Robert Lloyd
@clwydencomu.bsky.social
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i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
January 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
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Neo-Nazis: This is a Nazi salute.
Historians: This is a Nazi salute.
Everyone online: This is a Nazi salute.
Journalists: Musk gave a weird wave that's being interpreted in different ways.
#TheChaser has more credibility than the mainstream news media. #ElonMusk #TrumpInauguration #USPolitics
Historians: This is a Nazi salute.
Everyone online: This is a Nazi salute.
Journalists: Musk gave a weird wave that's being interpreted in different ways.
#TheChaser has more credibility than the mainstream news media. #ElonMusk #TrumpInauguration #USPolitics
January 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Neo-Nazis: This is a Nazi salute.
Historians: This is a Nazi salute.
Everyone online: This is a Nazi salute.
Journalists: Musk gave a weird wave that's being interpreted in different ways.
#TheChaser has more credibility than the mainstream news media. #ElonMusk #TrumpInauguration #USPolitics
Historians: This is a Nazi salute.
Everyone online: This is a Nazi salute.
Journalists: Musk gave a weird wave that's being interpreted in different ways.
#TheChaser has more credibility than the mainstream news media. #ElonMusk #TrumpInauguration #USPolitics
Starmer and his government literally dance to the tune of every right wing vogue, don't they
January 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Starmer and his government literally dance to the tune of every right wing vogue, don't they
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Capital Vol. 1, Chapter 8 (1867) by Karl Marx. Audiobook + Discussion of Marxist Theory
youtu.be/eo0uLyqpzQI
youtu.be/eo0uLyqpzQI
Capital Vol. 1, Chapter 8 (1867) by Karl Marx. Audiobook + Discussion of Marxist Theory
YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Capital Vol. 1, Chapter 8 (1867) by Karl Marx. Audiobook + Discussion of Marxist Theory
youtu.be/eo0uLyqpzQI
youtu.be/eo0uLyqpzQI
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The Senate confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State by a vote of 99-0.
Democrats offer an endless supply of goodwill to Republicans that will never be reciprocated.
Democrats offer an endless supply of goodwill to Republicans that will never be reciprocated.
January 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Senate confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State by a vote of 99-0.
Democrats offer an endless supply of goodwill to Republicans that will never be reciprocated.
Democrats offer an endless supply of goodwill to Republicans that will never be reciprocated.
Just sit it out. Sure. Just quietly endure. I’m sure it will all be fine.
January 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Just sit it out. Sure. Just quietly endure. I’m sure it will all be fine.
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Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
January 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
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I feel like between 2006-2010 I had such a unique experience of the internet and I long for it constantly:
text-based roleplaying forums (Star Wars, HSWCW), habbo hotel, even Racing Frogs
I feel like I'm the only person who ever even heard of, let alone did, these things.
text-based roleplaying forums (Star Wars, HSWCW), habbo hotel, even Racing Frogs
I feel like I'm the only person who ever even heard of, let alone did, these things.
January 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I feel like between 2006-2010 I had such a unique experience of the internet and I long for it constantly:
text-based roleplaying forums (Star Wars, HSWCW), habbo hotel, even Racing Frogs
I feel like I'm the only person who ever even heard of, let alone did, these things.
text-based roleplaying forums (Star Wars, HSWCW), habbo hotel, even Racing Frogs
I feel like I'm the only person who ever even heard of, let alone did, these things.
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And to think some cynics would have you believe that the Welsh media is in a state of inexorable & irreversible decline
January 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
And to think some cynics would have you believe that the Welsh media is in a state of inexorable & irreversible decline
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now that authoritarian bullies are in charge, Zuck can get rid of the pretense he cares about race-baiting right wing propaganda and hate speech online, and fully pursue mindless engagement chasing under the pretense he's just super interested in free speech and fighting "censorship"
Meta gets rid of fact checkers and says it will reduce ‘censorship’ | CNN Business
In a number of sweeping changes that will significantly alter the way that posts, videos and other content are moderated online, Meta will adjust its content review policies on Facebook and Instagram,...
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January 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
now that authoritarian bullies are in charge, Zuck can get rid of the pretense he cares about race-baiting right wing propaganda and hate speech online, and fully pursue mindless engagement chasing under the pretense he's just super interested in free speech and fighting "censorship"
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This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
"Journalism...is built on the economics of attention"
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
I wrote about facts v. belief and belonging as the real crisis here:
medium.com/whither-news...
medium.com/whither-news...
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
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...listener, subscriber, guest, host, the final word we have for you is ‘Diolch’. Wales needs more high-quality domestic media - especially in English - and we have faith that Hiraeth, or something like it, will exist in the future.
