Richard
@reeshard.bsky.social
UK-based academic focused on technological innovation (but here mostly to follow media/arts/tennis/other)
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
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A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
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Best piece I’ve read about OBAA yet. Links our homie Christ with Benicio del Toro’s Sensei Sergio (the ❤️ of the film) AND Ta-Nehisi Coates’ vital perspective from his interview w Ezra Klein a couple wks ago. THIS IS HOW WE DO IT!! Please read this. bsky.app/profile/sojo...
Even the most dramatic displays of defiance can sometimes carry less impact than the humbler acts of protection and preparation, writes Georgia Coley.
sojo.net/articles/cul...
sojo.net/articles/cul...
‘One Battle After Another’ Shows Christians How to ‘Work for the Peace of the City’
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, the best way to fight an endless series of battles is to play smart defense. Churches should take note.
sojo.net
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Best piece I’ve read about OBAA yet. Links our homie Christ with Benicio del Toro’s Sensei Sergio (the ❤️ of the film) AND Ta-Nehisi Coates’ vital perspective from his interview w Ezra Klein a couple wks ago. THIS IS HOW WE DO IT!! Please read this. bsky.app/profile/sojo...
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)
October 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)
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Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy and weird about the technology! It’s just tech, everything doesn’t have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on.” [anildash.com]
October 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy and weird about the technology! It’s just tech, everything doesn’t have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on.” [anildash.com]
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1
September 22, 2024 at 6:38 PM
23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1
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Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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3books, a site that features the books recommended by guests at the end of each Ezra Klein Show podcast. Built by my pal Michael Sippey. [3books.net]
September 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
3books, a site that features the books recommended by guests at the end of each Ezra Klein Show podcast. Built by my pal Michael Sippey. [3books.net]
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Never start a headline with "Trump Says." It is true that he *said* it, but whatever he said was almost certainly not true (or it's propaganda or conspiracy theories or unproven assertions or hate speech). Print truth, not lies.
First of all, again, Don't. Stenographically. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Second, the actual headline should be that this is a massive violation of international law.
What is journalism, anyway?
Second, the actual headline should be that this is a massive violation of international law.
What is journalism, anyway?
September 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Never start a headline with "Trump Says." It is true that he *said* it, but whatever he said was almost certainly not true (or it's propaganda or conspiracy theories or unproven assertions or hate speech). Print truth, not lies.
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This is what a united front looks like -- nine former CDC directors who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents explain what's not normal about RFK Jr and how we all lose when he attacks science. Leaders in other fields need to unite against autocratic capture of their institutions.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is what a united front looks like -- nine former CDC directors who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents explain what's not normal about RFK Jr and how we all lose when he attacks science. Leaders in other fields need to unite against autocratic capture of their institutions.
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“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads
By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
etsc.eu
August 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
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www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
www.reddit.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
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“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”
July 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”
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“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit.
“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”
“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”
If universities sink, then so will Starmer
Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit.
“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”
“And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”
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This isn't getting enough attention: policyskeptic.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-wa... ...
A&E waits might be the biggest cause of avoidable death in England
New data from the ONS on their analysis of mortality and A&E waits has enabled new, better calculations on the magnitude of excess deaths ...
policyskeptic.blogspot.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This isn't getting enough attention: policyskeptic.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-wa... ...