Jean d'Eau
@jeandeau.bsky.social
UK/ScotPol, UAPol, language, hills, cats, separately. ND. Sometime gamer. Shilling for Russia = instablock: it's not my job to help you out of that sewer. He/him. @eaudear elsewhere 🏳️🌈🏴🇺🇦
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This is out-Sovieting the Soviet Union. "You are free to express any opinion at all as long as it's the right one, and the consequences for all the others will be severe, and ratting out is an important part of our free society."
they're going around and documenting flags that aren't at half-mast for Charlie Kirk
September 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is out-Sovieting the Soviet Union. "You are free to express any opinion at all as long as it's the right one, and the consequences for all the others will be severe, and ratting out is an important part of our free society."
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New post just out:
"The Great VAT Panic"
The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.
Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?
(£/free)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Great VAT Panic"
The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.
Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?
(£/free)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Great VAT Panic
Or how not to run a campaign
open.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
New post just out:
"The Great VAT Panic"
The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.
Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?
(£/free)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Great VAT Panic"
The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.
Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?
(£/free)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir
Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir
Abortion is criminalised and stigmatised – and now the right has found a new female scapegoat in its US-style war on bodily autonomy, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir
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Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
July 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
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You know you've been conditioned to live in a black & white paradigm when you have no ability to distinguish between
-Marxism
-Communism
-Socialism
-Democratic Socialism
If all those words scream in your brain BAD, but you can't describe their differences, you've been conditioned to feel this way
-Marxism
-Communism
-Socialism
-Democratic Socialism
If all those words scream in your brain BAD, but you can't describe their differences, you've been conditioned to feel this way
June 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
You know you've been conditioned to live in a black & white paradigm when you have no ability to distinguish between
-Marxism
-Communism
-Socialism
-Democratic Socialism
If all those words scream in your brain BAD, but you can't describe their differences, you've been conditioned to feel this way
-Marxism
-Communism
-Socialism
-Democratic Socialism
If all those words scream in your brain BAD, but you can't describe their differences, you've been conditioned to feel this way
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With thanks to @umland.bsky.social for marshalling the 50-plus UK-based or UK-educated scholars of Russia who co-signed, all of whom work from a more reality-based understanding of the country and the threat it poses to Europe.
bsky.app/profile/umla...
bsky.app/profile/umla...
On 13 June, @theguardian.com published a collective letter concerning Russia’s war & attacking Dr #FionaHill, the chancellor of Durham University & one of the principal authors of the UK’s strategic defence review. As UK-based or British-educated experts in matters pertaining to Russia, we disagree.
There is only one warmonger on the European stage: Vladimir Putin | Letter
Letter: Experts on Russia, Ukraine and international security respond to a letter that criticised Fiona Hill for her assessment of the Russian threat to Britain
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
With thanks to @umland.bsky.social for marshalling the 50-plus UK-based or UK-educated scholars of Russia who co-signed, all of whom work from a more reality-based understanding of the country and the threat it poses to Europe.
bsky.app/profile/umla...
bsky.app/profile/umla...
This feels valid for the UK.
The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)
June 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This feels valid for the UK.
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Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...
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In the same 24 hour period Russia broke its own record by blindly hurling 472 Shahed drones at Ukrainian cities for no tactical purpose beyond terror and pain, and Ukraine executed a carefully planned infiltration strike decimating Russian strategic aviation.
Draw your own conclusions.
Draw your own conclusions.
June 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM
In the same 24 hour period Russia broke its own record by blindly hurling 472 Shahed drones at Ukrainian cities for no tactical purpose beyond terror and pain, and Ukraine executed a carefully planned infiltration strike decimating Russian strategic aviation.
Draw your own conclusions.
Draw your own conclusions.
They talk about a trend towards much tighter correlation between types of prejudice and between conservatism and general prejudice, but I wonder if it's just that the bigots feel more at liberty to say what they've thought all along because of the Spray Tan Troll.
April 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
They talk about a trend towards much tighter correlation between types of prejudice and between conservatism and general prejudice, but I wonder if it's just that the bigots feel more at liberty to say what they've thought all along because of the Spray Tan Troll.
If a Japanese legend, which god? How old is this legend - like, pre-dating any other documented understanding of the mechanics of solar eclipses or...?
April 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If a Japanese legend, which god? How old is this legend - like, pre-dating any other documented understanding of the mechanics of solar eclipses or...?
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For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
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There are still, for now, moments of humour in this, but it’s very serious shit.
US representatives have been going around in Greenland's capital, Nuuk, knocking on one door after another to ask if they would like to be visited by the vice president's wife. -Everywhere the answer was the same: "No, thank you". According to Danish TV 2's correspondent in Nuuk, Jesper Steinmetz.
March 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
There are still, for now, moments of humour in this, but it’s very serious shit.
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Can we take a sec to talk about how their excuses are worse than the truth?
Waltz claims a normal, non-spy citizen was able to sneak or trick his way, undetected, INTO A CLASSIFIED CONVO between the directors of the CIA, NSA, VP, & DOD planning air strikes.
&... this is intended to exonerate them?
