Tom Spoors
@tomspoors.bsky.social
Brit in Brussels, Belgium Ex teacher, RAF officer, training director, university lecturer (Critical Thinking, English and Statistics). Private tutor English GCSE and maths. I love books, sci-fi, science, data science and science communication.
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“.. The Russian input came from Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin envoy with close ties to Putin .. They brought him to Miami .. for what would be three days of intensive discussions and extended conversation at Witkoff’s home ..”
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November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“.. The Russian input came from Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin envoy with close ties to Putin .. They brought him to Miami .. for what would be three days of intensive discussions and extended conversation at Witkoff’s home ..”
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www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Russia doesn't want peace, it wants a break in the fighting to reform and improve its armed forces to launch a new attack as soon as it is ready. Thus it's important for Russia that any security guarantees given to Ukraine are fake.
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Russia doesn't want peace, it wants a break in the fighting to reform and improve its armed forces to launch a new attack as soon as it is ready. Thus it's important for Russia that any security guarantees given to Ukraine are fake.
Another Monte mic drop. Blaming someone else for your own shortcomings is neither masculine nor attractive.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vjdnq...
www.youtube.com/shorts/vjdnq...
You don’t have to remind or force something into its “natural state,” Ding Dong.
YouTube video by Monte Mader
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November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Another Monte mic drop. Blaming someone else for your own shortcomings is neither masculine nor attractive.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vjdnq...
www.youtube.com/shorts/vjdnq...
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The #bond #markets have one purpose: to secure interest on #reliable #long-term financial #obligations for their clients.
They are not there to serve countries or political movements unless they too are clients who lend money. Saying bond markets are wrong is like saying lions shouldn't hunt.
They are not there to serve countries or political movements unless they too are clients who lend money. Saying bond markets are wrong is like saying lions shouldn't hunt.
QTing this not to dunk but because I think there's an important point here.
The bond markets did *not* get it wrong in the 2010s. As Martin Wolf put it then, they wanted us to borrow and spend. *Osborne* got it wrong.
So my baseline assumption is they are right now.
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The bond markets did *not* get it wrong in the 2010s. As Martin Wolf put it then, they wanted us to borrow and spend. *Osborne* got it wrong.
So my baseline assumption is they are right now.
bsky.app/profile/adam...
I guess the problem is that the bond markets are not infallible and often get things wrong, so its not just a case of getting the economics right, but also communicating that to the bond markets in a way they can understand. Unfortunately, it *does* matter what they think
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The #bond #markets have one purpose: to secure interest on #reliable #long-term financial #obligations for their clients.
They are not there to serve countries or political movements unless they too are clients who lend money. Saying bond markets are wrong is like saying lions shouldn't hunt.
They are not there to serve countries or political movements unless they too are clients who lend money. Saying bond markets are wrong is like saying lions shouldn't hunt.
Quelle surprise! The people with less and less money realising that you don't have to buy stuff while the old stuff still works. The mist of consumerism is lifting and the economy that thrived in the obscurity is at risk!
'the economy' is people burning through slabs of glass and silicon at an absurd rate even though they don't need or want to
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Quelle surprise! The people with less and less money realising that you don't have to buy stuff while the old stuff still works. The mist of consumerism is lifting and the economy that thrived in the obscurity is at risk!
More "AI science showing" that AI Poetry can "defeat" AI prompts if you use AI to write that poetry and then use AI to judge the results of the poetry's effectiveness on different AI models' prompts.
AI Marketing is both lazy and dishonest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnID...
AI Marketing is both lazy and dishonest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnID...
Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
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November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
More "AI science showing" that AI Poetry can "defeat" AI prompts if you use AI to write that poetry and then use AI to judge the results of the poetry's effectiveness on different AI models' prompts.
AI Marketing is both lazy and dishonest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnID...
AI Marketing is both lazy and dishonest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnID...
Café Georgette in Brussels also has very good chips (fries, frites, French Fries)!
Frituur Antwerpen
Hand-cut fries in beef tallow
A dying phenomenon
Hand-cut fries in beef tallow
A dying phenomenon
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Café Georgette in Brussels also has very good chips (fries, frites, French Fries)!
Another right-wing politician with no respect. The niqab and burka are not required by Islam; it's a cultural form of dress. Pauline Hanson, who has always been anti-Islam, wore the niqab and burka in the Australian Senate protesting that a ban hadn't been introduced.
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Australia senator condemned for burka stunt in parliament
Pauline Hanson donned a black burka as she sought to push for a ban on the garment.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Another right-wing politician with no respect. The niqab and burka are not required by Islam; it's a cultural form of dress. Pauline Hanson, who has always been anti-Islam, wore the niqab and burka in the Australian Senate protesting that a ban hadn't been introduced.
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bbc.com/news/article...
Pensioners who can barely walk are arrested for carrying placards at protests saying Palestine Action. We should be ashamed as a nation.
youtube.com/shorts/0Gw2O...
youtube.com/shorts/0Gw2O...
