@claradoodle.bsky.social
Data journalist at the FT 🇮🇪 in London
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
2024 was just released today
Baby names explorer - Office for National Statistics share.google/PL3FqdOPk30G...
3492 Olivers and 8 Garys to be exact!
31.07.2025 10:32 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
It's ONS baby name day... and Olivia and Amelia are in the top 2 girl's name spots for the 13th year running. 40,000 Olivias in a decade
31.07.2025 10:19 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 3
Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been killed during an attack by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
In "Legitimate Concerns" news.
41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.
For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Screenshot of WIRED article. Headline: The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.
Screenshot of Google Trends VPN interest for the last 30 days in the UK, showing a large spike in recent days
The UK introduced “robust” age checks for porn and other online content today
Also related: VPN interest massively up in the UK, according to Google Trends
Story with @lhn.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/the-ag...
Yeah this actually worries me a lot more, bc then we have job hunting graduates with skills so bad employers have to get them using AI
24.07.2025 20:59 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0You're going to love the article Chris
24.07.2025 20:32 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Reminds me of the time a slop factory rewrote an FT piece of my own but replaced words with synonyms throughout. "told the Financial Times" became "told Monetary Happenings"
24.07.2025 19:01 — 👍 55 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
While you're here please read my article at this paywall free link!!
Is AI killing graduate jobs? - on.ft.com/3TWSU0I via @FT
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
24.07.2025 17:46 — 👍 7035 🔁 1942 💬 76 📌 110
‘FT analysis of US official data showed there was no clear correlation between an occupation’s potential exposure to generative AI and whether it lost young workers between 2022 and 2024.‘ www.ft.com/content/99b6...
24.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1We are entering the Tiny Dancer era
on.ft.com/3IKZm8y
New 📈✍️- we're hearing a lot about AI decimating graduate jobs. But the data paints a more complicated picture on what's behind the fall in entry-level roles
With Delphine Strauss, @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & Sarah Lim
on.ft.com/4f1wWmK
An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1
Russia’s “swarm” tactics against Ukraine are increasingly cutting through Ukraine’s defences, with drones striking targets at three times the typical rate in recent months www.ft.com/content/1a19...
21.07.2025 10:16 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
5pm dinner bookings are up 11% in London this year as part of a post pandemic trend for eating out early that's forcing restaurateurs to adapt 🍽️
New story with @joshgd100.bsky.social & exclusive OpenTable data on.ft.com/46PbL5h
Two mugs: 1 blue-ish, 1 yellow-ish
Pottery progress. Finally getting the hang of glazing!
18.07.2025 19:19 — 👍 52 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
Solar became the top power source in the EU for the first time ever in June 2025 ☀️
At least 13 EU countries beat their previous record share of solar in the electricity mix 👏 helping power systems grapple with high demand from ongoing heatwaves.
@ember-energy.org
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Great story/charts from @lydiadepillis.bsky.social @christinezhang.bsky.social on how health care ate the American economy. This pair of maps is especially striking. #EconSky
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections?
I am happy to finally be able to share @sachaltay.bsky.social & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is now out via @knightcolumbia.org
These guys have been around for a while - always found it a very weird pitch www.blinkist.com
07.07.2025 09:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We went to 50 vape shops to find out how well the disposables ban is working 🚬
Some told us we can just throw out the new reusable versions after 1 use. Many said it's impossible to find stock of refill pods... and others offered to sell us the now-illegal single-use versions 👀
on.ft.com/44M6Bpo
We have just had the warmest June for England, although it was still warm but less extreme elsewhere. It was very sunny and dry in the East and wetter and cloudier in the West. Here is a summary of the past 12 months weather/climate for the UK. #dataviz
02.07.2025 08:10 — 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
A flight tracker screenshot showing hundreds of tracks
Being under the helicopter flight path from Glastonbury this morning is like living next to Heathrow
30.06.2025 12:22 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Europe could be in for record-breaking numbers of tourists this summer as Americans flock to the continent and the number of 'safe' destinations falls
New charts for brilliant @marinovik.bsky.social story (currently most read on the site!) 🌞✈️ www.ft.com/content/d447...
