Jon Dean

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

She moved country and changed her name – and the British press still won't stop harassing her.

What the hell? This is shocking. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

Exactly 10 years ago today: Hillary Clinton said Vladimir Putin would rather have "a puppet as president of the United States.” She absolutely nailed it. 🔨

Once again, I cannot express the extent to which the least anyone cheerleading trans segregation deserves is hounding out of public life.

now, call a me unserious, sjw woke radical, but i don't think refusing to treat a young woman in a nhs hospital, letting her slowly die over 16 days when beds where available, is very respectful. do you?

Republicans will be like, “there’s a vast media conspiracy to give democrats the questions to all debates” and it’s just one of them read a little bit beforehand

Very good thread and article, exploring many of the things that @c4research.bsky.social has been set up to explore.

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They shouldn’t have to be sending this stuff out. #wellsaidRNLI

The whole Arday scandal and the reaction to it makes perfect sense when you assume that, for those responsible, the death of a young black person of some modest prominence and influence was a good outcome, they're glad it happened, and would like to do it again.

Back in September, some of our lovely researchers at the Centre hosted an online (Un)Conference event for members of our research team 🙌 Check out the article here: c4.ac.uk/creating-spa... 🔗 #unconference #collaboration #reflections #team #capacitybuilding #c4

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.

The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C

incredible this will get little to no coverage

Was bored with work, wanted to do something rewarding, I volunteer a few hours once a month for a charity. It's amazing. A boring Fess, but it is rewarding. Just do something good for someone, it will make you and more importantly someone else feel better. Do it, please.

The Greens need to cut this crap right now. This is just straightforwardly antisemitic.

The thing is, once you are ok with "the election was stolen" or "immigrants are eating pets" you are on board with everything else bsky.app/profile/just...

If your media consumption is stuff like this, Schmitt just scored a big win. bsky.app/profile/atru...

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

Anti and pro-immigration protestors and counter protesters in the Peace Gardens in Sheffield city centre. Counter protesters currently outnumber protesters by around 3 to 1.

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

We need to see investment in people - their skills, capacity and leadership - alongside buildings. Read more from @jrf-uk.bsky.social here www.jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoo...

This is @ukri.org effectively abandoning what it means to be part of academia. There, humans read things, critique things, and provide feedback, even if it is not the feedback we want. It is symptomatic of the developing horror that is the UK research funding landscape. It's horrendous.

The caller’s delivery of this is just perfect. Always worth watching.

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

Hi @stephanie-peacock.bsky.social. As the Minister for Civil Society do you have anything to say about far right thugs trying to drown RNLI volunteers in the Channel? Some defence of volunteers using their freedom to help others? Maybe asking the Home Secretary to do something?

I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.