Hugh J
@hughjorgensen.bsky.social
Sentient meatsack. Now: battling dirty money from Berlin. Was: diplomat in China, think tank econ nerd. Sometimes: writer of sorts.
A beautiful fusion of the chinese red packet 🧧 tradition wrapped in western potato chip culture.
August 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A beautiful fusion of the chinese red packet 🧧 tradition wrapped in western potato chip culture.
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When your sister @astridjorgensen.bsky.social has a much cooler job than you #AGT #pubchoir
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Nobody Saw This Coming! Astrid Makes The Audience Sing In Harmony To "Africa" By Toto! | AGT 2025
YouTube video by America's Got Talent
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June 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
When your sister @astridjorgensen.bsky.social has a much cooler job than you #AGT #pubchoir
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The 'Russian, Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs' (REPO) Taskforce was one of the more promising G7 initiatives for going after money and assets being stashed offshore by Putin's allies - but it hasn't been mentioned in G7 comms now for over a year. Why?
Together with our chapters, we are urging G7 Finance Ministers to recommit to and provide updates on their efforts to coordinate targeted sanctions against Russian elites. #G7Kananaskis2025
Read our open letter here ➡️ anticorru.pt/3bG
Read our open letter here ➡️ anticorru.pt/3bG
May 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The 'Russian, Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs' (REPO) Taskforce was one of the more promising G7 initiatives for going after money and assets being stashed offshore by Putin's allies - but it hasn't been mentioned in G7 comms now for over a year. Why?
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Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...
Robert Prevost - Google+
A Google+ profile for Robert Prevost
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May 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...
Vatican's own summary of Vatican FC "From the games that the Vatican national football team has played, their performance has not been very good. The team normally plays with other local teams in Rome as friendly matches but winning has always been a problem for it" vatican.com/Vaticans-nat...
Vatican's national football team
The Vatican national football team is the football team that plays for the Vatican and represents it in international matches. As you may know, Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the wo...
vatican.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Vatican's own summary of Vatican FC "From the games that the Vatican national football team has played, their performance has not been very good. The team normally plays with other local teams in Rome as friendly matches but winning has always been a problem for it" vatican.com/Vaticans-nat...
I stand by it.
Slim hope: There's a kind of insane brain melting charisma to Trump that thrives off symbiosis with edgelords. I'm still worried, but not as worried as I'd be if Dutton actually had the charisma to woo a Joe Rogan listener.
Get ready Australia. You know what is coming for the next 6 months.
May 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I stand by it.
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hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...
April 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...
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🔵 GREAT NEWS! In a landmark judgement, the EU Court of Justice just ruled that Malta cannot continue operating its “golden passports” programme, which has allowed foreigners to acquire Maltese (and therefore EU) citizenship.
➡️ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9
➡️ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9
April 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🔵 GREAT NEWS! In a landmark judgement, the EU Court of Justice just ruled that Malta cannot continue operating its “golden passports” programme, which has allowed foreigners to acquire Maltese (and therefore EU) citizenship.
➡️ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9
➡️ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9
I attended a few of these shows - the 3 year project is well worth the 6 minute watch
For nearly 3 years I taught Pub Choir audiences single phrases from the hardest song there is and stitched them all together into one performance.
So here's 102,974 people performing Bohemian Rhapsody. ENJOY
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qtM-...
So here's 102,974 people performing Bohemian Rhapsody. ENJOY
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qtM-...
Pub Choir covers Bohemian Rhapsody: 102,974 singers recorded over 2.5 years!
YouTube video by Pub Choir
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April 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I attended a few of these shows - the 3 year project is well worth the 6 minute watch
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It's an exclusive MYSTERY SOLVED. Guardian Australia figured out why Trump thought Norfolk Island (pop 2,188) has a huge leather shoe export business and penguins on Heard and McDonald Islands are running a secret machinery factory deserving of trade tariffs www.theguardian.com/...
Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
Exclusive: Aquarium systems, Timberland boots and recycling plant parts were mislabelled as coming from remote Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It's an exclusive MYSTERY SOLVED. Guardian Australia figured out why Trump thought Norfolk Island (pop 2,188) has a huge leather shoe export business and penguins on Heard and McDonald Islands are running a secret machinery factory deserving of trade tariffs www.theguardian.com/...
