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Steven Seggie

@stevenhseggie.bsky.social

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marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶 Western suburbs of Paris

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · Dec 31

I like New Year Resolutions, so here goes:

1. get my French to C1 level
2. Go to the theatre more often
3. Drink lots of good wine
4. Go to champagne and buy lots of champagne
5. Get a six pack (almost impossible)

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

We need to be more like Sharjah

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 7h

Do message boards count as social media though?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 7h

And in ancient history @spinesideburn.bsky.social and @ozkanka.bsky.social

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 8h

Made excellent friends including @canokar.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social @jonhenley.bsky.social and of course the one and only @columnist.bsky.social ‘s wife @donnad.bsky.social

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 7h

Omg yeah like 2 decades ago

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 8h

It’s going to be 2000-type bad I reckon.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 8h

Made excellent friends including @canokar.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social @jonhenley.bsky.social and of course the one and only @columnist.bsky.social ‘s wife @donnad.bsky.social

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Mark @wils.bsky.social · 9h

Michael Barrymore blocked me after I posted a tweet that didn't mention his name at all, but did include the phrases "balcony", "swimming pool" and "destroyed internally through the rectum".

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

I was just about to say this very thing. None of that colorful shite, light brown wood for the win

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 16h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

oh sure, I wasn't implying the first one was ok. I just didn't address it because others had further up the thread.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

Ah but in magical right-wing thinking tax cuts never cost anything. And somehow people fall for it

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 17h

Thatcher Conservatives, 1983: "To the Labour party you're a black person. To the Conservative party you're a British citizen."

Jenrick Conservatives 2025? "To the Labour party (and vast majority of the public) you're a British citizen. To the Conservatives, you're a black person".

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

first victims of the Empire us.....

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

the second one is so typical of us humans. We take a good concept, in this instance "no fat shaming" and distort it to mean "fat is great". I despair.

congratulations by the way, this is amazing

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 16h

I'd say it's had a reasonable shot though probably not as much as Bristol. There was a debate about renaming Penny Lane of Beatles fame, some thought it was named after a slaveowner called William Penny but apparently it wasn't so the issue was dropped.

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/internationa...

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

that is great, I wish we had something similar. I know UoG has been discussing this year its role in slavery but generally we just sweep it under the carpet.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know if you're aware but you have "rude" as a label on your account

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 17h

Has it managed to bury its slavery wealth past in the same way my part of the world (West of Scotland) has?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 17h

My colleague at UCLA’s son just got hired by Grok to help train it on language. He’s an ex-journalist with an English lit degree

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t think he caught it but you never know.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 18h

France is a version of FPTP

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 18h

Appears so

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

On so many levels. For the recently deceased and also for me :)

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 19h

Oh look what my dog just brought in and I managed to get out of his mouth. I initially thought it was banana peel but no….

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20h

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

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