Patrick Holden
@patrickholden.bsky.social
Irish academic at the University of Plymouth, IR/ Political Economy/EU Policy.
"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.
Of course it was #morons
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Everton fandom as the mid-table club that never quite gets relegated but also never quite manages to get a Champions League place seems a good fit for 21st century Britain. And that's probably OK.
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
Musk is fine with this kind of foreign aid www.basenor.com/blogs/news/u...
US Invests $30M to Bring Starlink to Papua New Guinea
The United States government has committed $30 million to deploy SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet across Papua New Guinea — one of the world's most geographically fragmented nations, where vast st...
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I.... has the right to defend itself!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoKAITLAN COLLINS: Are you okay with Iran having missiles? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves COLLINS: You think Iran needs to be able to defend itself? MARSHALL: I do, otherwise we turn this into a forever war
Damn those boyars for ruining things for the tsar!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoBen Shapiro: "This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning ... in my opinion the vice president, the chief negotiator, has not well served the president"
Confused White Guy Blinking
ALT: Confused White Guy Blinking
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoKilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us. My statement on recent events in Belfast.
The complete lack response from FIFA to one of its World Cup referees being refused entry to the US tells you everything you need to know about how corrupted and debased that wretched organisation is.
💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
We have just kicked off our #BISA2026 public lecture with Professor Ilan Pappe 🌟 Entitled ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ this promises to be an incredible discussion 🌍 Thank you to CAPPE and @brightonuni.bsky.social for helping us with this wonderful event! 🎉
Tomorrow is our #BISA2026 public lecture with Professor Ilan Pappe in Brighton 🎉 'Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order' Looking at why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 have unsettled the international order 🌍 Last chance 👉 https://ow.ly/VmcZ50YWnQ9
Chairing a timely panel on 'liberalism and the Geoeconomic turn' at the @mybisa.bsky.social Conference in Brighton this Wednesday. Speakers include Caroline Bertram, Zhihang Wu, Emilio Del Pupo, Alasdair Young and Yours Truly. conference.bisa.ac.uk
Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions
The BISA conference is renowned for being inclusive, diverse and friendly. We bring together a worldwide community of specialists to discuss, promote and develop international studies.
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There will be no sweet sounds Coming down on the nightshiift
Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Commodores will not be performing either!
We have released several updates to Verity, our tool to minimise AI hallucinations. v0.3.0 --> www.iccl.ie/digital-data... Free for researchers, campaigners, legislators, litigators, reporters to use, adapt, and improve.
How Europe learned to stop worrying and love… state aid @bmoens.bsky.social & @alicemhancock.bsky.social on the dangerous weapon with the power to break the EU single market as.ft.com/r/c3275d69-c...
How Europe learnt to love subsidies
EU state aid has increased. Will that fend off China or fragment the single market?
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If you care about the world economy, and the few billion people that a continuation of this war would hurt, you should probably resist the temptation of going “Haha, TACO!”
Very helpful to Andy Burnham's local campaign 🤣
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoStreeting launches scathing attack on Starmer - and calls for UK to rejoin EU
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
