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I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

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Exciting update 👉 We're inviting select users to Channel.org services now 🎉 For this beta launch, we've decided to keep Channel.org invite only but we're excited to open the beta to the public soon 👀 If you'd like to be on the waitlist, just drop us a message! #SocialWeb #NewRelease

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this made me chuckle.

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"If you do not assert your principles against the status quo, others will assert them for you." Excellent article by @willdunn.bsky.social on the shadow of George Osborne's class war. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

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The shock of this stuff is how little it matters.

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Why only tomorrow? Surely it's time to start thinking about your eXit strategy? mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

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Tomorrow is Save Social day - Boycott mainstream social media for a day (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok) Send a message to Mark Zuckerberg & Elon Musk. savesocial.eu/day/

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We are live on Product Hunt🚀 We would very much appreciate your support 🙏

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Our Foundation Ambassador, Freddie, is heading to Hamburg for @ahoy.eu 🎉 Although we're not ATProto experts, it's a great opportunity to meet up with friends in the space and to make some new ones. If you're there, give Freddie a message at @playawfulthings.bsky.social #Ahoy #SocialWeb

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NEW 2025 has become the UK's worst wildfire year on record After just 15 weeks, 28,771 hectares have been burned That's an area roughly 2x area of Bristol More background in this story here 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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The folks @dairinstitute.bsky.social are publishing a paper, accompanying short video, and statement on the role social media plays in genocide through the lens of the 2020-2022 Tigray war (deadliest armed conflict of the 21st century) They are warning about the same thing happening again

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I feel like I'm going crazy listening to panel after panel at #IJF25 talk about needing an EU alternative to Big Tech. There is one! Learn about it, fund it - or just listen when we say it exists 😤 If you want to learn more, come to the Mastodon aperitivo. @journalismfestival.com #IJF25

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Some experiences at #IJF25 A lost cloud drifting through the valley. Excellent panel on community focused news ft. @werd.io. Can Dundar on the story that led to his exile. River of cloud this morning.

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Ah interesting, they know I'm approaching 30 so they're squeezing in a fourth or fifth once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Touchè sir, I confess you have bested me again 📉

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greenwashing bankers are giving up on greenwashing to openly celebrate wrecking the planet

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Agreed. I don't understand the on pressure for Starmer - he's really well placed to be the Good Cop to Europe's Bad. People have been saying the state visit will be difficult but it always was going to be and hopefully an opportunity to get Trump to engage while he's being flattered.

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Ahoy Europe! Social Media is worthing fixing and we need a strong European movement to build viable alternatives. Save the date and let's build further momentum together: 24th of April in Hamburg. Sign up for the newsletter today - tickets will become available next week. #atproto #bluesky

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Watching the #FDP fall out of the #Bundestag after collapsing a progressive government makes me wish there was a word for the feeling of satisfaction for the misfortune of others... #Germanelections

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The Big Oil company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline launched an outrageous lawsuit against @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social for $300,000,000. This lawsuit is an attack on free speech and our right to protest. Hey Energy Transfer! We stand with Greenpeace. We will not be silenced.

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This is SO bold... even for Meta. "To use these features, anyone in your chats can now share your messages and photos from the chat with Meta Al. Shared messages and photos may be used to improve Meta Al." The amount of wordsmithing that had to have gone into this! 😚🤌🏻 #NewInstagram #MetaAI

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In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

submitted 112 days ago • 15 comments

Thank you for the support around our recent announcement about our lack of funding. Here’s some more detail on what our funding shortfall means for IFTAS and the communities we support. If we cannot secure immediate funding, IFTAS will need to: 1/8

submitted 113 days ago • 10 comments

I get the instinct to say "it's too late" in response to calls to action (call your reps about thing x, show up to protest thing y). I do. But here's the thing. These are the last tools we have to preserve democracy, short of some very messy options that I refuse to romanticize. Too early to quit.

submitted 113 days ago • 30 comments

Only the essentials for #FOSDEM @newsmastfoundation.org

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

Back to product testing today. Could be worse - I could be testing #umbrella in storms.

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#startrek is one of my all time favourite shows but struggling to find the time for it atm. Thinking about watching it while cooking but feel like episodes will end up being broken up :/

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

Classically thoughtful post today from @hello To my knowledge, @newsmast is the only project that has people (myself and @saskia ) working on this full time. If I'm wrong, please connect, we'd love to chat! NB. our remit is not the general public but social good organisations so we're not So […]

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The more I think about Mark Zuckerberg’s excuses for complying with Biden administration pressure to remove content, the angrier I get. (It was the media’s fault! Or maybe it was the woke Californians way down the reporting chain. Or was it “feminine energy”?) 1/

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Now #Twitter is dominating the right-wing social scene, is #TruthSocial stalling? How does direct competition between #ElonMusk and #Trump affect their bromance? Truth Social is a very important part of Trump's paper value - losing ground to #X is a big dent. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Human behaviour is a complicated thing, but one thing is certain - liberal people are less scared of change. That's why platforms like this one and others in the New Social space are being branded 'echo chambers'. forbetter.ghost.io/every-new-pl... #SocialMedia #EchoChamber #Liberal

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The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

submitted 180 days ago • 1317 comments

Yes. This is what we've been encouraging news orgs to do!

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

Are any journalists using handles that are sub-domains of their news organizations? e.g. "@dylanfreedman.nytimes.com". Seems like it'd be a relatively foolproof means of verification, at the expense of being tied to your professional identity (but you can always change it later).

submitted 190 days ago • 11 comments

1. The implicit deal behind Starmerism was this: you might not like what he stands for (or fails to stand for), but at least he knows how to win elections. If you want the Tories out, he’s your only hope. But now? It’s as if he’s going out of his way to lose in 2029. 🧵

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Great article. Made me think of this photo and the difficulty in comprehending different lives. The Left don't need an astroturf Joe Rogan. They need to respect people and embrace challenge. Politics isn't won from the middle ground but the common ground.

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