@grautur.bsky.social
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In general, the following is simply fundamentally true: Europe's inability to take a stance on Israel that is 1% less complicit really discredited us, damaged our credibility (including among our own people), and spaffed away a lot of popular consent for (extremely necessary) continental rearmament.
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In general, the following is simply fundamentally true: Europe's inability to take a stance on Israel that is 1% less complicit really discredited us, damaged our credibility (including among our own people), and spaffed away a lot of popular consent for (extremely necessary) continental rearmament.
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The Liverpool press officer during that Salah interview is sending me. 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The Liverpool press officer during that Salah interview is sending me. 🤣
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Díaz/Núñez both workhorses at 9. Szobo a physical beast at 10. Both allowed Salah to do his thing.
I was never sure what the off the ball plan was with Isak, Wirtz and Salah in the same side. Far too loghtweight. Wirtz return to 10 has seen Salah drop out. Sad it's ending like this
I was never sure what the off the ball plan was with Isak, Wirtz and Salah in the same side. Far too loghtweight. Wirtz return to 10 has seen Salah drop out. Sad it's ending like this
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Díaz/Núñez both workhorses at 9. Szobo a physical beast at 10. Both allowed Salah to do his thing.
I was never sure what the off the ball plan was with Isak, Wirtz and Salah in the same side. Far too loghtweight. Wirtz return to 10 has seen Salah drop out. Sad it's ending like this
I was never sure what the off the ball plan was with Isak, Wirtz and Salah in the same side. Far too loghtweight. Wirtz return to 10 has seen Salah drop out. Sad it's ending like this
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It never made sense
You re-sign Salah despite a huge drop-off post Jan
Knowing you need Dom to caddie for him
But you sign a world-class 10 anyway
So Dom has to move
So you can't play Salah
(Rinse and repeat with Kerkez. Rinse and repeat with Eki/Isak. God knows with Frimpong.)
You re-sign Salah despite a huge drop-off post Jan
Knowing you need Dom to caddie for him
But you sign a world-class 10 anyway
So Dom has to move
So you can't play Salah
(Rinse and repeat with Kerkez. Rinse and repeat with Eki/Isak. God knows with Frimpong.)
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It never made sense
You re-sign Salah despite a huge drop-off post Jan
Knowing you need Dom to caddie for him
But you sign a world-class 10 anyway
So Dom has to move
So you can't play Salah
(Rinse and repeat with Kerkez. Rinse and repeat with Eki/Isak. God knows with Frimpong.)
You re-sign Salah despite a huge drop-off post Jan
Knowing you need Dom to caddie for him
But you sign a world-class 10 anyway
So Dom has to move
So you can't play Salah
(Rinse and repeat with Kerkez. Rinse and repeat with Eki/Isak. God knows with Frimpong.)
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The thing about modern life is that we have denormalised beating someone up for bad takes, and that's an actual disaster for humanity.
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The thing about modern life is that we have denormalised beating someone up for bad takes, and that's an actual disaster for humanity.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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A theory about vibes:
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A theory about vibes:
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
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I know they're losing but this seems a bit extreme
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I know they're losing but this seems a bit extreme
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This gets to the core of it I think: insofar as social media radicalisation has been immensely damaging in politics, it’s not because it’s broken the minds of the average punter. It’s because it has deranged the brains of politicians and political commentators.
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This gets to the core of it I think: insofar as social media radicalisation has been immensely damaging in politics, it’s not because it’s broken the minds of the average punter. It’s because it has deranged the brains of politicians and political commentators.
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Been thinking about how many UK political pundits, academics and commentators have aversions to analyses they perceive as overly cynical (understandably and justifiably!), but how this aversion leads to analytical naiveté in the context of a political system which is, itself, increasingly cynical.
It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.
June 2016 here. Do you notice how this has been proven correct: there really is no way to appease the reactionary right, who take every concession to their fucknut demands as a new base camp to strike out for more and nastier?
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Been thinking about how many UK political pundits, academics and commentators have aversions to analyses they perceive as overly cynical (understandably and justifiably!), but how this aversion leads to analytical naiveté in the context of a political system which is, itself, increasingly cynical.
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Just like Savile. That's why no one who mattered objected and why no one was brought to justice. They saw it as a victimless crime.
Truly. This was the worst part, no different from R.Kelly:
"Some critics of the press's performance say ruefully there may have been a class element at play. As described in court documents, Epstein and his associates recruited young women from working-class backgrounds and disrupted families."
"Some critics of the press's performance say ruefully there may have been a class element at play. As described in court documents, Epstein and his associates recruited young women from working-class backgrounds and disrupted families."
It’s a genuine conspiracy.
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Just like Savile. That's why no one who mattered objected and why no one was brought to justice. They saw it as a victimless crime.
