Political Anthropologist｜IR: Diplomacy, Authoritarian Rule｜ME Studies — Historiography, Ethnography, Tribe)｜US Policy Intersection | Non Exec Dir UKG | NRShttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mwz4rpe3vk2gWarren Harding did this in the 1920s. He botched up the word 'normality' and said 'normalcy'. Now that is the word used in America ... for normality. Still wrong. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Oct 2026 00:17 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwz4rpe3vk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mwmqdvinck2lNot worth commenting except to say, he won't even take 2% of the first primary if he ran. A non-starter. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 02:02 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmqdvinck2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mwjdodxq5k23https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/world/asia/china-us-ai-distrust.html27 Sep 2026 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjdodxq5k23https://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mwdqmhvyk226Thiel is now attacking the Pope. No decency amongst these techbros. Pope was a ‘useful idiot for China’ when he attacked AI, says Peter Thiel Paywall free: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/0c9cc326f683631e25 Sep 2026 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdqmhvyk226https://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mvjcvxdduc2nOld news. From 2023: Yann LeCun, an AI "godfather" w/Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, said concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity are "preposterously ridiculous". Also in 2023 '34% of respondents said that AI could "destroy humanity" in 10 years'. https://www.businessinsider.com/yann-lecun-artificial-intelligence-generative-ai-threaten-humanity-existential-risk-2023-614 Sep 2026 23:59 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjcvxdduc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mvi4ftg4bc2tMummy Dearest weighs in on Baby Elon. 'Watching...your son...falsely labeled a Nazi and a drug addict in “respectable” publications around the world...He waves his arm, trying to express emotion, and they see a fascist salute.' Sure lady. Our fault. Gift🎁link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2aed199490fdd73f14 Sep 2026 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvi4ftg4bc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mv63qhmrsk2lhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/secret-systems-used-by-israel-in-mass-killings-of-gaza-civilians-revealed-in-new-film10 Sep 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv63qhmrsk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mv44vbflk222There has never been a phone as perfect as the unsmart Motorola Razr. I have 4 still in the drawer; 3 still fully functional. Zero chance I'll buy a flip or foldable that isn't this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv44vbflk222https://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3muxiznupak2mEd Miliband, 🇬🇧 Foreign Secretary, announced plans for sanctions on Israel “in the coming weeks”, promising a “comprehensive reset” in British-Israeli relations. Mike Huckabee, 🇺🇸 ambassador to Israel, accused the British Government of “Jew hate” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ec0cc8dca6a271d507 Sep 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muxiznupak2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3muilppahyk2tSo that's where Trump picked up the bedroom pose. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 23:38 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muilppahyk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3muhkyajiys2qThis is why America shouldn't have guns! Police killed Hee-Haw — a little donkey — for daring to bray in its own pasture. Gift link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f8ec6b801292833601 Sep 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhkyajiys2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mufcmcdhyk2hWhat the hell is happening with Cambridge these days?! Yet another failure and cover-up. The VC has to go...as do plenty others. (David Lodge was smart to reject the uni.) https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/university-of-cambridge-whistleblowing-case-f8gfqxszb31 Aug 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufcmcdhyk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mua6imq6ds2xWhat's going on here 🇳🇱? Does the Netherlands have MAGA? Just trying to get rid of them? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/831164a1daa3b3f329 Aug 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mua6imq6ds2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mu6n4ya5ck2pGood luck. Venezuelan oil (from the Orinoco Belt) is not only the extra-heaviest and sourest to refine, it's also extremely complex and requires specialised, complex refineries (Arab Sweet Crude by contrast is light and the least complex). This is going to be very costly, slow, and painful. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2026 00:37 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6n4ya5ck2phttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mu5gfmgilk2vExcellent reading on MI6's Cambridge 5. In advance of 'Legacy of Spies' (BBC series soon, from John le Carré’s 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold') to boot. 'Pictured:The declassified files that lift the lid on MI5’s Cambridge spies investigation' Gift link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/717f3f237732a06328 Aug 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5gfmgilk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mtmdd5uabc2fStunning: Last month — Trump intervenes in the World Cup football This week — the US demands NATO members pass a loyalty-to-America written test Today — US Ambassador to Belgium *demands* Ghent Uni reinstate Cofnas "today" America thinks it runs the world! https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/jason-arday-critic-nathan-cofnas-t6lpnrbft21 Aug 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmdd5uabc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mtlrq5sfv22xIncredible evidence of rewilding being *so* beneficial to the land. All England suffering from drought, except rewilded and bore-hole areas. "Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/somerset-rewilding-holnicote-estate-wetlands-rivers-resilience21 Aug 2026 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlrq5sfv22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mthtkaxvec2kForever fascinating: the Cambridge 5—Philby especially. July 1963: Philby's defection from MI6 to the Soviet Union was made public. In 2016, the BBC broadcast previously unseen footage of his lecture to Stasi operatives wherein he revealed secrets behind his treachery. https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260724-the-british-double-agent-who-defected-to-russia-and-taught-enemy-spies19 Aug 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthtkaxvec2khttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mtbzhseocs2xLooks like a fascinating history read: Conversations with an Executioner: a chilling classic reveals the mind of a Nazi mass murderer Nearly 50 years after it was published, an uncensored version of his account is appearing in English for the first time https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/17/conversations-with-an-executioner-a-chilling-classic-reveals-the-mind-of-a-nazi-mass-murderer17 Aug 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbzhseocs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mtasxi27dk2aIf anyone thinks Hamas will believe or take Kushner seriously, they're delusional. This is a Trump PR stunt, and Hamas is just playing them. Maybe Iran will do a Lego video about it presently. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Aug 2026 04:01 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtasxi27dk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3mswsp6uc7225India ups its coal output whilst the world literally burns. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/13/india-planned-coal-production-new-mine13 Aug 2026 04:30 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswsp6uc7225https://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3msoxb4aqak22Christopher Hitchens, Professor Lombardo et al. Now *this* is a proper discussion of Home's Odyssey. C-SPAN, Book TV, 2000. https://youtu.be/1SQXm736FM0?si=yHP0uF1z-c-pXFdE10 Aug 2026 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msoxb4aqak22https://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3msoxb4aqak22Christopher Hitchens, Professor Lombardo et al. Now *this* is a proper discussion of Home's Odyssey. C-SPAN, Book TV, 2000. https://youtu.be/1SQXm736FM0?si=yHP0uF1z-c-pXFdE10 Aug 2026 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3msoxb4aqak22https://bsky.app/profile/aliagvr.bsky.social/post/3ms7besazp22gReligious people are less intelligent than atheists, according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religious-people-are-less-intelligent-than-atheists-according-to-analysis-of-scores-of-scientific-studies-stretching-back-over-decades-8758046.html03 Aug 2026 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:2oe3dwtimsnoovcxd6nctxb3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7besazp22g