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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
A Leicester choir I'm currently a member of is 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲.

No integration at all, especially in the context of my very mixed neighborhood. Shut it down -- it's a throwback, an instance of "parallel lives"...
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
hmmmm: "Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant"

"this study's cross-sectional design does not allow us to firmly determine whether ... ethnic food engagement ---> support for outgroup rights over time."

And yet, there it is, in the Guardian

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Breaking Bread: Investigating the Role of Ethnic Food in Potentiating Outgroup Tolerance - Rodolfo Leyva, Miguel Da Silva Ramos, Joseph Sakshaug, 2025
This study examines the role of ethnic cuisine as a potential mechanism for fostering outgroup tolerance. Data were collected via a web survey administered to a...
journals.sagepub.com
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patmcgovern.bsky.social
I can still remember the shock of being a naive student in the 1980s and seeing some of Dublin's finest propertied middle class screw student tenants out of money. Kudos to the former tenant who coldly claimed revenge 16 years later.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jim Gavin: Fianna Fáil candidate withdraws from presidential race
He said in a statement he had
www.bbc.co.uk
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Anthony Burke

ianfraser.bsky.social
Flailing Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s latest “idea” is a Trumpian immigration hit squad, vowing to deport 150,000 a year. There’s no credible plan for where the deported people would go, how treaties would be upheld, or how overstretched institutions would cope.
The Guardian view on the Tory conference: history’s revenge on Conservatism | Editorial
Editorial: Speeches from the conference floor reveal a party out of ideas. Its leadership team is mistaking slogans for policy and nostalgia for purpose
www.theguardian.com
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by David Bartram — Reposted by: David Bartram, Scott L. Greer, Greg Linden

dbartram.bsky.social
25 people could stop this. Twenty GOP senators and five GOP representatives could summon the courage of their lives: vote to impeach, and then convict.

And then do it again if Vance doesn't learn the intended lesson.

It doesn't even have to mean a Democratic president. Just an end to lawlessness.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d
The US is on a collision course for a constitutional crisis, as Trump attempts to federalize members of red states and send them to invade blue states against the will of the governors in blue states such as Illinois and California.👇
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Anna O. Law

socialmedialab.ca
The US is on a collision course for a constitutional crisis, as Trump attempts to federalize members of red states and send them to invade blue states against the will of the governors in blue states such as Illinois and California.👇
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
Isn’t he on bail? How is he still in possession of a passport?
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britishfuture.bsky.social
“Most British Jewish voices have consistently been clear that they reject Robinson’s bogus claim to be an ally of their community. It is important that we hear that again now.”
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Stuart Shapiro

ayoub.bsky.social
Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue:

1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims

2- see above
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
Surprised not to see more sabotage, Luddite-style...

Reposted by: David Bartram, Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer , and 1 more

jamesrball.com
The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.

This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.
“I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish. Today at a meeting of the Royal Society’s Council, I led a discussion regarding some of those threats. “Science thrives when individuals and institutions have the freedom to carry out research without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions that would hinder their work. In support of that, Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views. “However, the Society can and will criticise Fellows who act in a way that runs counter to the values of tolerance, courtesy and respect for others that allow science to flourish. Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them, from wherever they originate.”
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Mirya R. Holman

bextraordinary.bsky.social
Something really fucking scary happened to me today and it turns out it was a scam I didn't know about. I consider myself pretty savvy about the various scams out there, but this one got me.

Someone called, identified themselves at Sgt. Frank Sullivan with Middlesex County Sherriff, and badge #.
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
If Putin wanted to invade Alaska, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 would be a really good time. Imagine the psychological disorientation felt by top brass at this moment.

by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
A research idea (in case there’s no study already):

What happens to a #UCU branch when its leadership is mainly UCU-Left? Does membership fall b/c some people are alienated by the ideological nonsense? Are there more strikes, and/or less effective strikes?

I mean, maybe my suspicions are wrong...
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
What could go wrong?? He did such a great job with Iraq...
pickardje.bsky.social
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 8d
the idea of Blair acting alongside Trump in a peacemaking role in the Middle East surprised some in his Labour party

One UK minister said: “It’s like a mini-series where the scriptwriters have lost the plot. It has jumped the shark and should be taken off air.”

www.ft.com/content/527b...
Tony Blair set to serve on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
Some in former UK prime minister’s Labour party react with surprise at his proposed role in Palestinian territory
www.ft.com
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pickardje.bsky.social
the idea of Blair acting alongside Trump in a peacemaking role in the Middle East surprised some in his Labour party

One UK minister said: “It’s like a mini-series where the scriptwriters have lost the plot. It has jumped the shark and should be taken off air.”

www.ft.com/content/527b...
Tony Blair set to serve on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
Some in former UK prime minister’s Labour party react with surprise at his proposed role in Palestinian territory
www.ft.com
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Peter Thorne, Flavio Lehner , and 6 more

benmsanderson.bsky.social
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
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by David Bartram — Reposted by: Jill A. Jacobson

dbartram.bsky.social
I'm totally on board with that finding, and the reason for previous incorrect findings:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
To Evaluate the Age–Happiness Relationship, Look Beyond Statistical Significance - Journal of Happiness Studies
The persistent contentiousness of research on the age–happiness relationship is puzzling; it should be possible to gain clarity and consensus about how to address the question effectively. In this paper I show that a key reason for the lack of clarity consists of overreliance on statistical significance as a means of evaluating empirical results. The statistical significance of a quadratic specification (age plus age-squared) is often taken as evidence in support of a ‘u-shaped’ relationship between age and happiness. But statistical significance on its own cannot tell us whether the age–happiness relationship is ‘u-shaped’ (nor indeed whether it takes any other shape). On the contrary, statistical significance can mislead us about it: a set of quadratic age coefficients can be ‘significant’ even when the relationship is obviously characterised by a different shape. When we have clarity on how to construct the analysis so that we can ‘see’ the underlying patterns in the data, it becomes obvious that the age–happiness relationship in European countries commonly shows other patterns; a u-shape is evident only in a minority of countries.
link.springer.com
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
was it "enema"...
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
ICE ite domum.

by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
Actually existing capitalism.
rbreich.bsky.social
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
Hmm. I don’t like waiting. I want jam today. Not sure what that makes me.
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
Whatever a Fabian is, I now want to be one.
jamesomalley.co.uk
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 11d
There’s an even bigger conspiracy and it goes even deeper. It turns out that well over half of Parliament and thousands of councillors around the country are all members of a leftist organisation called “The Labour Party”.
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by: David Bartram, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Achim Truger , and 2 more

rbreich.bsky.social
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Jonathan Portes, Nando Sigona

colinyeo.bsky.social
1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.
jamesrball.com
James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11d
Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced.

The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Will Jennings, Stephen Jones

jamesomalley.co.uk
There’s an even bigger conspiracy and it goes even deeper. It turns out that well over half of Parliament and thousands of councillors around the country are all members of a leftist organisation called “The Labour Party”.
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by David Bartram

dbartram.bsky.social
He might as well be shooting people on 5th Avenue. It would be better, a lower death toll.
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Jonathan Portes, Colin Murray

gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
I really hope the Starmer speech on patriotic renewal is better than this summary of it, which basically argues that New Labour and the Tories let in too many immigrsnts but this one is going to give you a youth club instead so please don’t vote Reform www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...
The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control
Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Reposted by: David Bartram, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 14 more

kenwhite.bsky.social
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
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