Simon Gwynn
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No, the joke wasn't funny but if you didn't get it that's still on you.
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Open letter to bluesky moderation about the deletion of Gazan accounts. Please share and sign 🇵🇸
Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza
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May 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Open letter to bluesky moderation about the deletion of Gazan accounts. Please share and sign 🇵🇸
Haven't been on here in a while, but I'm hearing it's not a very pro-genocide platform - is this right?
May 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Haven't been on here in a while, but I'm hearing it's not a very pro-genocide platform - is this right?
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My wife (who has managed ERs for many years) was trying to keep her cool reading all the headlines about the CEO and asked when someone was going to write a story about all the violence caused by insurance denials that happen to nurses and staff and doctors because patients can't get to the CEO
December 7, 2024 at 9:46 PM
My wife (who has managed ERs for many years) was trying to keep her cool reading all the headlines about the CEO and asked when someone was going to write a story about all the violence caused by insurance denials that happen to nurses and staff and doctors because patients can't get to the CEO
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Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
December 6, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
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this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
December 6, 2024 at 2:57 PM
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
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this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you
December 6, 2024 at 12:55 PM
this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you
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A key to understanding her is that none of this is posturing, or acting on bad advice, or mistaking a narrow demographic for the country as a whole, this is just who she is. This is how she acts with everybody regardless of their status, high or low, or their take on politics. She's true to herself.
The Tories have 121 MPs. How many of them do we think could do a better job than Badenoch is doing at the moment? How many are we absolutely certain would do a worse job?
Kemi Badenoch calls on Keir Starmer to resign because of an online petition.
Starmer: "We had a massive petition on the Fourth of July in this country.
"We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to a party of government. They're hurtling in the opposite direction."
Starmer: "We had a massive petition on the Fourth of July in this country.
"We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to a party of government. They're hurtling in the opposite direction."
November 27, 2024 at 3:45 PM
A key to understanding her is that none of this is posturing, or acting on bad advice, or mistaking a narrow demographic for the country as a whole, this is just who she is. This is how she acts with everybody regardless of their status, high or low, or their take on politics. She's true to herself.
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What makes Bluesky better :
the timeline does NOT Auto-refresh!
the timeline does NOT Auto-refresh!
November 13, 2024 at 2:27 PM
What makes Bluesky better :
the timeline does NOT Auto-refresh!
the timeline does NOT Auto-refresh!
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This was fun to explain @slate.bsky.social slate.com/technology/2...
November 13, 2024 at 3:14 PM
This was fun to explain @slate.bsky.social slate.com/technology/2...
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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...
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...
November 15, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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...
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...
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leak the fucking report, you all have 473 reporters on speed dial, stop playing by rules nobody cares about and embarrass these people by any means necessary
The House Ethics Committee meeting tomorrow in which members were scheduled to vote on whether to release the Matt Gaetz report has been CANCELED, per Reese Gorman
November 15, 2024 at 12:40 AM
leak the fucking report, you all have 473 reporters on speed dial, stop playing by rules nobody cares about and embarrass these people by any means necessary
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I'm sorry but I don't think you can do "oh the Dems didn't talk about this one issue I love so that's why they lost" in *this* election, democracy was and is on the line, Trump is a horrible man who ran a horrible campaign, sometimes you have to just face the reality of the electorate being awful
November 6, 2024 at 6:09 AM
I'm sorry but I don't think you can do "oh the Dems didn't talk about this one issue I love so that's why they lost" in *this* election, democracy was and is on the line, Trump is a horrible man who ran a horrible campaign, sometimes you have to just face the reality of the electorate being awful
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I'm a broken record on this but a 2nd Trump presidency makes it even more important that big liberal cities become places that build enough housing to accept the internal & international migration they've been pricing out for decades
November 6, 2024 at 4:49 AM
I'm a broken record on this but a 2nd Trump presidency makes it even more important that big liberal cities become places that build enough housing to accept the internal & international migration they've been pricing out for decades
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Voting locations in Georgia planned, with a court order, to stay open a little later since they had to close due to bomb threats that originated from “Russian email domains.”
At the state & federal level the GOP is fighting the decision.
Its core strategy is to make fewer votes count.
At the state & federal level the GOP is fighting the decision.
Its core strategy is to make fewer votes count.
November 6, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Voting locations in Georgia planned, with a court order, to stay open a little later since they had to close due to bomb threats that originated from “Russian email domains.”
At the state & federal level the GOP is fighting the decision.
Its core strategy is to make fewer votes count.
At the state & federal level the GOP is fighting the decision.
Its core strategy is to make fewer votes count.
