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Bleddyn Bowen

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Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 🚀🛰 Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n “He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you’re an academic working on space and politics/IR/history (and adjacent disciplines) and are looking at publishing a monograph or co-authored book do get in touch via the details below. We are not seeking to publish edited volumes - only long-form research tomes.

Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social · Jun 22

🛰️ Got an idea for a book on the #Politics of #OuterSpace? Our new series might be the perfect home for it!

Submit your proposal to series editor @bleddb.bsky.social‬

Details here 👉 bit.ly/4do03jq

New series launching in 2025
Bloomsbury Studies in Astropolitics
A multidisciplinary series exploring the politics of outer space - covering technology, policy, history, and the impacts of space activities on Earth and beyond.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d

I got blacklisted by the UK government and got the opportunity to monster them, legally and politically

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 2d

After bring told for my entire life that studying Welsh (at any level) is a waste of time and money it is quite funny to see English get a similar treatment, and from a Conservative leader no less!

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody’s listening - including in UK Gov that only wants to reduce financial costs of uni for students on STEM courses. Some unis are already scrapping physics and chemistry courses.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 3d

Even before ChatGPT etc I was reading publications that cited my work which claimed I said things I didn’t… people were already sloppy and careless and now it’s even easier to be so.

Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 3d

LOL, just got my first citation to a paper of mine that does not actually exist. Thanks, Sam Altman

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 4d

Can someone please tell the UK Government that?

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 4d

"If you pitch yourself as ‘Reform lite’, those voters will go for the full fat version anyway."

@luketryl.bsky.social says the challenge Kemi Badenoch is facing at conference is: What's the point of the Conservatives when you have Reform UK?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/tory...

Tory identity problem: ‘Pitch yourself as Reform-lite, voters will go for the full-fat version’ | The News Agents

As Kemi Badenoch attends her first party conference as Conservative leader, some voters still can’t even name her. But low recognition is the least of her problems. With the party still reeling from 1...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 4d

The recently resigned French PM makes Liz Truss look like a heavyweight leader.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 4d

Descrive your Bluesky account in a single image

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 5d

I share the frustrations over breathless media polling commentary, but conversely, I think Starmer being the Labour PM that 'lost Wales' in May next year is going to be a real stinker for both his premiership and the current Parliamentary UK Labour Party. Pay more attention to Senedd polling...

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5d

A lot of parties are acting as if the election is tomorrow as opposed to likely 2029 after which either Trump is out of office, or more concerningly, still in office.

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 5d

This is to me the most baffling aspect. Who would place a bet that the next three years won't feature some terrible horror in the US from the outfit that Badenoch and Jenrick specifically say they want to copy? bsky.app/profile/smka...

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 6d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 5d

At the local airport, 4am Sunday.

Are they still drinking from the night before or are they getting ahead on the new day’s drinking? Some of the great mysteries of life in Britain.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 5d

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 5d

Well it has happened.
The leadership of the Conservative&Unionist Party is advocating leaving the ECHR. Not reforming it, or working with other members to alter any rules.
Leave it. Like Putin’s Russia.
I can’t help wondering what those Tories who are rightly proud of 🇬🇧’s support for 🇺🇦 are thinking.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 6d

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 6d

Makes me want to Curl Up and Dye.

Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 6d

Worse - the Yorkists tried to steal him.

Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 6d

Or the train to Bow Street

Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 7d

a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him

ALT: a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 7d