Will Wilshere
@whawilshere.bsky.social
He/Him. MA Conflict Studies & Peacebuilding @ Uni of Osnabrück, formerly War & Security Studies @ Uni of Hull.
Also: RC pilot, TTRPG fan, Sci-Fi/Fantasy lover.
Brit in Germany.
Also: RC pilot, TTRPG fan, Sci-Fi/Fantasy lover.
Brit in Germany.
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That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
A country where Sadiq Khan can lead London, Humza Yousaf can lead Scotland, and Rishi Sunak can lead Britain is a country where the racists had *lost*. So much of this vicious bile has come directly after that and almost no one seems to draw the connection
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
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There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
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I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
Ahh NWB. The earlier I arrive to the station the more delayed it is.
Why'd I have to live at a place without a station cafè 🤨
Why'd I have to live at a place without a station cafè 🤨
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Ahh NWB. The earlier I arrive to the station the more delayed it is.
Why'd I have to live at a place without a station cafè 🤨
Why'd I have to live at a place without a station cafè 🤨
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
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New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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It's always fun seeing people you went to uni with and going "on one hand you're more successful than I am, on the other hand C H R I S T"
October 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's always fun seeing people you went to uni with and going "on one hand you're more successful than I am, on the other hand C H R I S T"
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This for every city!
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This for every city!
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This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics
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Divorcing parents sitting on each opposite bench, seething as their child rocks forlornly back and forth on the chicken.
Found the worst playground in England
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Divorcing parents sitting on each opposite bench, seething as their child rocks forlornly back and forth on the chicken.
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This is extremely on point. If you want to know someone’s politics without asking them directly, you ask about their view of Macron 🤷♀️
How you view Emmanuel Macron depends on who you support politically:
- LFI: Macron is a fascist globalist elite bank baron
- PS: Emmanuel Macron is a right-wing capitalist & hates poor people
- Ensemble / Renaissance: Macron is a centrist
- LR: Macron is a socialist
- Far-right: Macron's a Commie
- LFI: Macron is a fascist globalist elite bank baron
- PS: Emmanuel Macron is a right-wing capitalist & hates poor people
- Ensemble / Renaissance: Macron is a centrist
- LR: Macron is a socialist
- Far-right: Macron's a Commie
Is Macron regarded as centre right in France?
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is extremely on point. If you want to know someone’s politics without asking them directly, you ask about their view of Macron 🤷♀️
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Pre social media people used to make websites for Dougs to hang out with Dougs! Same for Shirlenes, Geoffreys, Susan Parkers... I dug up a bunch of them on the wayback machine (thread!!!)
October 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Pre social media people used to make websites for Dougs to hang out with Dougs! Same for Shirlenes, Geoffreys, Susan Parkers... I dug up a bunch of them on the wayback machine (thread!!!)
Writing this thesis is mostly teaching me that my academic voice needs to use more full stops. But like, the point feels wrong when I try to turn it into two sentences.
So a three line sentence it is. Followed by another. And another.
And I mock Realist theorists for never getting to the point.
So a three line sentence it is. Followed by another. And another.
And I mock Realist theorists for never getting to the point.
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Writing this thesis is mostly teaching me that my academic voice needs to use more full stops. But like, the point feels wrong when I try to turn it into two sentences.
So a three line sentence it is. Followed by another. And another.
And I mock Realist theorists for never getting to the point.
So a three line sentence it is. Followed by another. And another.
And I mock Realist theorists for never getting to the point.
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German auto summit tomorrow.
The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today
Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.
But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.
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The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today
Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.
But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.
1/
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
German auto summit tomorrow.
The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today
Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.
But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.
1/
The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today
Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.
But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.
1/
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And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
October 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...
And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.
#AIisnotresearch
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The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
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a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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Congratulations to the Red Roses! World champions! What a result!
September 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Congratulations to the Red Roses! World champions! What a result!
"Better suited to the role" is a constant in my rejection letters from work applications but like, whilst I am convinced its the old copy paste affair. . .is it literally the same reason why I almost didn't get on my MA program because they autoscan degrees and go "that name doesn't match our list"
September 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Better suited to the role" is a constant in my rejection letters from work applications but like, whilst I am convinced its the old copy paste affair. . .is it literally the same reason why I almost didn't get on my MA program because they autoscan degrees and go "that name doesn't match our list"