New research on Hong Kong’s 2019 Anti-ELAB movement shows that constituencies exposed to tear gas saw more businesses publicly align with the protest movement. When repression meets pro-movement consumers, activism can become profitable.
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Years ago, when I was a polisci undergrad, getting sick of being asked by friends and relatives over and over if I am going to become a politician upon graduation, I came up with the following response:
What you are saying is like asking a criminologist if s/he wants to become a criminal 😏
Women MPs and climate action 🌍👩💼
@hannahsalamon.bsky.social's new research from the UK Parliament shows women MPs talk about the environment more than men helping embed #Climate issues across politics
This proof the fan theory that For All Mankind is in fact the prequel of The Expanse
It's a shame the post-merger party isn't called attack of the clones
This is my yearly PSA that we have a lunisolar rather than a lunar calendar
🧧Happy Lunisolar New Year everyone🧧
May all of you have a prosperous year of the horse 🐎
I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.
Counter to what examples like the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea might suggest, country’s names are surprisingly accurate descriptors. This opens the study of names in political science.
Author: jwgivens.bsky.social
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
#polisky
I'd like to add Institutional Revolutionary Party into the mix
This has brought more shame to United and the fans than everything that has happened on the pitch in the last 13 years.
Shame on you Jim Ratcliffe!
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
'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:
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)
