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eladn.bsky.social
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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edwinhayward.com
This should be blown up to poster size and pasted on Brexiter walls.
January 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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parodypm.bsky.social
Sad story in The Times about 88 year old farmer, John Kemp-Welch, who works 5,000 acres of difficult hill farming land in Scotland.
Fortunately, he somehow found time to be Chair of the London Stock Exchange, a stockbroker for 30 years and on the board of HSBC.
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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theguardian.com
Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study finds
Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study finds
Analysis of training models on global market found all had flat torsos with just one having a breast overlay Most CPR manikins don’t have breasts, which contributes towards women being less likely to receive life-saving first aid from bystanders, a study…
dlvr.it
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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parodypm.bsky.social
Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax then moved his business to Singapore. He's the real victim here.
November 19, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
A few facts about Labour's Budget and farmers.
November 19, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam.

Hilarious to watch him squirm.
November 19, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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jonsopel1.bsky.social
A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️
November 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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m-zola.bsky.social
Just like clock work...To its critics, this seems like a betrayal of the sacred mission of social media. But BS users have a simple response:

“I didn’t join this app to argue. I joined to enjoy myself. If I wanted endless debates, I’d go to a family dinner.”

Read: open.substack.com/pub/quietpar...
Bluesky Isn't Twitter, and That's the Best Thing About It: Why Blocking and Curating Are Acts of Joy, Not Censorship
Critics Call Bluesky an Echo Chamber, Bluesky Users Call Critics Annoying: A Standoff for the Ages.
open.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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josiahmortimer.bsky.social
We now have a starter pack for the signatories of our open letter from UK journalists who are ditching X

With thanks to @jamesmoules.bsky.social for assembling the pack. Do give them a follow and share
go.bsky.app/7ZiGEcP
November 17, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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josiahmortimer.bsky.social
NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists"

UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over...

"We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse. Unfortunately that well is now poisoned. All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022. Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system. We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself. And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere. Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set. A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it. After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process. But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting. Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X. And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work. We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter
November 15, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
I was asked (repeatedly, aggressively) on the other platform for my lawyery views on Allison Pearson’s story.

I declined to comment because Ms Pearson is a famously unreliable narrator of events, and I wanted to wait for independent evidence.

Alas for Ms Pearson…
peterwalker99.bsky.social Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · Nov 16
Allison Pearson: Police told me I was "accused of a non-crime hate incident".

Essex police bodycam footage: "It’s gone down as an incident or offence of potentially inciting racial hatred online. That would be the offence."
November 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Wow. BBC also didn’t think this was important enough to raise with the Government Minister this morning. What do we think is going on here?
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Nov 17
In a significant Intervention Bank of England governor said this week that Brexit has undermined the UK economy. @skynews.com.web.brid.gy didn’t think that was important enough to raise with the Government Minister this morning. I disagree. If you do too share this report

youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
The Bank of England governor says Brexit has undermined the UK economy. Hold onto your seats..
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 17, 2024 at 9:18 AM