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Kav @shilpa.bsky.social · 2h

left: keir starmer winning the election and becoming the first labour prime minister in 14 years

right: keir starmer watches his first bollywood clip

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 1h

People always assume collapse is big and exciting. In reality it’s a slow forgetting.

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 1h

And before you know it, the knowledge required to make or even maintain industrial production is gone.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 14d

Please don't call it that

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 1h

Also, technological and ideological change usually requires the older generation to errr permanently retire, if we see an entrenchment then we limit the possibility for technological innovation to respond.
‘But you can’t innovate there, my pension fund invested heavily in the status quo!’

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Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social · 13h

Mildly doxxing myself here, but my old RE teacher posted some photos from. 1997 and “The Knights Templar School trip to Israel” is one hell of a caption.

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 1h

Related to the gerontocracy problem: it occurred to me the other day that another issue with v low birth rates is it makes civilisation so much more fragile.
A war? Well there goes your economic base for years & good luck recovering with an even smaller returning cohort.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2h

Hollow laughter

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 1d

It's really important to understand that anyone who says we should be like the UAE fundamentally hates every principle western society has held or attempted to uphold since the French Revolution.

And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 2h

Yea that’s what a friend did after his (good!) a levels, which was utterly baffling I have to say

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 2h

Penne's dropped.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

‘A fatal blow’: Italian producers fear effects of Trump’s ‘war against pasta’

US president’s threat to impose 92% tariffs targeting major manufacturers put family-run firms in the firing line as well

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 6h

Well, I was not expecting someone to set themselves on fire in the nearest town here in rural nz.

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 1d

I will actually write those book proposals, I will actually write those book proposals

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 1d

I studied English!

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Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social · 3d

The criminal. The crime.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 29d

À l'avenir, tout le monde sera premier ministre français pendant quinze minutes.

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 3d

He’s a 1337 h4xx0r

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 3d

“Please stop emailing me”

Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 3d

I think next door’s son saw me singing ave maria, in a falsetto, in my pants :(

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 5d

It’s hosted by Jacinda Ardens husband - his face as he clearly struggles to follow along

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 17d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 5d

Watching a nz moving program, the couple this week have been in nz since the 70s _and still have strong Yorkshire accents_

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 5d

Burst out laughing

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no

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