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Pamela Duncan
@porcelinad.bsky.social
Data editor with the Guardian + data trainer + external examiner at Cardiff. "I ❤️ spreadsheets" mug-owner. Python for the big stuff. Happiest when in/on/by the sea. Reserve the right to show off my latest Amigurumi.
Erm...thanks I guess?
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thanks so much Eliz. I intend on sleeping until November 😴💤
October 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You're welcome
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"He was very tolerant and kind, maintaining a gentle temperament even while others grew aggressive." Now I see the resemblance.
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Zero offence...but he may be (even) more handsome
October 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
October 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I require a side-by-side comparison please and thank you
October 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
‪Sandra Laville, @patrickbarkham.bsky.social @rachelkeenan.bsky.social Raphael Boyd
@olivialeejourno.bsky.social Yassin El-Moudden, Gracie Daw, Matthew Holmes, Mariam Amini, Gabriel Smith, @patrickbarkham.bsky.social and Emma Russell @bibivanderzee.bsky.social
bsky.app
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Here is the (AMAZING) Arena story:
greentogrey.eu

And the (promised) link to the methodology:
greentogrey.eu/methodology/
Green to Grey – How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left
Green to Grey is a pioneering collaboration between journalists and scientists counting every green space lost in Europe between January 2018 and December 2023.
greentogrey.eu
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
...including 12 sq km in areas designited to be of outstanding natural beauty...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty
Residents of Woodgate estate in West Sussex enjoy its open spaces and wildlife but conservationists say it has set worrying precedent
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🌲🚜💨 Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – was lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
An area the size of Cyprus – was turned from green to grey between 2018 and 2023, according to the data (which is v. clever...link to methododolgy at the end)

That's 9,000 km2 – 30km2 a week – or 600 football pitches a day 🤯

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Also @michaelgoodier.bsky.social for the moral support/sense checks
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We used genAI for the categorisations, applying rigourous checks, in keeping with our editorial guidance on its use.
Our full methodology is here 👇

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages
Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Immigrants and muslims bore the brunt of the most vicious posts: you can see some of them here👇

Facebook told us it had reviewed the three main groups analysed by the Guardian but that the content did not violate its hateful conduct policy.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests
Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Experts say the posts include content that is far-right and extremist including far-right tropes, the use of racist slurs and evidence of white nativism.
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We analysed 51,000 posts from three of the biggest groups in the wake of the summer 2024 riots.

We found a community deeply distrustful of government and its institutions, trading in posts containing anti-immigrant sentiment, nativism, conspiracy and misinfo.
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM