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Alessandro Nai
@alessandronai.bsky.social

Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social

Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality

Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social

http://www.alessandro-nai.com .. more

Political science 51%
Sociology 18%
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After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

Great song - yet there was some other very heavy stuff that year, including 👇

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Daði Freyr (Daði & Gagnamagnið) – Think About Things (Official Video)
YouTube video by Daði Freyr
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Wonderful!! They all go directly on my reading list for 2026 :)

Love Sipsmith for a negroni (Botanist perhaps even better)

It swept me away!
And wild dark shore was a great surprise, just finished it a couple of days ago (need to read more great Aussie lit! Any recommendations??)

Negroni Strano

1oz Sipsmith dry gin
1oz Campari
0.5oz Suse
0.25oz Green Chartreuse

Stir over ice and be awed

#cocktails #poliscicocktails

The top 10 includes wondrous magical realism, intimate and introspective stories about love and friendship, characters in search of identity and recognition, sweeping historical fiction - 10 books hard to put down

True gem among them, THE SAFEKEEP - layered, fresh, generous, beautiful

#booksky 📚🖋️💙

And it’s a wrap for this year

57 novels - a handful more than last year (but slightly fewer pages overall)

Some disappointments here and there, but also some genuine masterpieces for the ages

#booksky 📚🖋️💙

classic French move

#57
Bright Objects (Ruby Todd, 2024)

Started strongly, and touched on some strong and propulsive themes - guilt, depression, awe, science vs belief, charismatic leadership - but fizzled a bit in my opinion towards the end, which was blander. Interesting literary thriller nonetheless

#booksky 📚🖋️💙

It's champagne only if it comes from the Damn I hope they still have some bottles at the liquor store region of France

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Fun times ahead

snoop dogg?

I genuinely cannot think of a button I’m less excited to click on than this one

they are magnificent - the interviews, behind the scenes, production details, and all-around ingenuity are just magnificent

💙
NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:
Trump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela. No one knows if it’s true.
It could be a lie from social media, or a conflation of other stories. Either way, Americans need to know.
www.thehandbasket.co

ruin two bands by combining them:

Jay-ZZ top
ruin two bands by combining them:

the aerosmiths
ruin two bands by combining them:

Fugazi Osbourne
ruin two bands by combining them:

the aerosmiths
ruin two bands by combining them:

Fugazi Osbourne
ruin two bands by combining them:

kornplay

looks glorious

such a wonderful, wonderful book

Not sure I listened to this one, then! Will give it a shot

Is this the one with cornflakes girl?

Omg yes yes yes

🤘

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Still! Much respect 🙂