Jay Baker (they/he)
@mediaactivist.com
Muckraker. Filmmaker. SilenceBreaker.
Guerrilla journalist/founder at The SilenceBreaker newsletter • Carer for partner with ME caused by Covid • Member of my local mask bloc • Here on Twitter 2.0 until you all inevitably join me on the Fediverse
Guerrilla journalist/founder at The SilenceBreaker newsletter • Carer for partner with ME caused by Covid • Member of my local mask bloc • Here on Twitter 2.0 until you all inevitably join me on the Fediverse
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Announcement! For nearly 25 years, I've reported from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewed numerous campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle.
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
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the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
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The hero of the working class.
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The hero of the working class.
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The irony of conspiracy theorists is, of course, that they are the most easily manipulated people on the planet. For, having no standards of evidence whatsoever, they can be led by the nose to believe anything – so long as it isn't true.
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The irony of conspiracy theorists is, of course, that they are the most easily manipulated people on the planet. For, having no standards of evidence whatsoever, they can be led by the nose to believe anything – so long as it isn't true.
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We got both billboards up tonight, in the background of this one you can see the gas flaring of a nearby oil refinery
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We got both billboards up tonight, in the background of this one you can see the gas flaring of a nearby oil refinery
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Facebook is also going down a similar path, injecting people's feeds with around 33% content from pages they don't follow, much of it extreme-right and conspiracy nonsense, even to users who have never followed or engaged with such content.
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Facebook is also going down a similar path, injecting people's feeds with around 33% content from pages they don't follow, much of it extreme-right and conspiracy nonsense, even to users who have never followed or engaged with such content.
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Interesting data analysis demonstrating what Twitter users already know through experience. Elon Musk has turned it into a extreme-right propaganda factory, where right-wing accounts are boosted by the algorithm, and left-leaning users are flooded with right-wing content, despite not following it.
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Interesting data analysis demonstrating what Twitter users already know through experience. Elon Musk has turned it into a extreme-right propaganda factory, where right-wing accounts are boosted by the algorithm, and left-leaning users are flooded with right-wing content, despite not following it.
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I will be honest: for a brief moment, I genuinely thought that this was me and that I had had an 'episode'...
An interesting week in pop culture! Checked out the @2000ad.bsky.social podcast (or is that "Thrill-cast"?) because they talked about pro wrestling, then ended up enjoying a bunch of their episodes only to realise @molcher.bsky.social of course wrote this brilliant book I've been reading for while!
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I will be honest: for a brief moment, I genuinely thought that this was me and that I had had an 'episode'...
Actually, to use wrestling parlance, Judge Dredd might come at one of us for "gimmick infringement" as I am aware of the resemblance, and despite the Yorkshire connection, @molcher.bsky.social and I are not siblings!
An interesting week in pop culture! Checked out the @2000ad.bsky.social podcast (or is that "Thrill-cast"?) because they talked about pro wrestling, then ended up enjoying a bunch of their episodes only to realise @molcher.bsky.social of course wrote this brilliant book I've been reading for while!
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Actually, to use wrestling parlance, Judge Dredd might come at one of us for "gimmick infringement" as I am aware of the resemblance, and despite the Yorkshire connection, @molcher.bsky.social and I are not siblings!
An interesting week in pop culture! Checked out the @2000ad.bsky.social podcast (or is that "Thrill-cast"?) because they talked about pro wrestling, then ended up enjoying a bunch of their episodes only to realise @molcher.bsky.social of course wrote this brilliant book I've been reading for while!
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An interesting week in pop culture! Checked out the @2000ad.bsky.social podcast (or is that "Thrill-cast"?) because they talked about pro wrestling, then ended up enjoying a bunch of their episodes only to realise @molcher.bsky.social of course wrote this brilliant book I've been reading for while!
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Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is trying to use his name to convince Wikipedia editors to deny the Gaza Genocide, recognized by many human rights organizations.
Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.
Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is trying to use his name to convince Wikipedia editors to deny the Gaza Genocide, recognized by many human rights organizations.
Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.
Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.
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It is the 99% v the 1%
All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to hate each other and to fight among each other so that we don't unite to defeat the 1%.
Never forget that!
All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to hate each other and to fight among each other so that we don't unite to defeat the 1%.
Never forget that!
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It is the 99% v the 1%
All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to hate each other and to fight among each other so that we don't unite to defeat the 1%.
Never forget that!
All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to hate each other and to fight among each other so that we don't unite to defeat the 1%.
Never forget that!
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So-called "Centrism" does not work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
So-called "Centrism" does not work.
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A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.
BREAKING: The Labour Government is set to proscribe Palestine Action, effectively treating it as a terrorist group, reports say.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is expected to make the announcement on Monday.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is expected to make the announcement on Monday.
June 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.
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Announcement! For nearly 25 years, I've reported from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewed numerous campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle.
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Announcement! For nearly 25 years, I've reported from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewed numerous campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Remember, remember the Fifth of November.
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
For folks who are interested in my more personal posts and freelance work in general, I am still maintaining my own site at www.mediaactivist.com
MediaActivist.com
The site and blog of media activist Jay Baker
www.mediaactivist.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
For folks who are interested in my more personal posts and freelance work in general, I am still maintaining my own site at www.mediaactivist.com
Announcement! For nearly 25 years, I've reported from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewed numerous campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle.
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Announcement! For nearly 25 years, I've reported from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewed numerous campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle.
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✅Help Make COVID Vaccines Free - Again
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
November 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
✅Help Make COVID Vaccines Free - Again
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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I remember growing up in a conservative household I was told about how in communist dictatorships, the people starve while the leaders build opulent palaces and ballrooms. Anyway, not sure why I brought that up.
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I remember growing up in a conservative household I was told about how in communist dictatorships, the people starve while the leaders build opulent palaces and ballrooms. Anyway, not sure why I brought that up.
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The opening 30 seconds says these glorified roombas are actually piloted by humans can, and will, spy on you through the built in cameras.
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The opening 30 seconds says these glorified roombas are actually piloted by humans can, and will, spy on you through the built in cameras.
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"how to wear masks without breaking your hair, how to care for your family during a toxic air emergency and detox. In a world increasingly pushing people into isolation, the daily acts of getting people those things break isolation and are real acts of solidarity, relationship building, and love."
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"how to wear masks without breaking your hair, how to care for your family during a toxic air emergency and detox. In a world increasingly pushing people into isolation, the daily acts of getting people those things break isolation and are real acts of solidarity, relationship building, and love."
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"Disability justice is not an academic or abstract framework or a bunch of empty statements. It is the real everyday work of getting our people (which includes us) what we need. That includes masks, information about what masks work on faces with broad nose bridges or big or small shapes...(cont)
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Disability justice is not an academic or abstract framework or a bunch of empty statements. It is the real everyday work of getting our people (which includes us) what we need. That includes masks, information about what masks work on faces with broad nose bridges or big or small shapes...(cont)
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