabinet division has opened up over the future of Teesside. Will AI datacentres or a net zero-linked hydrogen plant get the vote?

www.thetimes.com

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

You can now read Stewart Lee on The Nerve...

#TheNerve

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily he's not influential in any way...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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Anita Chaudhuri @anitachaudhuri.bsky.social · 1d

This madness must be stopped.

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