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Jason Dittmer
@realjdittmer.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 4h
This week in the European Parliamen in Strasbourg, there was a workshop in which you could paint your own garden gnome ... and it makes sense, as gnomes can actually be very political.

In our Declassified humor column, we explain 👇
Game of Gnomes: The politics of small garden ornaments
The European Parliament is the latest in a long line to mix politics and gnomes.
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 1d
Not sure how this helps productivity in other sectors, especially in the early morning
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth
Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth
Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost “the British night out” and help the hospitality sector. Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth
Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth
Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost “the British night out” and help the hospitality sector. Continue reading...
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 3d
My neighbour: isn’t it a little early to have your Halloween decorations up?
Me:
a man wearing an orange pumpkin mask is pointing up
ALT: a man wearing an orange pumpkin mask is pointing up
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 4d
Where was the O-line? Embarrassing job of protecting the QB
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d
Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed multiple times during a late-night altercation with a truck driver in a downtown Indianapolis alley.
Ex-NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez stabbed multiple times in altercation leading to charges against him
Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed multiple times during a late-night altercation with a truck driver in a downtown Indianapolis alley.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d
Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed multiple times during a late-night altercation with a truck driver in a downtown Indianapolis alley.
Ex-NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez stabbed multiple times in altercation leading to charges against him
Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed multiple times during a late-night altercation with a truck driver in a downtown Indianapolis alley.
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 5d
An interesting essay that ties in to what @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social have been writing about in their book The Politics of Feeling

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...
Opinion | The West Is Lost
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 6d
[T]he act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.” 🤣😆🤣😆

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Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 8d
To the fox that pooped in my window box
a man is talking on a cell phone with the words " what i do have are a very particular set of skills " written below him
ALT: a man is talking on a cell phone with the words " what i do have are a very particular set of skills " written below him
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UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social · 8d
🎉 Congrats to Caleb Tan!

@ucl.ac.uk Geography student wins the @rgsibg.bsky.social PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for research on transnational migrants’ experiences of National Service in Singapore, exploring mobility, identity, and citizenship.

🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/ucl-caleb
Caleb Tan wins RGS-IBG PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
Caleb Tan, a UCL Geography student, has won the PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for his research on transnational migrants’ experiences of National Service in Singapore.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 8d
Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 8d
Faustian pact on offer. Time for collective courage, if such a thing exists any more.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 10d
“We’re living through a golden age for losers who don’t seem to realize how much they keep telegraphing their loserdom to the rest of us.”
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10d
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
We’re Being Ruled Over by the World’s Biggest Losers
They effectively control our fates, but deep down, they know they’re sniveling, pathetic, and inadequate, and it eats them up.
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10d
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
We’re Being Ruled Over by the World’s Biggest Losers
They effectively control our fates, but deep down, they know they’re sniveling, pathetic, and inadequate, and it eats them up.
www.thenation.com
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 12d
I love the idea that every professor can spend departmental money. If that was true we would have better coffee.
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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 13d
In Britain, a former far-right Reform party politician has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian viewpoints.

Another scandal that should be the end of Reform but will be ignored unless we make a lot of noise about it.
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 14d
Looking forward to discussing @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Anna Secor's brilliant new @goldsmithspress.bsky.social book, The Politics of Feeling, with the authors and @jemgilbert.bsky.social on 25th Nov - all welcome, register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis
A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 15d
My money is on Dean Cain
08:49 Hybrid attacks are here to stay, says minister As a reminder, Minister of Defence, Troels Lund Poulsen, earlier classed the drones as a "hybrid attack", saying they seemed to be the work of a "professional actor".
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 17d
I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How autism became autism - Bonnie Evans, 2013
This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in e...
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Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 18d
'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

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No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children
In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 18d
A dagger pointed at the heart of America

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24d
Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage.

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Culture Warriors’ Attacks on the National Trust
Charles Moore uses the Spectator of 3 June to rally support for a rebel National Trust group. Calling themselves Restore Trust, this group of disaffected members and former members bemoan the insti…
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · 24d
on.ft.com/46mnJlf Banks tighten debt terms as squeezed UK universities refinance loans
Banks tighten debt terms as squeezed UK universities refinance loans
Almost half of the sector’s providers run a deficit, as some institutions secure funding against campus sites
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LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social · 24d
The blurred line has vanished writes @giovannadimauro.bsky.social of Zayed University, and politics has become pop culture blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
The 2026 Midterms: The blurred line has vanished, and politics has become pop culture | USAPP
Recent years have seen a blurring of the line between presidential politics and popular culture.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25d
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 26d
Far right supported by billionaires in a new media ecology that amplifies intensity

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US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · Sep 9
Excited for this book, and the new insights it will bring! I love disciplinary history!
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Let Geography Die
Let Geography Die tells the little-known and oft-misunderstood story of geographical research and education at Harvard University. In investigative fashion, ...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 7
Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S. On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today? — % Good thing - - % Bad thing 100% 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 79 17 2001 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 The percentages who volunteer that the effects are "mixed" or who do not have an opinion are not shown. GALLUP®
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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 30
New $250 visa fee risks deepening US travel slump reut.rs/4oZwDxx
New $250 visa fee risks deepening US travel slump
A new $250 "visa integrity fee" imposed on travelers to the United States risks piling more pressure on the struggling travel industry, as overseas arrivals continue to fall due to President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration and hostility to many foreign countries.
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Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social · Aug 30
This story is NUTS
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Strangers Come Together to Deliver Baby Girl at Burning Man
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