He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots. http://fromtheheartofeurope.euhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mm543d2xfk2kJust to say, I hate cute robots, and I am reading a story where there is a cute robot whose name is actually “Sweetie”.18 May 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm543d2xfk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mm533flalb2c https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/april-2004-books-2/18 May 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm533flalb2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mm2y5zh6j22g2026 Hugos: Best Professional Artist https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/2026-hugos-best-professional-artist/17 May 2026 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2y5zh6j22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mm2uv7rhjc2jNew relative.17 May 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2uv7rhjc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mm2nag3zva2l https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-best-known-books-set-in-each-country-sierra-leone/17 May 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2nag3zva2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mm2n6wo6ik2jA weird line to draw in the sand, I know, but I think that proposals for what NATO members should do with their naval assets come more convincingly from people whose countries are NATO members and which also have navies.17 May 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2n6wo6ik2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlzpk3tw6c2oIan Watson obituary, by Lisa Tuttle https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/15/ian-watson-obituary17 May 2026 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzpk3tw6c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlyg65k7h22n16 May 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyg65k7h22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlyd6ygzsk2aI've read 67 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5 Totally agree with putting Middlemarch top. https://www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v516 May 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyd6ygzsk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mly2p7suqk2e https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/hugos-2026-best-dramatic-presentation-short-form/16 May 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mly2p7suqk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlxqwrzfz22uFrom @davekeating.substack.com https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/16/im-a-eurovision-superfan-but-this-years-contest-brings-only-sadness-i-wont-be-tuning-in?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other16 May 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxqwrzfz22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlxbacqmbk2vA brief look at the big picture from Dan Levy. https://open.substack.com/pub/daniellevy2/p/briefing-update-and-interviews-us?r=4422q&utm_medium=ios16 May 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxbacqmbk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlvmuiytvj2n https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/holy-terrors-by-margaret-owen/15 May 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvmuiytvj2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlvkpzbjhc2oSad news from Kosovo - we have lost Alush Gashi, at the age of 75. https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Alush-Gashi-dies--one-of-the-founders-of-LDK-and-advisor-to-President-Rugova/15 May 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvkpzbjhc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlvjoewx4z2y https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/march-2004-books-2/15 May 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvjoewx4z2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlthqkhctm2t https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/thursday-reading-107/14 May 2026 18:40 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlthqkhctm2thttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlt35zhogx2w https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/between-serb-and-albanian-by-miranda-vickers/14 May 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt35zhogx2whttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlsuxvtkd22pI remember organising postal Diplomacy meetups in the Bot in the mid-1980s… https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/im-sorry-i-have-to-go-to-the-bot-belfast-bar-had-a-grip-on-students...-its-difficult-to-believe-it-could-now-be-doomed/a/151542093.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/im-sorry-i-have-to-go-to-the-bot-belfast-bar-had-a-grip-on-students...-its-difficult-to-believe-it-could-now-be-doomed/a/151542093.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share14 May 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsuxvtkd22phttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlslf2znf227Glorious! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlslf2znf227https://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlseicrnfc2kI had missed this fascinating story from 2021: hand and foot prints, left by children in the limestone mud of Tibet somewhere around 200,000 years ago, may be the oldest surviving "human" "art". https://theconversation.com/we-discovered-the-earliest-prehistoric-art-is-hand-prints-made-by-children-16740014 May 2026 08:09 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlseicrnfc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlrvvfge3c24https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/points-are-a-weird-and-inconsistent-unit-of/14 May 2026 03:48 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrvvfge3c24https://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlqsjlknix2wVery pleased with my score today on GeoGuessr. Got all five within 10km, and one of them practically on the nose. Two African, one European, one Latin American and one in a country where I don't even read the script (though luckily it was a tourist area with bilingual signs).13 May 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqsjlknix2whttps://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlqp6ctvik26 https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/selected-prose-and-prose-poems-by-gabriela-mistral/13 May 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqp6ctvik26https://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlqdi65uh226The symbolism of the meeting place. https://www.ajupress.com/view/2026051210204615013 May 2026 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqdi65uh226https://bsky.app/profile/nwhyte.bsky.social/post/3mlo7o5rs5s2fFrom @pkrugman.bsky.social : https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/what-happens-when-americans-realize?selection=4a99ece9-fa7f-46d3-858f-f542fdeb74d3&r=4422q&utm_medium=ios12 May 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:b3igdpkqbhsgvfs3hberapj7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo7o5rs5s2f