Matt Turtle
@mattturtle.bsky.social
Co-Director, of Museum of Homelessness. Still working out what I’m posting about.
It’s been #Disinfo2025 this week. I couldn’t go but always interested in this subject especially as so much cr*p gets spread about the homeless community. Latest one being the AI homeless prank going round on Luna & Sora. The kids aren’t alright folks. This is bad sh*t weareluna.app/parents/guid...
Explaining the “homeless man AI” prank | luna app
Learn about the “homeless man AI” prank, why it’s harmful, and how parents can help teens understand empathy and online responsibility.
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I’m asked about climate change & homelessness every now and then due to our work on homelessness & severe weather emergency protocol. This is the backdrop & why we list climate change, disinformation & wealth extraction as the focus of our campaigning.
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis report is disingenuous and dangerously misleading Astonishingly, it even suggests that adapting to 4C 'will not be costly' 😮 The reality is organised adaption to 4C is impossible The world will 'adapt' to 4C via economic and societal collapse www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The end of a long week, much to say & so many ppl have made it poss for our community to come together & mourn ppl we’ve lost. This is one of our candles on the railings @ St Martins - a kind of MoH calling card - but for me also a reminder of what it means to take space for what is most important.
Our first community Tuesday 2 years ago, done 100 since and the museum feels very different in some ways, familiar in others. Here’s to 100 more.
Today we release the 2024 findings for the Dying Homeless Project. It’s something I work on year round with an amazing team. This year we saw a 9% increase but so much more than nos. These are human stories that never be forgotten 💔 museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness
We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...
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This is terrible so sad to see this.
Ben Whitham@drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 11mo agoMen in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great to be quoted with this, it’s a really good piece of work by Josh Gabbatiss over at Carbon Brief! We’ll worth a look.
Museum of Homelessness@ourmoh.bsky.social · 11mo ago🗞 @mattturtle.bsky.social co-director of the Museum of Homelessness, said that SWEP should be made a legal requirement to protect rough sleepers. Turtle said: “These findings, like our own research, show that many councils opt not to help people who need it the most when there is extreme weather…
Always find this mind boggling, City Hall, the symbol of London’s governance being dismantled. Easy to do as it’s apparently owned by the Kuwaiti Sovereign Wealth fund and Greater London Authority was turfed out long ago…
So our vigil is next week, one of the hardest days of the year for those in our community as we gather to remember those we’ve lost museumofhomelessness.org/news/annual-... Hope folk can make it. Our findings for 2024 are released the day before
Annual vigil — Museum of Homelessness
Please join us to remember with love all who have died whilst homeless in 2024. 9/10/2025 Opposite Downing Street. Gathering from 6pm, we will read the names at 7pm. Organised by Museum of Home...
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Thanks for sharing ❤️@haringeywelcome.bsky.social
@HaringeyWelcome@haringeywelcome.bsky.social · last yr.Important trans inclusive statement by our wonderful partners at @ourmoh.bsky.social. As stated, risks of Supreme Court ruling include further discrimination towards trans refugees and migrants in our communities. Follow link to read / sign full letter. museumofhomelessness.org/news/what-th...
This thread says it all. Thank you! The EHRC has long been toothless, corrupt & hollowed out and is stoking more hate and disinformation. It saddens me so much to see how much suffering this is causing & how much people are being hoodwinked by the horrific forces re-shaping put politics.
Previously, the arrests of pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses would’ve drawn instant attention from the DHS civil rights office’s First Amendment watchdogs, attorneys in the compliance branch said. That guardrail is gone. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS…
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20 days since last Blue Sky login… This is all I have to report
Been reading this recently. It stuns me to read this week that Jack Thorne got stopped by a headteacher saying “I want to know what more schools can do” after watching Adolescence. The affects of disinfo are so far reaching (this was published in 2020!) we need whole subjects devoted to it.
An honour to see this. A moment not to be forgotten ❤️❤️❤️
Richard Sandell@richardsandellrcmg.bsky.social · last yr.Landmark exhibition - Transcestry - celebrates 10 incredible years of the Museum of Transology. Who could have known a decade ago - when the first objects were collected - how much we would need this 1000 object manifestation of trans joy and resilience in 2025. Unmissable. ❤️❤️❤️
@jessicaturtle.bsky.social gets us the same billing as Banksy & a London Indian restaurant. All equal in 10Foot’s epic upcoming Big Issue takeover. Thanks so much for the ft 💥💥
Been interested in noting the Zelenskyy “election mandate” stuff & been hearing it alot more. I now get why. Part of coordinated Kremlin disinfo so expect to hear it from western sympathisers more. This one is a good read for people looking ahead re Ukraine Russia euvsdisinfo.eu/the-kremlins...
The Kremlin's playbook for undermining post-war Ukraine - EUvsDisinfo
While peace talks may eventually silence the guns, the Kremlin disinformation apparatus is already crafting narratives to fracture post-war Ukraine.
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This was a very important discussion. Hope we can do more together on this. ❤️
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social · 2y agoThanks to @happymuseum.bsky.social for inviting NMDC to join the conversation around ethical use of social media. It was great to talk with @themerl.bsky.social and @ourmoh.bsky.social and sector colleagues today. Lots of inspiration from museums in our sector.
Anyone who has read Collusion @lukeharding1968.bsky.social would not be surprised by today’s turn of events
On Ukraine I’m guessing it’ll be the following: 1. Peace deal designed to put Ukraine in a position where it can’t ever accept 2. Ukraine then made out to be “aggressor” by US/Russia. 3. War continues - with Ukraine to blame. 4. US uses breakdown to continue to castigate Europe/NATO
The old saying of neurons that fire wire… Couldn’t be more apt for my thoughts about AI doing everything for you. futurism.com/study-ai-cri... Love 404 Media btw
Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills
Trusting AI over the real thing seems, per a new study, to actually be atrophying folks' mental faculties.
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This is my life haha! Pretty slow moving this morning…
Jessica Turtle@jessicaturtle.bsky.social · 2y ago24 hours in MoH director world: 3 year funding bid submitted 🤞 Trustee Annual Report & accounts submitted Article for museums association submitted Meet with National Museums Northern Ireland 2 funder reports submitted Manage contractors putting base for greenhouse Guest on podcast
Important this one.
Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 2y agoWatch along as we share our investigation into the deadly opioids Nitazenes, revealing what the online advertisements look like and sharing how the drugs, that can cause an overdose even with trace quantities, are being smuggled into Europe... www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qU...
I love cats don’t get me wrong but my blue sky algorithm just doesn’t edit. I have no idea what is going on in the world. I just know that there are cats.
Multi national corporation poisons island. Government defends corporation. This the world we live in. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show
Exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal chemicals giant was aware ‘environmentally neutral’ products did not biodegrade
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6 nights of shelter work was humbling and profound. Taken a while to process it all. Community SWEP is where it’s at.