Waltz claims a normal, non-spy citizen was able to sneak or trick his way, undetected, INTO A CLASSIFIED CONVO between the directors of the CIA, NSA, VP, & DOD planning air strikes.
&... this is intended to exonerate them?
March 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Can we take a sec to talk about how their excuses are worse than the truth?
Waltz claims a normal, non-spy citizen was able to sneak or trick his way, undetected, INTO A CLASSIFIED CONVO between the directors of the CIA, NSA, VP, & DOD planning air strikes.
&... this is intended to exonerate them?
Waltz claims a normal, non-spy citizen was able to sneak or trick his way, undetected, INTO A CLASSIFIED CONVO between the directors of the CIA, NSA, VP, & DOD planning air strikes.
&... this is intended to exonerate them?
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Trying positive reinforcement with Evri since complaining doesn't work
March 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Trying positive reinforcement with Evri since complaining doesn't work
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New post just out:
"Amusing Ourselves to Death"
On the shift from a literate to visual culture, it's impact on politics and what we can do about it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...
"Amusing Ourselves to Death"
On the shift from a literate to visual culture, it's impact on politics and what we can do about it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Before getting to today’s article a couple of announcements.
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New post just out:
"Amusing Ourselves to Death"
On the shift from a literate to visual culture, it's impact on politics and what we can do about it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...
"Amusing Ourselves to Death"
On the shift from a literate to visual culture, it's impact on politics and what we can do about it.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...
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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
March 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
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The White House read out of Trump and Putin's two hour conversation.
"The conflict should never have started" they agreed...
Obviously meaningful because shortly after it ended Putin bombed a hospital in Ukraine
"The conflict should never have started" they agreed...
Obviously meaningful because shortly after it ended Putin bombed a hospital in Ukraine
March 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The White House read out of Trump and Putin's two hour conversation.
"The conflict should never have started" they agreed...
Obviously meaningful because shortly after it ended Putin bombed a hospital in Ukraine
"The conflict should never have started" they agreed...
Obviously meaningful because shortly after it ended Putin bombed a hospital in Ukraine
I thought the battle of cannae was what happens when you tell the weans to tidy their room.
Hannibal was hands down the greatest general of his time he had destroyed Carthage’s greatest enemy Rome - twice. He had during the battle of Cannae wiped out the Roman aristocracy crushing them.
However, after his military career he had been made a senator in Carthage.
However, after his military career he had been made a senator in Carthage.
March 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I thought the battle of cannae was what happens when you tell the weans to tidy their room.
But the autopen isn't the core of the argument - the claim is that a staffer autopenned them because Biden was too senile to sign. There's the inconvenient fact that he announced them himself but hey...
“Legal experts also told us that there is nothing in US law which would invalidate pardons signed by autopen.”
#Biden #pardons
#Biden #pardons
Were Biden's pardons signed with autopen?
President Trump claims 'many' of Biden's pardons are void because they were signed automatically and not by hand.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
But the autopen isn't the core of the argument - the claim is that a staffer autopenned them because Biden was too senile to sign. There's the inconvenient fact that he announced them himself but hey...
I'm not a fan of the "If only people were better educated they'd stop voting for stupid shit" argument because educated people do this crap too, but I'd make an exception for the constant drilling in that either the rule of law applies to everyone or it applies to nobody. You cannot be safe alone.
"But I'm a citizen," you say. "This doesn't apply to me." It's a pretty short step from deporting lawful residents without due process to "show me your papers, you don't LOOK like a real American to ME" on the street.
Two high profile illegal detainment/deportment cases of *lawful residents* out of Logan Airport in Boston. This is a great thing to call your electeds about TODAY. ☎️ at reps.fyi
March 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm not a fan of the "If only people were better educated they'd stop voting for stupid shit" argument because educated people do this crap too, but I'd make an exception for the constant drilling in that either the rule of law applies to everyone or it applies to nobody. You cannot be safe alone.
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Inspired by the motion of brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds, physicists have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle over unpredictable terrain.
This may also help explain Donald Trump's peculiar behaviour.
#AdaptiveLocomotion #Trump 🧪
This may also help explain Donald Trump's peculiar behaviour.
#AdaptiveLocomotion #Trump 🧪
Adaptive locomotion of active solids - Nature
The development of active solids based on centimetre-scale building blocks incorporating odd elasticity shows that they can spontaneously undergo limit cycles of shape changes, leading to adaptive loc...
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Inspired by the motion of brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds, physicists have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle over unpredictable terrain.
This may also help explain Donald Trump's peculiar behaviour.
#AdaptiveLocomotion #Trump 🧪
This may also help explain Donald Trump's peculiar behaviour.
#AdaptiveLocomotion #Trump 🧪
I suspect this is effectively what's going to happen, but it's not something you really want to be doing with the primary engine of western democracy.
March 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I suspect this is effectively what's going to happen, but it's not something you really want to be doing with the primary engine of western democracy.
Narrator: But he did claim he inherited it, and many people believed him.
He can’t pretend this is anything he inherited. He totally owns this.
March 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Narrator: But he did claim he inherited it, and many people believed him.