Tim Chapman
@timchap.bsky.social
Career coach, communicator, humanist, social democrat, rejoiner and a lifelong Liverpool FC supporter #YNWA
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NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
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This is riveting. Shocking but not really surprising. How unlikely is it really that the U.K. hasn’t been similarly targeted? ‘Among the types of influencers listed as possible collaborators are actors, politicians, media representatives, activists, and clergymen’
Russia is backing 600 US-based influencers, & the list is not released. I'm sure stand-up comics are on there. They also said gamers and minorities. If they aren't releasing a list, there is more to come from the DOJ.
www.wired.com/story/projec...
www.wired.com/story/projec...
DOJ: Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
Newly unsealed court documents reveal in unprecedented detail a campaign called the Good Old USA Project, which Russian authorities believed could impact the US election.
www.wired.com
September 7, 2024 at 6:28 AM
This is riveting. Shocking but not really surprising. How unlikely is it really that the U.K. hasn’t been similarly targeted? ‘Among the types of influencers listed as possible collaborators are actors, politicians, media representatives, activists, and clergymen’
Excellent interview …
"The system is broken and we need radical change."
We talk with Michael Sheen on the state of British politics...
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXqBccucuBY...
We talk with Michael Sheen on the state of British politics...
articles.globalplayer.com/2GXqBccucuBY...
Michael Sheen on Starmer: ‘I don’t think he is going to change anything radically'
You might know Michael Sheen from the movies, but the Welsh actor is politically vocal about the UK’s need for “radical change”.
articles.globalplayer.com
September 4, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Excellent interview …
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In her leadership bid, Kemi Badenoch has blamed Tony Blair for everything that’s wrong with Britain. (Okay, grandma.)
Not Brexit, not austerity, not Truss crashing the economy. Because all these things are still okay in the Conservative mindset.
One reason why we don’t need these people back ever.
Not Brexit, not austerity, not Truss crashing the economy. Because all these things are still okay in the Conservative mindset.
One reason why we don’t need these people back ever.
August 26, 2024 at 11:45 AM
In her leadership bid, Kemi Badenoch has blamed Tony Blair for everything that’s wrong with Britain. (Okay, grandma.)
Not Brexit, not austerity, not Truss crashing the economy. Because all these things are still okay in the Conservative mindset.
One reason why we don’t need these people back ever.
Not Brexit, not austerity, not Truss crashing the economy. Because all these things are still okay in the Conservative mindset.
One reason why we don’t need these people back ever.
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Interesting polling.
Two-thirds of X/Twitter users think Musk has changed the platform for the worst.
Three in ten are considering leaving.
For a $44 billion investment, it is now surely a case study in catastrophic management.
Two-thirds of X/Twitter users think Musk has changed the platform for the worst.
Three in ten are considering leaving.
For a $44 billion investment, it is now surely a case study in catastrophic management.
August 23, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Interesting polling.
Two-thirds of X/Twitter users think Musk has changed the platform for the worst.
Three in ten are considering leaving.
For a $44 billion investment, it is now surely a case study in catastrophic management.
Two-thirds of X/Twitter users think Musk has changed the platform for the worst.
Three in ten are considering leaving.
For a $44 billion investment, it is now surely a case study in catastrophic management.
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We live in a world in which propaganda has taken hold of our discourse. We must turn the tables on this and hold people to account. We must change our rules and regulations to safeguard democracy.
August 23, 2024 at 8:17 AM
We live in a world in which propaganda has taken hold of our discourse. We must turn the tables on this and hold people to account. We must change our rules and regulations to safeguard democracy.
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This. The single best thing you could do to make being an MP better by about every possible metric is increase our staffing budgets by at least 30-50%. We're all understaffed and can't pay the teams we do have what they're worth, which is a recipe for reduced capacity and increased burnout all round
We honk on and on about MPs' pay and frankly the thing which makes it such a bad job is their staff budgets are tiny, they are not competitive with the voluntary sector on the political side and not competitive with anyone on the admin side.
