Martine Frost
@martinef.bsky.social
Aim to be professional but not too serious.
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This is actually a really interesting phenomenon well worth in-depth reporting:(1) What is the idea of diversity and identity of the incredibly diverse, migrant-origin elite that seems to embrace nativism? and(2) How do they feel about so many in their movement regarding THEM as part of the problem?
The attacks on diversity in the U.K. come from quite surprising people. Ms Braverman is a Buddhist with two Indian parents, Mr Braverman is a migrant from South Africa. They are a model example of U.K. diversity.
"Read the bloody room" tweets Mr Braverman, who opposes the King's message of togetherness, but strongly approves of President Trump!
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is actually a really interesting phenomenon well worth in-depth reporting:(1) What is the idea of diversity and identity of the incredibly diverse, migrant-origin elite that seems to embrace nativism? and(2) How do they feel about so many in their movement regarding THEM as part of the problem?
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I read a summary of Turing saying that machine intelligence would be more likely to be an able to mimic a child mind than an adult one. That seems to be where we are. It sees patterns everywhere but hasn’t learnt to discriminate between them.
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I read a summary of Turing saying that machine intelligence would be more likely to be an able to mimic a child mind than an adult one. That seems to be where we are. It sees patterns everywhere but hasn’t learnt to discriminate between them.
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Is the MCG double booked or something. Do they need everyone gone by Sunday
December 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Is the MCG double booked or something. Do they need everyone gone by Sunday
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Happy Christmas from under the missile toad
December 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Christmas from under the missile toad
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The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
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Kyiv on Christmas Eve.
I film these moments to show you our strength.
We haven’t lost our spirit in this long war.
I film these moments to show you our strength.
We haven’t lost our spirit in this long war.
December 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Kyiv on Christmas Eve.
I film these moments to show you our strength.
We haven’t lost our spirit in this long war.
I film these moments to show you our strength.
We haven’t lost our spirit in this long war.
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My two-year-old niece correctly identified a giraffe and an elephant in pictures, displaying a level of cognitive mastery that can only be described as presidential.
December 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My two-year-old niece correctly identified a giraffe and an elephant in pictures, displaying a level of cognitive mastery that can only be described as presidential.
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This has made me cry - such an uplifting story
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This has made me cry - such an uplifting story
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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
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Winter Wonderland.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Winter Wonderland.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Finding it hard being lectured about the importance of Christmas by people cosplaying Christianity in the hope of laundering their past sex offences or their current bigotry.
December 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Finding it hard being lectured about the importance of Christmas by people cosplaying Christianity in the hope of laundering their past sex offences or their current bigotry.
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Lots of people don’t know the difference between Government and Parliament. Disappointing to learn US State Department officials are among them.
Constitutional literacy: still an existential security concern.😉
Constitutional literacy: still an existential security concern.😉
United States government strengthens the position of Liberal Democrats in UK politics
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Lots of people don’t know the difference between Government and Parliament. Disappointing to learn US State Department officials are among them.
Constitutional literacy: still an existential security concern.😉
Constitutional literacy: still an existential security concern.😉
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Third attempt preceded by asking market traders whether they could sell guns and ammo, and about how to make a car explode. 2/
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Third attempt preceded by asking market traders whether they could sell guns and ammo, and about how to make a car explode. 2/
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Reform UK are learning the hard way that it's easy to shout insults at the players from the touchline. Far harder to get up on the pitch and play. They've been an absolute disaster wherever they are elected.
December 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Reform UK are learning the hard way that it's easy to shout insults at the players from the touchline. Far harder to get up on the pitch and play. They've been an absolute disaster wherever they are elected.
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This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
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Community. Note.
December 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Community. Note.
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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Now Alice Sullivan is complaining that Bristol University didn't book Wembley Stadium, run a national advertising campaign, and hire a private militia to provide security for the opening gig of her global 'how I (deliberately) got (myself) cancelled' tour. These people are totally shameless.
Also, who do I need to write to complain about the substandard advertising used to promote my events at universities? Pfft. Have university administrators never heard of Canva?
December 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Now Alice Sullivan is complaining that Bristol University didn't book Wembley Stadium, run a national advertising campaign, and hire a private militia to provide security for the opening gig of her global 'how I (deliberately) got (myself) cancelled' tour. These people are totally shameless.
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Fuck off, coloniser
Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’
Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’
Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’
www.independent.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Fuck off, coloniser
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Uncle Joe's Mint Balls factory, Wigan.
December 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Uncle Joe's Mint Balls factory, Wigan.
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“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Barely a sign in English in London today.
The invasion is complete
The invasion is complete
December 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Barely a sign in English in London today.
The invasion is complete
The invasion is complete
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‘Apparently, decades of sold-out performances were merely a prolonged warning sign, like a ceiling crack only visible to real estate developers’.
The @timesofindianews.bsky.social revealing a rather good sense of humour timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/don...
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
‘Apparently, decades of sold-out performances were merely a prolonged warning sign, like a ceiling crack only visible to real estate developers’.