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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
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Are you watching Rupert Lowe, Matthew Goodwin, Konstantin Kisin? Your theories took a hell of a beating!
July 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Are you watching Rupert Lowe, Matthew Goodwin, Konstantin Kisin? Your theories took a hell of a beating!
Love this ❤️
June 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Love this ❤️
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Seeing Grieg's piano concerto mentioned made me yearn to watch THAT sketch again.
The whole thing is 12 minutes and massively benefits from being given room to breathe.
The timing and acting remains equisite. and "Andrew Preview" is SO good at not breaking character.
vimeo.com/479336770
The whole thing is 12 minutes and massively benefits from being given room to breathe.
The timing and acting remains equisite. and "Andrew Preview" is SO good at not breaking character.
vimeo.com/479336770
May 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Seeing Grieg's piano concerto mentioned made me yearn to watch THAT sketch again.
The whole thing is 12 minutes and massively benefits from being given room to breathe.
The timing and acting remains equisite. and "Andrew Preview" is SO good at not breaking character.
vimeo.com/479336770
The whole thing is 12 minutes and massively benefits from being given room to breathe.
The timing and acting remains equisite. and "Andrew Preview" is SO good at not breaking character.
vimeo.com/479336770
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Time to read (or reread) Tiana Clark's poem "Soil Horizon" about being asked to take a family portrait at a plantation: poems.com/poem/soil-ho...
www.al.com/life/2025/05...
www.al.com/life/2025/05...
South’s largest antebellum mansion burned to the ground, igniting debate on social media
The mansion in Iberville Parish, La., was built in 1859 and was currently being used as an inn and event venue. Reaction to the loss has been mixed.
www.al.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Time to read (or reread) Tiana Clark's poem "Soil Horizon" about being asked to take a family portrait at a plantation: poems.com/poem/soil-ho...
www.al.com/life/2025/05...
www.al.com/life/2025/05...
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If we only frame this as a partisan crisis, we miss the structural threat: a breakdown in how truth is recognised, shared, and defended. That’s the deeper fight.
May 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
If we only frame this as a partisan crisis, we miss the structural threat: a breakdown in how truth is recognised, shared, and defended. That’s the deeper fight.
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I repeat my appeal to any picture editors who don't want to promote Farage: stop using images that project gleeful, gurning isn't-it-all-a-great-laugh energised triumphalism.
May 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I repeat my appeal to any picture editors who don't want to promote Farage: stop using images that project gleeful, gurning isn't-it-all-a-great-laugh energised triumphalism.
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Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval.
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
If it’s not more convenient than driving, it will always be your second option.
May 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval.
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
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If you can't handle me at my 🛻🪴🪴 you don't deserve me at my 🪱🍎.
April 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
If you can't handle me at my 🛻🪴🪴 you don't deserve me at my 🪱🍎.
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🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation.
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation.
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
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I am having the worst day and I would like to thank the man who is sitting parked in his car jamming out to music with a pair of maracas just absolutely getting down for giving me a smile and turning my whole afternoon around thank you sir
April 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I am having the worst day and I would like to thank the man who is sitting parked in his car jamming out to music with a pair of maracas just absolutely getting down for giving me a smile and turning my whole afternoon around thank you sir
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"Did you get your unlimited breadsticks like in Dachau?"
Trump: "I said to [the former hostages], was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like what happened in Germany."
April 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"Did you get your unlimited breadsticks like in Dachau?"
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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
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I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.
April 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.
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I'm sharing Colin Fray's awesome commentary because the recording runs out on BBC Sounds right after the first Brighton pen!!
Can you have a word @emilymaytv.bsky.social ?
#nffc
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Can you have a word @emilymaytv.bsky.social ?
#nffc
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Matchday - "Isn't it just poetry?!" - BBC Sounds
Colin Fray's commentary of the moment Forest made it into the FA Cup semi-finals.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I'm sharing Colin Fray's awesome commentary because the recording runs out on BBC Sounds right after the first Brighton pen!!
Can you have a word @emilymaytv.bsky.social ?
#nffc
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Can you have a word @emilymaytv.bsky.social ?
#nffc
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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1/7. In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American "peace process" regarding Ukraine.
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1/7. In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American "peace process" regarding Ukraine.
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Growing queasiness about benefit cuts…Here’s my own MP @marykfoymp.bsky.social going public.
March 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Growing queasiness about benefit cuts…Here’s my own MP @marykfoymp.bsky.social going public.
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tour de force from @ashorguk.bsky.social chair @copddoc.bsky.social here. LRB piece tells the story of one of the pioneers of the tobacco control movement: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma... Though I don't intend to inject myself with nicotine anytime soon there is much to admire in his tenacity
Nicholas Hopkinson | The Disease of Tobacco Smoking and Its Cure
In the spring of 1942 Dr Lennox Johnston, a Merseyside GP, took the train to London, intending to pluck Winston...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
tour de force from @ashorguk.bsky.social chair @copddoc.bsky.social here. LRB piece tells the story of one of the pioneers of the tobacco control movement: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma... Though I don't intend to inject myself with nicotine anytime soon there is much to admire in his tenacity
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Once again for the love of god just put taxes up, you'll have to anyway before this parliament is out so do it now, cite defence as the reason, lean into the fact the world has changed & govt must too. (Me and @johnharris1969.bsky.social discussed this on the Guardian Politics Weekly pod btw..
revealed: some of the cabinet ministers who spoke up during Tuesday’s cabinet meeting about spending restraint
Angela Rayner, Yvette Cooper, Shabana Mahmood, Lucy Powell & Ed Miliband
www.ft.com/content/befa...
Angela Rayner, Yvette Cooper, Shabana Mahmood, Lucy Powell & Ed Miliband
www.ft.com/content/befa...
Rayner and Cooper criticised cuts in ‘tense’ cabinet meeting
‘Large minority’ of ministers protested about planned spending reductions in their own departments
www.ft.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Once again for the love of god just put taxes up, you'll have to anyway before this parliament is out so do it now, cite defence as the reason, lean into the fact the world has changed & govt must too. (Me and @johnharris1969.bsky.social discussed this on the Guardian Politics Weekly pod btw..
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Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
March 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
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Is there a "Russian wish-list" somewhere? If there is. it feels like another box just got ticked. If not, someone should put one together...
March 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Is there a "Russian wish-list" somewhere? If there is. it feels like another box just got ticked. If not, someone should put one together...
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Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:
March 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve: