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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 · 27d

I like New Year Resolutions:

1. get my French from early B2 to C1
2. Lose 15 kg and get in shape
3. Walk at least 15k steps a day
4. Go to the cinema at least once a month
5. Start using a proper to-do list

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5h

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

Ahh I thought it the other way round

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

I do that, although to be fair I’ve also called the new dog my wife and my daughter’s name.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

The one in the 16th is Macron’s favorite

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

The build in problem with far right global alliances is that they fail as a result of a feature of themselves.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 7h

🚨🚨Late to this but this seems to be a MAJOR story: Slovakia’s PM #Fico (a Trump alley) told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with #Trump left him shocked by the US president’s state of mind. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/

European leader spoke of shock at Trump’s state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting

The Slovak PM, a Trump ally, told leaders at last week’s EU summit he was concerned about the way the U.S. president spoke to him, European diplomats said.

www.politico.eu

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 7h

European leader spoke of shock at Trump’s state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting

The Slovak PM, a Trump ally, told leaders at last week’s EU summit he was concerned about the way the U.S. president spoke to him, European diplomats said.

www.politico.eu

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 12h

As always, cannot resist posting my personal favourite, which was aired on Turkish TV more than a decade ago now

Theory aired on Turkish TV alleges that Shakespeare was a secret Muslim whose "real name was Sheikh Pir".

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 13h

:))

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 13h

Are there any Vigée Le Brun experts on here? Do we know where her studio was during the 1770–80s? Presumably Paris, but ... where 👩‍🎨

I'm trying to paint a picture (lol) of her working life, but haven't been able to pin it down for certain #18c

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

Then shit happened and now we’re where we are.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

The messy middle: everyone needs to muddle through, I’ll try and remember to use the correct pronouns for whoever, and use their new name and we’ll go along with the fiction (if we think it’s fiction) because that’s how society works. That was pretty much how things were going for the most part.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

I think I saw it reported that ICE would be policing in some function at the Winter Olympics.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

Fame must be truly horrific. At one point while living in Turkey I was a minor TV and radio celebrity and it was awful. I can’t imagine that being your whole life.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

She did this because she, while aware of the potential risks, thought that they wouldn’t happen. In this, she’s no different to the Tories, the Labour Party, the NCAA, the IOC etc etc etc. Cowards one and all.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

I’m the same age as Nicola Sturgeon, went to Glasgow university at the same time, was a member of the GUU like her and i was a member of the SNP. She believes in the messy middle bit for political reasons she chose to ignore this and allow young SNP activists who were absolutist to drive policy.

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Sam Taylor @staylorish.bsky.social · 14h

1/ Telling moment at yesterday’s Finance & Public Administration Committee. Shona Robison flounders under questioning on headcount reductions, so a civil servant pushes over something for her to read out. Robison proudly boasts about “the largest reduction… since 2012”

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

The whole thing is an utter mess :)

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 14h

I think there’s a bunch of things that triggered it but when the public see things like Lia Thomas or Isla Bryson and politicians and activists have backed themselves into an absolutist corner that they can’t say anything or as was the case for Thomas, applaud it, then they’re fucked.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 14h

Last year, headlines claimed a ‘spiritual revival’ among Gen Z, based on a Bible Society report. The claims just don't hold up. The British Social Attitudes Survey confirms it: Gen Z churchgoing is declining, in line with CofE and Catholic Church data, and YouGov’s British Election Study polling.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

For sure that is the case.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

She’s GB News, Reform etc

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

Swimmer, off the deep end

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

I think it was a strategic error for trans activists / Stonewall / SNP etc to evacuate the messy middle.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

Puntastic

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

99% of the trans debate is weird and absolutist though. There’s a messy middle, which is the only really reasonable position, but it’s been evacuated by everybody forcing many to take sides.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

Don’t follow her, it just encourages her.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 15h

The Best Restaurants in Paris When You’re Griefstruck guide…

Day 1 - Monday

It is The Terrible Day and it is an emergency so we panic text the ebullient maître d of Paris Seize, a very fine bistro in the 16th. He tells us to come immediately for dinner, even before the restaurant has opened .

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

That’s true, no room for doubt in her mind.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

Oh directionally for sure, but that’s the case for a whole lot of people on a whole lot of issues. But she’s not going about being deliberately cruel to individual people which Linehan does.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 16h

I think it’s unfair to compare her to Linehan. He’s lost it completely and is all in with MAGA, she’s nowhere near that.

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