@gavinyamey.bsky.social hello Prof Yamey’s mum…

@gavinyamey.bsky.social Hey boss. Greetings from Dean in the UK. Been ill…finally checking in again and as always…succour for a troubled soul. Love to you and the Yamey clan

@originstorypodcast.bsky.social fun fact…was listening to an old Q&A and it struck me that the dynamic duo had very strong Eddie Izzard and Jack Dee vibes…(in a good way I hasten to add)

open.substack.com/live-stream/... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social maybe ask live??

@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social hi both, thought you should see this… @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Excellent timing / see my compliment of about 5 mins ago!

open.substack.com/pub/iratusur... @bearlypolitics.co.uk this is really good stuff (links to my doctoral research but when I try to write it now I can’t avoid profanity)!

@natashabertrand.bsky.social we got you…

@helenlewis.bsky.social p138 🤬

@helenlewis.bsky.social you haven’t shared your score! Are you? Were you pleased? Surprised? Devastated? I lean toward what Madeline Albright might describe as ‘acts of genius’ (1994)…and this + the mesmerism episode of @ppfideas.bsky.social are, for me, in that category

Hive mind…is there a mental health equivalent of an AA sponsor?

@bookwormvaught.bsky.social Hi Dr Vaught…quick question…are you still mentoring (just visited your website and am intrigued)

@iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social your favourite word / preservative

The rank hypocrisy of this…something about planks and splinters springs to mind

We don’t use the word ‘calumny’ anywhere near enough these days

@helenlewis.bsky.social just a quick thank you…just when I needed a lift this is making me very happy (not Burt, your book). It really is rather good

I’m done. DIY dignitas it is. Be lucky, or at least be safe x

@iandunt.bsky.social hey Ian… not wishing to be pushy but any chance of getting my prize (your & Dorian’s no doubt stellar additions to the canon) before I go on holiday (first week July)? Ps when is season 8 of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social coming?

I was delighted to be able to play a part in this NBC News investigation into Rwanda's three-year secret war in Democratic Republic of Congo. The footage says it all. www.nbcnews.com/video/hidden...

I have the greatest office on earth…

Totally agree with @iandunt.bsky.social on the Elon / Trump tiny dick slapping contest, via his Substack today:

This is profoundly bad

lol even lmfao

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@danielwaweru.bsky.social hello stranger! Did you finish your doctorate??

I know ‘im

It was moyder (you need to be of a certain vintage…)

📻 I'm back on the radio tomorrow, 4-6pm, wxdu.org, 88.7FM, Professor G's Musical Odyssey I'll spin lots of new post-punk, funk, dub, krautrock, and darkwave from the likes of Corker, Shit and Shine (one of the best albums of 2025), Deradoorian, Optic Sink, Zamilksa, & Gnod & White Hills Join me!

"Doing nothing about the real issues behind people's struggles, politicians like Starmer create & trap us on an 'island of strangers' – a place not only of 'alien foreigners' but of Brits alienated from themselves & a political system of no use" My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇

The global health sector has some HUGE challenges ahead but there are also opportunities - especially for the emerging markets of Africa and Asia. My exclusive interview with the excellent Dr Tedros at a remarkably upbeat World Health Assembly. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

@elsie111111.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social couldn’t agree more about the wonderful Byline Times…just the one gripe 😉

And we’re off, I am spinning for you until 6pm ET at wxdu.org!

China will replace the United States as the WHO’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

@bylinetimes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social guys I love you but your use of the cover to induce nausea among your readership needs to stop… perhaps an opaque covering with a trigger warning??

The World Health Assembly votes to adopt a new treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #WHA78 @who.int

You know you’re watching elite sport, at the highest level, when you start laughing at the absurdity, otherworldliness of (in this case) the shot making

The UK's decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice. Anthony Costello asks: why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future? www.bmj.com/content/389/...

@originstorypodcast.bsky.social is it Wednesday yet?

@originstorypodcast.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social 2 for you? The review in @nybooks.com by @harikunzru.bsky.social is outstanding too

p.s. New book so new book tour coming right up: Chicago Saturday, Seattle Sunday, Portland Tuesday, Berkeley Wednesday, San Francisco Thursday, and then comes Europe.... Chicago with @theradr.bsky.social !

Sad to hear of the death of Professor Joseph Nye, who coined the term soft power. When I interviewed him last year, he was clear-eyed about why Biden shouldn't run www.ft.com/content/eab6...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... this is beyond grim

The anti-psychiatry groups that emerged in the 1960s “varied in their political ideology, their countries of origin, and their influence,” writes Edna Bonhomme, “but they shared a desire to find alternative solutions to address mental suffering.”

35 today! (No go zone Birmingham looked ok too)

B Russell on Empedocles: ‘…he was a democratic politician, who at the same time claimed to be a god.’ Can’t think why that struck a chord…(accepting of course any claims to the first part of that are increasingly tenuous)

E2 (from A Moveable Feast, E Hemingway)…’Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence.’ Easy to bloody say…still made sod all progress on my paper…

@brianthill.bsky.social inspired by you…not quite a ranked analysis of Greek tragedies but he is a dog after all!

E1 (from ‘On a monstrous child’, Montaigne, 2003: 807-808) ‘What we call monsters are not so for God who sees the infinite forms which he has included in the immensity of his creation’ *Nb. Montaigne did not live to see Trump

@lrb.co.uk haven’t read it yet but already contender for best title of…