I haven't really looked at or paid attention to any results, but I'm pleased to say that, whatever they were or are, they strongly validate precisely whatever it is I've been saying.
Ervin Sperla
@ervinsperla.bsky.social
European. Interested in linguistics, politics, science, humour. Good to be here.
Also love how not a single analyst, policymaker, journo or academic from Germany, Norway, Ukraine, France, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Spain, Greece, Estonia, Sweden, Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, Netherlands etc etc was asked for feedback by the authors of this UK think tank report.
Nee @ad.nl en @destentor.bsky.social, Spanje heeft deze "test" doorstaan en Europa heeft vooral laten zien dat extreemrechts weer om het hardst onzin verkondigd en dat veel landen daar blind in mee gaan. Zoals hier #Yesilgöz en #Brekelmans direct mee surften op het extreemrechtse gejank om niets.
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Democrats whose figureheads conspicuously failed to endorse Mamdani as proof of their... "credentials" now trying to take credit for Mamdani after he won despite their lack of support. Excellent work
Democrats@democrats.org · 2d agoHUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.
This isn't anecdote. A Cardiff University content analysis found that on BBC News at Six, business representatives outnumbered trade union spokespeople by 5:1 in 2007, and by 19:1 in 2012. (New Statesman) It's been baked in for decades. #r4today
I guess he's just lucky there's no record of him supporting Net Zero
Absofuckinglutely! Or after closing it, another one opens!
scha·den·freu·de@blisterpearl.bsky.social · 3d ago
Even when shooting for some good old-fashioned theocracy here, which was in vogue for thousands of years all over the world, they have to claim to be the first to do this. The less history you actually have the more you are driven to assert your place in it
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoUS House Speaker Mike Johnson going full Red Hunter at The Family Leadership Summit: “We were the first nation in the history of the world to boldly proclaim the eternal truth that our rights do not come from government. They come from God Himself.” 1/
It's notable that when Belarus/Russia did this to Poland, other EU countries didn't respond by blaming Poland. They blamed Belarus/Russia. No mystery why Europe's governing conservatives are blaming the EU's only leftist prime minister.
Car dealership money has singlehandedly derailed (no pun intended) efforts to improve mass transit here in Indianapolis, including a light-rail ban specifically in the metro area
A great day for anyone playing Obituary Euphemism Bingo. 66. “Provocative” 14: “Uncompromising” 21: “No topic off limits” 10: “One-of-a-kind” 28: “Led life to the full”.
I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
Increasingly convinced that consuming news via social media is actually too difficult. Reasonably can we expect ppl to: - Ascertain the accuracy of a post - Contextualise the info in that post - Do that when they are being constantly bombarded with info from millions of different places & topics
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
Today in our series "Guess the Country":
slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d agomy neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
"his thigh-bone was dung in two... by the which he died hastily" is quite the description
Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d agoThe inordinate pride and gloating may be a rhetorical flourish, but the event itself is confirmed in Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie’s ‘The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland, 1436-1565’
It’s the 566th anniversary of King James II of Scotland being hoist with his own petard—almost literally, given that he was taken out by a piece of his own artillery while besieging a castle 🧵
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
When someone says "nucular" for nuclear. Back when Dubya did it, everybody laughed, these days even some academics do it
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
@romania_cg1 (TT) captures a Eurasian Hoopoe showing off its crest and unique "hoop-hoop" call: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Something endlessly pleasing about the fact the first way you can tell you’ve crossed the Franco-Italian border by train is the font changing on the train stations.
This was German humor. In December 2019, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (maybe) had problems with the lights. Normally it reads "STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN" at the entrance. On this very evening, "BIBLIOTHEK ZU" was to be seen due to fallen out lights. This means: library closed.
