Seeadler
@seeadler.bsky.social
Ex-RM from NI with a PhD. Author and professional editor. "Bluesky elder," apparently. #BSMRGUK
To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання
To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання
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Seeadler
@seeadler.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I spent a decade arguing with antivaxxers on X. Showing them papers. Explaining their errors. Correcting their disinformation.
I've done my bit for "dialogue with people I disagree with".
I'm here to hang out with people I like. For everyone else, I have no guilt about using the block button.
I've done my bit for "dialogue with people I disagree with".
I'm here to hang out with people I like. For everyone else, I have no guilt about using the block button.
"Reckless" is a chickenshit way to spell "illegal."
My full statement on the Trump Administration’s military actions in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Reckless" is a chickenshit way to spell "illegal."
This is like Jaws 2 if the population of Amity Island had re-elected the damn shark.
Trump's got a taste for blood.
Trump on Sheinbaum: "The cartels are running Mexico. She's not running Mexico. We could be politically correct & nice and say, 'Oh, yes, she is.' No no. And I've asked her number times, 'Would you like us to take out the cartels?' ... something is gonna have to be done with Mexico."
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This is like Jaws 2 if the population of Amity Island had re-elected the damn shark.
The bigger, much more important question here is: if we take Keir Starmer at his word, why does he not believe he has been provided with the facts by the Secret Intelligence Service, who will surely have briefed him?
Secondarily: this indicates the US did not inform its allies in advance.
Secondarily: this indicates the US did not inform its allies in advance.
Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.*
People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off.
Special relationship - alive and kicking.
People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off.
Special relationship - alive and kicking.
January 3, 2026 at 1:03 PM
The bigger, much more important question here is: if we take Keir Starmer at his word, why does he not believe he has been provided with the facts by the Secret Intelligence Service, who will surely have briefed him?
Secondarily: this indicates the US did not inform its allies in advance.
Secondarily: this indicates the US did not inform its allies in advance.
A small, but I think telling, point: justice is not about wrath.
January 3, 2026 at 12:38 PM
A small, but I think telling, point: justice is not about wrath.
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guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM
guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story
Anyway, any Brit wishing to escape all the international news today can settle down with BBC2 at 3.20pm, when "The Eagle Has Landed" is showing. It's a film about a group of soldiers attempting to kidnap another country's head of state.
I'm not kidding. It really is on today.
I'm not kidding. It really is on today.
January 3, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Anyway, any Brit wishing to escape all the international news today can settle down with BBC2 at 3.20pm, when "The Eagle Has Landed" is showing. It's a film about a group of soldiers attempting to kidnap another country's head of state.
I'm not kidding. It really is on today.
I'm not kidding. It really is on today.
This bears repeating: there are realpolitik reasons for condemning this operation. @badsocialism.bsky.social highlights a particularly British one, but in the European context, of course, it is vital to denounce the US for doing what Putin has been trying to do in Ukraine.
Britain needs to condemn this for the obvious legal and moral reasons but at a strategic level you really don't want to accept anything that would legitimise another Argentinian push on the Falklands
January 3, 2026 at 10:45 AM
This bears repeating: there are realpolitik reasons for condemning this operation. @badsocialism.bsky.social highlights a particularly British one, but in the European context, of course, it is vital to denounce the US for doing what Putin has been trying to do in Ukraine.
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100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
Fucking hell.
Think the referance to US Law Enforcement here is quite telling as well: a huge extension of how far the US feels its laws reach.
Apparently its fine to now attack and kidnap a head of state because of 'US law'. Fucking hell.
Think the referance to US Law Enforcement here is quite telling as well: a huge extension of how far the US feels its laws reach.
Apparently its fine to now attack and kidnap a head of state because of 'US law'. Fucking hell.
Trump says Maduro is in US custody.
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
Aberdeenshire Golf Club Owner Kidnaps Foreign Head Of State.
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Aberdeenshire Golf Club Owner Kidnaps Foreign Head Of State.
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I can't believe a FIFA peace prize recipient would do this.
January 3, 2026 at 9:46 AM
I can't believe a FIFA peace prize recipient would do this.
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Good Morning and welcome to another episode of regime change by the USA. The US seems to be militarily trying to get rid of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro right now. There are reports of US ground forces in action. However, watch the Cubans too. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The US Is Attempting Regime Change In Venezuela
Watch Cuba
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Good Morning and welcome to another episode of regime change by the USA. The US seems to be militarily trying to get rid of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro right now. There are reports of US ground forces in action. However, watch the Cubans too. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
What do you mean, "including military facilities," CBS? Why do you suggest that the military facilities targeted were of secondary importance to the *civilian* sites and infrastructure struck? And if this is a direct quote, why has no one challenged its provider? www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro regime, sources say
Trump ordered strikes on sites inside Venezuela, including military facilities, U.S. officials told CBS News, ratcheting up pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.
www.cbsnews.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:56 AM
What do you mean, "including military facilities," CBS? Why do you suggest that the military facilities targeted were of secondary importance to the *civilian* sites and infrastructure struck? And if this is a direct quote, why has no one challenged its provider? www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
It is particularly grim that the algorithms are out to infantilise us at the same time as Grok is out to sexualise infants.
