Tony McAlinden
@mackanory.bsky.social
Leith. Photography. Screenwriting. Flibbertigibbet.
I wish it wasn't true, but BBC News really isn't worth saving at this point.
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 7d agoOh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC.
Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?
People using someone's life as a political football are now saying his death shouldn't be used as a political football. Arday's death is political. It's one of the longest running polical ideologies in British politics. The one so much wealth is built on: anti Black racism.
So, this post has just been deleted. FYI, it shows Adam MacQueen, Helen Lewis and Matt Muir on a Private Eye podcast having a jolly wheeze ripping Jason Arday’s character to pieces. I wonder why its been deleted 🤔 bsky.app/profile/glen...
Glennyrodge@glennyrodge.bsky.social · last wk.The glee on their faces. bsky.app/profile/priv...
The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.
It really is incredible how many people not in these categories refuse to believe the very basic fact that Starmer has been the worst Prime Minister for racial and LGBTI+ equality thus far this century. We're on race rioting every summer and outright trans eliminationism! It's fuckin grim, lads
Nice one Spain, the BBC's already cancelled the planned Agincourt recreation intro for Sunday night, the archers are crying, hope you're happy.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
The New York Times downplayed and normalized the actions of criminal Donald Trump for years. The Times’ reward: Federal agents showing up on reporters’ doorsteps. Which proves once again that you can’t play nice with fascists. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
When fascists come for the news outlets that enabled them
The NY Times and ABC News find that appeasement doesn’t work
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RIP Sam Neill. A true Aussie (and Kiwi) icon. I’d imagine it’s lesser known to an international audience, but The Dish remains one of my favourite films of all time (despite it taking enormous liberties with the history it’s based on).
'do I have a dream' ..................... 'wouldn't that be nice' it sure would Sam
Although I often disagreed with the chimp who tore my child's face off and wore it as a little hat to impress the other chimps, I was nevertheless sad to hear etc., etc.
Perhaps a silly question, but does Bluesky have *any* countermeasures against bots. So many ludicrous AI global news sites constantly reposting now well out-of-date stories about the ongoing Widdecombe murder investigation.
The NYT is at the “I didn’t think the leopard would eat MY face” part.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · last mo.Important statement from the New York Times
I was thinking of this one today as I watched what other nations call a “sea fret” rolled in over Edinburgh and Leith.
Bethany Black@bethanyblack.bsky.social · last mo.What’s an obscure Simpsons quotes that’s ended up in your day to day arsenal? Whenever anything’s slightly inconvenient I find myself saying “Bob Dole don’t need that”
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
New Lowe: the debasing of the murder of 16 children in the Dunblane Massacre by the far-right MP Rupert Lowe on the Joe Rogan show symbolises the moral disintegration of the media and politics. It’s not about truth or policy anymore it’s about outrage, clicks and cash In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
New Lowe: Debasing Dunblane on Rogan show symbolises collapse of politics and media
Comments by the leader of the hard-right Restore Britain party are disgusting, yet they also reveal very troubling truths about what has happened to…
heraldscotland.com
This is incredible. And a reminder today’s English Martyr didn’t believe in climate change either.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · last mo.Why is AC so rare in much of Europe? Well, until recently it simply wasn't hot enough to need it. Here is the average number of days above 30C (86F) for major cities over time:
General question, is it normal to report a prominent person’s death and then mention the suspicious circumstances hours later? Can’t think of anytime it’s happened before and it almost seems calculated to generate “nasty left” headlines.
I think this is more critical given he could be a key witness…
Tony McAlinden@mackanory.bsky.social · last mo.My main thought on Anne Widdicombe’s revolve around the welfare of her cat, Arbuthnot.
I’m fairly confident as an IT professional that there is something seriously wrong with Google UK’s payment verification but there is literally nothing I can do to report this. Believe me, I’ve tried, and been routed to a completely irrelevant offshore support team. Enshittification really sucks.
My main thought on Anne Widdicombe’s revolve around the welfare of her cat, Arbuthnot.
Watching “Sid and Nancy” and she’s just got a kitten. I fear Nancy Spungen will not survive winter in West Granton.
Zelensky is a comedian who ran as a joke and ended up fighting a superpower in the bloodiest war since WWII. I hope Count Binface is ready for that responsibility.
