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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

No but that’s not what she said

Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

I know what she means but this is a ridiculous argument. A USN ship turns up to do hurricane relief or something. It must be war!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Lonestar Gooner @lonestargooner.bsky.social · 5d

Folks need to review this material. The test is coming.

Thanks, @foldablehuman.bsky.social

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

YouTube video by Folding Ideas

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

If this was workable it would have happened on its own already. The problem is this group of people don't want collective solutions and social safety nets. As @foldablehuman.bsky.social put it, they're looking for an opportunity to be the boot in an imaginary future economic system.

Josh Alien @joshalien.bsky.social · 12h

Man, reading some crypto forums, Democrats should be hammering the insider trading charges. It reminded me of that times focus group where the main frustration with guys into crypto was the rug pulls/insider stuff. cc @jlray.bsky.social

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18h

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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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Starting a conversation with a barrage of questions is bad enough on its own. "Hello. Please list your interests in alphabetical order"

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy becomes aristocracy so gradually it’s hard to notice

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Third generation really. Same with RFK. We're dealing with failgrandsons at this point.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

We didn't. It's why our comedy is better than Americans

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The rule is anything and everything you hear about crypto is a planted story to feed the attention economy which props up the constant pump and dumps that are the only real economic activity in the space.

Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Bet you all a tiny fraction of a Bitcoin this is not a meaningful donation at all but an agreement to boost the price of some random s***coin by getting it in the news linked to a major party. The real money will come in £.

Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 1d

Exc: The Electoral Commission has been given early notice of the UK's first ever crypto donation

The has been "made, but not declared", to a party understood to be Reform

Reform spox said: "All donations above the reporting limit will be disclosed in the usual way"

share.google/VvtjBjEjEjRa...

Calls for transparency on political funding after first c...

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is rumoured to have been handed to Reform UK

share.google

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting uniform. VR on the collar for volunteer reserve and the navigator badge (one wing).

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Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social · 1d

Opposition to Thatcher - An Interdisciplinary Conference. All sign up and speaker information here. Please share with anyone interested in attending. Just over a month to go!!! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Opposition to Thatcher - An Interdisciplinary Conference - TheUnchartedPast

Opposition to Thatcher - An Interdisciplinary Conference. 14th November (Online).

theunchartedpast.com

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

The Brooks Brothers riot, 2025 version

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Half the comments on everything about this are just "join the Greens"

Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

If the weird infighting wasn't enough the hilariously bad audio on what seems to be the only available recording couldn't be a better illustration of the unseriousness of this "party". www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPtL...

WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn's STUNNING speech at Your Party launch

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Socrates, 399 BC

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 3d

He's got a point #CelebrityTraitors

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

If anyone is a bit lost on the tech aspects of the Blacksky discussion, this is a really useful explainer plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Having four parties within 10pts of each other and no one over 30% is a recipe for an almost completely random vote-to-seat conversion. Any majority government that managed to emerge will be the least legitimate in history since the 1918 RPA.

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Don't mind sounding like a broken record here.

This will be a constitutional disaster if it persists into 2028/9 under FPTP.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 5d

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (5-6 October 2025)

Reform UK: 27% (-2 from 28-29 Sept)
Labour: 20% (-2)
Conservatives: 17% (+1)
Lib Dems: 17% (+2)
Greens: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

'Big bang' reforms to politics are mostly overrated but, alongside PR, well funded German-style party research foundations would be genuinely transformational. I don't expect it to ever happen.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

Just as the level of 'the basic quality of what they produce', not on a 'do I agree with this?' basis the Tory party is coming out with stuff far beneath the quality of what the Lib Dems 2019-24 managed when their 'costing process' was 'one bright guy called JJ'. Where does the Short money GO?

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 6d

The Tory Party has gone mad..

Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

I’m confused, isn’t it a good thing getting all that plant oestrogen out of the food supply that’s been turning everyone gay or whatever

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

The party of Lincoln, only just the bits where he overrode the constitution and without a good reason this time

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

i guess someone told Miller before bed

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There is no legal distinction between a state volunteering guardsmen to guard the border and volunteering guardsmen to guard a federal immigration facility.

Either we have a federal government, a supremacy clause, and a nation, or we don’t.

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