Peter Scott Reid
@peterscottreid.bsky.social
user researcher
Cambridge, UK
he | him
banner is a photo of Composition 8: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1924
Cambridge, UK
he | him
banner is a photo of Composition 8: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1924
Listening to @duncanweldon.bsky.social's great overview of budgets and bond markets intertwining - from April this year
Currently - Of Budgets and Bond Markets - BBC Sounds
Duncan Weldon explores the political and economic reality of relying on the bond markets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Listening to @duncanweldon.bsky.social's great overview of budgets and bond markets intertwining - from April this year
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Time to post this banger again
January 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Time to post this banger again
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
I followed a fair bit of the twitter acquisition but my jaw dropped reading this
By @jacobsilverman.com
By @jacobsilverman.com
Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I followed a fair bit of the twitter acquisition but my jaw dropped reading this
By @jacobsilverman.com
By @jacobsilverman.com
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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Man Hoping People Notice How Many Folding Chairs He’s Carrying At Once https://theonion.com/man-hoping-people-notice-how-many-folding-chairs-he-s-c-1819576444/
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Man Hoping People Notice How Many Folding Chairs He’s Carrying At Once https://theonion.com/man-hoping-people-notice-how-many-folding-chairs-he-s-c-1819576444/
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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
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I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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All the Camelot shit really broke people huh. You can’t just say a guy is a rich crank who thinks he’s smarter than everybody, he has to cut some sort of a tragic figure
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
All the Camelot shit really broke people huh. You can’t just say a guy is a rich crank who thinks he’s smarter than everybody, he has to cut some sort of a tragic figure
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Self-Portrait at Professor Jacobson's Hospital 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25586
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25586
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Self-Portrait at Professor Jacobson's Hospital 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25586
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25586
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The Jockey Going to the Post
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The Jockey Going to the Post
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what a website bsky.app/profile/thel...
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
what a website bsky.app/profile/thel...
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
making it through Monday
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
making it through Monday
all those working on the 'Confirm identity for a UK passport' service are doing a sterling job - easy and fast
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
all those working on the 'Confirm identity for a UK passport' service are doing a sterling job - easy and fast
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Group of artists, I think all men, producing banners for the anarchist women's organisation Mujeres Libres (Free Women).
Barcelona, 16 July 1937. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas beautifully colourised by Jules Backmaan (instgm)
Barcelona, 16 July 1937. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas beautifully colourised by Jules Backmaan (instgm)
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Group of artists, I think all men, producing banners for the anarchist women's organisation Mujeres Libres (Free Women).
Barcelona, 16 July 1937. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas beautifully colourised by Jules Backmaan (instgm)
Barcelona, 16 July 1937. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas beautifully colourised by Jules Backmaan (instgm)
The Remains of the Day is on BBC iPlayer for the next week
The Remains of the Day
Mr Stevens, formerly the butler to the German sympathiser Lord Darlington, gets a letter from former colleague Miss Kenton.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Remains of the Day is on BBC iPlayer for the next week
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Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
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Here is a video that we posted today that offers an overview of our reporting. Please read the story and watch the video. Investigative reporting like this only matters if people read it/engage with it.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: Howard Lutnick’s Family Business Is Cashing In on Data Center Deals
The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is involved in A.I. data center deals that overlap with work his family is doing. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton describes what we know about these deal...
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Here is a video that we posted today that offers an overview of our reporting. Please read the story and watch the video. Investigative reporting like this only matters if people read it/engage with it.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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For many people, Agadez is known as a place of passage – a waypoint for hundreds of thousands of African travellers on a hopeful journey across the Mediterranean. For others it's more than that.
Photo Essay: Passage to Agadez
For many people, Agadez is known as a place of passage – a waypoint for hundreds of thousands of African travellers on a hopeful journey across the Mediterranean. For others it's more than that.
continent.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
For many people, Agadez is known as a place of passage – a waypoint for hundreds of thousands of African travellers on a hopeful journey across the Mediterranean. For others it's more than that.
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Beautiful view of the Alaska range on my drive into town today
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Beautiful view of the Alaska range on my drive into town today
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me every time i get an email:
I didn’t ask for this lol
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
me every time i get an email:
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Portrait of Gustave Coquiot
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/28741
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/28741
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Portrait of Gustave Coquiot
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/28741
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/28741
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...