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R Freeman

@iamrobf.bsky.social

#Journalism engineering & development, #strategy, innovation. Tertiary #education media #law & ethics. Also the sound medium. My thoughts & mistakes. He/him. https://mastodon.green/@robf #medialaw #innovation #audio #podcast #London #Leeds

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Daryl Hannah@dhlovelife.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beautiful Brilliant Tim The original confident, seductive, naughty, hilarious, sexy, brat, Jagger, Bowie, Mercury all borrowed his aspects of his Rocky persona. We did a crappy, straight to video, 2 pay bills But we had a phenomenal time & I fell in love with him of course as did everyone 🖤🎶🕊️

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Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've never seen anything like it. Salta, Argentina, has just recorded its hottest night on record during the climatologically coldest time of the year. The minimum overnight temperature did not fall below 26°C (78.8°F), pulverizing the previous monthly record by 7°C.

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Make Votes Matter@makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's hard to predict what Parliament would look like under a system where people can vote for what they truly believe in. But one thing is clear: First Past the Post distorts election results and undermines trust in democracy. It's time for change.

How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area

These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems

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Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Torn. I think Robbins was treated very roughly. But I also tend to think that very highly paid people in very senior roles are unusual cases where a lot of the usual employment protections shouldn’t really apply.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Breaking news: Olly Robbins, the Foreign Office chief summarily sacked by Keir Starmer over the Peter Mandelson affair, is seeking a judicial review of his treatment in what will be seen in Whitehall as a landmark case. ft.trib.al/koQG0yF

R Freeman@iamrobf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wish publishers would stop doing this. Don't have a story about death prefixed with 'LIVE'. Use 'More' or 'Update'. Also, the sense of urgency the 'live' marker brings feels wrong for a sad occasion, and there isn't anything in the story progress which is going to change the basic fact of death.

Image from news site shows headline: LIVE Same Neill, Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders actor, dies, aged 78
Tony Dexter@timbleman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'hundreds of thousands of new homes to be built' if it wasn't for newts and bats Howard is a daft as a bat and pissed as a newt. hundreds of thousands - utter tosh

Danica Priest@danicapriest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We need to talk about poor journalism and blatant misinformation. Tom Howard published this article in The Times today with the rage bait title ‘Scrap newt and bat rules to ease London housing crisis ministers told’ which is more than just bad journalism, it’s actually an embarrassing mistake🧵

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Times report on BBC investigation into people-smuggling… Lots of talk of “losing” access to critical information. Rather than Johnson not bothering to secure it. And Farage wanting an even harder Brexit. The stubborn refusal to face the consequences of our own govt’s stupid choices has become absurd

Brexit lets people-smugglers move to UK Matt Dathan - Home Affairs Editor Extracts: Immigration officers have blamed Brexit for allowing active peoplesmugglers with convictions in other European countries to enter the UK. An investigation by the BBC found that one prominent smuggler who had been jailed for five years in France in 2016 had claimed asylum in the UK and was living in Leicestershire. Lucy Moreton, the professional officer at the ISU union, which represents Border Force staff, said Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union had cut off access to databases for sharing criminal data. She said she was not surprised that convicted peoplesmugglers had been able to enter the UK undetected. Moreton told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “Once we left the European Union we lost our ability to share what’s termed low-level data. We still have Interpol data but that is not this level of criminality. “So ultimately, as long as you’ve not been fingerprinted in the UK before, the identity you give us when you arrive and give us your fingerprints — if you even give fingerprints — is going to be the only identity that we know you by.” The most important criminal database that was lost after Brexit was the Schengen Information System (SIS II), which was used to get real-time information about the movements of criminals, missing persons and objects of interest. The UK lost access to 40,000 alerts about investigations in other European countries. The Interpol database shares information only on the most serious criminals. The UK also lost access to the European Criminal Records Information System and the Europol Information System. It no longer has access to Eurodac, the fingerprinting system that shares biometric identities of all people who claim asylum in the EU. Sir Keir Starmer has tried to restore access to these databases, but a deal has yet to be agreed. Britain now relies on bilateral agreements with countries to share criminal data.
Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 4mo ago

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Steven Lucy@slucy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So many cyclist deaths begin with a stationary driver blocking the bike lane. The disconnect between cyclists, who see this as a life-threatening reckless action, and drivers, who see this is a minor parking infraction, is what often leads to discord.

Jay Hightman@jay.hightman.org · 4mo ago

It will be seven years, on June 24th, that my 20-year-old daughter Robyn lost their life doing bicycle messenger work in New York City, when a for-hire driver blocked the bicycle lane and the speeding distracted driver of a box truck knocked them to the ground and then crushed them into the road.