Going to a climate-focussed conference during London's Climate Action week as the city melts down. Remember to take fan @e3g
Lucy Hooberman
@lucyh.bsky.social
Recovering Academic. Prof. Digital Media & Innovation. Former TV and Film Producer ( BBC, Channel 4 UK) and BBC Exec Producer. Moved to Digital in 1999! Londoner and mum to a US citizen daughter.
I've had to turn off the "radio" several times this morning. The reason @UKLabour won Makerfield is not that Andy Burnham is magic. It is because they ALL went up there and pulled together and worked together. As a proper team. As in they collaborated. With each other.
All the right now has to offer is conflict. Some of its key figures have moved on from culture wars towards what seems to be a deliberate effort to foment civil war. If you're a conflict entrepreneur, the worse it gets, the better it is for you. Where they break, we must mend, building community.
A radical proposal for #bbcnews for @lisanandymp.bsky.social and @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social Nuke the nasty tone of much news journalism creeping in across #bbc news and give all news provision to the #worldservice or to @channel4news.bsky.social @itnproductions.bsky.social . That will change the tone.
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
bbc.co.uk
NEW: Net migration falls sharply to 204,000 in the year to June. That’s a fall from 649,000 in the year to June 2024. It is a drop of nearly 80% from its 2023 peak.
NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference. Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
1.I've just heard the @bbcnews.bsky.social presenter on the 13.00 news at the top of the bulletin describe Nigel Farage as the person “most likely to be the next Prime Minister”.
NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 9mo agoNEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
Divide, conquer and cut: The “strategy” behind the erosion of SEND rights? www.specialneedsjungle.com/divide-conqu...
Divide, conquer and cut: The “strategy” behind the erosion of SEND rights? - Special Needs Jungle
Are LAs weaponising SEND failures to get the Government to cut their legal duties—and hoodwink families into thinking fewer rights are ok?
specialneedsjungle.com
EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪
There are pages disappearing. Datasets disappearing from the CDC and no doubt other places. I hope someone is keeping a record, the receipts and hopefully the underlying data. Perhaps AIs have scraped it all already and will save the day? Would love to hear from anyone! @ruchowdh.bsky.social
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) page on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website has been removed.
To read. Especially for UK but also generally. I have subscribed to this Substack as this tireless journalist has been fighting our corner since 2016 and before! @carolecadwalla.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Total information collapse
It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.
open.substack.com
Zuck kneels for the umpteenth time before his MAGA god king.
Axios@axios.com · 2y agoEXCLUSIVE: Meta is cutting major DEI programs, effective immediately — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers.
A reminder that when the cynical and now MAGA-friendly Mark Zuckerberg makes claims about alleged Biden administration pressure on FB over Covid misinformation, and screams 'Censorship!', he's also the guy who admitted his *uncensored* company played a big role in inciting a *literal genocide*:
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (Published 2018)
The company, citing a human rights report it commissioned, said it was moving to prevent further abuses of its platform in Myanmar. Critics said they were unconvinced.
nytimes.com
Not a surprise that I completely agree with @emilybell.bsky.social However our UK Minuster for Science and Tech is taking what looks like more of an appeasement line with EM if the @thetimes.com is to be believed www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld, says writer and academic Emily Bell
theguardian.com
The social media platform already consumed by AI garbage is copying the ideas of the social media platform that's in the process of being consumed by AI garbage.
Craig Silverman@craigsilverman.bsky.social · 2y agoMassive change at Meta, as Zuckerberg announces they’re ditching fact checkers in the US and replacing them with community notes. Meta is probably the single largest funder of fact checking in the world right now. But that appears to be coming to an end. www.facebook.com/share/v/18Rc...?
Fancy that! Meta platforms ditching third party fact-checking Meta platforms ditching third party fact-checking www.bbc.com/news/article...
Meta platforms ditching third party fact-checking in US
Facebook and Instagram will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approached pioneered by X.
bbc.com
Look at the people returning to Syria. It’s was the photos of 2011 showing the beginnings of millions of people walking away which triggered my own research into my family’s refugee and migration routes earlier in the century. How many times, if ever, do we see people going home ? @noelreports.com
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2y agoAfter Assad's regime fell, thousands of Syrians are returning home. This is the road to Damascus. Also, on the border with Turkey, thousands are in line to enter Syria.
Hello everyone! So who’s moved over here then? Meanwhile, here’s a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, and what would happen if it replaced X. anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/m...
Maybe Bluesky has “won”
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I...
anderegg.ca
If you have any reach on Bluesky, please consider reposting so I can find friends old and new: I'm Alexander Verbeek and publish about the climate crisis, environment, the beauty of nature, science, walking, sustainability, wildlife, photography, water, and energy.
Love how people here on @bsky.app follow back! Reminds me of a place I once knew and loved!
First post nerves! What can I say - I do love opening this app and the @bsky.app opening screen . Great design pays off! The new not Twitter app logo so gives me the creeps. But feel like I’m in the dusk or dawn or twilight as all my peeps are now spread across so many platforms!