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Steven Seggie

@stevenhseggie.bsky.social

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marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶 Western suburbs of Paris

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · Dec 31

I like New Year Resolutions, so here goes:

1. get my French to C1 level
2. Go to the theatre more often
3. Drink lots of good wine
4. Go to champagne and buy lots of champagne
5. Get a six pack (almost impossible)

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 8h

It appears that way, yes

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 9h

No surrender, no surrender 🎶🎵🎶🎵

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 9h

I think it’s great

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 10h

Jail?

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 10h

The only way to punish Prince Andrew is to revoke his titles. He should be stripped of both his ‘Prince’ title and his dukedom | ✍️ Jawad Iqbal

Only way to punish Prince Andrew is to revoke his titles

www.thetimes.com

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 10h

Yep, good in his field but committed culture warrior

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 10h

Disingenuous tripe.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12h

Oh no not again www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 13h

But that just (initially) led to Scotland being dominated by Labour. Labour opened the door to the SNP.

(Jim Sillars winning Govan in 88(?) was a sign of what was going for happen in the future)

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 14h

"... Well bloody sod yer then."

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 14h

Here’s the moment NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte mocked Russia’s “limping” submarine after it was forced to surface off France.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

Thatcherism plus the corruption of local Labour and the untimely deaths of John Smith and Donald Dewar

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

I thought the shingles vaccine was for over 60s @columnist.bsky.social ?

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

Every time I see signs like this I just want to shout “then send the shit back” awful truly awful

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

Even kiddo wouldn’t call 200 “sprints”

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

No worries, really not a problem

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

Even though you’re willing to pay I don’t think it’s possible. That said, it is possible to get that number gifted per month from someone who has an account. I have an account and am happy to gift if you ask and I’m online. No skin off my nose.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

I query the use of “sprints” here but yeah chopping it up is key :)

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the first sentence of your novel right there

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely hope this is a joke because you can't stop an LLM from hallucinating data by telling it not to hallucinate data.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

I was gonna say, Turks call it mangal too

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Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 1d

As the @FT said today "economic historians like it when economic historians get prizes" and so I am ABSOLUTEY DELIGHTED that Joel Mokyr has won (half) the Nobel Prize in Economics this year. www.ft.com/content/f392...

Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt

Congratulations to the winners from FT Alphaville

www.ft.com

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkable words here from David Webb, who has done so much for corporate governance in HK and Asia. Due to serious illness, he is shutting down his website and transferring to a substack. Have huge respect for what he has done over the years webb-site.com/articles/shu...

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

They are doing the lord’s work.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I’m agreed with that. Although London also has way better variety of great food. But then being the people to Paris and greater variety will follow etc

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

The guys doing the Decoding the Gurus YouTube channel do a wonderful job too of taking down conspiracies, specifically the more academic ones like Peterson or the Weinstein brothers etc

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 3d

My simple gauge of best city-ness is where the kids (defined broadly) want to go. London *was* that place for many European kids - but that’s effectively impossible now.

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