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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 11h

So, it's Boxing Day...and a whole week of increased social media traffic lies ahead. Whatever social media platform(s) you are on, here's a friendly reminder: Please don't feed the trolls! yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Don’t feed the trolls: astroturfers, sealions and mashed potatoes

From orchestrated bot campaigns to individuals expressing faux concern or inflaming dissent, beware of engaging with online trolls

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 13h

So, it’s St Stephen’s Day. Or Boxing Day in the UK when alms boxes were given to the poor (& we remember King Wenceslas helping the poor man gathering winter fuel.) In the 21st century, people are getting bored with the presents, and the dinner leftovers. So remember: please don’t feed the trolls!

Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 3d

Don’t feed the trolls: astroturfers, sealions and mashed potatoes

From orchestrated bot campaigns to individuals expressing faux concern or inflaming dissent, beware of engaging with online trolls

By Dr Pam Jarvis
@drpam.bsky.social

Don’t feed the trolls: astroturfers, sealions and mashed potatoes

From orchestrated bot campaigns to individuals expressing faux concern or inflaming dissent, beware of engaging with online trolls

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Max Wilkinson MP @maxwilkinson.bsky.social · 1d

And if you’re finding things difficult this Christmas, remember that there is help and support available.

Donald Macaskill @drdmacaskill.bsky.social · 1d

As we celebrate #ChristmasDay thank you to the thousands of women and men who are working in #homecare and #carehomes today and all those unpaid #carers. You are the best of us at all times and we need to do better by you. #careaboutcare #carecreates

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Santa’s nearly here… www.noradsanta.org/en/map

Official NORAD Tracks Santa

www.noradsanta.org

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

This Christmas the real Scrooges are corporations that raked in record profits this year and paid their CEOs millions of dollars but still deny workers a living wage and benefits.

Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 2d

On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise."

I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

‘Toby Young’ - so a load of old bollox. The walking oxymoron- the deeply stupid eugenicist with a very clever father. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2d

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism

Who funds us? No one...except you. Become a friends of Bylines supporter:

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Stand with us – sign up. now to become a Friend of Bylines Network

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Important message from @londonmayor.bsky.social

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2d

Christmas can be a tough time for many. If you or someone you care about needs mental health support, help is available:

NHS 111: 111.nhs.uk/triage/check...

Samaritans: samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...

Mind Charity: mind.org.uk/information-...

Shout: giveusashout.org

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

When will the news industry get serious about the dictator's threats to shut them down? Do they think it's just bluster? He's willing to murder people on the high seas and send immigrants to foreign torture prisons. He's serious about killing the 1st Amendment, too.

If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J, Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn't their very valuable Broadcast Licensees be terminated? I say, YES!

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2d

Christmas can be a tough time for many. If you or someone you care about needs mental health support, help is available:

NHS 111: 111.nhs.uk/triage/check...

Samaritans: samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...

Mind Charity: mind.org.uk/information-...

Shout: giveusashout.org

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this 2 years ago, to celebrate the fact that I’ve always preferred the pre-Christian calendar of festivals to the Christian one - they seem more spiritual and logical! This was one of the underpinning themes of ‘On Time for Eco’ which was published this year & is now available on Amazon.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

So, the turkey needs defrosting, I’ve chapters to write &edit & now I’m feeling guilty because so many lovely people have followed me & I haven’t got around to follow backs! I do follow back those I see in threads, but will look more closely at my follower list next year. In the meantime…

Here comes the sun 2024

The northern solstice on 21/22 December is our chance to celebrate the start of our annual journey back from the darkness into the light

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

This document serves as the first white crow indicating potentially deeper levels of conspiracy within Epstein’s criminality than have been detected thus far. 21stC Woodwards & Bernsteins-where are you? You should be all over this. @theguardian.com @thedailybeast.bsky.social @rollingstone.com

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

Released on Epstein files as from the Prince formally known as Andrew. But why, when using an email address to obscure your identity, dox yourself in line 1? (OK, so he’s thick). But why add ‘for the royal family’ when every Brit knows this, &refer to ‘fall’ when Brit to Brit we’d say ‘autumn?’ 🧐

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, I’ve replied to his post.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

It was one of the reasons I wrote this! As a female academic, I’ve been sealioned many times, but couldn’t put a name to it until I saw your cartoon. This (very) eventually led to some further research, and my Christmas sign off article this year. Many thanks.

Don’t feed the trolls: astroturfers, sealions and mashed potatoes

From orchestrated bot campaigns to individuals expressing faux concern or inflaming dissent, beware of engaging with online trolls

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Love this cartoon, thanks, I couldn’t find it! But probably wouldn’t have been able to make include anyway, due to copyright.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

FINANCIAL TIMES
I was amused - and saddened - to read the latest instalment of the Brexiters' excuses for the poor performance over recent years of the UK economy and the UK's politics. In "Implementation of Brexit became a business fiasco" (Markets Insight, December 19), Paul Marshall acknowledges the cost of the UK's decision to leave the EU. But rather than acknowledge that his analysis was wrong
- cutting ties with your biggest trading partner is never a good idea - Marshall blames bad implementation, and the fact that the EU didn't cut the UK some slack.

Implementation of Brexit by the UK has indeed been poor, but that's a direct consequence of the political crisis that everyone should have expected following such a major decision on the back of one simple 52/48 referendum vote at the conclusion of a mind-bogglingly uninformed debate by both sides. That includes the Brexiters' naive insistence that the EU would bend to UK demands and grant it all sorts of privileges not enjoyed by others.
So, the roughly 8 per cent of GDP loss in UK output since the Brexit decision in 2016 is easily explained by three perfectly predictable factors: it was a bad economic decision; it has split UK society politically; and the EU27 has moved on.

It's time for those who led the UK down this disastrous path to stand up and acknowledge their wrong analysis and naive understanding of Europe. Until that happens, how can one even hope that the UK will begin to heal?
Erik Fossing Nielsen
Senior Adviser, Independent Economics (a London-based economics advisory firm); Former Chief Economist, UniCredit, and Former Chief European Economist, Goldman Sachs, Berlin,
Germany

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

Maxwell and the Prince formerly known as Andrew are both posh British establishment.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

No it’s part of the Epstein files release, was on BBC News this evening.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

Unless of course, the above screenshot is a social media hoax and not part of the Epstein files at all? 🤷🏼‍♀️ This will go on and on and on for years to come.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@peterjukes.bsky.social
@bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

Released on Epstein files as from the Prince formally known as Andrew. But why, when using an email address to obscure your identity, dox yourself in line 1? (OK, so he’s thick). But why add ‘for the royal family’ when every Brit knows this, &refer to ‘fall’ when Brit to Brit we’d say ‘autumn?’ 🧐

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

My point is, is the email actually from him? See my second post.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

I 100% believe all the women Epstein trafficked & abused & believe that Andrew should be subpoenaed. But this is just…odd. It suggests deeper levels of conspiracy. Were Epstein& Maxwell running fake email accounts to double down on blackmail? Investigative reporters-your time to shine is now!

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

Released on Epstein files as from the Prince formally known as Andrew. But why, when using an email address to obscure your identity, dox yourself in line 1? (OK, so he’s thick). But why add ‘for the royal family’ when every Brit knows this, &refer to ‘fall’ when Brit to Brit we’d say ‘autumn?’ 🧐

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

My Christmas article for this year. I should say that I find very few trolls on BlueSky, and that those who do try don’t tend to get very far. But just in case… @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Don’t feed the trolls: astroturfers, sealions and mashed potatoes

From orchestrated bot campaigns to individuals expressing faux concern or inflaming dissent, beware of engaging with online trolls

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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