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Will Jennings📉🗳️
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I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 12

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6h
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms

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David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 14h
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 16h
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h
Yeah. The replies was the first sign the platform was not the same.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h
Anyone saying ‘My experience of X has not changed at all’ is displaying a surprising level of credulity.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17h
Also, it’s a big assumption that (1) is true given how much Musk has changed the architecture of X.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 17h
I don't think you can explain people staying on X without saying something about their discomfort or lack of it with the use of the platform to promote racism and fascism in the US and elsewhere. Not mentioning the topic is very revealing.
itaisher.bsky.social Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 19h
I saw someone ask why anyone would still use X when Bluesky is available.

I think the explanation is:

1 Experience on a platform depends far more on who you interact with there than on the platform overall.

2 The experience you get on academic adjacent Bluesky is not a good fit for everyone.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Alexandra Cirone

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 19h
I saw someone ask why anyone would still use X when Bluesky is available.

I think the explanation is:

1 Experience on a platform depends far more on who you interact with there than on the platform overall.

2 The experience you get on academic adjacent Bluesky is not a good fit for everyone.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 19h
Sad and predictable but also interesting and revealing to see the angry reaction from the populist right to the King's Speech. They're reading it as a call for tolerance of diversity, approval for multi-faith, multi-cultural UK, and supportive of Ukraine. Which I think it was & intentionally so. 1/3

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h
Jimmy Kimmel appeared on British television screens on Christmas Day to deliver a so-called “alternative Christmas message,” in which he said tyranny was “booming” in the U.S.
Kimmel Tells U.K. Viewers ‘Tyranny Is Booming’ in America
Chosen by a British TV station to give an “alternative” to the king’s speech, Jimmy Kimmel said it had been a great year for the U.S. “from a fascism perspective.”
nyti.ms

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h
You guys caught this too, right?

“Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” ███████ noted some girl with a funny name “took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened.”

Also this: she was advised to call the police. But she replied, “I can’t, they will kill me.”
1/2

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
That’s another 10,000 copies sold…

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Have you considered doing personal messages on Cameo Jonn?

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
It means it is smokey!

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Xmas Tim. I will out nerd you on the Larry sanders show any time!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d
The President personally designing battleships because he wants them to look badass is not doing much to challenge the "everyone is 12 now" theory of American governance.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d
When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d
Merry Christmas to everyone but especially every dad and granddad in Britain who is unwrapping four copies each of Jonn Elledge’s borders book.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Having a normal Christmas morning
Image of Trump going on a posting binge early Christmas morning

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d
Just a general reminder that your experience on any social media app depends a lot on what *you* make of it. It is easy to find some annoying people on any platform. But platforms like Bluesky also give *you* way more power to control your own experience and to fix whatever annoys you.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Waves from the 'Anger, hatred and frustration' nebula of bluesky.
hailey.at hailey @hailey.at · 4d
took a peek at the groupings of posts on bluesky over the past 48 hours
a cluster chart showing the english posts on the network over the past 48 hours. different clusters include sports/nfl, epstein, economy, ai ethics, amzon spammers, music, holiday cheer, fiml and tv, substack posers, anger hated and frusturation, emergency alerts, and nsfw content

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 1d
No shock. This app has turned my mentions, and others, into mostly hate. But there are a few people worth connecting with

CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
It's a SMWS special bottling, so they don't say.... (usually it's possible to tell from the SMWS codes, but not for these specials - it could be more than one distillery).

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
You're the pollster, you tell us - snap poll! (Happy Xmas Adam!)

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Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 1d
What % of the population right now are turning boxes of Celebrations into boxes of Bounties

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Chris Morris is another genius. There are so many clips to choose from, but this from 1994 was way ahead of its time in terms of cultural commentary (remarkable to think there were only six episodes of The Day Today).
The Day Today - WAR!
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Back to Stuart Lee, on Prince Andrew, well enough said.
Stewart Lee on Prince Andrew 🧸 | Stewart Lee: Basic Lee | Royal Family Clip
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
Mike Myer's appearances on SNL from earlier in the year impersonating Elon Musk are also pretty funny.
Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d
James Johnson's Trump impersonations on SNL are just perfect, it's worth watching pretty any one from the last year. This is the Cold Open from the most recent show.
Trump Christmas Address Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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