Triskaidekaphobia
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London-born, Killarney-based, rugby fanatic, IT professional, beer enthusiast
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An interesting example here is Elon Musk's blatant attempt to buy the Wisconsin judicial election last year. It seems he did succeed in boosting Republican turnout. The state GOP chair was giddy when I interviewed him. But they didn't account for how much farther it boosted Democrat turnout
well then it hasn’t been a very successful one
February 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
An interesting example here is Elon Musk's blatant attempt to buy the Wisconsin judicial election last year. It seems he did succeed in boosting Republican turnout. The state GOP chair was giddy when I interviewed him. But they didn't account for how much farther it boosted Democrat turnout
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i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.
February 2, 2026 at 1:24 PM
i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.
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Yeah no shit
I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.
As you read WSJ's piece on the super-secret abuse complaint about Tulsi Gabbard, remember that she tried unsuccessfully to wring counterintelligence function away from FBI last year.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
February 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Yeah no shit
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There is a reasonable case to be made that it is less the end of the global order than the the end of Europe and the US being the ones who can decide what the rules are and are not.
And we're not dealing with it very well.
And we're not dealing with it very well.
February 2, 2026 at 10:10 AM
There is a reasonable case to be made that it is less the end of the global order than the the end of Europe and the US being the ones who can decide what the rules are and are not.
And we're not dealing with it very well.
And we're not dealing with it very well.
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Thanks to @daveproudlove.bsky.social for alerting me to this wonderful exchange 😂
February 1, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Thanks to @daveproudlove.bsky.social for alerting me to this wonderful exchange 😂
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and yes she did travel business class with the kids in economy fwiw
February 1, 2026 at 10:22 PM
and yes she did travel business class with the kids in economy fwiw
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a short piece called Potential Foreigner.
a piece on the question "where are you from?".
audio and written versions below: unaminhkavanagh.com/writing-pote... #writing
a piece on the question "where are you from?".
audio and written versions below: unaminhkavanagh.com/writing-pote... #writing
February 1, 2026 at 1:12 PM
a short piece called Potential Foreigner.
a piece on the question "where are you from?".
audio and written versions below: unaminhkavanagh.com/writing-pote... #writing
a piece on the question "where are you from?".
audio and written versions below: unaminhkavanagh.com/writing-pote... #writing
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Just finished (for now) a major project. A BlueSky thread describing the key distinctions I use to bring clarity to my own thinking as a press critic.
It's long (28 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their version of "citizen journalism."
It's long (28 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their version of "citizen journalism."
"When in doubt, draw a distinction."
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
February 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Just finished (for now) a major project. A BlueSky thread describing the key distinctions I use to bring clarity to my own thinking as a press critic.
It's long (28 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their version of "citizen journalism."
It's long (28 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their version of "citizen journalism."
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The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:3t37x6vfigdzzp2gjcfnzlz4/post/3mdsqyoyphk2z.
Page by Jay Rosen | @jayrosen.bsky.social - skywriter.blue
"When in doubt, draw a distinction."
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?...
skywriter.blue
February 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:3t37x6vfigdzzp2gjcfnzlz4/post/3mdsqyoyphk2z.
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Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
February 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Vaccines are a bloody miracle. We eradicated smallpox in my lifetime because of them. We were on the verge of doing the same to polio. These are *miracles*, yet these purblind fools are about to drag us all back into a dark age of needless deaths and misery.
It makes me quite, quite cross.
It makes me quite, quite cross.
February 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Vaccines are a bloody miracle. We eradicated smallpox in my lifetime because of them. We were on the verge of doing the same to polio. These are *miracles*, yet these purblind fools are about to drag us all back into a dark age of needless deaths and misery.
It makes me quite, quite cross.
It makes me quite, quite cross.
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Mark Tully’s commentary was not aimed at the powerful or the elite. It went out in six languages to 50m listeners, many of them illiterate
Mark Tully spoke to Indians as one of them
The veteran BBC reporter and writer died on January 25th, aged 90
econ.st
February 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Mark Tully’s commentary was not aimed at the powerful or the elite. It went out in six languages to 50m listeners, many of them illiterate
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A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about…
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 AM
A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about…
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.
This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.
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This map by @BrilliantMaps is one way of saying that housing became heaps more expensive. Source: buff.ly/hlYEW4W
February 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
This map by @BrilliantMaps is one way of saying that housing became heaps more expensive. Source: buff.ly/hlYEW4W
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I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.
January 31, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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“If Ratner was trying to create a study of the existential agony of 90 minutes of near-unremitting boredom, then Melania is a triumph. If he was trying to make a documentary, it’s a disaster.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
The expensive boredom of Melania
Amazon’s $75million documentary about the first lady is a shameful waste of time and money
www.thenewworld.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 10:08 AM
“If Ratner was trying to create a study of the existential agony of 90 minutes of near-unremitting boredom, then Melania is a triumph. If he was trying to make a documentary, it’s a disaster.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
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If there really were infallible ways to find a life partner, raise happy kids, be endlessly effective at work, achieve your full potential, etc., it would all have been carved into a mountainside millennia ago. You won’t find a magic formula and you particularly won’t find it in an airport bookshop.
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
January 29, 2026 at 6:19 PM
If there really were infallible ways to find a life partner, raise happy kids, be endlessly effective at work, achieve your full potential, etc., it would all have been carved into a mountainside millennia ago. You won’t find a magic formula and you particularly won’t find it in an airport bookshop.
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This is the most dreadful nonsense I've read all week what is the matter with these joyless cunts
January 29, 2026 at 8:37 AM
This is the most dreadful nonsense I've read all week what is the matter with these joyless cunts
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Our Carrie Bradshaw index is a simple measure of how much someone must earn to afford to rent alone, as the “Sex and the City” protagonist famously does. Explore the European edition
Our Carrie Bradshaw index of Europe’s priciest cities for renters
The average earner struggles to afford rent in all but eight of the places we looked at
econ.st
January 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Our Carrie Bradshaw index is a simple measure of how much someone must earn to afford to rent alone, as the “Sex and the City” protagonist famously does. Explore the European edition
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Early reviews are in:
‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’
‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’
January 28, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Early reviews are in:
‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’
‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’
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Police Ask For Public’s Help In Falsifying Report
January 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Police Ask For Public’s Help In Falsifying Report
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There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.
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So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1
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A meme that should now only be used very sparingly, but this is a bullseye.
January 27, 2026 at 6:55 AM
A meme that should now only be used very sparingly, but this is a bullseye.