August 22, 2024 at 4:05 PM
This. The single best thing you could do to make being an MP better by about every possible metric is increase our staffing budgets by at least 30-50%. We're all understaffed and can't pay the teams we do have what they're worth, which is a recipe for reduced capacity and increased burnout all round
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Missed this the other day - an excellent run down of the challenge we face in getting the UK’s skills levels up
If you’re working on this, make yourselves known! I care massively and want to help push this agenda in Parliament
on.ft.com/3XcRu4s
If you’re working on this, make yourselves known! I care massively and want to help push this agenda in Parliament
on.ft.com/3XcRu4s
The UK skills crisis holding back growth
A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain’s young people are falling behind
on.ft.com
August 22, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Missed this the other day - an excellent run down of the challenge we face in getting the UK’s skills levels up
If you’re working on this, make yourselves known! I care massively and want to help push this agenda in Parliament
on.ft.com/3XcRu4s
If you’re working on this, make yourselves known! I care massively and want to help push this agenda in Parliament
on.ft.com/3XcRu4s
Oh my word - this is so sad and disturbing
Bleak.
A 10-year-old child shouldn't have to think this way, but here we fucking are.
August 21, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Oh my word - this is so sad and disturbing
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michelle obama just snapped that man clean in half
August 21, 2024 at 2:53 AM
michelle obama just snapped that man clean in half
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Just seen a headline in one of the papers, saying Boris Johnson is about to publish his memoirs. A good time to remember this superb letter written during the pandemic.
August 19, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Just seen a headline in one of the papers, saying Boris Johnson is about to publish his memoirs. A good time to remember this superb letter written during the pandemic.
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A Britain without immigration is a country that is not worth living in. We have benefitted so much from people wanting to make this place, their home.
August 21, 2024 at 6:17 AM
A Britain without immigration is a country that is not worth living in. We have benefitted so much from people wanting to make this place, their home.
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Nigel Farage has been exposed – disgrace is all that’s left for him inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
Nigel Farage has been exposed - disgrace is all that's left
This sad, reprehensible, empty little man is finally exposed for what he is
inews.co.uk
August 7, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Nigel Farage has been exposed – disgrace is all that’s left for him inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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So, if Farage spends c. 130hrs/month on outside interests and gets paid £120,000 for that, then he won’t be earning his £91,000 MP salary at all. He’ll simply be taking it.
Clacton won’t have an MP serving their interests.
Just a grifter greedily leeching off prejudice and fear.
Clacton won’t have an MP serving their interests.
Just a grifter greedily leeching off prejudice and fear.
August 17, 2024 at 7:35 AM
So, if Farage spends c. 130hrs/month on outside interests and gets paid £120,000 for that, then he won’t be earning his £91,000 MP salary at all. He’ll simply be taking it.
Clacton won’t have an MP serving their interests.
Just a grifter greedily leeching off prejudice and fear.
Clacton won’t have an MP serving their interests.
Just a grifter greedily leeching off prejudice and fear.
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Elon Musk readmitting Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate and other previously-banned people to X has a psychological effect on members of the far right, who now feel they have an ally among the tech platforms, says Julie Ebner.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
How the far right became organised
During the recent riots, formerly disparate factions coalesced in fury, says the extremism researcher Julia Ebner
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
August 15, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Elon Musk readmitting Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate and other previously-banned people to X has a psychological effect on members of the far right, who now feel they have an ally among the tech platforms, says Julie Ebner.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
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Done loads of follow backs today. Please, if you’re a connection or friend on the other site, wave at me if you’ve kindly followed me and I’m not following back, it’s not deliberate! 🙏
August 15, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Done loads of follow backs today. Please, if you’re a connection or friend on the other site, wave at me if you’ve kindly followed me and I’m not following back, it’s not deliberate! 🙏
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For those of you new to BlueSky, this is a long but excellent explainer/guide ⤵️
A complete guide to Bluesky 🦋
I've decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code, or the advice and answers that I sometimes give to people that I find in some feed as...
mackuba.eu
August 15, 2024 at 9:32 AM
For those of you new to BlueSky, this is a long but excellent explainer/guide ⤵️
The jobs market is a dysfunctional space for individual job seekers to navigate. Search firms are largely aloof and inaccessible to individuals. Online applications disappear into a void. Feedback is in short supply. Has to be a better way of matching talent to jobs. Any views? #careertransition
August 15, 2024 at 8:21 AM
The jobs market is a dysfunctional space for individual job seekers to navigate. Search firms are largely aloof and inaccessible to individuals. Online applications disappear into a void. Feedback is in short supply. Has to be a better way of matching talent to jobs. Any views? #careertransition
Welcome to Blue Sky 👍
My first post on Bluesky. Escaping the “other place”
August 15, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Welcome to Blue Sky 👍