Godfrey Parkin
@gparkin.bsky.social
Strategist, marketer, founder, author, data analyst, educator. Lived in Africa, Europe, UK, USA. Pro-science, anti-denialist (climate/covid). Decreasingly tolerant of stupidity, superstition or spin.
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🚨 Funeral for a Glacier – While Governments Bury Their Heads in the Sand 🚨
🏔️ Yala Glacier, Nepal, is dead.
🔥 Melted beyond recognition.
🌊 Thousands more glaciers vanishing yearly.
🌍 This is climate collapse in action.
🏔️ Yala Glacier, Nepal, is dead.
🔥 Melted beyond recognition.
🌊 Thousands more glaciers vanishing yearly.
🌍 This is climate collapse in action.
May 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🚨 Funeral for a Glacier – While Governments Bury Their Heads in the Sand 🚨
🏔️ Yala Glacier, Nepal, is dead.
🔥 Melted beyond recognition.
🌊 Thousands more glaciers vanishing yearly.
🌍 This is climate collapse in action.
🏔️ Yala Glacier, Nepal, is dead.
🔥 Melted beyond recognition.
🌊 Thousands more glaciers vanishing yearly.
🌍 This is climate collapse in action.
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Shocking stats in today's FT: "England faces driest year this century."
April rainfall more than 50% below average across most of the country…
April rainfall more than 50% below average across most of the country…
May 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Shocking stats in today's FT: "England faces driest year this century."
April rainfall more than 50% below average across most of the country…
April rainfall more than 50% below average across most of the country…
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What’s the plan @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? We need to change health messaging on #COVID. Roll out hepas to care homes. Wave incoming from China! 🚨 koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-05...
Covid-19 spreading again in China with 83% of cases involving elderly
Covid-19 is once again spreading across China, according to reports from Chinese media on Saturday.
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May 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
What’s the plan @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? We need to change health messaging on #COVID. Roll out hepas to care homes. Wave incoming from China! 🚨 koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-05...
Just when hearing Are You Experienced was released by Jimi Hendrix this date 58 years ago makes me feel old, along comes Led Zeppelin to say they'll be releasing their first album in 40 years to make me feel young.
May 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Just when hearing Are You Experienced was released by Jimi Hendrix this date 58 years ago makes me feel old, along comes Led Zeppelin to say they'll be releasing their first album in 40 years to make me feel young.
RFK Jr is the Paula White of medicine.
May 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
RFK Jr is the Paula White of medicine.
Leavitt thinks the Librarian of Congress checks library tickets and puts returned books back on the shelves. She has no idea that the role is a very high-level leadership & management role. She probably also thinks the Surgeon General does appendectomies.
May 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Leavitt thinks the Librarian of Congress checks library tickets and puts returned books back on the shelves. She has no idea that the role is a very high-level leadership & management role. She probably also thinks the Surgeon General does appendectomies.
One has to wonder who profits from the well-choreographed sophisticated campaign of proliferating total nonsense using scientific-looking graphs to make the anti-vaccine garbage look credible to data illiterates. Who benefits from effectively killing millions of people, and why?
May 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
One has to wonder who profits from the well-choreographed sophisticated campaign of proliferating total nonsense using scientific-looking graphs to make the anti-vaccine garbage look credible to data illiterates. Who benefits from effectively killing millions of people, and why?
To break through climate apathy, stop using scientific terms & complex graphs, don't focus on consequences in terms of hot days and storms. Reframe to exploit the real fears and prejudices of people: crops fail, famine triggers massive flows of migrants to your town.
May 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
To break through climate apathy, stop using scientific terms & complex graphs, don't focus on consequences in terms of hot days and storms. Reframe to exploit the real fears and prejudices of people: crops fail, famine triggers massive flows of migrants to your town.
What if human beings are the organic computing prototype of an alien intelligence, and because they haven't been able to iron out all the kinks they're about to sunset it?
May 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
What if human beings are the organic computing prototype of an alien intelligence, and because they haven't been able to iron out all the kinks they're about to sunset it?
When I was running digital business seminars 15 years ago, I'd inevitably get asked what I thought of recently launched Bitcoin. I'd say if you have any money that you can afford to lose, buy Bitcoin and hold it till it hits $50k. They'd laugh...
May 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
When I was running digital business seminars 15 years ago, I'd inevitably get asked what I thought of recently launched Bitcoin. I'd say if you have any money that you can afford to lose, buy Bitcoin and hold it till it hits $50k. They'd laugh...
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We’ve now identified a more advanced tactic, which we call “Chameleon ads“. After setting up their Facebook pages and advertiser accounts, scammers initially upload harmless-looking ads for approval. socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/21/t...
The Hidden Game: How Scammers Use "Chameleon Ads" to Bypass Meta's Moderation - Social Media Lab
Over the last few weeks, a series of stories by The Guardian, CBC, and The Logic has highlighted an explosion of fraudulent Facebook and Instagram ads that mimic the likeness of high-profile Canadian ...
socialmedialab.ca
April 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We’ve now identified a more advanced tactic, which we call “Chameleon ads“. After setting up their Facebook pages and advertiser accounts, scammers initially upload harmless-looking ads for approval. socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/21/t...