Matt, Ceri, and Richard
January 1st, 2025
13/13
Matt, Ceri, and Richard
January 1st, 2025
13/13
January 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
...listener, subscriber, guest, host, the final word we have for you is ‘Diolch’. Wales needs more high-quality domestic media - especially in English - and we have faith that Hiraeth, or something like it, will exist in the future.
Matt, Ceri, and Richard
January 1st, 2025
13/13
Matt, Ceri, and Richard
January 1st, 2025
13/13
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STATEMENT
There is no easy way to say this but the time has come to announce that the Hiraeth Pod - in its current form - is coming to an end.
For reasons personal and professional, the team behind the pod are not able to commit to continuing production of pods, live events, and newsletters
1/13
There is no easy way to say this but the time has come to announce that the Hiraeth Pod - in its current form - is coming to an end.
For reasons personal and professional, the team behind the pod are not able to commit to continuing production of pods, live events, and newsletters
1/13
January 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
STATEMENT
There is no easy way to say this but the time has come to announce that the Hiraeth Pod - in its current form - is coming to an end.
For reasons personal and professional, the team behind the pod are not able to commit to continuing production of pods, live events, and newsletters
1/13
There is no easy way to say this but the time has come to announce that the Hiraeth Pod - in its current form - is coming to an end.
For reasons personal and professional, the team behind the pod are not able to commit to continuing production of pods, live events, and newsletters
1/13
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AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
December 22, 2024 at 4:24 AM
AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
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Once upon a time, not the entire internet was 4chan. Only 4chan was 4chan, because everywhere else would kick you out for Doing 4chan in their spaces.
It sounds utopian, but it is true.
It sounds utopian, but it is true.
When social media sites tell you moderation has limits I want you to know there was a time when you could only find the worst people on obscure forums created for being offensive because everywhere else moderated them into those corners.
December 14, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Once upon a time, not the entire internet was 4chan. Only 4chan was 4chan, because everywhere else would kick you out for Doing 4chan in their spaces.
It sounds utopian, but it is true.
It sounds utopian, but it is true.
Listening to the first episode of your podcast now @waterslee.bsky.social - what would you think to a system of separating the Senedd from the Welsh Government? Having FM-appointed and Senedd-approved ministers who aren’t legislators? Would this five ministers more time to focus on the role?
December 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Listening to the first episode of your podcast now @waterslee.bsky.social - what would you think to a system of separating the Senedd from the Welsh Government? Having FM-appointed and Senedd-approved ministers who aren’t legislators? Would this five ministers more time to focus on the role?
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Being in an empty cinema in the middle of the day is one of life's secret pleasures. Do it more often. No one can call you. You can't check the internet. No one knows how baked you may or may not be. They have movies and snacks there, too, but that's just a bonus at this point.
December 4, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Being in an empty cinema in the middle of the day is one of life's secret pleasures. Do it more often. No one can call you. You can't check the internet. No one knows how baked you may or may not be. They have movies and snacks there, too, but that's just a bonus at this point.
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I've always thought there an issue of ego with the Welsh PLP, a fair few of them being anti-devo. Plus, there are just lots of internal political things coupled with taking Wales for granted.
December 1, 2024 at 11:12 AM
I've always thought there an issue of ego with the Welsh PLP, a fair few of them being anti-devo. Plus, there are just lots of internal political things coupled with taking Wales for granted.
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Welsh Labour really need to hurry up and find their identity. Centre left, competent but with some populist distributive stuff throw in. It was the whole point of Welsh Labour.
They've spent 5 years struggling to implement anything and don't seem to know what their fighting for. 1/
They've spent 5 years struggling to implement anything and don't seem to know what their fighting for. 1/
The latest Barn Cymru Senedd voting intention poll sees Plaid Cymru leading for the first time since 2010.
The poll for ITV Cymru Wales and @walesgovernance.bsky.social also sees Reform equal with Labour.
- Plaid Cymru 24%
- Labour 23%
- Reform 23%
- Conservatives 19%
www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
The poll for ITV Cymru Wales and @walesgovernance.bsky.social also sees Reform equal with Labour.
- Plaid Cymru 24%
- Labour 23%
- Reform 23%
- Conservatives 19%
www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
www.itv.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Welsh Labour really need to hurry up and find their identity. Centre left, competent but with some populist distributive stuff throw in. It was the whole point of Welsh Labour.
They've spent 5 years struggling to implement anything and don't seem to know what their fighting for. 1/
They've spent 5 years struggling to implement anything and don't seem to know what their fighting for. 1/