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Steph Darcey

@stephdarcey.bsky.social

Character comedian | Actor | Singer | Writer | Improvisor. She/Her Groundlings trained. Your go to gal for AI / robot satire. Creator of ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2 comedy show ‘Prototype’ about AMEXA: The Robot Politician 🤖 https://bio.site/stephdarcey

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Steph Darcey@stephdarcey.bsky.social · last mo.

Swapping out running for swimming was the best decision I’ve made in a long time. Why I persevered with running for so long as someone with joint hypermobility is one thing, but the continuous heatwaves has also made running next to impossible. I don’t know how anyone is running in this heat.

Steph Darcey@stephdarcey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Huge swathes of evidence of Farage’s skulduggery can be laid bare, but until we get a grip on active measures, disinformation & misinformation, his popularity is unlikely to diminish.

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s a revelatory report which nails how Russia’s hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & has worked with Tommy Robinson to do so who even yesterday was shilling same Kremlin lines!

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Sarah O’Connell@sarahoconnellshow.com · 3mo ago

If you’re a comedian taking a show to #EdFringe in August, and would like to be considered for inclusion in my Edinburgh Fringe Ultimate Comedy Guide 2026 on Youtube, reply here ASAP! It’s completely free, because I’m cool like that.

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Patch Thompson@patchthompson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For years now, public discourse regarding online radicalisation and hate has focused on Twitter, anonymous accounts and young people. Meanwhile, your uncle is out there sharing memes about great replacement theory on Facebook using his legal name.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

2 in 5 local Facebook groups and over four-fifths of X searches featured at least one piece of misinformation in their last 1,000 posts. Of 19 Nextdoor locations studied, 3 were found to contain misinformation. Nearly 1 in 26 (4%) of news related posts on Facebook were misinformation; on X the ratio is over 1 in 4 (28%) Places in local authorities with no or limited local news outlets (e.g. ‘news deserts’) had nearly 3 times as much fake news as a share of all posts as average on Facebook groups, albeit based upon 12 groups worth of data. Conversely, places with a relatively high number of local news outlets (‘news oases’) have half as much misinformation as average, again based upon a limited sample (13 groups). Places with local elections, on average, saw more misinformation in the run up to polling day than they did earlier in the year. Misinformation as a share of all posts increased from 0.12% to 0.15% (26% increase) and as a share of news grew from 8.2% to 12.9% (56%). The rate of misinformation seen across four Gorton and Denton local Facebook groups was 26 times higher than in the wider Facebook analysis – 3% of 1,000 posts were identified as fake news, compared to 0.1% nationally. This is driven by far more news related posts on these groups, and a near doubling of the share of them being classified as misinformation. Three in five misinformation posts (61%) in places with local elections in the week of the vote related to national politics or council issues, compared to 28% in the wider national analysis earlier in the year. 1 in 5 ‘fake news’ (19%) posts analysed on Facebook groups related to local issues, including planning, transport, local services and council politics. Our case studies revealed how planning applications could be misinterpreted into the “council selling off the beach”, or how local authority communications can be faked. A third (32%) of misinformation found on X was anti-immigration or Islamophobic, far ahead of the next most common, h…