Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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Author, essayist, public speaker. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast.
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In 2008 I met a climate scientist from Mali who was advocating for this so long that he looked exhausted. Absolutely amazing man. He was working so hard on this. And then I see numbers like this and my heart just soars. Youba Sokona, you (and your peers) really did it.

www.ipcc.ch/people/youba...
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IFEX @ifex.org · 12h
#Sudan 🇸🇩 In a powerful new report, @pressfreedom.bsky.social documents how journalists in El-Fasher face starvation, sexual violence, and relentless bombardment yet continue reporting, defying attempts to silence them under siege. buff.ly/u1JOVkL
Hunted, raped, starved: Sudan's journalists under siege in El-Fasher - IFEX
Journalists in North Darfur's capital face bombardment, starvation, and gendered attacks but keep reporting, defying attempts to silence their voices.
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."
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niaocollective.bsky.social
One the one hand - thanks? On the other hand, seeing Brits do mental arithmetic on 'desirables vs undesirables' doesn't feel right. It seems like we're in the 'desirables' bucket simply because they think HKers are productive and not because they are actually deserving of some dignity as *people*
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“If Britain has no space for a group like the Hongkongers, then our national panic over immigration will surely have gone too far. This country needs some immigration, and if it is not the productive & educated exiles from Hong Kong, to whom we also have a moral duty, then who will we let in?”
Hong Kong’s migrants are the ones we need
Tightening the rules makes life harder for 160,000 highly educated and employable refugees
www.thetimes.com
okwonga.bsky.social
Prediction: Infantino is suddenly going to have a lot more to say about "football as a peacebuilding initiative in Gaza" than he had to say in the last two years. He must be absolutely salivating over the reconstruction plans.
tariqpanja.bsky.social
Reports that FIFA President Gianni Infantino has arrived in Sharm el Sheikh for the Middle East peace summit. Unclear why he would be required or what his role is.
okwonga.bsky.social
😂 Jesus Christ dude
okwonga.bsky.social
We can be quite a susceptible bunch in the UK, though. I recently had a cab driver who went on a talk radio-fuelled rant about teachers turning kids trans in schools with drag shows, and then when I asked him how many of his problems in life were caused by drag queens, he said, "ah, none".
tom--scott.bsky.social
Right-wingers who think tactics they've used to criminalize abortion in the US will have the same kind of traction in the UK fail to grasp that religious fundamentalism is widely viewed as nuts in the UK, & has been for many decades, if not centuries.

As much chance of abolishing UK gun controls.
henrymance.ft.com
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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calmerfuture.bsky.social
not available on this app : most of Africa, Asia and Latin America

very available on this app : people virtuously instructing other people Already. Using. This. App. that everyone should use this app
okwonga.bsky.social
What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control
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They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
henrymance.ft.com
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
okwonga.bsky.social
So much of this happening on Twitter. Actual fascists having their reputations whitewashed just because they posted a couple of things.
yairwallach.bsky.social
No, you do not have to hand it to Tucker Carlson, MTG, or any white supremacist who suddenly found compassion for Palestinian children
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benstanley.eu
Not the first over-confident man in a casino to think he held all the cards
chrisgrey.bsky.social
This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
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emilyoram.bsky.social
Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.
okwonga.bsky.social
On the policy level - hearing from the very few people I know in that world, the corporate lobbying is as fierce as I have seen. Just an absolute firehose of cash being sprayed against regulation there.
jamesdaustin.bsky.social
Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah
alastairmeeks.bsky.social
Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.
okwonga.bsky.social
Very good news from the east of Germany, where the far-right (AfD) has its strongest base - the AfD got soundly defeated in two mayoral elections, in places where they were trying to use the presence of people seeking asylum as a decisive issue. Many voters rejected that outlook. That's hopeful.
christianbangel.bsky.social
Wieder ein schlechter Tag für die AfD im Osten.
Deklassiert in der OB-Stichwahl in Frankfurt (Oder) und sogar in Eisenhüttenstadt - wo sie sich echte Hoffnung machte - deutlich verloren.
okwonga.bsky.social
What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.
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drjaimeashworth.bsky.social
The return of the hostages is beyond wonderful news. If they are all home, and no bombs fall tonight, that is all that matters for now.
Yellow ribbons hang from a fence in North London.
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alastairmeeks.bsky.social
Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
whole thing is even worse than the headline when you think about what 'play' means here

“I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”"
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petefrasermusic.bsky.social
Ok, update, this person DELETED THEIR ACCOUNT rather than acknowledge the fact that they accidentally posted an AI video and just go ‘my bad’.

A well followed account that was being used for professional stuff.

People are *fascinating*.
The thread that started this off. 

shaunt
@shaunvids.bsky.social

this person posted an Al video (the reporter has three arms, for a start) and then turned off comments when people pointed it out, so i have to insist everybody block them. block this account right now and i'll give you a thumbs up in your mind

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social • 5h
Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.
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whatisaletter.bsky.social
Vor einer Woche hatte ich mich mit meinem Vater zum allsonntäglichen Videoanruf verabredet. Nun ist er nicht mehr auf der Welt.

Wenn ihr jemanden lieb habt, sagt es ihnen. Wenn ihr jemandem dankbar seid, sagt es ihnen. Wenn ihr Zeit mit teuren Anderen verbringen könnt, tut es.

Life is short.
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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