Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Brilliant commentary on Trump arriving at Windsor from @mrjamesob.bsky.social .

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Those eyes! My heart squeezes when I think of her terror and loss - Nothing anyone should have to experience let alone at 5 years old.

I dreamt about her last night.

"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."

@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.

As Trump rejects the rule of law, the spirit & specifics of Magna Carta*, while also trying to subjugate Harvard, that self same university goes and discovers an actual Magna Carta?

Full marks, no notes

This is a terrible terrible destructive decision.
These sorts of long running research programmes take decades to build and their insights accumulate over decades too - the longer they run, the more valuable they become.

This is knowledge vandalism. Nothing new and shiny can replace it.

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases!

🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case.

In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15

independentsage.org/report/preve...

I mean fine, but it’s only because of France that the United States exists.

KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences!

DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share.

independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

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Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view.

What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer).

FFS.

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation

FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

Hoping to reconnect with some of my Twitter follows on BlueSky.
I've stayed too long on Twitter not wanting to lose touch with old colleagues and networks but I feel like staying now is to risk being complicit in whatever is Musk's 'agenda'.