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A survey of US teens and parents: 48% of teens say social media harms people their age, up from 32% in 2022, and girls' experiences skew more negative at times (Pew Research Center)
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April 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A survey of US teens and parents: 48% of teens say social media harms people their age, up from 32% in 2022, and girls' experiences skew more negative at times (Pew Research Center)
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Good news in the current fog of trade. Prada acquired Versace (previously acquired by Michael Kors) for $1.4 billion. Maybe Italy is finally starting to build fashion empires to eventually rival the French (LVMH, Kering), who have been steadily acquiring Italian luxury brands.
April 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Good news in the current fog of trade. Prada acquired Versace (previously acquired by Michael Kors) for $1.4 billion. Maybe Italy is finally starting to build fashion empires to eventually rival the French (LVMH, Kering), who have been steadily acquiring Italian luxury brands.
In producing the tariff leaderboard and publishing the equation used to calculate the tariffs, they just copy/pasted output from ChatGPT - not realizing that AI has developed a sense of humor.
April 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In producing the tariff leaderboard and publishing the equation used to calculate the tariffs, they just copy/pasted output from ChatGPT - not realizing that AI has developed a sense of humor.
Elon has morphed again. Now he's a sober, serious, seemingly troubled businessman again. It's like the ketamine wore off and he discovered he became a total jerk without realizing it. Was there an intervention? I hope he's back to the guy I used to be in awe of.
April 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Elon has morphed again. Now he's a sober, serious, seemingly troubled businessman again. It's like the ketamine wore off and he discovered he became a total jerk without realizing it. Was there an intervention? I hope he's back to the guy I used to be in awe of.
American companies manufacture in China, Bangladesh and elsewhere then ship from there to hundreds of countries, without their goods having to enter or leave the US. Not even profits get repatriated. So no tax income for the US. Tax reform would make more for America than tariffs, without the harm.
April 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
American companies manufacture in China, Bangladesh and elsewhere then ship from there to hundreds of countries, without their goods having to enter or leave the US. Not even profits get repatriated. So no tax income for the US. Tax reform would make more for America than tariffs, without the harm.
I'm very anti-ageism. But the problem with allowing members of Congress and the Senate to stay in office forever is that the 'checks and balances' lose their teeth, and get a bit wobbly.
April 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I'm very anti-ageism. But the problem with allowing members of Congress and the Senate to stay in office forever is that the 'checks and balances' lose their teeth, and get a bit wobbly.
Those clinging to the delusion that climate collapse is a hoax will surely soon start waking up to reality? Or is the immediate future so scary for them that they retreat further into denial?
April 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Those clinging to the delusion that climate collapse is a hoax will surely soon start waking up to reality? Or is the immediate future so scary for them that they retreat further into denial?
Hubris is the new Kool-Aid.
April 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Hubris is the new Kool-Aid.
Kawasaki's hydrogen-powered electric horse may be technologies response to Ford's apocryphal line: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." I do want one. www.designboom.com/technology/k...
kawasaki unveils CORLEO, a four-legged robot with hooves that walks, rides, and climbs
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April 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Kawasaki's hydrogen-powered electric horse may be technologies response to Ford's apocryphal line: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." I do want one. www.designboom.com/technology/k...
If the Chinese soldiers captured fighting Ukraine alongside Russian troops are not simply mercenaries, this is a game changer.
April 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
If the Chinese soldiers captured fighting Ukraine alongside Russian troops are not simply mercenaries, this is a game changer.
If family members of the Greenland government traveled to the US after threatening to annex the US, the Trump administration would at best deny them entry, and at worst arrest them and send them to El Salvador as enemies of the state.
March 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
If family members of the Greenland government traveled to the US after threatening to annex the US, the Trump administration would at best deny them entry, and at worst arrest them and send them to El Salvador as enemies of the state.
Birds on Marion Island, South Africa’s biodiverse sub-Antarctic territory, have been infected with H5N1 avian flu. King penguins, wandering and sooty albatrosses, brown skuas as well as southern and northern giant petrels have died. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
South Africa unveils biosecurity plan after avian flu ravages Marion Island
The virus has claimed 150 wandering albatross chicks, but adults in other species are a bigger concern, says the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. For now, it is cautiously optimi...
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March 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Birds on Marion Island, South Africa’s biodiverse sub-Antarctic territory, have been infected with H5N1 avian flu. King penguins, wandering and sooty albatrosses, brown skuas as well as southern and northern giant petrels have died. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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This is what is happening.
Data of global temperature change since 1850.
Accelerating glacier loss since 1950.
From the State of the Global Climate 2024 report just published.
wmo.int/publication-...
Data of global temperature change since 1850.
Accelerating glacier loss since 1950.
From the State of the Global Climate 2024 report just published.
wmo.int/publication-...
March 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is what is happening.
Data of global temperature change since 1850.
Accelerating glacier loss since 1950.
From the State of the Global Climate 2024 report just published.
wmo.int/publication-...
Data of global temperature change since 1850.
Accelerating glacier loss since 1950.
From the State of the Global Climate 2024 report just published.
wmo.int/publication-...
What does it say when the birthday greetings from retailers, airlines, banks and insurance companies outweigh those from friends and family by 3 to 1?
March 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
What does it say when the birthday greetings from retailers, airlines, banks and insurance companies outweigh those from friends and family by 3 to 1?