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The big story tonight is Russia’s overt attack on America’s election - they didn’t even try to hide it - yet it’s being hugely underreported.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
November 6, 2024 at 2:37 AM
The big story tonight is Russia’s overt attack on America’s election - they didn’t even try to hide it - yet it’s being hugely underreported.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
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RESULT: Voters in Arizona have rejected Proposition 137, which would have ended judicial term limits and frozen its conservative supreme court in place.
November 6, 2024 at 3:33 AM
RESULT: Voters in Arizona have rejected Proposition 137, which would have ended judicial term limits and frozen its conservative supreme court in place.
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And let me add what should be an obvious point: Democratic voting is being targeted by terrorist threats in, AFAIK, GA, MI, PA, and AZ.
Some of the most Democratic places will delay reporting because Trump's friends have called in terrorist threats.
Some of the most Democratic places will delay reporting because Trump's friends have called in terrorist threats.
Folks, I shouldn't have to say this, but I don't think a single Dem urban area has been counted in GA, NC, OH, PA, or MI.
Hold your jets. It ALWAYS takes time (and MKE in WI will take especially long tonight).
Hold your jets. It ALWAYS takes time (and MKE in WI will take especially long tonight).
November 6, 2024 at 2:34 AM
And let me add what should be an obvious point: Democratic voting is being targeted by terrorist threats in, AFAIK, GA, MI, PA, and AZ.
Some of the most Democratic places will delay reporting because Trump's friends have called in terrorist threats.
Some of the most Democratic places will delay reporting because Trump's friends have called in terrorist threats.
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Time to boycott, bro-cut, Florida
Florida's abortion rights measure failed to clear its required 60% threshold, DDHQ projects.
The first post-Dobbs abortion measure not to pass, despite being supported by most Floridians.
The state's 6-week ban will stay.
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Florida's abortion rights measure failed to clear its required 60% threshold, DDHQ projects.
The first post-Dobbs abortion measure not to pass, despite being supported by most Floridians.
The state's 6-week ban will stay.
19thnews.org/2024/11/flor...
Florida voters fail to beat 60% threshold for abortion ballot measure
The measure, which would guarantee a right to abortion to the point of fetal viability, needs 60 percent support to pass.
19thnews.org
November 6, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Time to boycott, bro-cut, Florida
Florida's abortion rights measure failed to clear its required 60% threshold, DDHQ projects.
The first post-Dobbs abortion measure not to pass, despite being supported by most Floridians.
The state's 6-week ban will stay.
19thnews.org/2024/11/flor...
Florida's abortion rights measure failed to clear its required 60% threshold, DDHQ projects.
The first post-Dobbs abortion measure not to pass, despite being supported by most Floridians.
The state's 6-week ban will stay.
19thnews.org/2024/11/flor...
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Re-upping this: the votes have been cast. The counts are just us discovering what has already happened.
This is super important: by presenting vote counts as "surges" or "come from behind" or whatever, it creates a narrative that the act of counting votes determines who wins and, therefore, vote counters themselves are impacting the outcome.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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November 6, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Re-upping this: the votes have been cast. The counts are just us discovering what has already happened.
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I know the “unknown number” call is scary, but maybe answer it tonight, Nevada!!!
In Nevada, the GOP is succeeding in throwing out the votes of thousands of young people. If you're in Clark or Washoe county, answer your phone tonight. It may be election officials, calling to cure the defect in your mailed-in ballot.
November 6, 2024 at 12:35 AM
I know the “unknown number” call is scary, but maybe answer it tonight, Nevada!!!
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when you accidentally write the most pro-Kamala post of the election
November 5, 2024 at 1:47 PM
when you accidentally write the most pro-Kamala post of the election
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Still looking for this. Anybody got a feed of all the real sickos who post stuff like "Exit polling in Redneck Holler, VA makes it hard to see a path for Trump?"
I followed this list of regional politics-knowers back on Twitter who were fascinating to read on election nights, like old-guard regional newspaper writers who could decode what turnout in a specific county might mean. Does anyone have a list or feed over here like that? Who should I be following?
November 5, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Still looking for this. Anybody got a feed of all the real sickos who post stuff like "Exit polling in Redneck Holler, VA makes it hard to see a path for Trump?"
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Netanyahu has never been so desperate. He thinks he is about to be removed from power, and therefore strikes first
November 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Netanyahu has never been so desperate. He thinks he is about to be removed from power, and therefore strikes first
This last week feels like the beginning of the microblogging platform hierarchy shuffle
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‘Off-the-scale ignorance’: how Musk-Trump interview on X played out on social media
It started poorly with a 45-minute delay and rolling technical issues – and was lambasted on other platforms
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2024 at 4:48 PM
This last week feels like the beginning of the microblogging platform hierarchy shuffle
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...