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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 53m

The person I know who's gone deepest down the rabbit hole over the last few years is a genuine genius who speaks something like ten languages. Far from making him less vulnerable to radicalisation I think it's just entrenched a belief that he's smart enough to see the REAL truth when others aren't.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1h

A historian of modern Britain should find the tearing down of Edward Colston's statue as revealing as the fact that it was put up.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1h

The idea that by toppling statues you deny history is bizarre. Statues tell you about who is publicly venerated which is historically interesting but doesn't make them unimpeachably factual or untouchable. Their toppling is history too, and it also tells us something.

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 2h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 1h

History and memory are not the same thing (even when they overlap). As Prof Otele says, statues are about collective memory.

And people have always taken down statues and built new ones - statues mark who society wants to acknowledge as important (and why), something that changes over time.

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 2h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 10h

At one stage you can build a house out of the flesh. The game does not remotely seem to realise how horrifying this is. Cronenberg and Donkey Kong, together at last.

Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11h

Holy shit

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 12h

Every week with this team, a new wonder to experience

Ray Webster @inspiraytional.bsky.social · 13h

-10 passing yards in total for the game. The worst total for any team in the last 27 years, and worst in Jets franchise history (which is saying something)!

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 13h

This team finds new ways every week to dig through the bottom of the barrel

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 16h

British Airways is a budget airline masquerading as an upmarket one, it's wild how bad their digital infrastructure is

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 16h

I am thanking every deity that I can think of that I decided against paying £200 for the privilege of subjecting myself to this in person.

Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 16h

Watching the Jets play football

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 16h

Watching the Jets play football

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 17h

There's a weirdly horrifying level in the new Donkey Kong where everything is made out of meat(?!?), like a particularly ghoulish segment of a Doom game.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 21h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 22h

youtu.be/mrOWredvW78?...

Relatedly have had this unbelievably huge track on repeat for the last few days

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 4d

I do have some respect for Pete Davidson just going "they offered me a shitload of cash and I took it" rather than pious drivel about "changing attitudes".