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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” / 🐶

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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)

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 50m

He’s such a knob head

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 51m

Apart from anything else, the BBC is, along with music, the Premier League and some other stuff, a huge source of soft power for the UK.

Yet again we ask the question of those like Jolyon or the far right who wish to abolish the BBC, why do you hate Britain so much that you want to weaken it?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 59m

It’s insane and all I see on (mostly foreign based) Turks socials is how dare Mamdani not be 100% positive about Ataturk’s legacy”.
People have just completely clocked out.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1h

And for those of you complaining about Sonia Sodha talking about the trans issue re the BBC on the radio yesterday, it’s also the basis of all Jolyon’s complaints. But he’s on the “right side” of that issue so you won’t complain about him, right?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1h

For a guy who loves to paint people as far right for sharing views that the far right have, here’s Joly*n agreeing with the far right that we should get rid of the BBC.

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BirGün Gazetesi @birgun.net · 1h

İBB iddianamesinde Ekrem İmamoğlu hakkında 2430 yıl hapis talep edildi
www.birgun.net/haber/ibb-id...

İBB iddianamesi tamamlandı: Erdoğan'ın sözleri 4 ayrı yerde

İBB iddianamesine ilişkin açıklama yapan İstanbul Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı İBB Başkanı Ekrem İmamoğlu'nda 142 ayrı suçlama isnat etti. İddianamede 4 ayrı yerde Erdoğan'ın sıklıkla kullandığı "ahtapot k...

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1h

Can we not still blame the Arabs?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1h

All good here.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1h

For a guy who loves to paint people as far right for sharing views that the far right have, here’s Joly*n agreeing with the far right that we should get rid of the BBC.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1h

I'm surprised that he hasn't yet committed the GLP to fundraising for Trump's $1Bn lawsuit, planning to show how the BBC sometimes fails to be biased in a way that he's in favour of.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1h

I didn’t realise you were on here Stefan, how’s it going ?

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1h

That’s what you think Alan… door opens…

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1h

Nice to see that, in these times of increasing uncertainty, that Jolyon reliably remains a fucking idiot.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 3h

Bond writers being stuck because he was blown to pieces shows how good Looney Tubes writers were because Wile E Coyote was always being obliterated but came back for more

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

Dr Who fan obviously

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

Aye, I was surprised too. I hate those machines.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

It’s like Dr Who for grown ups

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

I’d be surprised if Andreesen had done anything in tech since Netscape, so nearly 30 years.

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4h

A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 13h

*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

Biggest rip off ever

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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 3h

It’s apologising season. The audience for BBC output in the US is just over 40 million, not 77 million as I said. That’s the figure for the Americas as a whole. But the BBC is indeed the second most trusted news source in the US.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

If you listen carefully he called for the legalization of drugs in this speech

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

however, where clashes occur broad societal goals have to be considered and solutions found accordingly.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

My JS Mill comment broadly agreed with this except I think part of it stretches to government interference with my bodily autonomy which is anti-compulsory vaxx adjacent.

The “true” liberal and leftist position on this issue is that people should be free to express themselves however they wish,

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4h

𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔩 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 13h

*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 4h

The BBC is bloody brilliant. It's central to the fact that British democracy isn't circling the drain like it is in America, it preserves a common culture, and propagates respect for facts. We should defend it as firmly as we fight corruption, because it's a crucial part of integrity in public life.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

As I was writing the original tweet that was who else I was thinking of. It’s even trickier for the Guardian given it’s a left of centre publication and given that progressive US politics has its nutty side.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

It was just yesterday he was all in favor of getting rid of foreign students. It’s all so confusing and I have some pity for administrators in YS institutions trying to plan ahead.

CNN @cnn.com · 6h

President Donald Trump criticized the nation of France in a back-and-forth with a Fox News host as he defended the enrollment of Chinese students at universities in the United States. https://cnn.it/43mSG8a

Trump defends enrolling Chinese students at US universities -- and takes a swipe at France | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump criticized the nation of France on Monday in a back-and-forth with a Fox News host as he defended the enrollment of Chinese students at universities in the United States.

cnn.it

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

I agree, and tbh it’s the same for all institutions we like. We need to be more vigorous in our defence of them rather than self-critical.

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Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 4h

Tariffs on BBC news

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

Sure but that’s amplified by the fact the BBC is all over the US in a way it wasn’t 20 years ago

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 4h

From the outside, it just strikes me that the BBC is kind of crap and constantly trying not to upset people. Hence why it platforms goons like Kelvin McKenzie and Matt Goodwin while at the same time having Fiona Bruce telling R Winston he could be wrong on biology bc some random people disagree

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 5h

can't think of a headline that better sums up the BBC at present
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards

Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC

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