Andy
@andymic.bsky.social
WIP Husband (we are always WIP). Proud father of 7 adult children. Passion for excellence in Leadership, believer in humanity and the positive power of community.
Keen golfer and supporter of the Manly Sea Eagles.
Keen golfer and supporter of the Manly Sea Eagles.
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This was very unexpected and very nice. Thank you to the @pressgazette.co.uk awards. The brilliant Caroline Wheeler of the Sunday Times rightly won the Politics journalism award and was also named journalist of the year for her tireless work on the infected bloods scandal. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Highly commended for best Politics Journalism is @bethrigby.bsky.social of Sky News for being “always brilliant at holding politicians to account in simple and direct style” #BritishJournalismAwards
December 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM
This was very unexpected and very nice. Thank you to the @pressgazette.co.uk awards. The brilliant Caroline Wheeler of the Sunday Times rightly won the Politics journalism award and was also named journalist of the year for her tireless work on the infected bloods scandal. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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December 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Bravo, Harry.
OK sports fans, so this is my last bulletin for my position at @losangelestimes.bsky.social. I resigned yesterday in protest of the paper's and owner's cozying up to Trump. Here's my explanation on my substack, where I hope you will follow me going forward.
harrylitman.substack.com/p/why-i-just...
harrylitman.substack.com/p/why-i-just...
Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times
By Harry Litman
harrylitman.substack.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Bravo, Harry.
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Good to see my old Red Wedge comrade Jimmy Somerville is still on the right side of history www.nme.com/news/music/b...
Bronski Beat's Jimmy Somerville fights to remove 'Smalltown Boy' from film by "anti-Trans" LGB Alliance: "I would never allow anything of mine to be used by such a group"
Bronski Beat's Jimmy Sommerville fights to remove their 1984 single 'Smalltown Boy' from film by "anti-Trans" LGB Alliance.
www.nme.com
November 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Good to see my old Red Wedge comrade Jimmy Somerville is still on the right side of history www.nme.com/news/music/b...
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1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
November 29, 2024 at 8:46 PM
1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
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Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
November 25, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
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Hey everybody! I put this starter pack together of progressive friends I think folks should follow. Thanks to everyone for being so welcoming here on Bluesky!
November 25, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Hey everybody! I put this starter pack together of progressive friends I think folks should follow. Thanks to everyone for being so welcoming here on Bluesky!
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When I first joined twitter in 2015, it was to share leadership principles, provide national security input based on experiences, and try to be an optimistic contributor.
I strayed from that, but on this new platform I will try to regain that approach.
Thanks for all who have joined me.
I strayed from that, but on this new platform I will try to regain that approach.
Thanks for all who have joined me.
November 25, 2024 at 1:03 PM
When I first joined twitter in 2015, it was to share leadership principles, provide national security input based on experiences, and try to be an optimistic contributor.
I strayed from that, but on this new platform I will try to regain that approach.
Thanks for all who have joined me.
I strayed from that, but on this new platform I will try to regain that approach.
Thanks for all who have joined me.
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I don't agree with Nadine Dorries on much, but she deserves high praise for this. Not only for her bravery, but also her clarity - calling it "an architecture of supression" and zeroing in on the devastating possibility that "it's all about money". ~AA
TW: sexual abuse
youtu.be/jOvq-EY4wwY?...
TW: sexual abuse
youtu.be/jOvq-EY4wwY?...
Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge | Nadine Dorries talks to Sky News
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
November 21, 2024 at 8:09 PM
I don't agree with Nadine Dorries on much, but she deserves high praise for this. Not only for her bravery, but also her clarity - calling it "an architecture of supression" and zeroing in on the devastating possibility that "it's all about money". ~AA
TW: sexual abuse
youtu.be/jOvq-EY4wwY?...
TW: sexual abuse
youtu.be/jOvq-EY4wwY?...
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On Elon Musk’s repeated attacks on Keir Starmer’s government Sky’s @samcoatessky.bsky.social rightly points out
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM
On Elon Musk’s repeated attacks on Keir Starmer’s government Sky’s @samcoatessky.bsky.social rightly points out
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”
@sophyridge.bsky.social
When faced with a choice, choose to be kind.
November 22, 2024 at 11:29 AM
When faced with a choice, choose to be kind.
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🎙️👋🏻 New Electoral Dysfunction pod is out!
- John Prescott, his life & legacy
- Farmer protests & why the govt are adamant they won’t step down
- What’s the essence of Starmer, does the farmer row give us some clues
- G20 & Ukraine. Why is the PM travelling so much?
podfollow.com/electoraldys...
- John Prescott, his life & legacy
- Farmer protests & why the govt are adamant they won’t step down
- What’s the essence of Starmer, does the farmer row give us some clues
- G20 & Ukraine. Why is the PM travelling so much?
podfollow.com/electoraldys...
Electoral Dysfunction
Political powerhouses Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman unite to unravel the spin and explain what’s really going on in Westminster and beyond.Every episode, they will examine politicians, ...
podfollow.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:15 AM
🎙️👋🏻 New Electoral Dysfunction pod is out!
- John Prescott, his life & legacy
- Farmer protests & why the govt are adamant they won’t step down
- What’s the essence of Starmer, does the farmer row give us some clues
- G20 & Ukraine. Why is the PM travelling so much?
podfollow.com/electoraldys...
- John Prescott, his life & legacy
- Farmer protests & why the govt are adamant they won’t step down
- What’s the essence of Starmer, does the farmer row give us some clues
- G20 & Ukraine. Why is the PM travelling so much?
podfollow.com/electoraldys...
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Please watch this powerful clip.
This is why sexual abuse is such an abhorrent crime. It is the victims who so often - utterly wrongly - live with shame.
Thank you to Nadine Dorries for speaking to me about being abused, age 9, by a vicar
This is why sexual abuse is such an abhorrent crime. It is the victims who so often - utterly wrongly - live with shame.
Thank you to Nadine Dorries for speaking to me about being abused, age 9, by a vicar
November 20, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Please watch this powerful clip.
This is why sexual abuse is such an abhorrent crime. It is the victims who so often - utterly wrongly - live with shame.
Thank you to Nadine Dorries for speaking to me about being abused, age 9, by a vicar
This is why sexual abuse is such an abhorrent crime. It is the victims who so often - utterly wrongly - live with shame.
Thank you to Nadine Dorries for speaking to me about being abused, age 9, by a vicar
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Saddened to read that John Prescott has died at the age of 86. An inimitable, larger-than-life politician who was, to quote Starmer, a giant of the Labour Party. Rest in peace
news.sky.com/story/former...
news.sky.com/story/former...
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott dies aged 86
Born in Prestatyn, Wales, on 31 May 1938, John Prescott, the son of a railwayman, left school aged 15 to work as a trainee chef, then as a steward on the Cunard Line before entering politics in a care...
news.sky.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Saddened to read that John Prescott has died at the age of 86. An inimitable, larger-than-life politician who was, to quote Starmer, a giant of the Labour Party. Rest in peace
news.sky.com/story/former...
news.sky.com/story/former...
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This would be quite funny
Seeing as Twitter is now X.
Why doesn't Bluesky change its name to Twitter?
Now that would be hilarious.
Why doesn't Bluesky change its name to Twitter?
Now that would be hilarious.
November 14, 2024 at 5:28 PM
This would be quite funny
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Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
November 19, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc