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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

A woman's agency in business doesn't suddenly end when her actions cross over into illegality. The mens rea isn't subject to masculinity.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

Stop trying to force a false dichotomy. Someone can be a woman, a successful businesswoman at that, and still engage in economic crime and be expected by law to take responsibility for her actions.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

Slightly frustrated by the Times and other publications giving Mone a relatively easy ride on the basis of the attacks by Reeves being aimed at a successful businesswoman.
www.thetimes.com/article/d2df...

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 11d

But Baroness Mone specifically manoeuvred herself into a position optimal to exploitation of desperate times when normal circumstances and procedures had been suspended, from which she and her husband benefited at the expense of taxpayers. To deny that either of them benefited from this is absurd.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

If only it didn't come with those associated, slightly sinister tendencies undoing all the frivolous fun.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

We really ought to use "cad" more often. www.thetimes.com/article/a364...

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

I realise, with discomfort, that my own style is very similar.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

Reading a book by someone I admire on a subject that fascinates me, but their style grates. Every noun has at least one adjective, every verb its adverb. Paris, for example, is a “seething melting pot of boundless ideas”.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 2d

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · Oct 16

Weekly reminder

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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mathewi @mathewingram.com · 2d

All of the dystopian stuff and the authoritarian-oligarchy political machinations are not surprising at all, but I never expected that it would all be so stupid

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10d

“Nigel Farage is wrong in principle, his approach is racist, and we oppose it”

“Nigel Farage is right on immigration, but he doesn’t have the skill or experience to deliver his plans”

At some point, the government has to pick *one* of these narratives, instead of veering wildly between the two.

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Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social · 2d

Which of my IP attorney friends is bored and wants to help some hackers take down someone stealing their sticker designs?

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 11d

So far the world’s first podcaster-dominated hybrid regime is delivering, um, mixed results on the institutional consolidation front

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 11d

🇮🇳🎞️🇵🇱 Speaking of Poland and immigration, Bollywood movies with subtitles in Hindi are now a thing in Polish cinemas.

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 2d

It's not news that Europe is slow

But to read that - 35 articles in a state newspaper (public!) assessing China's chokepoints - 7 years before the policy discussion properly started here, is tragic

US & China are going for the jugular. EU sharpens its quill for another roadmap

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 2d

Been thinking about this all week. On the train to the Hague I was reading Edward Fishman's 'Chokepoints'

In 2018, when Trump cut ZTE off from US kit, a newspaper run by China’s Ministry of Science & Technology published a series of 35 articles titled “What Are Our Chokepoints?”

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 3d

Or a seller from Europe. From anywhere! Any weapon or piece of equipment to Ukraine with any Chinese rare earth in it will require Beijing's permission.

We've seen how slow they've been with approving these before, this could be a nightmare

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 3d

This could be really damaging. Just imagine Europe or Ukraine trying to buy a military item that contains a trace of a Chinese rare earth from a seller in the United States. Beijing would need to approve!

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 3d

Beijing will require any foreign entities exporting rare earth materials that are made in China to apply for a dual-use item export permit from the Ministry of Commerce, effective immediately, according to a separate notice from the ministry

www.scmp.com/economy/poli...

China unveils ‘major upgrade’ to rare earth controls ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

The wider restrictions will give Beijing greater leverage in coming negotiations with the US, analysts said.

www.scmp.com

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty hilarious that after years of very noisy public debate about the anti coercion instrument, this guy thinks it's a secret weapon...

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan

The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2017, Macron and his supporters celebrated to the tune of Ode to Joy. He was the Europhile in chief.

In 2025, he is responsible for one of Project Europe’s main pillars wobbling.

Superb from @timross1.bsky.social and @msolletty.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/brus...

The EU’s worst nightmare has never looked so real

If the far right gains control of parliament in the EU’s second-largest country, Europe will fundamentally change.

www.politico.eu

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

If only it didn't come with those associated, slightly sinister tendencies undoing all the frivolous fun.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 1d

We really ought to use "cad" more often. www.thetimes.com/article/a364...

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