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Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
March 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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President Trump has announced plans to sell US$5m “gold card” resident permits to foreigners.
Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
President Trump has announced plans to sell US$5m “gold card” resident permits to foreigners.
Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. A baboon annointing you with gourd juice over an Elton John coronation hymn does.
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Watery tarts handing out swords does.
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Accidentally drinking the previous king does.
February 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. A baboon annointing you with gourd juice over an Elton John coronation hymn does.
Tears falling as I blow out candles on a loaf of bread, butter and sprinkles, while wishing, hoping, to one day taste American cake
As well as suggesting we don't have birthday cakes in AU & NZ 😒 how did they manage to cock up such a simple technique? You don't fastidiously sprinkle 100s & 1000s over the buttered bread! You fill a plate with 100s & 1000s, then face-plant the bread in it
Archived recipe here: archive.md/aOc1O
Archived recipe here: archive.md/aOc1O
February 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Tears falling as I blow out candles on a loaf of bread, butter and sprinkles, while wishing, hoping, to one day taste American cake
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February 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The FCPA was one of the great achievements of Jimmy Carter's presidency - which enabled, among other things, punishing Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal
Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order to pause all enforcement of the FCPA. This is a betrayal of U.S. leadership in global anti-corruption efforts & sends a dangerous signal that bribery is back on the table.
U.S. pausing of foreign bribery enforcement will harm economies and…
U.S. pausing of foreign bribery enforcement will harm economies and governance worldwide
www.transparency.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The FCPA was one of the great achievements of Jimmy Carter's presidency - which enabled, among other things, punishing Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal
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The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Australia has reversed its decade-long slide, ranking back in the top 10 least corrupt countries.
Australia improves on global corruption rankings, but there is still work to be done
theconversation.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Australia has reversed its decade-long slide, ranking back in the top 10 least corrupt countries.
"Whoever wins (race for artificial general intelligence) has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process - Cute coda to DeepSeek story in FT on.ft.com/4jD3qWD
January 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
"Whoever wins (race for artificial general intelligence) has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process - Cute coda to DeepSeek story in FT on.ft.com/4jD3qWD
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December 20, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Eesh. The FDIC is somewhat essential to why the '08 financial crisis didn't result in our timeline turning into Grapes of Wrath meets Fury Road. Though ... could be good for mattressmen like the Pillow guy - money would be better 'invested' under the bed in any future run on the banks.
“Trump advisers and officials from his newfound Department of Government Efficiency have, for example, asked whether the president-elect could abolish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp”
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators
Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Eesh. The FDIC is somewhat essential to why the '08 financial crisis didn't result in our timeline turning into Grapes of Wrath meets Fury Road. Though ... could be good for mattressmen like the Pillow guy - money would be better 'invested' under the bed in any future run on the banks.
Vogon alert.
So long, and thanks for all the fish. Final NYT column is up. News about future plans probably tomorrow morning www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
Opinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment
Where have all the good vibes gone?
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Vogon alert.
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
Australia closing down its Consulate in Shenyang will not substantively change anything about its relationship with China. Source, me: I worked in that consulate. www-theaustralian-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thea...
November 29, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Australia closing down its Consulate in Shenyang will not substantively change anything about its relationship with China. Source, me: I worked in that consulate. www-theaustralian-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thea...
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Amongst everything passed by the Senate last night was world leading corporate tax transparency laws
All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries
taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju...
#auspol
All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries
taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju...
#auspol
Tax Justice Network hails world-leading Australian legislation on corporate tax transparency | Tax Justice Network
PUBLIC COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REPORTING REQUIREMENT WILL REVEAL PROFIT SHIFTING PATTERNS AND CURB TAX ABUSE In the final session before elections, the Australian Senate has voted to pass world-leading le...
taxjustice.net
November 28, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Amongst everything passed by the Senate last night was world leading corporate tax transparency laws
All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries
taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju...
#auspol
All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries
taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju...
#auspol
Pleased to also uninstall Threads - anodyne, and Mastodon - bewildering. I welcome the coming Bluesky bubble.
November 25, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Pleased to also uninstall Threads - anodyne, and Mastodon - bewildering. I welcome the coming Bluesky bubble.