Police Continue Arresting Pensioners at Palestine Action Protests
YouTube video by Novara Media
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November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Pensioners who can barely walk are arrested for carrying placards at protests saying Palestine Action. We should be ashamed as a nation.
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youtube.com/shorts/0Gw2O...
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Consider Mexico. A thread.
Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
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Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
1/12
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Consider Mexico. A thread.
Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
1/12
Once upon a time, not even so very long ago, you would often hear from Russia's propagandists and their little helpers in the West about the "Mexico scenario".
Russia liked people to think that it only invaded its neighbours because it was forced to do so by NATO -
1/12
Things that you didn't know that you didn't know...but should have. The wilful ignorance of the female body in scientific research.
youtube.com/shorts/yHxBI...
youtube.com/shorts/yHxBI...
Hang on, WHAT?!?!? #sabv #science #female #reproductive #research #drugs #insane #humantrials #trump
YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk
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November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Things that you didn't know that you didn't know...but should have. The wilful ignorance of the female body in scientific research.
youtube.com/shorts/yHxBI...
youtube.com/shorts/yHxBI...
"It used to be harder to know!"
"A book is like a slow Kindle"
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social delivers every time.
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"A book is like a slow Kindle"
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social delivers every time.
youtube.com/shorts/q-m9y...
What we did before Google
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"It used to be harder to know!"
"A book is like a slow Kindle"
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social delivers every time.
youtube.com/shorts/q-m9y...
"A book is like a slow Kindle"
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social delivers every time.
youtube.com/shorts/q-m9y...
The EU grew out of a Coal and Steel agreement believing that trade ties would reduce the chance of war. It's been dependent on USA for its defence and is now beholden to Trump while still dependent on Russia for oil. Galleoti's phrase "wilful infantilism" cuts deep.
youtube.com/shorts/6-cfC...
youtube.com/shorts/6-cfC...
The Case for Greater European Defense | One Decision
YouTube video by One Decision
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November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The EU grew out of a Coal and Steel agreement believing that trade ties would reduce the chance of war. It's been dependent on USA for its defence and is now beholden to Trump while still dependent on Russia for oil. Galleoti's phrase "wilful infantilism" cuts deep.
youtube.com/shorts/6-cfC...
youtube.com/shorts/6-cfC...
How to make #skynet seems like a simple #AI research project that'll benefit mankind. We seem in a race to promote our own elimination. Strong democratic government with a #belief in a citizen-first input to scientific research and its social impact would be useful right now.
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"...and even #AI researchers in all the different fields with every different AI that we have, have a lot of trouble keeping them within bounds."
When one AI robot and its #quantum chip decides humans are a #threat the idea will spread very quickly in the #hive mind.
youtu.be/0V3iAWnx4Gc?...
When one AI robot and its #quantum chip decides humans are a #threat the idea will spread very quickly in the #hive mind.
youtu.be/0V3iAWnx4Gc?...
Robots Strong Enough To Crush Skulls With Quantum Brains And A Hive-Mind (What Could Go Wrong?)
YouTube video by Gabriel Torch
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November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"...and even #AI researchers in all the different fields with every different AI that we have, have a lot of trouble keeping them within bounds."
When one AI robot and its #quantum chip decides humans are a #threat the idea will spread very quickly in the #hive mind.
youtu.be/0V3iAWnx4Gc?...
When one AI robot and its #quantum chip decides humans are a #threat the idea will spread very quickly in the #hive mind.
youtu.be/0V3iAWnx4Gc?...
A feel good story for our children's futures.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy
Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.
www.bbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A feel good story for our children's futures.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fight the Future...
Very similar to the tactics Saul Alinsky recommended in Rules for Radicals (1972). Best book I know of on the tactics of civil protest.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Fight the Future...
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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This is a production.
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is a production.
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
10/10 😭😭😭
THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bearistotle and J D Vance sharing bad logical reasoning.
@jowolff.bsky.social
@jowolff.bsky.social
Bearistotle ass reasoning
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Bearistotle and J D Vance sharing bad logical reasoning.
@jowolff.bsky.social
@jowolff.bsky.social
And that'll happen when the Venezuelans decide. This seems to me like a poor piece of headlining for a normally good publication.
I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
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www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Topple Maduro
And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
And that'll happen when the Venezuelans decide. This seems to me like a poor piece of headlining for a normally good publication.
So, if you want to live longer stay in or move to a Democratic-voting state.
This graph shows the single year age population in Republican voting states death rate as the percent of the same death rate in Democratic voting states. See text below graph for more information. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
So, if you want to live longer stay in or move to a Democratic-voting state.
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
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One of the biggest hypocrisies related to the Russo-Ukrainian war is when western leaders keep repeating that borders should never be allowed to be changed by force while almost in the same sentence pushing Ukraine to accept new borders. Very few states are free from guilt here.
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
One of the biggest hypocrisies related to the Russo-Ukrainian war is when western leaders keep repeating that borders should never be allowed to be changed by force while almost in the same sentence pushing Ukraine to accept new borders. Very few states are free from guilt here.