@hughjorgensen.bsky.social
Sentient meatsack. Now: battling dirty money from Berlin. Was: diplomat in China, think tank econ nerd. Sometimes: writer of sorts.
A beautiful fusion of the chinese red packet 𧧠tradition wrapped in western potato chip culture.
22.08.2025 09:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When your sister @astridjorgensen.bsky.social has a much cooler job than you #AGT #pubchoir
youtu.be/DckioIUhP1I?...
I had assumed this was @ledbydonkeys.org
05.06.2025 09:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 'Russian, Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs' (REPO) Taskforce was one of the more promising G7 initiatives for going after money and assets being stashed offshore by Putin's allies - but it hasn't been mentioned in G7 comms now for over a year. Why?
19.05.2025 16:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Or whoever edited this wiki.
15.05.2025 18:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Check with Sid Meiers? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear...
15.05.2025 18:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...
08.05.2025 18:39 β π 730 π 78 π¬ 22 π 15
Vatican's own summary of Vatican FC "From the games that the Vatican national football team has played, their performance has not been very good. The team normally plays with other local teams in Rome as friendly matches but winning has always been a problem for it" vatican.com/Vaticans-nat...
08.05.2025 16:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I stand by it.
07.05.2025 06:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...
28.04.2025 18:03 β π 1069 π 327 π¬ 51 π 45
Image of EU flags and passports in the back. The text says "Great news! The EU court of justice puts an end to harmful golden passport schemes". Transparency international.
π΅ GREAT NEWS! In a landmark judgement, the EU Court of Justice just ruled that Malta cannot continue operating its βgolden passportsβ programme, which has allowed foreigners to acquire Maltese (and therefore EU) citizenship.
β‘οΈ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9
I attended a few of these shows - the 3 year project is well worth the 6 minute watch
26.04.2025 11:46 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Curious if this graph accounts for public servants across all three levels? (or is it federal equivalent level for all countries?)
16.04.2025 11:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It's an exclusive MYSTERY SOLVED. Guardian Australia figured out why Trump thought Norfolk Island (pop 2,188) has a huge leather shoe export business and penguins on Heard and McDonald Islands are running a secret machinery factory deserving of trade tariffs www.theguardian.com/...
04.04.2025 04:45 β π 26 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Ironically, WTO dispute settlement process irrelevant so long as US refuses to approve apellate judges
03.03.2025 22:11 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Image quote: "President Trump's proposed 'Gold Card' is a recipe for transnational corruption, echoing the disastrous golden visa and passport schemes in other countries that have been exploited by criminals. Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves and their dirty money." - Maira Martini, CEO of Transparency International.
President Trump has announced plans to sell US$5m βgold cardβ resident permits to foreigners.
Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. A baboon annointing you with gourd juice over an Elton John coronation hymn does.
20.02.2025 07:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tears falling as I blow out candles on a loaf of bread, butter and sprinkles, while wishing, hoping, to one day taste American cake
18.02.2025 12:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Shot: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/its-open-b...
Chaser: πππ
The FCPA was one of the great achievements of Jimmy Carter's presidency - which enabled, among other things, punishing Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal
11.02.2025 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Australia has reversed its decade-long slide, ranking back in the top 10 least corrupt countries.
11.02.2025 06:44 β π 39 π 12 π¬ 2 π 5
Screenshot of FT Deepseek story's conclusion, that AI will be the death of us all.
"Whoever wins (race for artificial general intelligence) has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process - Cute coda to DeepSeek story in FT on.ft.com/4jD3qWD
28.01.2025 05:35 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
! www.ft.com/content/2262...
20.12.2024 10:37 β π 400 π 148 π¬ 34 π 37Eesh. The FDIC is somewhat essential to why the '08 financial crisis didn't result in our timeline turning into Grapes of Wrath meets Fury Road. Though ... could be good for mattressmen like the Pillow guy - money would be better 'invested' under the bed in any future run on the banks.
13.12.2024 05:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0'I'm not a wimp'
*Recoils in horror at sight of moist bread*
Vogon alert.
10.12.2024 13:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Massive away win for the little fella.
02.12.2024 13:38 β π 57919 π 9562 π¬ 581 π 368I heard many attempts to make it make sense. I think basically it was from when the relationship on the up, and that was just the next place on offer - consulate locations are mutually agreed.
02.12.2024 07:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Personally, I learned an awful lot from my time there. Like when I reported on a man who ate his dog out of boredom during Covid and actually got to use the lead 'Man bites dog'
29.11.2024 11:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
