Nicolas Pugeault

Per @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk: 'Reform has gobbled up a large chunk of the right-leaning youth, this is reallocation within an already shrinking bloc [...] rather than a far-right surge, the youth vote in the UK shows a remarkable opposite trend: a surge of progressive voting, including among young men'

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

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@ogre.red thinks terms if service are bullshit and licensing for poetry is unimportant because "who would steal a poem"

my advice would be to avoid doing business with this person

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

For more on how Epstein positioned Mandelson for post-Ministerial $$$$, see our complete analysis, with all the original documents: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m...

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I've written about this before (cba finding the piece, sorry) but also my argument is genuinely that anywheres are, if anything, more community-minded because we're pretty used to landing somewhere and trying to make connections as quickly as possible, as opposed to just having one set of roots!

Can models understand each other's reasoning? 🤔

When Model A explains its Chain-of-Thought (CoT) , do Models B, C, and D interpret it the same way?

Our new preprint with @davidbau.bsky.social and @csinva.bsky.social explores CoT generalizability 🧵👇

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also: you don't need to choose a book from its cover, or blurb in a bookshop. You can actually open the book and read the first few pages!

... and bookshops are great, the concise recommendations of your local bookshop owner are much more interesting imv than lengthy reviews.

yes, nothing is right in this whole thread... IMV
- books make for great and thoughtful presents if you know the person and their taste.
- reading book reviews is a waste of time - just read the book! if you don't like it, drop it and move to something else!

The headline result is that more students support free speech! The most concerning one lots apparently say Reform should be banned -is bizarre to the point of meaninglessness for the reason WonkHE points out. How would you interpret students who vote Reform saying it should be banned?

« Les jeunes sont très lucides sur leur usage des réseaux sociaux et, parfois, mieux outillés que nous » Alors qu’Emmanuel Macron souhaite interdire aux moins de 15 ans l’accès aux réseaux sociaux, les chercheuses Rosa Maria Bortolotti et Sigolène Couchot-Schiex, qui étudient les pratiques des adolescent...

"Les paniques morales sur la consommation médiatique des jeunes ne sont pas nouvelles : ça a commencé avec les romans-feuilletons, puis les séries télé, la BD, les jeux vidéo… Le problème c’est qu’on ne va pas dans le fond de ce qui se passe vraiment dans les interactions en ligne entre les jeunes."

spending my day interviewing trans people for a piece (hopefully coming out next week!) and what a stupid, stupid, mean, absurd state of affairs

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

"Kemi Badenoch has to use people like me to give her any kind of relevance," @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social tells @lewisgoodall.com, responding to Badenoch's criticism of her handling of violence against women & girls.

"She should probably apologise to the girls who might have been raped."

This is great. It perfectly captures what multilingual life is often like.

Openreview opened the door to continuous and major revisions that nobody has time to check properly.
I think that we should come back to short one pdf page replies to reviews. It would mean having decisions quicker so that we actually have time to work on papers before resubmitting them.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

74 children including 58 babies have died in temporary accommodation in the last five years - often because there is nowhere safe for babies to sleep with no cots and the whole family in one room.

1) What the actual fuck how did this just get normalised in the space of three years…. Oh yeah everyone just hanging out on Twitter like boiling frogs

2) not broadcast, as they aren’t quite ready to push Ofcom on this. This is the “good stuff” for unregulated YouTube.

column in this week's New World on trying to get out of my cultural silo and reminding myself that culture is at its best when it can be shared and discussed with others: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Des documents internes au Kremlin montrent l’implication de la Russie dans des opérations en France visant juifs et musulmans Les services de renseignement français ont obtenu la preuve que l’administration présidentielle russe a approuvé un plan visant à s’en prendre aux communautés à la fois juive et musulmane afin de mie…

Les services de renseignement français ont obtenu la preuve que le Kremlin a approuvé un plan visant à s’en prendre aux communautés à la fois juive et musulmane afin de mieux fracturer notre société. Révélations. Via @mediapart.fr
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Publishing: The Age of Unpredictability Every now and then, I encounter someone who's been working on a book or comic or short story collection, and they ask me for advice on how to "break in" to the publishing industry.There are some…

On the blog: the Age of Unpredictability in publishing, why you should probably check in on your friendly neighborhood writer, and the exhausting strategy that many of us are currently using to fight back the shadow monster.

This is probably the strongest I've put it, but I think it's perfectly accurate.

Europe (pick your institutional configuration) is at war with Russia without a reliable superpower partner, and needs to act like it.

And MacDonalds 2 millions. Not sure those numbers mean anything

'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.

The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.

Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15

A very good thread, which also makes the connection between the conspiratorial / antiestablishment viewpoint of Philippa Langley and Steve Coogan and the assault on science coming from RFK Jr and the White House.

It’s the same syndrome manifesting in different ways.