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twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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This is the kind of racist erasure that makes you realise how Jesus ended up being depicted as a blond white man.
The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.
March 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is the kind of racist erasure that makes you realise how Jesus ended up being depicted as a blond white man.
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1960-luvun lopulla Suomessa myytiin mansikan ja banaanin makuista hammastahnaa. Meille ostettiin sellaista kerran (mansikka), söin tuubillisen salaa vessassa ja oksensin makeaa vaahtoa loppuillan.
Lohduttavaa oli kuulla, että moni suomalainen oli luullut joskus hammastahnaa kurkkutabletti-tahnaksi
Lohduttavaa oli kuulla, että moni suomalainen oli luullut joskus hammastahnaa kurkkutabletti-tahnaksi
March 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
1960-luvun lopulla Suomessa myytiin mansikan ja banaanin makuista hammastahnaa. Meille ostettiin sellaista kerran (mansikka), söin tuubillisen salaa vessassa ja oksensin makeaa vaahtoa loppuillan.
Lohduttavaa oli kuulla, että moni suomalainen oli luullut joskus hammastahnaa kurkkutabletti-tahnaksi
Lohduttavaa oli kuulla, että moni suomalainen oli luullut joskus hammastahnaa kurkkutabletti-tahnaksi
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The number of autocracies (91) has just surpassed democracies (88) on this list for the first time in two decades, and nearly three-quarters of humans now live in an autocracy. US could be next, says head of democracy research project. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
www.cbc.ca
March 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The number of autocracies (91) has just surpassed democracies (88) on this list for the first time in two decades, and nearly three-quarters of humans now live in an autocracy. US could be next, says head of democracy research project. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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I can't say I'm surprised in the slightest, but I'm still disappointed at how many adamant opponents of nuclear proliferation opposed effectively helping Ukraine, not understanding that THESE WERE MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY GOALS. If such blatant abuses aren't strongly punished, the NPT dies.
March 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I can't say I'm surprised in the slightest, but I'm still disappointed at how many adamant opponents of nuclear proliferation opposed effectively helping Ukraine, not understanding that THESE WERE MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY GOALS. If such blatant abuses aren't strongly punished, the NPT dies.
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This is the 23-year-old child that the world's richest Nazi Elon Musk appointed to fire the staff in charge of America's nulcear arsenal. His name is Luke Farritor. 😳👇
March 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is the 23-year-old child that the world's richest Nazi Elon Musk appointed to fire the staff in charge of America's nulcear arsenal. His name is Luke Farritor. 😳👇
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Meet Rutte. The Netherlands has extensively learned that no, Rutte does not learn anything. This is what Rutte does. He is the Emperor of Downplay. He grins, waves, assures, shrugs and ignores. His nickname was Teflon Mark, because everything slides off him. He doesn't give a toss.
March 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Meet Rutte. The Netherlands has extensively learned that no, Rutte does not learn anything. This is what Rutte does. He is the Emperor of Downplay. He grins, waves, assures, shrugs and ignores. His nickname was Teflon Mark, because everything slides off him. He doesn't give a toss.
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
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Global #nuclear non-proliferation is pretty much dying. As #Trump pulls the #US out from protecting #Europe every country that is technically capable/can afford a nuclear weapons program will do so. #Poland can definitely do it when push comes to shove.
🔎 Analysis: A proposal to place US atomic weapons in Poland could lead to other European nations developing their own arsenals ⬇️
Could Poland and Germany acquire nuclear bombs?
www.thetimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Russia finally realising too late Nato was there to protect the world from Europe lol
March 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Russia finally realising too late Nato was there to protect the world from Europe lol
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like, i am not a nihilist, but i am am also not going to pretend we didn’t choose this. we chose to suffer, and, now, we are going to fucking suffer. it is going to fucking suck. we should choose better next time.
March 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
like, i am not a nihilist, but i am am also not going to pretend we didn’t choose this. we chose to suffer, and, now, we are going to fucking suffer. it is going to fucking suck. we should choose better next time.
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A Russian woman spoke out:
"I don't understand why I should expand my borders if my country is dying out, degrading. I have no doubt that my country's soldiers should not be on the territory of Syria, Georgia, Ukraine or other countries"
"I don't understand why I should expand my borders if my country is dying out, degrading. I have no doubt that my country's soldiers should not be on the territory of Syria, Georgia, Ukraine or other countries"
March 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A Russian woman spoke out:
"I don't understand why I should expand my borders if my country is dying out, degrading. I have no doubt that my country's soldiers should not be on the territory of Syria, Georgia, Ukraine or other countries"
"I don't understand why I should expand my borders if my country is dying out, degrading. I have no doubt that my country's soldiers should not be on the territory of Syria, Georgia, Ukraine or other countries"