Watched a video about the Nuremberg trials yesterday and, so that Youtube wouldn't demonetise them, the video's host said "using a cyanide capsule, Herman Goerring unalived himself".
January 2, 2026 at 9:08 AM
It is particularly grim that the algorithms are out to infantilise us at the same time as Grok is out to sexualise infants.
Nigel Farage announces that the core support – and core supporters – for Reform are racist.
Obviously, we all knew that, but it's nice to have it officially confirmed. And every media outlet should be hammering this point home – as should Labour.
Obviously, we all knew that, but it's nice to have it officially confirmed. And every media outlet should be hammering this point home – as should Labour.
January 2, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Nigel Farage announces that the core support – and core supporters – for Reform are racist.
Obviously, we all knew that, but it's nice to have it officially confirmed. And every media outlet should be hammering this point home – as should Labour.
Obviously, we all knew that, but it's nice to have it officially confirmed. And every media outlet should be hammering this point home – as should Labour.
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It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile
January 2, 2026 at 1:21 AM
It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile
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Compare and contrast the government's line on "using a VPN makes you Jimmy Savile" with continuing to post on the nazinonce app.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Compare and contrast the government's line on "using a VPN makes you Jimmy Savile" with continuing to post on the nazinonce app.
A reminder that Operation FOXLEY, an Allied assassination of Hitler, was cancelled because Hitler was making so many stupid decisions that killing him would have caused the Allies to win the war *more slowly.*
January 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A reminder that Operation FOXLEY, an Allied assassination of Hitler, was cancelled because Hitler was making so many stupid decisions that killing him would have caused the Allies to win the war *more slowly.*
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RADETSKY! GET STAMPIN
January 1, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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And thus, the entire system of measurements is destroyed. There is no area the size of Wales. Nothing is as long as a blue whale, or a double-decker bus, or a football field; nothing is as tall as a giraffe.
A large boulder is, however, the size of a small boulder.
A large boulder is, however, the size of a small boulder.
First superb conspiracy theory of 2026 overheard in the street! I love this. I feel it sets the tone for a superb year:
“Wales is fake.”
“Wales is fake.”
January 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM
And thus, the entire system of measurements is destroyed. There is no area the size of Wales. Nothing is as long as a blue whale, or a double-decker bus, or a football field; nothing is as tall as a giraffe.
A large boulder is, however, the size of a small boulder.
A large boulder is, however, the size of a small boulder.
I see your "needle drop" and I raise you:
I mean the bells are fine, but I want to do the hammer drop at the end of Mahler's 6th.
January 1, 2026 at 10:59 AM
I see your "needle drop" and I raise you:
Because "Be an insecure bullying thug among insecure bullying thugs" is a graphic design headache.
This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.
January 1, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Because "Be an insecure bullying thug among insecure bullying thugs" is a graphic design headache.
My hot take: were it in my power to make it so, I would permit the existence of billionaires - but *only* up to 1 billion. Anything you make after that goes straight to social care programmes. The maximum wealth any person could have, or ever have, is 1 billion.
Obscene wealth is obscene greed.
No one person needs so much money when far too many people have so little. Increase taxes for the greedy, selfish narcissists and ban the tax dodging loopholes.
No one person needs so much money when far too many people have so little. Increase taxes for the greedy, selfish narcissists and ban the tax dodging loopholes.
The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn.
Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains.
No one becomes this rich by working.
They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.
Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains.
No one becomes this rich by working.
They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.
January 1, 2026 at 10:10 AM
My hot take: were it in my power to make it so, I would permit the existence of billionaires - but *only* up to 1 billion. Anything you make after that goes straight to social care programmes. The maximum wealth any person could have, or ever have, is 1 billion.
This reminds me to go and watch the Stranger Things finale.
January 1, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This reminds me to go and watch the Stranger Things finale.
Having survived a number of attempts on my life, I can say that Jane Orrick ain't shit, and the only thing terminal about her prognosis is its stupidity.
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Having survived a number of attempts on my life, I can say that Jane Orrick ain't shit, and the only thing terminal about her prognosis is its stupidity.
May 2026 see the ignominious exit of as many malevolent actors as possible from the world stage, and may the rest of us enjoy the life Steve Winwood once sang about in an absolute *belter* of a tune: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adw7...
Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again
YouTube video by SteveWinwoodVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
May 2026 see the ignominious exit of as many malevolent actors as possible from the world stage, and may the rest of us enjoy the life Steve Winwood once sang about in an absolute *belter* of a tune: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adw7...