Nothing better highlight the absurdity of American capitalism than the fact that the #Superbowl trophy is lifted not by the players, nor the coach who actually won the game, but instead by the owner of the team.

I was working on an MP speech dataset. I noticed some weird speech fragments in the docvar when I try to manipulate it Turns out one of the speech overshot the max length of cells in Excel, breaking the raw CSV file I've wasted a day diagnosing this Moral of the story: Stay TF away from Excel!

It’s like Portugal’s leading conservatives have read the massive amount of political science research that shows cooperating with or mimicking the ultra-right empowers the ultra-right and destroys the conservatives.

Mr President, it's the Libdem here, could we have our bar chart back please?

What is wrong with our world, encapsulated in a single Rotten Tomatoes page

You can almost sense her loath for her leadership! If she weren't the party leader she would have jumped ship to Reform already.

Guess what they are playing on BBC Two right now

Meanwhile, in a normal and functioning democracy……

'I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of art', says a certain failed applicant to the Academy of Fine Art Vienna

“Leave Greenland alone!” (H/T @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social )

I was fitting a topic model on my laptop overnight. But Windows decided to update itself so a whole day of progress is lost!🤬🤬🤬 Hey Microsoft:

My feeling as a Manutd fan tonight!🤬🤬🤬 #Glazersout #INEOSout

When I learned that the latest POV footage of the Minneapolis ICE shooting was not a leak, but a voluntary release, I thought of this line from The Big Short:

WTF? You've created a game on what? I think this game will either be my next obsession or the biggest let down of all time……

I've said it before and I'll say this again: Whoever willingly takes over the managerial position at Manchester United right now lacks the strategic sense to succeed as manager in the Premier League

It just occurred to me that Back To The Future is an 80's movie that very much tapping into nostalgia for the 50's So all the BTTF references in Stranger Things are basically us in the 2010's being nostalgic of the 80's being nostalgic of the 50's

I'm voting for him to own the libs……😏

Merry Strangemas! (Spoiler: Listening to Max's blabbering rather than running up that hill ASAP is absolutely excruciating)

A fight broke out in the 🇦🇱 Albanian Parliament last week during a vote for the next ombudsman. Probably the last entry for my parliamentary violence dataset in 2025.

There is no coming back for the Tories when they can't even secure the support of Ebenezer Scrooge 🤭🤭🤭

I'm hosting Christmas dinner this year, on the menu is Salmon en Croute and Roast Chicken #Poliscicooks

After living in the UK for over a decade, I have my first encounter of the often hyped "War on Christmas" I was canvassed at my home to not celebrate Christmas by a bunch of extreme left wokeratis from a group called……(check note)…… Jehovah Witness

Trump has announced his own Hunger Games…… I suppose we are not far away from having the first Purge

Maybe the way forward for the BBC is to put @number10cat.bsky.social in charge?

Hey Gemini, creat the cast photo of a TV series that is "The Boys" meets "The West Wing"

Freedom and democracy have toppled, only capitalism remain standing

Comic Sans would have been a better fit with the vibe of this administration

Just finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir As a fan of sci-fi, it's a great read. But as a political scientist it's nonsensical Nothing, not even a dying sun, is going to result in the kind of international cooperation and decisive action from society and governments as depicted in the novel

The pool draw for 2027 Rugby World Cup 🏉 is out! I can't believe I gotta see Hong Kong play against the All Black!

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Hang this in front of every DHS/ICE office!

Ta Kung Pao, one of the most pro-china news outlets and usually seen as Beijing's mouthpiece in Hong Kong, has apparently censored its own investigative report into suspected rigging of the bid for the renovation project that led to the Wang Fuk Court fire, first published on Friday.

Multiple local new sources in Hong Kong are reporting that the police have begun arresting activists calling for independent inquiries and accountability for the Tai Po fire 😡

Residents of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po spent more than a year trying to raise the alarm about use of substandard construction materials. They were ignored. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

Regarding the Tai Po fire, Hong Kong Security minister Chris Tang said the mesh netting covering the buildings had met fire retardant standards 😡

International media, you can do better than this. "Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.

I'm speechless. This is terrible. This brings back memories of Grenfell Tower but its so much worse. My thoughts are with those who are affected by this tragedy 😢

NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)

People value free and fair elections, and prefer living in a country with free and fair elections but with less desirable outcomes (e.g. low levels of wealth) to living in a country without free and fair elections but with better outcomes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251392539

You deserve all the ridicules you receive if you are reposting stuff from a website called "Dunning-Kruger-Times.com"

In a sense, I would never have guessed………

Vivian Kong, retired 🤺 who won 🥇 for Hong Kong in the Olympic in Paris, announced her candidacy for the Tourism sector seat for the upcoming LEGCO election While it's not uncommon for former athletes to enter politics, this case highlights the absurdity the electoral system in Hong Kong, a🧵 1/

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

In this paper, we will exploit the temporary disruption of mobile signal coverage in a quasi-experimental research design to explore……

Under Pope Leo, the Catholic Church has resumed burning of dissidents 😂

💥Online first: "How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy" by Rosa Kindt @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @kristofjacobs1.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

And the farm is now covered in literal patriotic bullshit 😎