Helen Innes

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Now do the show but only with senior academics.

Updating my LEGO White House

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?

Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

Who’s driving disinformation in Europe? 🕵️‍♀️
A new report maps actors across all 27 EU states, featuring insights from our MedDMO members Pantelitsa Leonidou, Megan Mallia & Thanos Sitistas.
📘https://bit.ly/edmo-report

Losing the war on woke

An array of photos, interviews and videos of Farage and Gill completely debunk Zia Yusuf's claim that "most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy”. But there's much more 2/12

"Das Kapitalubu"

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...

1/ NEW REPORT: “We Say You Want a Revolution” - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime. We call it PRISONBREAK. Keep reading to find out why.

THREAD 🧵

BREAKING:

🇲🇩 Moldova parliamentary elections are more important for the Russian state to interfere than these 2024-2025 elections _combined_:

🇺🇸 US, presidential
🇩🇪 Germany, parliamentary
🇵🇱 Poland, presidential

...as measured by an effort spent on a bot network. 🧵

🇬🇧: Another observation, also positive for PAS, is the low turnout in Transnistria, where only about 11,000 voters have cast their ballots (out of roughly 275,000). Historical patterns and political apathy outweigh Russian influence operations and pressure.

With nearly 97% of votes counted, the pro-European PAS has secured a majority of 54 seats in Moldova’s parliament. Congratulations to the people of Moldova, your future belongs in the EU! 🇲🇩🇪🇺

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

"For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies. To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence." carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

The @elegraph Farage claims migrants are eating swans in Royal Parks Reform UK leader's accusations immediately rebuffed by Royal Parks charity IBC

I’ve heard it say that Nigel Farage has no less than seventeen nipples spread over his chest and back.

I’m, of course, not saying it’s true, but we have no evidence saying otherwise.

It could be true, we just don’t know.

That’s how this works, right?

Grimsby Town’s horrible mascot, an older man with a white hat.

On the reading list this week 📝. A much needed intervention and framework for “disinformation studies” by @raquelrecuero.bsky.social

The only treatment of the genetic cause is a regular monoclonal antibody injection called burosumab. Vit D supplements help with calcium absorption, but XLH is not primarily caused by vitamin D deficiency. It is thankfully a rare condition.

X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is an inherited form of rickets unrelated to diet.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

After Wagner: Russia’s Spin Doctors Take Over in Africa From the battlefield to the newsfeed, Russia has changed fronts. Wagner’s mercenaries have given way to a less visible but equally aggressive force: seasoned political consultants, influence networ…

Rybar, African Initiative, Bureau Legint and GR Group - the Kremlin’s new influence vanguard in Africa alleyesonwagner.org/2025/08/10/a...

On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised.
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”

I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE

L’influence comme fonction stratégique, un funambulisme pour démocrates Reconnaître l'influence comme fonction stratégique interroge les limites éthiques et démocratiques. Faut-il inventer une grammaire de l'influence propre aux régimes libéraux ? Jonathan Guiffard.

[Publi 📢] L'influence et la lutte contre la désinfo sont à la mode, et les conclusions à venir de la RNS devraient le confirmer.

Mais comment pratiquer cette fonction stratégique en démocratie ? Doit-on enlever les gants comme les autres ?

Mon analyse 👇

www.institutmontaigne.org/expressions/...

Our latest disinformation update is out.
It includes a deep dive into the cases of stolen identities of the real journalists from France, Romania and Canada by the Storm-1516 operators. We also expand on Lucas Leiroz's role in the distribution of Storm-1516 and fondfbr materials

1/ Plus que jamais, les actions « hybrides » conduites par la Russie sur le continent européen font la une de l’actualité. Nous avons décidé de construire une cartographie interactive pour mieux représenter et cerner le phénomène ⬇️

When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

I've pieced together the jigsaw pieces the Russian troll factories have been including in their latest fake news X posts, and I think they're trying to tell me something. but I'm struggling to decipher their subtle message. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social for providing the missing pieces.

💪 Mykhailo Dianov, who passed through Azovstal, Russian captivity and returned home on September 21, 2022

RADAR - Regulatory Assessment for Digital Service Act Risks RADAR is a framework for assessing and mitigating Digital Service Act (DSA) regulatory risks. Developed by CheckFirst, it guides digital service providers through compliance checkpoints and best practices.

Today, we're proud to launch RADAR (Regulatory Assessment for Digital Service Act Risks), an open framework that introduces standardised tags for Digital Service Act (DSA) infringements: radar.checkfirst.network/