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Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on

The Staggering Success of Vaccines

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Update.

The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.

However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.

Video training would be more appropriate at this point. Government dependence on text based platforms is a serious issue.

Reform says it's raising millions - but what has Farage's party done with the money it's received in the past?

I took a deep dive into Reform's 'wholly exceptional' accounts, and found a 'black hole' and some major questions

Full story here:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-black-...

It is a source of endless frustration for me that the fact Reform is a limited company owned by Nigel Farage isn't given more attention.

Every time that Reform or Farage are interviewed this should be probed and questioned.

They are held to such a lower standard than any other party.

He was going for alpharithm and ended up somewhere in Ohio

You know it's bad when LinkedIn is more like Twitter. This seems to be quite a recent development; CEOs are extremely triggered by this Labour government.

At this point Musk is basically sitting in an AI cuck chair for global comms

From an observational standpoint, people abandoning X aren't going to other text-based social media in the numbers we might expect. They seem more likely to favour video platforms. I think social media habits as a whole have changed so much that text platforms may be on the way out. I hope I'm wrong

A garden covered in snow at nighttime. A street light leaks through the trailing branches of a tree, cutting a path of milky moonlight across pale grey snow.

Thought the garden would look mysterious and romantic covered in snow at midnight.

Actually it's giving gothic horror. If I stare too long I can hear the screams of a Victorian child

The jump from incredible costumes to Temu levels of plastic is quite something. It took a rewatch for me to get into it but I found series 2 a lot better.

Cardigans are one of my favourite things about adulthood. You can wear one at any age but you reach a point where you're basically in a relationship with a cardigan and that is peak comfort

X is a hard one for public service type accts. In this scenario I think it's perfectly fine to behave like a more commercial brand and service the community that wants and understands you, for what it's worth.

Legacy media outlets are really bad at communicating the harm that will be caused by Trump and Musk.

They should be relentlessly shamed for behaving like far-right bullies, but instead their actions are normalised as part of the “game” of politics

A gift wrapped in dark green paper illustrated with doves, swans, leaves, golden pears, and a graceful young woman in a regency-style blue dress.

How gorgeous is this wrapping paper?

I love wrapping gifts far more than buying or receiving them. This paper is sort of a treat to myself

I sincerely hope it is Call Me Davey

Next year can we have a Birdwatch Wrapped? We could call it greatest, erm, tits

Surely no one puts a giant cockerel outside their house unless it is purely for puns

Oh no. Hope you are feeling better in time for the holidays!

He might want to change his name to Nick Democracy

I'd settle for Cards Against Humanity buying it at this point.

It actually wouldn't be that different to buying land on the US/Mexico border

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What, no describing your 5am start and gentle 5k along the beach where you think about what sea urchins can teach your audience about B2B sales...?

Musk's contempt for journalists stems from his desire to be more powerful than them.

In a world where we're stunt casting roles at the highest level, his celebrity only serves to build his credibility. We will need to break down celebrity to restore any sense of balance.

That sounds amazing. No frozen fruit this year, but I have a freezer full of fresh tomato sauce which is a joy to dip into through the winter.

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg seeks ‘active role’ in Donald Trump’s tech policies [FREE TO READ] Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect

A rightwards shift for Meta?

Meta has conceded it was "overdid it" with certain content moderation in the past - in an apparent overture to Donald Trump

It comes as Zuckerberg is seeking an “active role” in shaping tech policy debates with the incoming administration

on.ft.com/41dIgaz

Conservative control of mainstream media is a thing, and it's coming to social media whether we like it or not.

TikTok slides increasingly to the right (to appease Trump, but also to spread Project 2025 agendas more broadly) and LinkedIn is already more than half way there.

This is what I want from this app. I mean, am here for the geeky chat, but also for pictures of gloriously floofy animals that look straight out of a John Lewis Christmas ad