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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 5h

I assume that was 9pm rather than 9am, or else you were doing some epic sessions!

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 1d

The sort of epistemological naiveté you wouldn't even accept from an undergraduate.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew Syed, who recently wrote a long read about why he just joined the Conservatives, objected to his BBC introduction including this fact: "Yes, I just joined the Conservatives, but I still see myself, first and foremost, as an objective journalist, if I may say so."

Phew! Glad that's settled.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 1d

I think the combination of a looming AI bubble burst, and clustered governance/economic crises in the US will throw bond markets into a tailspin well before that.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 1d

This is it. STEM is incredibly useful as a set of subjects but the market cannot bear more graduates. Humanities and social science graduates are in demand because of their wide skills base and adaptability.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 1d

Universities are engines for levelling up many post-industrial areas of the UK. This statement from Starmer shows how seriously he and the party take that.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 2d

I.... wow.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine having natural charisma like that! But it helps that the music and words are really very good in themselves.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 2d

Saw him a while back here in London, and it was amazing. Like a church sermon, but we all danced.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 2d

The British understanding of the benefits of multilinguality remains poor - quelle surprise!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education"

Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects

[CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday 250.000 people assembled in Amsterdam to protest the complicity of the Dutch government with the genocide in Gaza. This amounts to 1.4% of the country's entire population. We were there to show our solidarity with the Palestinians, but this massive turn-out also conveys something else.

Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 3d

A human flood in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, in support of Gaza and in condemnation of the ongoing Israeli starvation and aggression.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 2d

Nikon N60 | Fuji 400
#filmphotography

A blue apartment with a white 80s Ford RV parked out front. There is the faintest reflection of both in a puddle in a gutter

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 3d

Grimly funny, especially given that the rest of London Fields turns into Glastonbury when the weather is halfway decent.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting point. I think the Wire eventually includes that patriarchal element into its critique. Breaking Bad on the other hand is just cliffhangers wrapped around a moral quandary.

Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 3d

"Let them eat Tesco sandwiches"

Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 3d

perfect detail

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 3d

silky bastard

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 3d

this is amazing!

Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 3d

Well, exactly. Neoliberal capitalism has been running on fumes since the 2008 crisis.

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 6d

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 6d

It is absolutely right that Keir Starmer convened a COBR / COBRA meeting following the synagogue attack. Where are the COBR / COBRA meetings for everything that has been going on in N. Ireland?

Proscribed paramilitary terror & domestic white terror are stalking our streets. [1/2]

Belfast Islamic Centre: Viable device used in 'shameful' attack

A man is arrested under the Terrorism Act but police say a motive has not yet been established.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 7d

Agreed, but I suppose they are writing for the people who buy papers or pay for subscriptions, and that is probably disproportionally a NIMBY-leaning crowd.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 7d

we are still human, we are still people, we’re trying to make art, connect with each other, and there’s something about the mentality of the men who are making this shit, like a vast absence of empathy, like women aren’t really real and might as well be images

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 7d

I love a record shop cat! My favourite ones are at Ballades Sonores in Paris.

Two cats wearing bandanas perched on record bins at Paris record shop Ballades Sonores.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 8d

We "deradicalised" Germany & Japan by spending billions of dollars turning them into functioning liberal democracies & returning them to sovereign membership of the international community. Not by building a Trump Tower on their children's graves.

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 8d

This from the editorial board is one of the most deranged things I’ve read in the New York Times and that’s saying something.

The multinational authority should have an ambitious agenda. It would span the restoration of basic services, the feeding of the population, the reconstruction of neighborhoods and the creation of a police force.
Crucially, as experts at the Wilson Center in Washington have argued, this authority should create a program in schools, the media and elsewhere "to remove Hamas's pervasive radicalizing influence over Gazan society." Another task would be disarming any Hamas fighters who keep fighting. Qatar, given its longtime relationship with Hamas, can help pressure the group, much as the United States can pressure Israel.
There are historical antecedents for an international mission along these lines. Deradicalization programs succeeded in Germany and Japan after World War II, anc multinational police forces have operated in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and elsewhere. Of course, these efforts come with dangers. Participating countries would risk having their personnel become targets for Hamas. But

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Casper Hoed @telecasper.bsky.social · 9d

speciaal voor jou

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